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gameranx's Ocarina of Time verdict favors a faithful remake

Jake Baldino highlights smoother controls, an orchestrated score and a progress tracker without a pile of extra content.

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Why this story? 1,284,863 views so far, and here is what is inside it.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake - Before You Buy

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0:15Baldino describes a faithful remake that avoids adding unnecessary content.
1:13Some footage displays at 30 FPS because of a capture-card fault; Baldino says gameplay ran at 60.
4:40The soundtrack re-orchestrates familiar music and uses interactive transitions.
5:40Controls add a dedicated jump button and a redesigned weapon and item selection menu.
8:18A boss viewer and the Tapestry of Time progress tracker join the adventure's features.
8:55Display options include a minimal "pro mode" and the ability to turn the HUD off entirely.

Link gets a dedicated jump button and a redesigned item menu, but Jake Baldino's bigger point is how much Nintendo has left alone. In gameranx's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake - Before You Buy," he describes a Switch 2 remake that preserves the adventure rather than expanding it for expansion's sake.

The practical changes get a clear explanation. Movement feels smoother to Baldino, while the new Tapestry of Time combines a visual record of progress with a quest log. Players can also simplify the on-screen display or switch it off entirely. These are changes to how you navigate the adventure, not a replacement for its dungeon puzzles and combat.

The presentation gets its own attention: new lighting, day-and-night cycles, voiced cutscenes and re-orchestrated music with interactive transitions. Baldino also flags a recording problem worth knowing before judging the footage: a faulty capture card made some sequences display at 30 frames per second, although he says the game ran at 60 on his television.

The review has drawn about 1.3 million views in four days. Beneath it, the conversation stretches beyond graphics and controls. Viewers recall playing on a CRT in a parent's living room, discovering the original at a department-store kiosk and returning to it with their own children. Others ask for Majora's Mask to receive similar treatment.

Baldino keeps the review spoiler-free, something viewers explicitly thank him for even with an adventure this familiar.

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Thank you Jake for keeping a 28 years old game spoiler-free
@MaRsw1See it on YouTube
I remember playing this for the first time at a game kiosk in a Dillards in 1998 while mom was shopping around. It was cold and rainy outside. On the way home she bought me a chocolate malt from Sonic. And a few weeks later I got this game for Christmas.

She did good. ❤
@ChadRyan338See it on YouTube
My sisters boyfriend and I used to play this on a crt tv in my moms living room when I was 12.

This was 17 years ago. He’s my brother in law now. We’re so excited to play this this weekend together!
@TonyBzySee it on YouTube

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Playing Ocarina of Time with my dad is my first ever memory of life, so this remake is a big deal to me :)
@shredd_cr7See it on YouTube
I’ve been here since day one with NES Zelda.

Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game I purchased with my own money…

Now decades later I get to experience it again with my children.
@mazzvidzSee it on YouTube
My first Zelda was the original… took me and my friend a year to finish it.. we had to rent it back then… living in Mexico knowing no English… we had to take notes and translate everything to understand… luckily it wasn’t that popular where I’m from at the time so every time we rented it.. our save was intact… but been in love with the series ever since…
@bukixp30See it on YouTube
They need to give Majora’s Mask the same treatment
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