In Depth: Gaming and the lost art of keeping a secret

By Kate Gray

No one has ever found the Triforce in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

The easiest answer to this is probably the most true: there is no Triforce in Ocarina of Time.

Yet people still persist, playing the game’s puzzle-solving songs in specific locations, attempting to play through the game without dying, and doing any number of rumored quests to try and find that triangle.

It’s not the triangle that matters, though – it’s the idea that something exists out there that has yet to be discovered.

Keep it secret, keep it safe

It’s cartography for the modern era – we’ve uncovered and explored so much of what’s around us that we have to hide secrets for others to satisfy that urge to find something new.

In modern games, it’s much easier to discover secrets and much harder to hide them. More and more people delve into the code of a title to expose its enigmas, laying bare the innards of the thing and digging through with their hands to find what’s inside.

That’s how we know there’s no hidden Triforce in Ocarina of Time – if it doesn’t exist within the beating heart of the game, it’s an …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming