Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agoOoT doesn’t care about its plot nearly as much. I suppose it could, though. It depends.
Really, I need new dungeons at a minimum. That’s what I care about. If I’ll be solving the same puzzles for the 35th time, I don’t want to.
Also, re: FF7, I squeal with glee every time I see Cid—I’m so happy with what they’ve done.
Uruanna@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There’s a shit ton of “environmental storytelling” that Zelda games love to throw and never explain; OoT has plenty of that. Just any change to the Shadow Temple would send people wild. It’s always been hard to expect Nintendo to actually do anything about any of it because they never ever do, but this being a full remake similar to FF7 is giving a lot of hope.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Oh, I’m fully aware.
This right here:
is what I mean by “Zelda doesn’t care about it’s plot.” Nintendo has almost always been more interested in gameplay first, and maybe experiential storytelling second. ‘Experiential’ being the kind that you, the player, tell along with Link, in the sense that ‘you’ literally are him.
Actually, I would relate Zelda’s environmental storytelling to the kind of beach seashell collecting that Miyamoto has always wanted Zelda to feel like, where it’s more about the feeling of discovery than it is the specific implications of it all. Not to say those implications are never taken seriously.
That said, I am salivating a bit at the thought of what they might be doing for the Forest Temple. That place has so much atmosphere, and atmosphere is something Zelda has always really, really well.
Uruanna@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, but the fact that Nintendo (can’t remember if it was Miyamoto orr Aonuma) lamented that younger TotK players didn’t know how important Rauru is, and this reveal that it’s not a 1 to 1 remake after all, is what’s sending the fandom into heavy hopium that this time, for sure, Nintendo will do what they’ve never done before and actually push the story. The tapestry presentation can certainly be read as supporting this expectation, too.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Uh, Zelda’s always done the tapestry thing though, haven’t they? 'Cause they like being presented as old myths.
I do think it’s possible, though. I don’t want what I’m saying to be read as pessimism: Skyward Sword cared about its storyline kind of a lot, and while BotW and TotK don’t put it in your face all the time, I mean, they added voice actors. For the very first time, Zelda has voices.
And it’s not like OoT isn’t enamored with Hyrule’s dark past. If they’re going to expand on anything, it’ll almost certainly be that.
It’s worth waiting to see some actual gameplay, I think. I can’t really say what my expectations are because we haven’t even seen anything.