Just got Epona!

Loving it so far. I'm pretty sure I never made it past the Forest Temple as a kid.

Banger experience. Im currently playing Ocarina for the first time, I've only finished BOTW at this point.
I'd completly stopped playing FE FV though rn:/ I dont need a new game for like a year

This was always my second least favorite 3D Zelda (sorry, Wind Waker) but the remake seriously improved my opinion of Ocarina. Almost makes me curious to give the original another shot after...a decade and some years. Almost.

What it does even more is make me YEARN for a Majora's Mask remake in this exact same style. The framework for oot was obviously always rocksolid - a game doesn't get that kind of legacy for nothing - but I, personally, always vastly preferred MM over it in just about every way.

They did well to keep the creepier vibes of some parts of oot (haven't been to the shadow temple yet, tho) and I'm convinced they'd nail that for Majora, too. They also seriously elevated the FEEL of the story with some very smart decisions and additions for the presentation and cutscenes. Parts of the remake are incredibly somber, Link seems very introspective in a few scenes and it legit made me feel sad for him at times, considering the larger theme of a lost childhood.

And everyone who's beat MM knows that game already punched you in the gut with many, MANY of its dozens of little stories. A remake on the scale and with the nuance of OoT Remake would likely legitimately make me cry at some points. And I think I'm kinda into that idea. 😅

...Were these swirly plant things ever in the original? I don't remember them, and it took me until recently to figure out how to use them. I'm constantly questioning everything and wondering if it was in the original or not when playing this game. xD

@Joeynator3000 definitely not. I’ve only activated one and there was nothing in there worthwhile after doing so.

@NintendoByNature They seems to simply be like...an enemy challenge or something? They don't actually give you anything aside from some rupees, but yeah. Makes me think that a Cave of Ordeals/Savage Labyrinth dlc could happen for this game, wouldn't mind that. Always loved those challenges.

I wondered about that too. Admittedly, I didnt play Ocarina back in the day. I've really only played it once to completion on the 3ds. I had Majoras Mask growing up. Cant remember the details but im pretty sure I got it and the guide through Nintendo Power somehow.

@Joeynator3000 no doubt

@Joeynator3000 the song of storms now has the added ability of making a little tornado appear around Link (likely to explain its effect on the windmill).

So these spinning plants were added to make use of that (and to add more variety to grotto entrances I guess).

It took me a long while in the remake to realize what to do with them, yeah. x_x

Here's a screenshot someone posted on Reddit.

Looks so good that it could be mistaken for concept art.

How's the NS2 Pro controllers HD Rumble 2 feel in this? Like, compared to TOTK's using an NS1 Pro Controller? I'm glad it supports 9-Axis Gyro too. I can't stand aiming with a stick anymore, like it's 2005 all over again. As long as drifting is practically none existent!

I think I'd be more interested in this remake, if Nintendo drops a Hero mode to ramp up the challenge. I'm a bit of a masochistic gamer. I'm typically allergic to easy video games. lol

Edit: Supposedly Master Quest is coming according to, Data miners, or something? The question is when? Although, I still have to play through my physical copy of A Link to the Past on SNES. I feel ashamed to say it, but i only trudged through maybe 1/4th of the game back in 92'. I wasn't a huge Zelda-guy, i mean I liked Zelda, but ALTTP is one that i preffered to watch when my friends play, rather than actually playing it myself. It was just mind blowing, ridicuously charming, and straight up magical back then, even more so than OOT N64(98') imo. The impact ALTTP had on me far surpassed OOT.

It will still take some time for me to play the game, and I'm trying to stay as blind as possible now that I inadvertently spoiled myself on a certain change from the original.

However, there is one thing I want to ask people who have already beat the remake in order to set up my expectations accordingly: is the lighting for the final boss battle closer to the N64 version or the 3DS version?

I used the Goron mask during the fire temple hoping for some funny reactions.

Only one of them commented on it, and he basically said I was being creepy.

There's no way they're not at least thinking about Majora's Mask remake. Besides for it being an obvious opportunity for them to reuse all of the NPC models that they recreated so faithfully and nicely, the way the time-of-day mechanic now functions in towns clearly feels like a test for Majora's NPC routines; there's also literally a dedicated mask button now, which even the actual 3DS MM remake didn't think to do. Idk, that's just my two cents (and copium lol).

@Robot99 a YouTuber actually found references to a third amiibo mask in the dialogue of the game.

NPCs say things like ”I thought you were a monster”, “That’s a very rare mask”, “I wouldn’t wear that” and “I bet monsters would avoid me if I wore that”.

So maybe there’s at least a Majora’s Mask-themed amiibo coming out in the future, perhaps even to coincide with a remake.

Though of course it would also be just placeholder text for any future plans.

@Eel It checks out, given that there's some other stuff that alludes to a possible Majora's Mask remake. Link's House is outright shaped like the Deku Butler's son (to a point where I can't in good faith think that's a coincidence because looking at the two images together, it's pretty much outright the same shape and has the same number of branches). On top of that, if you look at the Happy Mask Salesman's outfit in this remake, you can see he has his Majora's Mask design, given the golden bracelets he has on. Something which up to now, he's only ever had in Majora's Mask. He didn't have them in Ocarina of Time, or Ocarina of Time 3D.

Trying to not read much of the other postings here, but I haven't played much and mostly only explore stuff about (I think after finishing the Dodongo Cave, I should go and get some mask for the guard though... either that or I should have done that first? Not sure)

But so far it's indeed a pretty neat game

@VoidofLight oh that sounds like a nice way to connect Link to Termina.

Link’s intended Terminian double could indeed be the unnamed Deku Scrub he ends up becoming. (Who by the way happened to be crossing over to Hyrule at the exact same time Link was crossing over to Termina).

@VoidofLight
Oh nice, I didn't notice that about Link's house. Gonna have to go back and check that out.

One thing that seems odd though is that the Mask Salesman is now referred to as "Happy Mask Shopkeeper" in his dialog boxes. I guess that's technically more accurate, but that feels weird when he's so popularly known as "Salesman".

I also noticed that Skull Kid is referred to as such. I don't think that was the case in the original OoT? Or maybe I'm just being stupid lol