all of this is GREAT! but hopefully this fuels what the next zelda will be, please please please just mix the wilds exploration and world with the og dungeon/puzzle/weapon formula. that would be the ultimate game
While I have no doubt the majority of these reviews are completely earnest, I'm just always skeptically these days. Nintendo just released Fire Emblem seven weeks ago and it's a series I've very much enjoyed just as much as Zelda. Sure, it's praise wasn't quite as high as this, but it was pretty far up there. I am enjoying Fortune's Weave very much but a lot of my niggling issues with it were nearly completely absent in the critic reviews. That said, I'm definitely going to play Ocarina of Time but I'm still cautiously optimistic I'll feel as strongly as many of these reviewers do. Also, I never played 3DS remake, so I was really disappointed Master Quest wasn't included. Hopefully it does get added later once the majority of players have finished the base game.
One of the best games in history, remade and it's still just as good. If it appears in the game awards, there is hope for humanity. I hope it beats mixtape since that game doesn't deserve it's score and is purely biased by the critics
I really wonder what a young person who has never played the original will think of the remake? Even with the new QOL stuff, will they still find the game to feel dated. 🤔
Meh, it's just the initial hype. Once the dust settles, the exact same thing will happen as with ToTK, people will finally see it for what it truly is, a glorified 80. Which isn't bad at all, but nowhere near the "perfect" 10's that it also originally got.
This game will convince me to buy a switch 2. I'll be playing it at Christmas. I always said I'll buy a switch 2 when a new Zelda is announced. This isn't what I had in mind, but it's enough for me to pull the trigger. I'm sure I'll love it, and I'll play through it with my daughter (8) but I know I'll be wishing there was more content added. Maybe there will be some new hidden things or slightly expanded areas, but I'm talking like making a completely second village between lake Hylia and Gerudo desert, or making Hyrule field twice as big with homes and encampments. A little flair of BotW. In a Majora's Mask remake I'd like to see 8 areas instead of 4, a 7 day cycle, and double the amount of masks and side quests. That's wishful thinking though. I'm confident that a new Zelda AAA title will be announced soon that hopefully moves away from the botw/totk art style. This art style would be fantastic with a huge linear progression full of dungeons and side quests. Maybe at the end credits of the Zelda movie they'll have an announcement for it? 🤔
i understand it's kind of a tired thing to harp on but it really rubs me the wrong way when reviewers say of a remake that it "removed all the friction of the original" as if friction is some inherently bad quality to be avoided. just a little linguistic nuance that i think really muddies the waters of discussion
Just got third stone, the game had been an awesome recreation of the original. Graphics are charming, minor changes feel natural, its so good that my muscle memory has me running off the edges to jump instead of using the newly mapped jumping button.
All the pain points from the original have been addressed, no more flicking back and forth from the menu.
I do feel like the voice acting takes away from the game, but people would have complained without any. Its the go to version to play now, easily a 95/100
19:00 "it's a little simplistic, because it is… compared to later games." and what game is that exactly? Wind Waker is more complicated because you have a boat? Twilight Princess? Twilight Princess is basically a retread of ocarina of time, same old "go to the goron place, go to the zora place, oh look there's ganon" it was so safe and boring. Skyward Sword is less "basic" than Ocarina of Time? What did Skyward Sword bring to the table except a miserable overly linear chore of an experience?
And what did botw bring but an aimless sandbox game that feels so soulless it feels like it was made by ubisoft. Somehow even worse than Skyward Sword because it wastes more of your time, shrines and breakable weapons instead of anything interesting to find. Tears of the Kingdom is the same thing with a goofy building mechanic which Nintendo was completely relying on because of games like Minecraft, Roblox and Minecraft being popular (Look at Nintendo, once a trendsetter now just a follower) and thought they could get away with just using the SAME EXACT land as botw.
Sorry, but what? Sorry, but these aren't evolutions of Ocarina of Time. At least Majora's Mask is an evolution in terms of story, but all these other games… Nope. They haven't made a good Zelda in well over a decade. Wind Waker was the last one I even enjoyed. I saw an entire playthrough of this game and it was done masterfully. I watched the whole thing because I have no intention of playing it myself since I play games I haven't played yet (not that I'd play this game anyway if they changed the game to an absurd degree like the FF7 remakes… shudder…) but this game will show the young players what an actual GOOD zelda game looks like.
