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So you’ve finally left Kokiri Forest and began your grand adventure through the world of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TIme. However, before you’ll actually be able to do much in the world you’ll need to make your way to Hyrule Castle and speak with the young Princess Zelda. Unfortunately, a child cannot just walk through the front door and you’ll need to find a clever solution to actually meet the princess. If you’re struggling to get into the castle, please consult the following guide on how to sneak into Hyrule Castle in the Ocarina of Time Remake.
How to Sneak into Hyrule Castle in the Ocarina of Time Remake
Before heading up to Hyrule Castle itself, there is one important activity you should take care of first in Hyrule Castle Town. If you enter the Hyrule Castle Town Potion Shop as Child Link, you’ll find that the owner is panicking due to their being a runaway bug in his store!
Speak to him and he’ll give you an empty bottle in exchange for you using it to collect that dastardly bug. Once you’ve bottled the bug, he’ll even throw in a free red potion for your efforts.
After obtaining your first empty bottle, head on north to the Hyrule Castle courtyard area. Here you will have a brief cutscene with Kaepora Gaebora who will explain that the castle is the home of Princess Zelda and we’ll have to sneak in to see her, but how will we do that?
Speak the red haired young girl near the area entrance and she’ll introduce herself as Malon from Lon Lon Ranch. You’ll be told about how her father was supposed to make a delivery at the castle and hasn’t returned yet. To help her father, she’ll give you a Weird Egg that will automatically be added to your inventory for later use.
After speaking to Malon, go behind her cart and you’ll spot some vines that you can climb. Use these vines to reach the cliffside of the area and jump to the right of the entrance gate. The path here will lead to a large rock that you cannot do anything with until you return to this area later, but more importantly you’ll be able to reach the front courtyard’s hedge maze.
From this point on, you’ll need to avoid the eyesight of any guards, otherwise you’ll be thrown out and need to start your sneaking operation all the way from where Malon is. Avoiding the guards in this part of the courtyard isn’t too hard though as they do no move, just stay away from them and make your way to the west side of the courtyard
On the west side of the area you will encounter another wall of vines that you can climb. However, before you do, roll into the tree next to the wall and a Gold Skulltula will fall out of it. Slay it and you’ll be able to collect its token before moving on.
After climbing the wall of vines, the egg you were given earlier will hatch into a cucco. We still can’t use it yet but be patient it’s about to be useful. You’ll now be by the castle’s moat. Sneak by the two guards here either by walking behind them or swimming through the water.
On the other side of the castle you’ll find a distinctly Mario-looking man sleeping on the ground. This is Malon’s father, Talon, use the cucco that just hatched to wake him up and make him leave the area. Once he has left, push the two crates of milk off the ledge that he was sleeping in front of.
Jump across the two crates and you’ll be able to reach a hole that Link can crawl through, this will lead you to the indoor courtyards of the castle. Being caught by any guards from this point forward will respawn you in this location, but you should still avoid being caught.
There will be three sets of guards that you’ll need to sneak past during this section. The first guard is quite easy to get past as you just need to jump atop the box near him and then climb the wooden structure above him.
The next two guards will both march between two sets of hedges while facing the opposite direction from each other. Neither of them will reach the very edge of the hedge so you’ll be safely in their blind spots if you stand by it. Run past the first guard while he’s facing away from you and then wait for the second one to turn around before running to the next area.
In the final room there will be two guards. One of them will march in a circle around the room while the other one will stay in the center, only changing what direction he’s facing. Stay behind the guard who marches in a circle and make sure the guard who only turns isn’t facing your direction when you run through the center of the room and you’ll speed past them.
After sneaking past these final guards, you’ll be home free. The next room is Zelda’s courtyard, here you will be met with a series of cutscenes before learning Zelda’s Lullaby on your ocarina. After which, it’ll be time to head to Death Mountain to help the Gorons.
