Notes on Ocarina of Time’s Remake

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been embiggened by its remaking. Some old secrets moved, a handful of new secrets added. Connection made with the Nntendo Switch app. Trivia quizzes of the game. A modest increase in explorable size. Yet it hasn’t been made much larger. Compared to its predecessors Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, it’s tiny. Both of those were games that prided themselves in sheer bigness, with size in bulk and terrain by the ton. Both games contained 900 Koroks to find, hidden around their many acres; Ocarina has only its modest 100 Gold Skulltulas, and although back in 1998 that seemed like a whole lot, and they served as the very inspiration for the Koroks, their number now seems to lack. Yet Ocarina’s miniscule relative space is much more finely honed. Less seems included just to fill out space. It seems like its space is used more, indeed, than the Nintendo 64 original. Time has not been kind to that first game’s Hyrule Field; for all the fond…

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