The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has the internet buzzing for many, many different reasons. One of the funniest, however, has to be the newly discovered method to summon Epona. Ocarina of Time allows the player to hum, sing, or even play a real instrument into the Switch 2 microphone, and Link will correspondingly play the melody on his ocarina as best as he can. Hell, you can even bust out your own ocarina if you want to. It’s undeniably more fun than just hitting the corresponding buttons on your JoyCon. Is this feature as accurate as one might want it to be? Not exactly, no. The instrument’s narrow pitch range means a lot of different songs ‘fit’ the scale. You can belt out a standard A-minor or C-major pop ballad, and usually the microphone will pick it up and accept it.
But what about just speaking to it? As it turns out, that can work too, as Twitter user Rubix discovered. One of the ways you can summon Link’s famous steed Epona is to say, “Petah, the horse is here” into the microphone. This will cause Link to play “Epona’s Song”, and his horse will appear right at his side. I doubt the tone match was planned, but nevertheless, it is uproariously funny to watch someone hit the Switch 2 with a good ‘ol Fran Drescher impression and get a horse out of the deal. Still! No complaints, only a love for the game and the userbase.
The “Peter, the horse is here” meme originates from the eighth episode of season seven of Family Guy, originally aired on March 8th, 2009. It’s the episode in which Peter decides to buy a racehorse suffering from an intellectual disability. So, looks like it’s time to bust out your best Lois Griffin impressions and get your horse on! Talk about replay value.