Widely regarded as one of the best games ever made,The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Timehas had fans constantly exploring its world and finding the many secrets within it. However, as one fan points out, there’s a secret area that even some of the most diehardOcarina of Timefans might have missed.
Posted to the subreddit r/Zelda, Reddit user u/nintendatos showed a video of Link jumping through a lava waterfall in Dodongo’s Cavern to reveal a hidden area behind it. The area in question doesn’t have much to it, simply containing a single recovery heart, but many are puzzled by its existence.
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TheLegend of Zeldaseries is known for its hidden secrets andasOcarina of Timeis one of the most popular in the franchise, it comes as something of a surprise that so few fans know about the hidden area. This is likely in part to the fact that there are no signs in Dodongo’s Cavern that players would interpret to mean that there’s a secret behind the lava waterfall especially as Link goes there in the earlier part of the game without the fire-resistant Goron Tunic.
What’s more, commenters on the original post by nintendatos did some research to see if the Lens of Truth revealed that the lava was indeed fake. As it turns out, boththe 3DS remake and the original N64 versions ofOcarina of Timedidn’t have the Lens reveal anything about the secret room. As it’s the only item that’s able to reveal hidden paths as exampled throughout the game, there doesn’t seem to be any official way to know that the room is there.
Because of the stealthily placed recovery heart, it seems like the secret area was once a potential hiding spot for one of the manyHeart Pieces scattered across Hyrule. In the end, it didn’t end up being a finalized hiding spot, but the area was kept all the same. Now those who are in on the secret are able to effortlessly jump through the lava waterfall and recover some much-needed life.
With a game asjam-packed full of secrets asThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, players are bound to continue finding new details about it. While plenty of secrets have been revealed in the 23 years sinceOcarina of Timereleased, Dodongo’s secret room is perhaps one of the most obscure and an impressive piece of trivia for all diehardZeldafans.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Timeis available on Nintendo 64 and 3DS.
