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Here’s What The Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Looks Like
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We just got our first look at the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake! Here it is! And it’s out on November 5, 2026.
The look of this remake is already causing some significant stir online due to its high detail and its leaning into a style that’s more…not realistic, exactly, but certainly closer to realism than Breath of the Wild was. The child characters are getting by far the most scrutiny from fans, alongside the overall shininess of it all.
We got to see several minutes of gameplay showing off Kokiri Forest, the Great Deku Tree, Hyrule Field, and Castle Town. From this we learned that there are some overall quality-of-life improvements being introduced in the remake. Instead of Link automatically jumping when he runs at a ledge, there’s now a dedicated jump button. The camera is also free-moving now, like in modern video games, so you can look around everywhere. Link can freely dive underwater and swim properly, so there’s no need to do the weird taking-off and putting-on of iron boots to “swim” anymore. And Link can roll into a sprint now, too, to move faster.
There’s also a brand new feature in this remake that lets you hum, sing, or even play notes into the microphone of the Switch 2. If Link knows the song you sing or play, he’ll play it on his ocarina. So you don’t necessarily have to remember button combos for all of Link’s handy songs if you know the tunes and can hum them yourself.
This remake of Ocarina of Time was first revealed back in June with a long, mural-based lead-up to a single shot of Link asleep in his forest home. Today is the first time we’ve gotten any real information about what sort of remake this is. In the presentation, series producer Eiji Aonuma referred to this game as a “faithful interpretation using modern technologies” and reminded everyone that it has a “different appeal from other [Zelda games] like Breath of the Wild.” From that and what we saw today, we can infer that there won’t be too many major changes to Ocarina of Time in the remake apart from mechanical and quality-of-life stuff like the features detailed above.
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