November 12th, 2026
There’s one particular panel that I’ve yet to show Cooper. Guess which panel it is!
Got the new Ocarina of Time remake! It is very good! I am enjoying it immensely! Originally I was gonna have to wait a few weeks for my copy from Amazon to show up but out of the blue my mom texted me on release day and asked if I had plans on playing it. When I mentioned that I had to wait she sent me money as a early birthday present to go and pick up a copy at Best Buy. And thanks to my mom I spent the weekend mostly playing it! Just finished the water temple, though I went straight there from the forest temple. I typically save the fire temple last because I dunno! After the water temple I went to the bottom of the well so I could get the lens of truth and then hiked out to the spirit temple to do that before the shadow temple.
Overall the game feels a tad easier than the original but I’m okay with that. Things are a bit more streamlined like the Water Temple. And maybe it’s because I’ve been fucking around as I got the Big Goron sword before I even bothered to do the Forest Temple. But also the bottom of the well felt significantly easier? Like I completely did not go into the middle room at all. I did fall down to the basement level but climbed out, then used the golden scale to swim to the boss fight to get the lens of truth. THEN I lowered the water level for absolutely no reason at all. Honestly being able to have some choice in the order you do things in Ocarina is why it’s one of my favorite Zelda’s.
The other thing I really like is that the NPCs have way more personality than they did in the original. Like the bearded dude who uses his beard detector to detect other people with beards or the dancing couple who when you read their inner thoughts that reveal, well, couples counseling ain’t gonna help that relationship. ESPECIALLY when you check in as adult Link.
Best version of Ocarina of Time in my opinion. And still a hell of a game to boot.
Alright I’ll talk at y’all next week! Byeee~!
