What Do We Feel When We See Another Video Game Remake?

Yes, this is a blog post about the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake. In part inspired by Christian Donlan’s I’m trying to untangle my response to how the Ocarina of Time remake looks on EuroGamer and in part because of my huge initial distrust when I saw the first real gameplay trailers. What exactly happened in my head was something along the lines of: This is not right, it’s not supposed to look this way! Why is this hyper realistic? Is this a From Software game ported to a finally capable Nintendo machine? Is this Ocarina of Time (OOT) or is this Breath of the Wild, where you can scope out a point in the distance from a tower, glide down and actually visit that place? Go back to point 1: it’s not supposed to look/work this way! Seventy bucks for a game that I already own on multiple platforms including the perfectly reasonable polished 3DS edition? I don’t think so. The chickens are not supposed to have more than three polygons. Now they look like plastic. Where’s the…