YouTube video: https://youtu.be/PvUPDSDZg1k?t=3183 (Invidious just doesn’t find this video for some reasons)
Hey listen! I don’t know how to feel about this look. I’m happy about the Remake, because it will be realized in full 3D, without the early technical limitations of Nintendo 64. But I guess we need to see this in action in the game, rather than this quick few seconds at non gameplay sequence. Will this be a re-imagining like Final Fantasy 7 Remake was? Sure the overworld map will be more interesting this time without loading screens in between the areas, with the lessons learned from Breath of the Wild. More than the graphics update, I’m very curious about the gameplay changes and how the world will be layed out. And the soundtrack off course. How far will Nintendo diverge from the original?
BTW I won’t buy a Switch 2, so will miss out on this unfortunately.
Edit: As a reminder, the original game got unofficially decompiled and ported to PC (you have to provide a Rom file for the assets), with possible enhancements while staying true to the original game: https://www.shipofharkinian.com/
9.6.2026*
Unless you’re from three months in the future.
Looks kinda DLSS-ish. Not a fan.
It’s like the crazy taxi game. Wow, this looks bad. Good job
Really looking forward to be spammed with “Hey, listen!” in Dolby quality.
I love OoT and I still play the game semi regularly, but I just feel so conflicted about this. It’s good that a game I like so much is being made more easily available and is getting the (nearly) 30 year old limitations and rough edges polished out, but on the other hand… I just don’t know. In my opinion those rough edges give the game a certain charm that gets lost even if the devs do everything right
Also worth pointing out how many very popular games even today have visuals on par with the N64 game. Kids are fine with that; they just don’t want to set up yellow, red, and white AV cables of an N64.
I guess for the middle ground, there is still the unofficial de-compilation project https://www.shipofharkinian.com/ . Just added it to the post.
Ship is amazing. Played through z64 like 5 times when it came out and tried to play on cart again, but the frame rate, cutscenes, and item selection were painful. I can’t go back to the original. I’ve been spoiled
Understandable. I’m not that sensitive in the way you describe it. Still prefer playing the games as they were intended, with original resolution and even CRT filters (RetroArch fan here). There are lot of cool mods for the original Rom file, so there is that. I haven’t gotten into trying out Ship myself, there are too many games (plus emulated ones)! And to be honest, I also fear getting spoiled too. :D It could happen to any of us!
I will say pointedly, the instant you place an item onto the left directional pad, you’re fucked, it’s over.
Going from 3 C-button items to 7 makes it a whole new game. Especially Majora’s Mask, with all of the mask changes all the time. No way I could go back to just the C-buttons after that.
Ship of Harkinian is how I’ve been playing OoT the most lately and I can’t recommend it enough
The thing that I remember the most about OoT, even all these years later, is the ambience. If they can keep that general feeling while modernizing the game, it will be awesome. We’ll see whether or not they’re able to!
I’m of a similar mind, but at least no remake, good or bad, will remove the original. Thanks to the hard work of decompilation teams, anyone can play a truly definitive version of the original OoT at any time. It’s both preserved and perfected, available as it was but with support for the controllers, PC setups, and refresh rates that we are used to today.
That’s why I’m okay with the remake even if it is a strong departure from the original game. I’m more interested in a reimagining type of remake rather than one that just tries to do exactly what the original did with better graphics.
Nintendo seems to be going down the ultra realism path now. Kind of started when we heard they twere publishing Duskbloods
Oh a new Fable game!
LOL
I would be so excited for this if I was still willing to support Nintendo
Same. Just hoping for an emulator in the future
They lost my support after TotK in 2023, but the RAMpocalypse worked in their favor to bring me back in 2026. Affordable options for new gaming hardware will be pretty much nonexistent for years to come, so I went ahead and got a Switch 2 while it’s still at its lowest price so I at least know I’ll be able to play their exclusives for the life of the console. I won’t be paying for NSO or anything other than their good single player exclusives, though, as I have a Steam Deck for everything else.
Whether it’s a simple remake or a more complex reimagining, I can’t wait for this game and I’ll be playing it on day 1.
I can’t imagine why people would be against OoT with Twilight Princess graphics or better. I’m sure it’ll be astounding!
If it’s not rated T for Teen in the USA it might not be a good / honest remake, because there’s no way in hell Deadhand and the Shadow Temple / Bottom of the Well wouldn’t get it rated that high in modern times.
