Xeno don't you understand humor? It WOULD have been funny if they had explained the joke a little bit more. Maybe saying "That guy died and now we aren't going to try to go through those arrows because it's pretty dangerous which is funny because we are supposed to be brave soldiers even though we are running away."
They could probably fit in something about how the portal gun is from a different game in there too.
Of course if this were a real Zelda game, the Portal Gun would be able to talk, and it would constantly be telling Link to go to the next dungeon.
And Link would ignore it and instead spend hours trying to find all the cats in town or something so he can bring them to an old lady for a heart piece.
I liked this if just for the nod at that goddamned statue moving puzzle and how it reset when you inevitably had to return to the main part of the dungeon because there was another key hiding somewhere.