A Hookshot for D&D 5e

Stat block

Hookshot, wondrous item, rare, no attunement. As a bonus action you fire the chain at a point you can see within 30 feet. If that point is a fixture — a beam, a statue, a ship rail — you pull yourself to it and the move does not provoke opportunity attacks. If the point is a creature of your size or smaller, it makes a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC, or against 8 plus your proficiency bonus plus your Strength modifier if you have no spellcasting. On a failure you pull it 10 feet toward you. The chain does 1d4 piercing damage when you use it as a weapon with an Attack action, range 20/60, and it is not finesse.

You cannot fire it through total cover. A second use on the same turn is impossible. That last line is the difference from Twilight Princess, where a second claw exists. I am not adding a double version at this rarity. A very rare variant could store a second chain, and I am not printing that card because one item is enough to answer the search.

Why these numbers

Thirty feet gives the homebrew item a short traversal reach. This distance is a design choice, rather than a distance converted from a Zelda game. The 1d4 keeps it from replacing a martial weapon. The bonus-action pull is the fantasy people want at the table, and it costs the bonus action so it does not stack with every other bonus-action attack. I checked the System Reference Document's descriptions of rarity and of ranged-weapon range brackets before picking rare and 20/60. Zelda Wiki supplied the behavior being imitated: a chain that pulls Link to wood, or pulls a small object in. It did not supply hit points or a DC, so those numbers are mine.

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