The rumors were true, the leaks were real... Nintendo is going to release a remake, or re-imagining, of Ocarina of Time later this year. They have revealed this at the end of today's Nintendo Direct in a short teaser trailer, which shows the story tale from the beginning of the game, about the Kokiri boy without a fairy.
This is done via a tapestry and you can already tell how this is not going to be a mere remake or remaster, like Ocarina of Time 3D, but a whole re-imagining with its own spins. One of the major differences is how the Triforce already resonates with Link here, glowing on his left hand. This didn't happen in the original, because at this point the Triforce was still in the Sacred Realm and not yet split.
Visually, this looks a bit like one of those Unreal Engine projects you keep seeing. And maybe Nintendo has hired one of those people to just work on this remake, who knows? It's actually still the biggest question mark: who is making this remake? Judging by all the leaks, it's probably not Nintendo themselves.
There was some speculation about how Monolith Soft may be working on this, where this had me quite excited, but they are still having their hands full with all the Xenoblade stuff. And I really hope that this isn't done by GREZZO (again), because this would mean that we're not getting any more top-down Zelda games in the near future. With their experience on Ocarina of Time 3D, they would be a good choice for this project, but this would be a very painful trade for me personally, because I really liked the direction of Link's Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom.
And whoever is remaking Ocarina of Time here, they will be busy with remaking Majora's Mask next. It will be the same story as with Majora's Mask 3D, where the fans keep asking for it until it eventually happens. It is the natural follow-up, though I've been saying the same for years about Oracle of Ages & Seasons.
But first let's see how this remake will actually look like. So far we haven't really seen much, certainly no gameplay. And we will probably have to wait until the September Direct to learn more...
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The irony. I did not believe the rumors at all.
Last weekend, I actually started a replay of the original version Ocarina through the Switch 2 N64 online (primarily to test my back speakers for surround sound - it turns out they work for N64 emulation as long as you set the console output to stereo).
I'm still at it. Doing the adult Link dungeons slightly out of order. Forest, Water, Spirit child section. Am currently at the Fire Temple, planning to do Shadow next, and finally complete with Spirit adult. Man, the 20FPS is rough compared to the 3DS combat. My route brought me to Dark Link without Biggoron. Had to learn to fight him Master Sword only, nearly died doing so.
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