Why Ocarina of Time is a Masterpiece

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Much more than nostalgia.

I played it on the N64 for the first time in 2022, I liked it so much that I had to give it 100%.
Ocarina of Time is the perfect balance of:
Having a badass story with badass temples, and having side missions and items scattered throughout the world. However, having one of the best exploration mechanics.

Both skulltulas, heart pieces and upgrades require creative systems to be collected. Some are simpler, others more complex, many of them involving people, minigames and strategies. Much better than in Twilight Princess, for example, where the heart pieces only live in chests, the insects roam the world along with the poes. (Not that they are bad mechanics, but rather, weaker compared to Ocarina).

Then you can do the side missions:

The mission of the masks;
Ice Arrow's mission;
The mission of the 4th bottle;
And the Bigoron Sword quest.

You just don't stop doing things as you progress through the game.
It's an addictive and never-ending experience! You never stop exploring and discovering. This game is amazing

you should talk slower, it needs to be nice to listen to, i dont spend my day listening to this, i fall asleep to it, you get a thumbs down for fast babbling

At the end of the game, Zelda sees sending Link back as an incredibly naive hope that he can live out his childhood peacefully. The player, and Link, sees it as an opportunity to stop Ganondorf. We see it as the next mission.

You don't have to do the Spirit Temple last. You can do the Shadow Temple last, which I think is a better set up for Ganondorf's Castle. Especially since it's right next door.

I don't have a therapist, but if I did, they'd tell me that throwing myself back into childhood interests during times of hardship is a crutch or a security blanket. I'd tell them to suck my spiritual stones.

I always wanted a spinoff game following sheik

The best ❤

This is what videogames are all about it may be only one videogame but it certainly ends all other videogames

OOT is amazing. A true feat at the time and is still fun as hell to play. It will always hold a place in video game history.

1st, This video is amazing i almost 😢 a couple times at the nostalgic effect. 2nd. The zorra people remind me of avatar. Which also brings home the enormous impact. 3rd. Best video game music ever. I was 12 when this game came out. Every scene of music brought me right back to pre teen childhood in a way that kind of made my heart hurt if that makes sense. 4th what Ganon did to the world in the 7 year span is joe biden. I dont want to get political its just my personal view. If you disagree, cool just remember this on the 7th year of his term. Also, when i got the game i also got the book. My best friend who was a real gamer told me it was corny, but i never understood until i was adult. You were right Charlin.

It's amazing how they managed to get this game on 1 n64 cartridge

I appreciate how you emphasized the importance of the sword and shield hunt before deku tree. A lot of people talk about the deku tree being a great tutorial dungeon but I don’t hear a lot of people taliking about the intro. It really did teach a lot about the 3D space for new players.

I remember my mother, who hated LoZ because of the 'evil magic' present in it, (she is a strict, protestant, ethnic, Christian woman) sitting down and watching me try to figure out how to get to Gerudo Valley. She never liked it when I played. Yet she spoke up and said "Why don't you try and jump your horse over the bridge?" I was 5 years old and I'm 30 now and still remember it.

And another thing that I think is so powerful:
The game allows Link to travel between his childhood and adulthood with music.
Just like how we use the OST to travel to our childhoods when we played this.

This was beautiful, thanks for sharing your thoughts and input

The greatest Nintendo game of all time

That’s the beauty and sadness of Ocarina of Time. It’s all about growing up and leaving certain things behind but like Sheik says,

“A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days...”

🙏🙏

Amazing video!!! Beautifully thought out and curated. ❤

Wow! This was so well done and beautiful. Metaphorical and poetic! Thank you for this. I love this game so much!

Ugh I miss this game

This is one of my favorite games of all time and is masterpiece on the same level as super mario 64

This is a awesome video of my favorite game

My personal 5 greatest games list (32 year old male) 5) Gears of War One 4) Halo One 3) Pokemon Red/Blue 2) Zelda Ocarina of Time/Majoras Mask 1) World of Warcraft Classic

Funny.... when I played this game as a 10 year old I did not understand why Zelda wanted to send Link back n the end. I was like "are you kidding? Why should Link want that, he is the Hero of that time!" Now as an adult I totally understand what kind of gift and sacrifice this was from Zeldas side

I think when I first played Ocarina, it was the first time I ever actually loved a video game. I played many games before it and always liked games and thought they were fun. But Ocarina changed the way I saw the medium itself. I had never considered before OoT that games could be more than fun entertainment, that they could actually be art that moved you on a deep level. That will always be its enduring legacy for me personally. It want just an amazing game, it literally changed the way I saw games forever

I did absolutely everything in this game.

