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Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Arrives November 5 on Switch 2, With an Ocarina You Play by Humming
Nintendo’s ground-up remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time launches November 5, exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2, and the final details are landing this week: the ESRB has rated the game E10+ for Animated Blood and Fantasy Violence, and Nintendo’s midnight launch events in New York and San Francisco have already sold out their reservations.
The remake rebuilds the 1998 Nintendo 64 classic from the ground up for the new hardware. Visuals, environments and effects are overhauled, the soundtrack is orchestral, and cutscenes are expanded and fully voiced, with new and expanded dialogue throughout. Link moves like a modern hero: he can jump and dash on command, swim faster, and aim ranged weapons such as the Fairy Bow and Hookshot with buttons or motion controls, with full camera control throughout.
The signature addition is the ocarina itself. Songs can still be played with traditional button controls, but players can also hum a learned melody, or play a real instrument, into the Switch 2 microphone and hear Link perform it in the game. A companion service, Zelda Notes, runs inside the Nintendo Switch App, tracking daily accomplishments and setting location-finding challenges.
Nintendo revealed the remake in June and set the date at the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8. A Zelda 40th anniversary edition Switch 2 console arrives October 29, a week ahead of the game. The download runs about 27 GB, priced at $59.99 digital and $69.99 physical in the United States, and a new Hall of Fallen Foes room lets players rematch the game’s bosses.
Ocarina of Time is widely regarded as one of the greatest games ever made, and for the generation that played it in 1998 it remains the Zelda against which every other is measured. On November 5, that generation gets to go back, this time humming the Song of Time out loud.
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