Nintendo has a new Ocarina of Time remake on the way, and franchise producer Eiji Aonuma has finally explained why the company went back to the well. He answered the question in the first installment of a new Ask the Developer Q&A series.
The series' 40th anniversary was a major factor. Aonuma noticed that many of the developers working on today's Zelda games have only ever built the newer titles, and he wondered whether they really understood how important Ocarina was to the series.
Do they truly understand just how significant The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was to the series as a whole?
His answer was to have the team learn the original's structure and development style by rebuilding it from the ground up. Aonuma hopes that process will give them insights to carry into future Zelda games. The remake is also aimed at players who grew up on the open worlds of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, offering a more carefully paced story-driven adventure instead.
It launches for Switch 2 on November 5, and it's the second remake of the game after the 2011 Nintendo 3DS version. Aonuma has admitted he's still nervous about how players will react, which is an understandable feeling when you're remaking a game this beloved.
