Tears of the Kingdom – Mineru's Contruct amiibo Revealed

On this day three years ago The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was released for the Nintendo Switch. And Nintendo is still not entirely done with the game, where today they have given us the release date for the upcoming amiibo of Mineru's Construct: it's going to be September 17th.

Similar to the Guardian amiibo from Breath of the Wild, you will be able to bend its arms to your liking. You can even do the shield pose with the crossed arms. So, this is certainly going to be one of the more sophisticated and bulkier amiibo, one with a heftier price tag.

And like all the other amiibo around Zelda, this one will give you a unique fabric for your paraglider, the Sage of Spirit Fabric. It has a very subtle glow-in-the-dark effect, where the third eye will light up.

This fabric is already in the game. It came with version 1.4.0 last year, which added the features for the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and the other four Sage Fabrics. So, you can technically already get it with the right NFC chip.

Re-Imagining Ocarina of Time

The recent rumors had me thinking... What if they are not remaking The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, like Grezzo did on the Nintendo 3DS? What if Monolith Soft (or whatever studio is set on this hypothetical project) is actually working on a complete re-imagining of the game? What would that look like? And what could this lead to?

The Ocarina of Time Remake Rumors Gaining Traction

Well, I have been in doubts about the rumored Ocarina of Time remake, but I may stand corrected. Nintendo has just announced a Star Fox remake last night, which was another big part of the same rumors. It felt a bit too convenient after the Fox McCloud cameo in the recent Super Mario Galaxy Movie, since these projects should be entirely unrelated (they even said that the idea came from Illumination, not from Miyamoto himself), but here we go.

Anyway, the Ocarina of Time rumors are getting a lot more support now, mainly from Nash Weedle. My biggest question always has been about the development team, because it seemed unlikely that the main Zelda team or GREZZO have had the time to be working on this. And apparently it's Monolith Soft, the studio behind the Xenoblade Chronicles series, who helped creating the world of Breath of the Wild. I hope they are ready to work on Majora's Mask right afterwards, making them a third Zelda team for years, but first let's see how their version of Ocarina of Time is going to look like.

Nash even had the idea that they are going to split the game up, similar to the Final Fantasy VII remakes. One game for young Link and one game for adult Link. But this makes me only doubt that he has ever played Ocarina of Time before in his life. If something like that were the case, then switching between past and future would mean switching between games, similar to how Oracle of Ages & Seasons worked on the Game Boy Color. And no one wants that. Plus, it makes no sense even from a technical standpoint, since a majority of the game world gets shared between young and adult Link with only a few differences.

However, it could indeed be that we're not dealing with a faithful remake here, but some crazy re-imagining that has only the name and characters in common with the original. A new game based on the classic ideas, with a much bigger world and all that. It's interesting to think about, where this could give the project a whole new appeal, for old and new fans alike. But it would be also at risk at losing the original charm.

Let's see. Like everyone and their mothers, I'm expecting there to be a Nintendo Direct in early June, which is hopefully going to put an end to all these rumors. It's time for the 40th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda to kick in, where I'm sure that it's going to feature some remake next to the upcoming movie.