The fact it took a remake to make a quality zelda game again is still depressing and I still don't have confidence that nintendo knows how to make a NEW good zelda game. At least they've proven they know how to make quality remakes… Great remakes but horrible new games is the most I can expect from nintendo going forward since I haven't enjoyed a zelda since Wind Waker, but I would love to be proven wrong.
Even though I am a fan of yours, I will say that I don't share the same color as you or most of your viewers apparently, but I do love hearing you talk about games. Today didn’t go as I hoped, but that doesn’t stop my excitement for Ocarina of Time. Probably gonna be my game of the year.
I bought the game when it first came out, loved it, beat it. Probably beat it a few times. But I have zero interest in wasting my time playing a game that I know inside and out. I love the Zelda series, but time is valuable…I really wish they would of just put the time into a whole new game with these graphics, new dungeons, etc. not even super open world like BOTW, but just new. Make my brain work man.
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all of this is GREAT! but hopefully this fuels what the next zelda will be, please please please just mix the wilds exploration and world with the og dungeon/puzzle/weapon formula. that would be the ultimate game
joking aside, i love that the only reason OoT got lower scores was because the reviewer wanted more game
can't wait for Sterling to give it a 7 just for the meme
22:02 YEAH!!
The reviews simped harder for Nintendo than Arlo. Still a solid game.
Is this what Disney thinks it’s doing with the live action remakes
Such an a-polotical little blue monster.
While I have no doubt the majority of these reviews are completely earnest, I'm just always skeptically these days. Nintendo just released Fire Emblem seven weeks ago and it's a series I've very much enjoyed just as much as Zelda. Sure, it's praise wasn't quite as high as this, but it was pretty far up there. I am enjoying Fortune's Weave very much but a lot of my niggling issues with it were nearly completely absent in the critic reviews. That said, I'm definitely going to play Ocarina of Time but I'm still cautiously optimistic I'll feel as strongly as many of these reviewers do. Also, I never played 3DS remake, so I was really disappointed Master Quest wasn't included. Hopefully it does get added later once the majority of players have finished the base game.
Is it bad that my fervour for OoT has been demolished by playing queens domain obsessively?
One of the best games in history, remade and it's still just as good. If it appears in the game awards, there is hope for humanity. I hope it beats mixtape since that game doesn't deserve it's score and is purely biased by the critics
14:20
heh, I see what they did there. Clever.
Oblivion Remaster was Todd Howard’s Shitcoin Rug Pull until they prove me wrong. That won’t 😭
None of the reviewers would dare criticize this game and risk being the stand alone mixed or bad review that drops it’s score.
"… Nintendo Life, giving only a 90…"
In fairness, Nintendo Life scores on a 1-10 scale, and I don't think they even do half points.
I really wonder what a young person who has never played the original will think of the remake?
Even with the new QOL stuff, will they still find the game to feel dated. 🤔
watching this video made me realise gaming is for children and adults who want to be children
Meh, it's just the initial hype. Once the dust settles, the exact same thing will happen as with ToTK, people will finally see it for what it truly is, a glorified 80. Which isn't bad at all, but nowhere near the "perfect" 10's that it also originally got.
This game will convince me to buy a switch 2. I'll be playing it at Christmas. I always said I'll buy a switch 2 when a new Zelda is announced. This isn't what I had in mind, but it's enough for me to pull the trigger. I'm sure I'll love it, and I'll play through it with my daughter (8) but I know I'll be wishing there was more content added. Maybe there will be some new hidden things or slightly expanded areas, but I'm talking like making a completely second village between lake Hylia and Gerudo desert, or making Hyrule field twice as big with homes and encampments. A little flair of BotW. In a Majora's Mask remake I'd like to see 8 areas instead of 4, a 7 day cycle, and double the amount of masks and side quests. That's wishful thinking though. I'm confident that a new Zelda AAA title will be announced soon that hopefully moves away from the botw/totk art style. This art style would be fantastic with a huge linear progression full of dungeons and side quests. Maybe at the end credits of the Zelda movie they'll have an announcement for it? 🤔
This video made me so happy. Can’t wait to play it with my kids tomorrow. They are all excited but my excitement is dwarfing theirs.
