Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 It's also a case of more often than not, vision loses out to pandering to market averages
and this is why the OOT remake will probably be disappointing
rawb
Thursday, June 11, 2026
I agree, but that's why I think the remake could be good
Nintendo has been sorta aimless with how to structure their new games
forcing them to use Ocarina of Time as a base (hopefully) solves that first part they seem to struggle with
If its not just botw slop, I am sure it will be good
if they actually have an idea other than "use botw as a base to remake oot" like the rumour/leaks say they are doing, I think it will at least be good
botw is a good enough sandbox, that it carries an entire game
but its not actually very developed beyond that, and I don't think they've found a magic bullet that solves it simply by expanding the options they give you in the sandbox
I think bounding it around a narrative and dungeons, could be interesting to see if it works
it might not, but I'm at least optimistic
I think improving botw is fairly east, you just need to remove climbing, and add back in permanant items that unlock the ability to do new things to the world
or at least limit climbing a lot
I'd take botw in a different direction, I'd rather they give you more things you can change/influence in the world, and build the game around that
chain-reactions and cascading changes, and give Link abilties/items based on the world state
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that could be interesting too
They just need to do something other than what they have been doing
botw worked once, it will not work again
I think climbing is cool, just incorperate it rather than every challenge being in a wet or Shika "no climbing" room
and you need real Zelda dungeons in some way
and I agree, botw 2 was such a letdown and you can tell they thought they gave you enough extra stuff to make your own fun fucking around
but that just made the whole thing feel sorta pointless
I played 90 hours of both, I think totk is a sidegrade and if it came out first it would be fine
its the fact that botw already existed that made it lame
I think my issue with it is mostly the same reason I can't go back and play botw again
it's going to really have to sell me to buy a Switch 2 though
I don't think FE looks good enough to warant it
kirby air riders being a near launch game was a good move by them to get me and polu
because otherwise, yeah
"Am I willing to pay $600 to play Zelda"
Friday, June 12, 2026
How badly would they have to fuck it up for you to not at least be interested in it
I'll get it and judge it fairly when it comes out
but if its just botw but oot themed
that is a huge fuckup
Yeah
Do you think this is the first full voice acted Zelda game or partial voice acting like botw and totk
I'm hoping for the former but expecting the latter
not with the movie coming soon
they wouldn't do it game-first
I hate that things need to be voiced now
Nintendo games esp really don't need to be voiced
it's bing bing wahoo for a reason
I think them doing a voiced music track every game is kind of novel, and kirby's use of having actual VA work was kind of cool so I give it a pass
but these games do not need voices
It doesn't
I do not think voice acting improves pokemon
it would, but Pokemon needs to evolve in 5 different ways as a franchise already
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 it's bing bing wahoo for a reason
No, mario should talk and have long cutscenes filled with exposition
Hyper realistic saria gets called pedobait by twitter
Probably
Didn't they already remove a fair amount of that stuff between N64 and the gamecube/etc later releases
There is a lot of horrific gross stuff in OoT that will be insane with the art style they showed
They removed most references to blood, and changed the blood from Ganon/dorf from red to green, as early as the 1.1 release on N64
As well as changed the music in the Fire Temple
idk if I can think of a modern game that has ever done stomach/flesh room levels that are "gross"
And removed all islamic symbolism from the 1.2 revision
And all later rereleases are based on 1.2
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak There is a lot of horrific gross stuff in OoT that will be insane with the art style they showed
nintendo is too safe to make OOT really lean into that and make a unique horrory zelda
I think it's a real stretch to call Ocarina "horrory"
I think people say similar stuff about Majora too
I think horror is wrong, eerie is mor accurate
and only some parts
Bottom of the Well and maybe Shadow Temple are the only places I can think that really would benefit from higher creepiness
Destroyed Castle Town is more of a thing about fleshing out how bad it got fucked up
I do feel like the next Zelda we get will be a water Zelda
Something Phantom Hourglass like
Replying to legorhin #jazardly how much will water temple be neutered?
yellow paint temple*