That means every Zelda game developed after Ocarina of Time had to look back to understand how the 3D was implemented, how its use could be improved, and what already worked in this first experience. Since Ocarina of the Time was the first Zelda 3D game, it laid the foundation for follow-up titles that used the same feature. Even so, every main title of the franchise - the ones Nintendo focused on for a console release - features a 3D camera that can be moved around freely by the player.
We’ve had a lot of 2D Zelda games since Ocarina of Time and even more 3D Zelda games that used a fixed top-down camera to limit the field of vision of the player. Let’s start with the basics: Ocarina of Time is the first 3D Zelda game ever. So pull a chair, pour a glass, and join us for an Hyrulean adventure. That’s what we’ll be discussing in celebration of both The Legend of Zelda and the N64. There’s a reason Ocarina of Time was used as a standard point of comparison against every other Zelda game, at least until Breath of the Wild presented a new and exciting direction for the franchise.īut what makes Ocarina of Time so special? And why has the game aged so well? There’s more than nostalgia to justify Ocarina of Time’s success.
Although many of the elements that make Ocarina of Time so ageless were already introduced in the Super Nintendo’s franchise entry A Link to the Past, the first 3D Zelda game refined the formula in a definitive way. This is also the perfect moment to revisit Ocarina of Time, a game so perfectly designed that it defined an entire franchise for two decades. With the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo 64 and the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda franchise, 2021 is surely a special year.
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