The Hylian Shield is among the best shields available to players early in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake. Players can purchase this shield in a shop found in Hyrule Castle Town or get it for free from a chest in Kakariko Village Graveyard. If you want to save your Rupees and get the shield without spending anything, here’s where to find it and how to unlock it.
How to Get the Hylian Shield
There are two ways that you can obtain the Hylian Shield in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake. This item can be bought from the Bazaar located in Hyrule Castle Town or alternatively can be acquired for free at the Graveyard of Kakariko Village. The price for acquiring this item is 80 Rupees, but there is a possibility of buying it for only 60 Rupees with the letter of Princess Zelda to the guard on the Death Mountain Trail.
Buy the Hylian Shield From the Bazaar
If you wish to purchase the Hylian Shield, visit the Bazaar located in Hyrule Castle Town. Before going to the shop, ensure that you have presented the princess’s letter to the guard standing outside the Death Mountain Trail entrance in Kakariko Village.
The guard will notify Castle Town about it and offer you a discount on the Hylian Shield. Go to the Bazaar and speak to the shopkeeper. Choose to browse the shop, and there you will see the Hylian Shield selling for 60 Rupees, while its normal price is 80 Rupees.
Get the Hylian Shield for Free
In case you do not have any Rupees to waste, you can get the Hylian Shield from the chest that is located at Kakariko Village Graveyard. However, it would be wise for you to learn how to sing the Sun’s Song before you do this, because you will need it to stop time.
Learn the Sun’s Song
First of all, go to Kakariko Village, and from there proceed to the windmill located at the far end of the village. There will be a gateway there that will take you to the graveyard. Ensure that it is nighttime when you begin to move the graves because during the day there will be a little boy running around the graveyard preventing you from moving them. But if you do not want to wait until nighttime, go to the far end of the graveyard and look for a tombstone bearing a mark.
Play your Ocarina close to it, and it will open the passage below it. Go down and proceed in the small passageway. Kill all the enemies present in the first chamber to unlock the passage ahead. Proceed to the far end, and you will learn the Sun’s Song. This song allows you to change day into night and vice versa. Just pull out your Ocarina and play the Sun’s Song to switch the time.
Find the Hylian Shield in the Graveyard
After mastering the Sun’s Song, go back to the grave door entrance. Move towards the rear and search for the second gravestone. Pull the stone out of the ground and drop into the opening below it. There will be an enemy called ReDead standing by the grave that has the shield. By playing the Sun’s Song, you will freeze the enemy in its place and defeat it. After that, take out the shield from the grave.
