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His childhood-nostalgia critique arrives alongside a sharp rise in daily views across the channel.
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Story of Why this story? The whole channel is running at 150,357 views a day, 8.9 times a normal day (16,879).
Your Childhood Will Be Destroyed, Again and Again
Returning to a childhood favorite isn't much of a selling point for Synthetic Man. His upload "Your Childhood Will Be Destroyed, Again and Again" takes aim at The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake, questioning whether the return trip is worth making at all.
Posted two days ago, the review accompanies a jump to about 150,000 daily views across his channel, nearly nine times its usual pace. That is a channel-wide increase, rather than the viewing total for this review alone.
Ocarina of Time first appeared in 1998 and brought Zelda into 3D, giving this particular argument about revisiting childhood a substantial piece of gaming history behind it. Synthetic Man's description criticizes the remake's character models and calls it a cash grab. His chapter list moves from a mini-review to a broader argument: that the remake is unnecessary and players should try new games instead.
That isn't quite the position he took in October's "They (Almost) Fixed The Game." There, he credited Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen with making the game fun despite remaining problems. His objection isn't simply to returning to an existing game; this time, he disputes what the return adds.
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- Channel views, last 7 days
- 228,891
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- 150,357 (on a normal day: 16,879)
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Which Zelda game is the direct sequel to Ocarina of Time?
Majora's Mask follows the Link introduced in Ocarina of Time on a new adventure in Termina.