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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time review – a dream come true

Ahead of the release of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI, Nintendo is launching its own fall juggernaut: a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 3 sources•1 min read•Updated November 4, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC
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  • With video games, there is the added complication of technological advancement: decades-old games can look so basic and feel so treacly to play that it’s hard to explain why they were mind-blowing at the time.
  • Nintendo Switch 2; Nintendo This ambitious remake transforms a landmark Zelda game into a modern masterpiece, clearer and easier to navigate, more beautiful to look at, with playful musical touches.
  • Light-touch remasters aim to bring such games up to modern graphical standards without fundamentally changing them; an ambitious remake attempts to….

Nintendo's new Ocarina of Time remake enshrines its place in the gaming canon for generations to come.

Two decades after The Legend of Zelda made the transformational shift to 3D, Breath of the Wild reinvigorated the franchise with an open-ended adventure that was built around player freedom and expression.

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  • Will revisiting it reveal that it was never actually that good, and that your tastes are built on a foundation of lies?
  • Yet the melancholy remains It’s always a worry, returning to a formative piece of art from your childhood.
  • Will your jaded adult sensibilities render you unable to locate the magic that captivated your child self?
  • The remake, which is releasing 28 years after the launch of the original version on Nintendo 64, has a much more realistic visual style and […].

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