 Today we need to talk about how Nintendo might be teasing the next great remake for the Zelda series. Now, we've already had a couple of videos go up over the last week or so here, talking about the potential of Zelda remakes. We had the Dr. Circon Toto ZR 2023 tease that he did, and then you can take that and sort of infer some things from that that he's talking about a Zelda remake or a potential Zelda remaster being revealed this year. This is just because of a tweet he made back in 2021, referencing what Nintendo was about to announce as the release timing for Breath of the Wild 2. But I don't really want to dive too deep into that because we already went over it, but it's just a piece of evidence to bring up why this has been coming up lately. But then there's also this kind of out there rumor by Zippo and again, we talked about this already where he talked about Ocarina of Time and I don't really want to dive too deep into that because again I already made a video on that if you want to go watch it. But it is something to note that Nintendo themselves might have already hinted at the next great Zelda remake and there's a reason that we should believe this Zelda remake is coming. Now I'm not saying it's coming this year, I'm not even going to say it's coming next year, but it's going to be coming a lot sooner than you think and we'll know about it fairly soon as well. Now before I get into this I just want to remind you that hey if you're enjoying the video I'd appreciate if you would drop a like, subscribe to the channel and maybe hit that bell icon to be notified of all future uploads. Now we need to dive further in this because our dear friend Andres Restart has actually been all over the Zelda remake train. He's been covering a lot of stuff about this for a long time including some things that I overlooked. One of those in a video he posted yesterday where he recapped a whole bunch of stuff and I really encourage you go watch his video because if you can't tell but after watching his video might be a little inspiration for this one is that there was a trademark for Ocarina of Time filed all the way back in 2020. Now normally I wouldn't actually think a trademark being filed is that noteworthy. You know trademarks are renewed literally all the time by Nintendo and it doesn't always mean a game's coming out could have just been the NSO release of Ocarina of Time right? Didn't necessarily have to be anything that matters but it's notable because this wasn't a trademark renewal it was actually a brand new trademark for Ocarina of Time. Now we don't know what this trademark applies to and this was back in 2020 and we haven't seen anything necessarily happen with this trademark yet but it's notable because the original Ocarina of Time trademark is still active but so is this one. So what is this one for? I don't know but if you can't tell we're going to be getting to the idea of this Ocarina of Time remake here in a moment. Now if that's really all I had to talk about today was just something I missed from back in 2020. Look it's noteworthy but it's kind of old news and we've already talked about the Zelda remake happening as I mentioned in two prior videos over the last week but there's actually more reasons beyond those rumors and the trademark to talk about Ocarina of Time in particular being the game getting a remake or possibly a remaster and it's happening sooner than later. So I'll just restart in his excellent video yesterday and again I can't implore you enough go watch it because he's going to bring up some stuff in there that I don't even mention specifically with Tears of the Kingdom and some connections there again. He's a great Zelda theorizer so you really should pay attention to what he says if that's the content you're into but he mentioned a peculiar thing Nintendo has done with Zelda. So when they close a generation with a new Zelda game especially lately a new remake slash remaster enters very early on the next system's radar. Spirit Tracks was one of the final big games on the Nintendo DS before 3DS came out and in the first year of 3DS they launched Ocarina of Time 3D. The Nintendo Wii one of its last major releases was Skyward Sword and in the first year of Wii U we got the Wind Waker HD. Now we didn't see this repeat with Switch but we all know that Breath of the Wild became a cross generation title for going the need for a super early Zelda remaster or remake. So now that Tears of the Kingdom happened at the end of Switch the first year of Switch 2 has what exactly? Again I wasn't really even paying attention to this so go ahead and check out our just restart video he brings up a lot of good points. Now something we brought up briefly in our video with in our video talking about the Zippo rumor and because it's tied to a Zippo rumor I think it's really easy to ignore I wanted to separate this out anyways was an interview that Fujiwayashi and Aonuma did with Nintendo Dream. Now in the interview with Nintendo Dream they were asked about Raul who it's an interesting translation thing. Raul means Raaru they you know didn't they doesn't translate properly in the English it's almost like they renamed him in English but anyways moving on they asked how familiar that name was and you know they were just kind of curious like why you know why is this person called Raaru in Tears of the Kingdom and Fujiwayashi said his name comes from his role for the Zelda series Raaru is in the position of being a guiding figure in this work as Princess Zelda's further growth is depicted she is guided by the king and queen of the country's founding era in the past world when we wondered what kind of person would be suitable for such a role we decided to select someone by the name of Raaru then Aonuma chimes in and here's some interesting words and we're going to get to why we need to pay attention to what Aonuma says very carefully when I first heard that he would be called Raaru I thought it was a very natural progression but I wondered how many of the people currently playing Tears of the Kingdom actually know about the character Raaru and then he laughs now Raaru first appeared as the name of a town slash village in Zelda to the adventure of Link but it's he noted specifically about the character Raaru and as a character not a town he first appeared in Ocarina of Time he is suggesting many people playing Tears of the Kingdom today may not know who Raaru actually is anymore now this could be a throwaway comment and could likely mean nothing but Aonuma has a history especially one lately of teasing future game releases with remasters and remakes he did so with Skyward Sword back in 2018 when at a Zelda concert he uh this was a Zelda concert in Osaka in Japan by the way he went on stage to say I know what you're thinking Skyward Sword