In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the Ice Arrows have at all times been fairly ineffective, seeing as how one can play by means of the sport with out them. Even in case you do receive them from the Gerudo Coaching Grounds, you stumble upon the ultimate space to battle Ganon fairly shortly after.
The sport acknowledges this as gamers who get entry to a gossip stone message, positioned within the Desert Colossus, could have observed it reads, “They are saying that the treasure you possibly can earn within the Gerudo’s Coaching Floor is just not as nice as you’d anticipate, given its problem!” Clearly calling out the unintuitive merchandise.
That’s, till a Japanese fan, named @chikara_shuzei, observed one thing that the magical merchandise is the truth is helpful for. Within the put up beneath, the Zelda fan demonstrates the arrow is ready to freeze the transferring spikes which can be positioned previous to the Water Temple’s boss battle. That is an impediment many followers bear in mind, with gamers having to frantically run previous and danger dropping hearts within the course of.
これ最近初めて知って衝撃を受けた。
まだまだ知らないことあるよね。#時のオカリナ #NINTENDO64 #NintendoSwitchOnline #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/TP5TKi6oRJ— ちから (@chikara_shuzei) April 22, 2023
This was unknown for thus lengthy since having the Ice Arrow at this level within the recreation appeared fairly ineffective. You’ll have needed to full many of the Water Temple so as to get the Longshot earlier than you exit the realm to face the dungeons out of order. Then, you might optionally head to Gerudo Coaching Grounds mini-dungeon to accumulate the ice arrows earlier than heading again to the room simply earlier than the Water Temple’s boss. It is a lot of effort simply to keep away from a single impediment within the recreation, and if you have already got loads of coronary heart containers then it isn’t actually crucial. @chikara_shuzei appears to have returned to this space after finishing the sport to indicate off what the Ice Arrows can do.
Lots of the hardcore Ocarina of Time gamers are doubtless annoyed from this revelation, as they’ve extra doubtless than not explored the functions of each merchandise, but nonetheless missed this cool trick. This simply goes to indicate that there’s probably extra to find inside this, and different, N64 video games.
Supply: chikara_shuzei Twitter Web page