Adventure through Hyrule and become the Hero of Time when The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time releases November 5, 2026, on Nintendo Switch 2. Pre-order tod...
  • morgenman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    It’s such a weird feeling as a long time Zelda fan who absolutely vehemently hates this. It boggles my mind that everyone seems to love it. It just feels like slop to me. The art direction is “make it hyper realistic” and yet everyone seems to feel like its some cutesy toy effect? It seems to me like they couldn’t decide whether they wanted to do a remake or a remaster. The models and animation are 1:1 but the mechanics are changed and everything looks like an unreal engine demo. The castle town was the best part but man the vibes are wrong. Zelda games almost always have a cohesive, distinct artistic style. I would have loved something weird and fresh.

    NGL though the creepy mix of childish and realistic will probably hit hard for MM.

    Edit: forgot about Navis voice… I also hate that

  • Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    4 days ago

    I am not sure what to think of the style they went with. I get some uncanny valley feeling from it? Parts of it look a bit off, other look good, but all of it look a bit out of place? Maybe I am just too used to the original.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      While I like the style, the uncanny valley vibe has been mentioned by many people, so it’s not just you.

      Hopefully it won’t feel like that when actually playing.

    • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      Character faces look like 15th century Christian religious paintings. Possibly an intentional choice?

      Overall I think it looks great, even if the faces are a bit weird

  • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 days ago

    Really like the look. Except all the textures and little details on Young Link’s hat (and outfit). For some reason that sticks out as overdoing it, and ends up kinda ugly.

    But yeah, seems like a pretty direct remake. The visuals have evolved so much that it feels different while staying very close to the original. I love the addition of a sprint. A jump button doesn’t feel necessary, but might be nice in practice. If you didn’t already like OoT tho, I don’t think this will change your mind.

    Another change they mentioned was that the day/night cycle continues even in towns now. I actually don’t like that. There was always that little bit of peace when I’d arrive in town before sunset. I don’t love day cycles in general, in OoT and most games it’s usually just annoying and worse looking at night.

    I appreciate the detail that you can see where his fingers go as he plays the ocarina. Combined with them selling one (albeit probably a cheaply made poor quality instrument?), that’s kinda cool.

    Glad to see the price is mostly reasonable.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Glad I’m not the only one. I feel like they went overboard with the details on link.

      Yeah, you have a new high fidelity system than can handle all those details. But… Should you? Looks way too extra.

    • Guitar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I actually like the little details on Link. It looks like the Kokiri made their clothes out of leaves from the forest. That’s why there are veins in Link’s hat. I think it makes more sense than a community of children in a forest being able to grow and weave cloth.

      As far as day/night changes go, at least we will still have the Sun’s Song to change it whenever we want. But you make a good point about being able to relax in towns at sunset. I never liked how it would cut the music though.

  • DotEliot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is already my favorite video game, so a remake wasn’t something I really wanted honestly. The 3DS remake was fine, but I always preferred the N64 version. BUT after seeing this new game in action, I am sold. They got me. This looks phenomenal and I’m so thrilled. I only hope I can change the spoken dialogue to French like with BOTW and TOTK.

  • _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    Not sure what to think.
    It seems to capture the original aesthetic pretty well, except for the characters which look a bit plasticky (and hair look very low quality).
    I still feel it’s unnecessary, but that’s how I feel about most remakes.
    Also I expected it to be $50 like Star Fox, being a remake of an N64 game.

    • ladel@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      I like how Zelda games often have a distinct art style between each other, but the plastic look is a bit offputting, although I’ll probably get used to it. It’s the way things that shouldn’t shine do shine, and then the rain makes everything super shiny.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    I was hoping they’d go in a FF7 Remake direction with it. Ah well. Amazon’s selling it for $60 physical, so I’m willing to get it for that.

  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    I feel like the style is caught in limbo trying to please too many crowds and feels like it’s lacking a bit of identity. I may think otherwise when playing it later.

    • avg@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Agreed, if someone said this was a fan made render, I’d believe it.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Looks pretty good, honestly. It seems to be going for an ultra-cinematic dream. Feels like that adequately captures the memory of OoT, which seems to be what they’re going for with this round of remakes.

    But I hate the voice acting. I’d be fine if they voice-acted the game, but they’ve inserted so much dialogue in. The guards yelling in the back of the scene where Ganondorf kidnaps Zelda fuckin ruined it for me man. The stillness and the score of that original moment… fuck.

    3DS remake is way too bright, but it’s still kinda the best remake of that. I do hope they bring something like that to HD soon, quite frankly.

  • bruhbeans@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    I’m not buying a switch 2 and I’m not buying yet another fucking Nintendo remake, least of all at full price. lmk when it hits the emu scene, meanwhile I’m playing the Dusk TP decompile

  • Tamlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    I haven’t played Ocariana of Time yet. I have never played a 3D Zelda if i think about it, but every single Top-Down Zelda, even the multiplayer. So was never in the mood to play a 3D Zelda, in some cases like botw i don’t even think to like the game. But i could have fun with a Ocarina of Time game. But this remake isn’t that convincing for me to pick it up. I mean i could have played this game for years already, but the new ones artstyle is sometimes good and some part are kind ugly. So doesn’t convice me that much…

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      It sounds like 3D Zelda just aren’t for you, but if you want to try one, this is now the most modern way to play older (non-BOTW) style 3D Zelda game.

      • Tamlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I don’t know if it’s not for me. Part of the story is, that i didn’t own a Nintendo home console since the snes i played a link to the past on. It’s still a maybe if i pick it up or not.