The Ocarina of Time remake keeps rewarding players who look closely. Polygon spotted a clear reference to a coming-of-age classic of American literature — Little Women — tucked inside the Forest Temple, widely regarded as the game's coolest dungeon. It's an unexpected pairing: a moody N64-era dungeon design now carrying a deliberate tribute to Louisa May Alcott territory.

Meanwhile, one of the game's most obscure secrets is tripping players up all over again. The Business Scrub password is hard to find and tricky to actually use, but the reward on the other side is worth the effort. It's the kind of deep-cut content that defined the 1998 original — a secret that most players never stumbled into without a strategy guide, now being rediscovered by a new generation armed with search engines instead of magazines.

Taken together, the two finds show what the remake is doing well: preserving the original's layered, secretive design while apparently slipping in new Easter eggs of its own. Between literary tributes in dungeons and password-locked merchants, players are still mapping the full extent of what Nintendo buried in this revival.