A fine blue day
i understand it's kind of a tired thing to harp on but it really rubs me the wrong way when reviewers say of a remake that it "removed all the friction of the original" as if friction is some inherently bad quality to be avoided. just a little linguistic nuance that i think really muddies the waters of discussion
that ending remark was very cheeky. feeling very blue today indeed! 🌊🌊🌊
Just got third stone, the game had been an awesome recreation of the original.
Graphics are charming, minor changes feel natural, its so good that my muscle memory has me running off the edges to jump instead of using the newly mapped jumping button.
All the pain points from the original have been addressed, no more flicking back and forth from the menu.
I do feel like the voice acting takes away from the game, but people would have complained without any. Its the go to version to play now, easily a 95/100
I just got mine at 3 pm this afternoon, god bless amazon
Already works on PC, and I can confirm that it's incredible.
me expect "Too much fun" — ign, "[off topic US politics]" — kotaku
19:00 "it's a little simplistic, because it is… compared to later games." and what game is that exactly? Wind Waker is more complicated because you have a boat? Twilight Princess? Twilight Princess is basically a retread of ocarina of time, same old "go to the goron place, go to the zora place, oh look there's ganon" it was so safe and boring. Skyward Sword is less "basic" than Ocarina of Time? What did Skyward Sword bring to the table except a miserable overly linear chore of an experience?
And what did botw bring but an aimless sandbox game that feels so soulless it feels like it was made by ubisoft. Somehow even worse than Skyward Sword because it wastes more of your time, shrines and breakable weapons instead of anything interesting to find. Tears of the Kingdom is the same thing with a goofy building mechanic which Nintendo was completely relying on because of games like Minecraft, Roblox and Minecraft being popular (Look at Nintendo, once a trendsetter now just a follower) and thought they could get away with just using the SAME EXACT land as botw.
Sorry, but what? Sorry, but these aren't evolutions of Ocarina of Time. At least Majora's Mask is an evolution in terms of story, but all these other games… Nope. They haven't made a good Zelda in well over a decade. Wind Waker was the last one I even enjoyed. I saw an entire playthrough of this game and it was done masterfully. I watched the whole thing because I have no intention of playing it myself since I play games I haven't played yet (not that I'd play this game anyway if they changed the game to an absurd degree like the FF7 remakes… shudder…) but this game will show the young players what an actual GOOD zelda game looks like.
The fact it took a remake to make a quality zelda game again is still depressing and I still don't have confidence that nintendo knows how to make a NEW good zelda game. At least they've proven they know how to make quality remakes… Great remakes but horrible new games is the most I can expect from nintendo going forward since I haven't enjoyed a zelda since Wind Waker, but I would love to be proven wrong.
W Zelda L US elections low key
Remember, remember, the 5th of November.
It was a very nice, big, beautiful blue day
Even though I am a fan of yours, I will say that I don't share the same color as you or most of your viewers apparently, but I do love hearing you talk about games. Today didn’t go as I hoped, but that doesn’t stop my excitement for Ocarina of Time. Probably gonna be my game of the year.
Stellar blade and OOT released on the same day fuuuuu
I bought the game when it first came out, loved it, beat it. Probably beat it a few times. But I have zero interest in wasting my time playing a game that I know inside and out. I love the Zelda series, but time is valuable…I really wish they would of just put the time into a whole new game with these graphics, new dungeons, etc. not even super open world like BOTW, but just new. Make my brain work man.
Does this mean that OoT is considered a Switch 2 seller?
Guys, master quest might get added as a free dlc update later. Nintendo has been doing free dlc updates lately.
GTA 6 will undoubtedly outsell Ocarina of Time, but there's no way it's going to get as many perfect 100 scores
I would love to play this game, but the $560 ticket to do so is way too expensive
I know Arlo was also referring to the midterm results 🤗