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18. Korok: Kakariko Village: The arrows on the entrance archway



When you're walking into Kakariko Village from the south, one of the archways randomly has some arrows sticking out of the upper golden medallion. If you notice this, and if for some reason it inspires you to also shoot an arrow at the medallion...a korok pops out!

It turns out, if you're gonna put 900 secrets in a game, you can make some of them really hard to find... But that fraction of players who do find it, are gonna have their jaws drop, and Surprise points are going to vomit out of their mouths.

Beyond the surprise, the implication here is really powerful: that these koroks really could be anything, any slightly weird thing you "notice" could be a korok. This is part of the power of koroks: with each new type of korok you find, your paranoia massively grows; you look at every object differently from then on.

And that's true immersion, when you're inspired to really pay attention to every little thing you see. Koroks like this make the whole game a World Riddle.

(Unfortunately, it turns out, there are barely any unique koroks like this, which is a bit of a disappointment. But better to inspire and disappoint, than to never inspire at all!)

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