Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake a Wii bit closer?

David Swan
Monday, 30 November 2009 13:37

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Eiji Aonuma, producer of the more recent Zelda games for N64, Gamecube and Wii, described his masterpiece as "not that good", and said a Wii remake is a possibility for the future.

Aonuma has been on the Zelda team for about 12 years, and sat down with gaming website IGN. On the topic of  "If I can think of how to do it, or any other inspiration comes to me, without destroying the emotional attachment people have to the past game, and I can make some great innovation or renovation on the remake, then I might be able to think about it further."

He says, though, that making the game in the first place was experimental and revolutionary:

"When I was first invited on to the team, when we were creating Ocarina of Time, there were not many three dimensional games around, which meant there were no games for us to look at for guidance in order to make a good 3D Zelda game. This meant we had to do a lot of experiments, for ourselves and by ourselves. Everything we were doing was something unprecedented and the Ocarina of Time was the result."

But, is nostalgia entirely responsible for the game's such high standing and respect today?

"Past things belong to our memories, and they grow bigger in there. If you play Ocarina of Time nowadays, you notice that it's not that good. Sometimes it doesn't move as fast as it should, graphics aren't as beautiful as they should be; there are some confusing parts... Any present Zelda is technically superior. Everything goes faster, more fluid... but to best Ocarina of Time, a great change ?"comparable to what happened back then- must be introduced. And that'll be rather complicated.

There were a lot of things we couldn't do [with Ocarina of Time] due to technical limitations. But I think we've been solving those issues with every Zelda since then. With each entry, I've tried to add things I couldn't do before. Actually, it's like I've been remaking it during these years. So if you ask me if there's going to be a Zelda remake... I thought I was making it all this time! So it maybe I haven't done well enough, I haven't been up to the expected level."

You can view the interview for yourself here: