Before heading to Ganondorf’s Castle in Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake, there are several optional items and rewards worth collecting. This guide covers the final Gold Skulltula, Biggoron’s Sword, Light Arrows, additional Bottles, and other secrets to help you complete important side activities before entering the final dungeon.
Walkthrough Before Final Dungeon
Final Gold Skulltula
The game’s final Gold Skulltula can be obtained after you get the Silver Gauntlets. Start from the Evil Desert Forest and start playing the Serenade of Water. This will help you warp to Lake Hylia, jump down in the lake, start swimming til you reach an underwater gate.
Crossing the gate will take you to the Zora Domain where you’ll need to follow the path on the right, ascend the stairs, and reach the Zora Fountain area. You’ll find a cave with a blocked entrance on the right. Put aside the huge black blocks blocking the cave, go inside, follow the path on the left, and use a slingshot to climb up.
Afterwards, start playing the Sun’s Song to summon the last Gold Skulltula.
Infinite Rupees (100 Gold Skulltula Reward)
After you have obtained all 100 Gold Skulltulas, start playing the Nocturne of Shadows and warp to the Graveyard. Inside, follow the path on the right until you reach the windmill area that leads to the Kakariko Village. As you enter the village, you’ll find a house on your immediate left with a blue door.
Inside the house, you’ll find the Cursed Rich Man. Interact with him and help lift the curse using the Gold Skulltulas so that he becomes the Restored Rich Man. As a reward for lifting the curse, you’ll get the 200 Rupee reward as many times as you require it.
Biggoron Sword (Trade Quest)
In order to acquire Biggoron’s Sword, you’ll need to initiate the trading quest by talking to the Cucco Lady located in Kakariko Village. Accept the Pocket Egg that she gives you and use the Pocket Cucco to wake Talon before moving back to the Cucco Lady to get Cojiro. Head to the brother of the Cucco Lady in the Lost Woods with Cojiro to receive an Odd Mushroom.
Deliver the mushroom to Granny in Kakariko Village within four minutes to receive an Odd Poultice. This will allow you to swap the Odd Poultice with Fado in the Lost Woods and get back the Poacher’s Saw. Finally, take the Poacher’s Saw to the Master Carpenter in Gerudo Valley to get the Broken Goron Sword.
Bring the damaged sword to Biggoron on the route of Death Mountain to obtain a Prescription. Use Blue Fire to save King Zora, and exchange the Prescription for an Eyeball Frog. You need to bring the frog to the scientist at Lake Hylia within two and a half minutes to obtain the Special Eye Drops. Take these to Biggoron within three and a half minutes, then wait for three days before going back with the receipt to claim your sword. It is a good idea to play the Sun’s Song to speed up the wait.
Biggoron’s Sword has double the damage power of Master Sword, but needs both hands to use it, which means that you cannot use a shield.
Secret Sign Post Room
For the Sign Post Room, you’ll need to attack all the sign posts you find in the right order to get 50 Rupees. Start by going to the Death Mountain Crater and follow the path on the left and go straight til you come across a bridge. Cross it and go towards the right to reach Goron City.
Go towards the right and climb to reach the area with the five sign posts. Attack the third one first, then the fifth one, then the first one to get the chest containing 50 Rupees. After that, you can destroy the remaining sign posts in any order you like.
Obtain The Cow
As an adult Link, revisit Lon Lon Ranch and speak with Malon in the field. She will ask you to complete an obstacle course on horse-riding within 40 seconds. You need to run through two laps of the course while jumping over fences and dodging obstacles.
After you manage to finish the task in the allotted time, the cow will be sent to Link’s home in Kokiri Forest. Following that, you can play Epona’s Song near the cow while you have your empty bottle ready so that you can collect Lon Lon Milk from the cow.
Empty Bottle (Catch 5 Big Poe)
To obtain the fifth bottle, play as adult Link and hunt down five Big Poes scattered across Hyrule Field. You should ride your horse Epona until you reach the lamps, which will bring the ghosts out of hiding.
Then shoot them down with two arrows or with an arrow from the Light Arrows collection. While collecting the killed Big Poes in the bottles, you need to go to the Poe Collector’s store. The collector’s place is located in the former guards’ chamber in Hyrule Castle Town. You will need to give him the five collected Big Poes and earn the total sum of 500 rupees and points.
Light Arrows
The Light Arrows are different from other upgrades since they are not hidden in a dungeon or obtained from a side quest. You get them automatically as you progress in the story. After completing all the Temples, you will be asked to return to the Temple of Time to meet the final sage.
Once at the Temple, you will trigger a cutscene during which you get your Light Arrows. After obtaining the arrows, you can use them with the Fairy Bow, though one regular arrow and one magic power are needed for each shot.
Reach Ganondorf’s Castle
Finally, when you think that you’re ready, you can exit the Temple of Time and head towards Ganondorf’s Castle in Hyrule Castle Town.
