Nintendo’s Zelda Remake Is Rewriting My Memories - CNET

I spent weeks of graduate school curled up in front of my TV playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on my N64. I remember the epic journey with fuzzy nostalgia that, when I load up the game on the Switch’s N64 app, doesn’t entirely pay dividends. It looks uglier now than it does in my head. As Bill Pullman said in Lost Highway, “I like to remember things my own way…how I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.”

Nintendo’s $60 Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2 filled me with uncanniness when I saw the first trailers. It was lush, almost weirdly rich with detail. Hyrule Castle Town almost looked like a theme park. Everyone’s faces seemed so…shiny.

But after an hour of playing the remake in an early preview session, I came away from it in a happy haze. If someone had never...

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