Something BOTW and TOTK can never do. I still go back to these older Zelda games. Omggg those were the days it gives me goosebumps 😭 great video man! 💯

i needed somepne to edplain this because i never understood why everyone liked it more than i did. the controls are the worst thing in the game so it qas easy to dislike it at first

I still don't understand how they were able to do it.

The water temple was beautiful. I can’t fault it. 😂❤

You've described perfectly why this is my favorite Zelda game. I get flack for that, I hear people say the game is "overrated" but to me it's anything but. The Zelda franchise I would argue even struggled to escape the shadow that the game left because it had been so impactful that following games were...well...just not Ocarina of Time. That's not to say I didn't like the Zelda games that followed, far from it I still enjoyed them. They just haven't impacted me the way this game did.

Wow ive got to say ive seen almost all Zelda Ocrina of time Retrospectives, Reviews and overviews this is the best one.

I feel like I'm the only one who unironically likes the Water Temple... Hear me out... I like it cuz it's hard

No doubt

The best game of all time

This is what I thought BOTW was gonna be so I was disappointed when it wasn't.

Dude, this is a GREAT video!! I can't wait to hear your thoughts on TotK

it’s not nostalgia. i never played ocarina of time until i was 20 years old after botw, and i was instantly hooked.

LEGENDARY game, still one of the best games in HISTORY, there's a reason why this game series is called the LEGEND of Zelda 😎

Wow what an incredible review!

This game is so diverse from start to finish

lol. Often hated Water Temple. For me it's my favorite Temple in the game.

i think you did a great job with this video, tone and atmosphere is one of the strongest characteristics of ocarina of time. i think the only part of the game which felt off which i also felt back when i played this in 1999 was ganondorfs castle i remember visiting it early and a few times through out the game wondering how to get in and my imagination went wild with what would be lurking inside,especially after being terrifed of the zombies in the plaza and the cool visual of outside the castle. When the end of the game neared and i got inside i was pretty disappointed with the small very basic mini puzzles that were all themed the same as other parts of the game and were done fast. I was hoping to see a grand final dungeon, but at least after you lower the barrier the game did not disappoint starting with that iconic scene of walking up the staircase to face ganondorf playing the organ.

some of my most memorable moments/imagery from the game was the cursed skulltilla kid, camera changing when getting face hugged by the zombies, almost everything in the shadow temple (had no clue about the lens of truth went through the whole thing to get to the boss and realize i couldnt kill him, took me so long to figure out i had to change to a kid again to go down the well) amazing music with imagery when first entering the spirit temple, going the wrong way in the ice arrow mini dungeon and running out of keys locking myself out of the ice arrows. the organ stair case which i previsouly mentioned with gannondorf, the sound effects and animation when hitting ganndorf with light arrow, and like you said the final fight after an epic tower collaspe, everything about that fight was so immersive and powerful.

Sheik one of my favorite characters. Well technically Zelda 😂

When I first played this and even entering the Deku Tree for the first time. I just felt something special that I'm about to play. This was the first Zelda game I've played despite growing up with Super Mario and the original NES. When I finished it off and defeated Ganon I felt a sense of accomplishment that not many video games give. Still get giddy playing it today than when I first did in early 1999. The 3DS version of the game just makes it even better. It's going to take a lot to surplant this as one of the best video games ever.

I love this Ocarina of time. I have the golden N64 game version in my collection, it's my favorite Zelda game ever! In second place is Wind Waker, both are master pieces in my opinion. Great vídeo about Ocarina of time, congratulations and thank you!

Great review,. Ocarina of Time is timeless!

First game I ever played on my older brother’s 64. Till this day I could 100% it and I wouldn’t get tired of it. Beautiful game

this is exaclty how i explain to my freinds why i love this game thank you for such a great video