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Comment by The Old Boy on August 16, 2011 at 3:43am

My question is..can you still do this with the game?

Comment by Musfequr "Mō" Rahman on July 22, 2011 at 11:12pm

Well, there is also STARFOX (64).

Comment by Christopher Patrick Keef on July 21, 2011 at 9:55pm

"I don't think I've ever screamed as many profanities at an electronic device as I ever had."

 

You clearly haven't played Monster Hunter Freedom on PSP. XD

Staff Comment by Kevin J Baird on July 21, 2011 at 3:15pm

Listen, we have to review a full price game at today's standard when it's released today.  We didn't sit down with an N64 and review an old N64 game.  We got a new game for a new system and things have changed a great deal since this game was launched.

 

To say it doesn't have platform game mechanics is wrong.  It is the Mario 64 game engine here.  It's all about jumping and climbing running and whatever.  Except now you have a sword and you don't jump on people's heads.  Well not much anyway.  It's a fairly linear tasked based game, long treks between zones and lots of puzzles.

 

As far as greatest game ever made goes.  First of all, that was on the N64.  Nobody is going to take Zelda OOT today and give it the scores that it had once gotten.  It was ground breaking then, it's old hat today.  And when you are Nintendo and you are selling an old game that was slightly dressed up for full price, then the game must be reviewed by today's standards.  And in many ways OOT does not measure up.  It has many frustrating exercises, and a lack of modern refinement that makes the experience less enjoyable than it once was.

 

By no means a bad game.  But it would have been better as a discounted classic re-release like many games are done on other platforms.  Instead, Nintendo wants full money for an old game.  We rated it accordingly.

Comment by John Henry Eden v2.0 on July 21, 2011 at 11:27am

@Juan

The important distinction to make there is that the gameplay was groundbreaking when it was released 13 years ago. I can list several more recent games that have awesome music and fantastic story elements combined with less archaic (i.e. smoother and less frustrating) gameplay. OoT is fantastic - definitely one of the classics and absolutely deserving of being called one of the greatest. But it's impossible to say for certain that it is the singular best game of all time.

Comment by dream_the_sandman on July 21, 2011 at 9:00am

Didn't like this review, does anybody out there really think or care that OOT doesn't have hit points and has platforming? They bring that up 3 times like its some kind of big news.

Comment by Juan on July 21, 2011 at 7:58am

I disagree with you guys. Zelda Ocarina of time is the best game of all time hands down. Music is awesome. Story is awesome and the gameplay is groundbreaking

Comment by Danimal on July 20, 2011 at 8:42pm

I couldn't agree with you guys more, it's not a bad game, but very over-rated.

Comment by Chris on July 20, 2011 at 8:00pm

I can't speak for the 3DS version of this game, but the original Ocarina of Time for the N64 is widely considered to be the greatest video game of all time. It currently holds the #1 overall game critic spot on both Metacritic and Game Rankings, with a 99/100 and 97.48% respectively. Of course these numbers are based on judging this game from the perspective of a game released in 1998 and not 2011 but no re-release 13 years later should take away from the power and influence of the original game.

Comment by Jedi Master Dylan on July 20, 2011 at 4:55pm

Link is like a freaking Pimp in this game. I mean he has about 7 girls that practically want to be his wife. I love this version of Ocarina of Time and also hope that they make Majora's mask into a 3ds version.

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