What are you playing?
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Finished Ocarina of Time, the remake that is. 100% with all the things. No spoilers below.
I was skeptical early on after the announcement, not because it wasn't going to be a good game, it'd be hard to make a merely good game from an original game widely considered to be a masterpiece, at the time at least. But like a lot of masterpieces or cult classics, it's hard to redo it, and redo it better even moreso. Change too little and people will just be playing the exact same thing with a fresh coat of paint (which is cool I guess, but not really all that interesting even if the N64 graphics didn't age as gracefully as the pixel era before it), change too much and you're going to make the purists angry. And in this day and age when a game being 200+ hours long is a selling point, re-releasing a game that can be speedrun in a few hours even glitchless is a little wild.
To the point, I enjoyed it immensely. It brought EVERYTHING back from the original, moments resurfaced, I felt like I was 16 again playing it for the first time (and it had been long enough since my last playthrough on 3DS that I didn't remember every little puzzle and dungeon which was nice). They added quality of life improvements (jumps, sprinting, swapping boots with a simple button, etc..), they created new "night" music themes for every outdoors area which is a really neat touch, they added voice acting to all the important/lore cinematics, they added NPCs to point you into the more obscure directions and changed a few confusing things from the original (adding the swirly plants on the previously invisible bomb holes for example).
To me, it felt like this game came from the original team, except they had better tech and more time to give it their full vision, to really finish it and tie a bow on it. Some things that were left a little unfinished in the original release now have a satisfying resolution and conclusion, and it really feels like a love letter to the original work by the new team.
I played Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom fully and enjoyed them enough for what they were, but they didn't feel like the Zelda of my youth. I played the rather quirky Echoes of Wisdom and that was satisfying and cute. But this game here was the first time I can confidently say that I feel Zelda is in good hands even with the passing of the torch over at Nintendo.
Bring on Majora's Mask remake.
Oh, and if you're playing it and get to the point where you've explored the world thoroughly and just want to wrap up and collect everything, I highly recommend installing the Zelda Notes app (it's an app inside the Nintendo Switch app) on your phone. Once you enable Zelda Notes in the game's options, the app tracks your movement in real time on your phone in the world or dungeons, and tells you in every zone what you're missing, where it is, and whether you should be a child or adult to get it. It also offers other fun little activities like "quests" and rankings for the boss rematches in the whole new Hall of Fallen Foes.
I was skeptical early on after the announcement, not because it wasn't going to be a good game, it'd be hard to make a merely good game from an original game widely considered to be a masterpiece, at the time at least. But like a lot of masterpieces or cult classics, it's hard to redo it, and redo it better even moreso. Change too little and people will just be playing the exact same thing with a fresh coat of paint (which is cool I guess, but not really all that interesting even if the N64 graphics didn't age as gracefully as the pixel era before it), change too much and you're going to make the purists angry. And in this day and age when a game being 200+ hours long is a selling point, re-releasing a game that can be speedrun in a few hours even glitchless is a little wild.
To the point, I enjoyed it immensely. It brought EVERYTHING back from the original, moments resurfaced, I felt like I was 16 again playing it for the first time (and it had been long enough since my last playthrough on 3DS that I didn't remember every little puzzle and dungeon which was nice). They added quality of life improvements (jumps, sprinting, swapping boots with a simple button, etc..), they created new "night" music themes for every outdoors area which is a really neat touch, they added voice acting to all the important/lore cinematics, they added NPCs to point you into the more obscure directions and changed a few confusing things from the original (adding the swirly plants on the previously invisible bomb holes for example).
To me, it felt like this game came from the original team, except they had better tech and more time to give it their full vision, to really finish it and tie a bow on it. Some things that were left a little unfinished in the original release now have a satisfying resolution and conclusion, and it really feels like a love letter to the original work by the new team.
I played Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom fully and enjoyed them enough for what they were, but they didn't feel like the Zelda of my youth. I played the rather quirky Echoes of Wisdom and that was satisfying and cute. But this game here was the first time I can confidently say that I feel Zelda is in good hands even with the passing of the torch over at Nintendo.
Bring on Majora's Mask remake.
Oh, and if you're playing it and get to the point where you've explored the world thoroughly and just want to wrap up and collect everything, I highly recommend installing the Zelda Notes app (it's an app inside the Nintendo Switch app) on your phone. Once you enable Zelda Notes in the game's options, the app tracks your movement in real time on your phone in the world or dungeons, and tells you in every zone what you're missing, where it is, and whether you should be a child or adult to get it. It also offers other fun little activities like "quests" and rankings for the boss rematches in the whole new Hall of Fallen Foes.
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