Stand: Devil's Call in your Heart
Quote from viktor:
hi, im just posting here because im curious. i dont plan to make a speedrun or something myself, i only enjoy watching them and i saw a speed run for oot today here were they only needed 3 medallions. can someone explain how that is possible? i havnt found that info anywere. i didnt saw something special at all, he just started and there zelda was and everything and you got the light arrows..
that's because of developer lazyness.
they made it so that the only way to enter shadow temple was with the song and that song can be obtained only by beating the first 3 temples.
when shadow early was found, it was no longer necessary to get the song to enter the temple and the required medallions to trigger the light arrow cutscene are the shadow and spirit medallions only because technically the devs required you to get the first 3 to get shadow.
a very similar reasoning applies in TP where you can skip both goron mines and temple of time because the game assumes that you beat them if you beat lakebed temple/city in the sky and triggers the sequences that come after those dungeons.