on Switch right keep in mind Skyward Sword was not announced for Nintendo Switch and did not come out for till years later but in researching this video I found out that's not even the first time Aonuma did this sort of teasing he actually teased Link's Awakening remake for Switch back in 2016 before Nintendo Switch was even announced in an interview with Edge Magazine back in 2016 he said the following actually Nintendo has been telling me to create a new IP but then they're also telling me to make more Zelda games I can't really share much I'm not sure I'm allowed to say anything but I really like the idea of a game where you can live as a thief that's all I'll say well we all know the Link's Awakening remake did come out on Switch but you might not understand this reference so let me explain why this is a reference to Link's Awakening if you aren't aware in Link's Awakening you can optionally steal goods from the town tool shop you can walk out with any item if you distract the owner and just go right out the front door however if you do that Link will be called a thief by everyone in the game going forward in other words he teased twice new remakes and remasters one in a more direct way you know Skyward Sword for Switch right another in a very very subtle hint now he's questioning if people even remember who Raaru is anymore in other words when Alnuma is making references to past games it's not necessarily something we should just dismiss outright he has a history of teasing future Zelda remakes and remasters and obviously if you go back to those comments in 2016 what's one of the things that he said Nintendo told him he needs to make more Zelda games and they're not talking about the one big game that comes out every five years Nintendo wants to have Zelda games coming out more often and to fill the gap is obviously to do so with you know remakes and remasters and the interesting thing is every single 3d you know Zelda game the ones that sell the most have already had like remakes or remaster type releases right the HDs of the Wind Waker Twilight Princess and obviously Occurring Time 3d Majora's Mask 3d so Skyward Sword HD that he's already sort of ran the gambit of bringing those games back and it's entirely possible we could be getting a Grezzo remake right Grezzo's probably working something they're the ones that did Link's Awakening they could maybe be doing another top-down Zelda remake but the interesting part is here is that Alnuma specifically brings up Raaru as a character again this sounds dumb because he didn't mention Occurring Time specifically but he mentions the character Raaru and how people might not know who he is again a subtle hint hey you know I really like the idea of a game with a thief again subtle hint he has a history of dropping subtle hints and when it comes to trying to drive a player base to a new platform like Nintendo Switch 2 in general you want to do so with a bang and well it's sure entirely possible we're going to get Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild 4k ports I mean you know reports have it that Nintendo had a Breath of the Wild 4k demo behind the scenes is that really going to drive people to a new platform who already have the game and already put thousands of hours in on Switch especially if there's backwards compatibility I'm not so sure that well they'll probably sell well I don't think that they're a selling point to buy a new system for many Zelda fans then you also have the Zelda fans out there that obviously maybe aren't as into the style of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and you have to convince some of them as well so what better way to do that than take one of the greatest games ever made and bring it back with a remake slash remaster and I think that this is something that not only El Numen is hinting that here and we have the rumors out there I think it is something that should happen and is highly likely to happen even if it's not announced this year even if it's not announced next year it could be a first year of Switch 2 title imagine that when they unveil Switch 2 this game is teased in that reveal trailer can you imagine the height that will be going on and here's the thing I know that El Numen in particular does pay attention to what's going on around him and he must be well aware of the Final Fantasy 7 remake and whether he's played it or not I don't know but he has to be aware of how popular and how well received it is as that's a game that came out back during the same era as Ocarina of Time and is also viewed as one of the greatest games of all time it just feels like things are lining up where now is the right time to bring it back with its first HD edition its first from the ground full on remake and we can go on and on over how they might do it you know could they do the Wii U tech demo style which was more like Twilight Princess but then people feel like Twilight Princess was a natural progression of the art direction in Ocarina of Time do they lean more heavily into the way Ocarina of Time 3D did it go a bit more cartoony with things do they try an all new art style do they go in the direction of Breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom and remake Ocarina of Time in that style maybe even using a similar engine obviously with some cutback features like hey you can't climb everything right because we couldn't do that in Ocarina of Time I don't know but it is interesting that one of the widely considered greatest games of all time is something that could be happening really soon and I think there is at least some semi realistic reasons to think it will I personally am on record of saying like Ocarina of Time doesn't make my top 10 Zelda games but it doesn't mean it doesn't make my top 10 most important games in my life Ocarina of Time is quite literally why I'm a content creator to this very day that game drove me and inspired me to start making fan websites and all the work I did there over decades and helping with weekies ultimately led to me having this YouTube career that we have today making this video I'm making for you right now so look people always get mad at me when I mentioned it's not a top 10 Zelda game for me I just love the Zelda series that much I've seen you know so many games do things better but it's an important game and it could be an important launch game or first year game anyways for Switch 2 and help really grab that Zelda fanbase the most hardcore of it especially to hop onto the Switch 2 hype train right away long before they can tease what the next major new Zelda game is because again we're probably three years away maybe from being teased on the next big Zelda game anyways guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments below and I will catch you guys in the next video