Japanese games giant Nintendo on Tuesday announced a new version of the beloved 1998 action-adventure classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for its latest Switch 2 console.
The company provided few details about the Ocarina of Time remake on a livestream presenting upcoming titles, saying only that the game will arrive this year, the 40th anniversary of the series.
Its original version on the Nintendo 64 console was a 1990s landmark, with an immersive, detailed 3D world and a combat system that allowed players to “lock on” to individual enemies – today an industry standard.
Players controlled green-clad protagonist Link in a time-hopping adventure that straddled both his childhood and adulthood, as he confronted dark lord Ganondorf to save Princess Zelda.
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Ocarina of Time is regularly celebrated as one of the best games of all time in the gaming press, and has a 99% score on review aggregation site Metacritic.
A previous 2011 remake for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld updated the original’s graphics to take advantage of the machine’s 3D capabilities.
