[quote=@Lugubrious]
Link's tiny compared to Birdie, with minimal upper body strength.  The hookshot can only latch onto predetermined hookshot spots, whereas Birdie's chains can wrap themselves securely around whatever targets Birdie throws them at.  I'd say this isn't something Link can do in the game.
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Do you have any idea how heavy a sword of this:
[img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qOUJOGYotZo/hqdefault.jpg[/img]
size would be? I've taken sword fighting lessons and I had trouble holding a sword half that size in the same position that he does for more than a few minutes. Not to mention his ability to climb mountains and swim with that monstrous weight on his back. And that's just the sword not to mention his other equipment. Proportionally speaking Link would be a lot stronger than birdie and even taking size into account their strength is very likely about equal. 

While you can't hookshot anything in the original game the hookshot is basically a chain and in a real world environment could be stretched out to use as a grappling hook or weapon.

However this really isn't all that important as you'd eventually get into the castle town one way or another. Though you might want to edit in something about seeing Bayonetta and Red as they are standing in front of the drawbridge so if Birdie was trying to pull it open with his chain he couldn't have been more than a few feet from them.

[@ProPro] Never played Borderlands, is teleportation a relatively common occurrence there?