Twilight Princess was T, so there’s hope
T for Twenty years ago, so this isn’t really an indication that this one will be T as well.
Can’t find the OoT content in this video. Not sure if the video was changed but at the given timestamp all I see is StarFox.
OoT is one of my favorite games, and I’m not personally interested in a remake. You don’t need a new Mona Lisa just because we invented better paints.
Edit: That said I wouldn’t say no to trying it if it was put in front of me.
That picture is about all we got to see anyway.
Yes, the video was edited and cut, initially I think there was 20 or 30 minutes wait time before the actual video started, as it was a live stream capture. I updated the link with new correct timestamp: https://youtu.be/PvUPDSDZg1k?t=3183
Oh wow, I saw it too!
I bought a Switch, which for a long time I call “My $500 Zelda machine”, as I really only played Breath of the Wild on it.
Now with Factorio and the classic N64 library, I feel better about buying it.
There isn’t anything technically speaking about the Switch 2 I want, as I just got a PS5 and it blows that out of the water.
Shame this isn’t on switch, I’d have liked to play it
I will not buy a Switch 2, especially for these prices. I wonder what the reason for Switch 2 exclusivity is. Either it is just to have a reason for people to buy the system, or it is truly technical, in which case the ambitions might be even bigger than we think.
This is rumored to be a from the ground up reimagining of OoT, not a touch-up like the 3DS version. It wouldn’t run on the Switch 1.
They could clearly develop it as a cross platform title, like the previous Zelda games in example. The question is, if they want to. I think one factor is, that there is no Switch 2 emulator out there, plus Nintendo tries to sell Switch 2. We have absolutely no way of knowing it couldn’t run on Switch 1, just because its a new game.
True, this is still only rumors, but from the beginning they said that this was going to be a game that takes full advantage of the Switch 2 hardware. Time will tell, but Nintendo hasn’t been shy about releasing cross-platform games if it’s feasible. Much as they hate emulation, I don’t think it holds them back from doing so, as the install base for the Switch 1 is huge and they like making money (not that you’d know from some of their decisions…).
I think this has been planned as a Switch 2 only title from the beginning due to being too advanced for the Switch 1.
You paid $500 for a Switch 1?
Something around that, I don’t remember exactly
I was a skeptic of the FF7 remakes but both wound up being great, in my opinion. I don’t know if OoT is as much fertile ground for added content as FF7 was/is. I won’t be too interested in a remaster, we already had that and it felt like it had generally lost something.
OoT doesn’t care about its plot nearly as much. I suppose it could, though. It depends.
Really, I need new dungeons at a minimum. That’s what I care about. If I’ll be solving the same puzzles for the 35th time, I don’t want to.
Also, re: FF7, I squeal with glee every time I see Cid—I’m so happy with what they’ve done.
There’s a shit ton of “environmental storytelling” that Zelda games love to throw and never explain; OoT has plenty of that. Just any change to the Shadow Temple would send people wild. It’s always been hard to expect Nintendo to actually do anything about any of it because they never ever do, but this being a full remake similar to FF7 is giving a lot of hope.
Oh, I’m fully aware.
This right here:
It’s always been hard to expect Nintendo to actually do anything about any of it because they never ever do,
is what I mean by “Zelda doesn’t care about it’s plot.” Nintendo has almost always been more interested in gameplay first, and maybe experiential storytelling second. ‘Experiential’ being the kind that you, the player, tell along with Link, in the sense that ‘you’ literally are him.
Actually, I would relate Zelda’s environmental storytelling to the kind of beach seashell collecting that Miyamoto has always wanted Zelda to feel like, where it’s more about the feeling of discovery than it is the specific implications of it all. Not to say those implications are never taken seriously.
That said, I am salivating a bit at the thought of what they might be doing for the Forest Temple. That place has so much atmosphere, and atmosphere is something Zelda has always done really, really well.
Yeah, but the fact that Nintendo (can’t remember if it was Miyamoto orr Aonuma) lamented that younger TotK players didn’t know how important Rauru is, and this reveal that it’s not a 1 to 1 remake after all, is what’s sending the fandom into heavy hopium that this time, for sure, Nintendo will do what they’ve never done before and actually push the story. The tapestry presentation can certainly be read as supporting this expectation, too.
I really want it too, that they’re finally putting the same love and detail into the story as FF7 is doing, but I won’t believe it until I see it. The reveal was a big disappointment to me for that reason.
