 Well folks we have another video for today because my lord the rumor mill is spinning and look guys Zelda Zelda Zelda Zelda remakes Zelda remasters we all know that this stuff has been rumored for a long time we've actually gotten a number of Zelda remakes Zelda remasters HDs Windbreaker HD Twilight Princess HD Ocarina of Time 3D Majora's Mask 3D Link's Awakening on Switch Skyward Sword HD blah blah blah blah blah right this is just something that happens we've had links so we can DX even back in the day on Game Boy Color so yeah these remakes and remasters are something that Zelda has been doing for a long time and today we have a another rumor adding to the mix and well let's just say the hero of time might be back before we get into this I want to remind you that we are on our road to 150,000 subscribers I would love it if you was subscribed to the channel drop a like and go ahead and smash that bell icon to be notified of all future videos and uploads including a live stream that we'll be doing later tonight all right folks I gotta warn you before we dive into this we are talking about Ocarina of Time I gave it away at the beginning right the hero of time we're talking about an Ocarina of Time remake remaster something like that and at this point it would be the first time the games have ever officially been an HD why are we talking about it well the source for this rumor is a little questionable we need to give some context before we dive in for starters obviously Jeff Grubbs said earlier this year that he heard there's a Zelda something that isn't related to the tears of the kingdom to be announced before the end of the year then you add on the Toto thing the other day where he is an industry analyst who did this little ZR 2023 thing which people take as a Zelda remake Zelda remaster because he did a very similar thing with ZR2 2022 back in 2021 and then he mysteriously deleted the tweets and has basically ignored all questions about them since I don't really know what's going on with that but it's gotten us to talk about Zelda remakes and remasters again and look we know Grezzo is probably working on something we know there's old rumors of like the Oracle games back in the day but obviously one game that people think might make a lot of sense given the current popularity of Zelda would be to bring back an all-time classic in Ocarina of Time and most of us want to see this as a ground up remake whether they do it in Unreal Engine or in the new Zelda engine the new engine they've been using in Breath of the Wild in Tears of the Kingdom whatever they do right we kind of wanted to come back now we've never seen these games in HD officially outside of emulation and mods but now another person who likes to throw a lot of rumors out there has joined the fray he is probably one of my least favorite people to cover but when you talk Zelda you peak my interest who are we talking about Zippo so as you see over on Zippo's blog here he said he will return this was just posted today and he said the hero of time will return in the very near future that's it that's the post and let me just say something nothing else need to be said to get my hype up I look I'm not going to pretend that Zippo is the best possible source on the internet he got some stuff right with Mario Wonder but we can probably write a novel on the things he's gotten wrong so people act like he's a broken clock but I don't know Zippo and the fact that he had some pretty spot on things with like exact days of Mario Wonder makes you kind of curious if maybe he has a contact and the contact sometimes feeds him false information to throw the scent off of real rumors out there I don't really know I'm not here to speculate on that I'm here to talk about Ocarina of Time coming to either Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2 now I noted that just because we got Tears of the Kingdom and I've been saying this consistently for a while people always thought you could only really get like a one Zelda thing per year but if you look at what Nintendo's doing with Mario Zelda games are now sort of at that Mario level right we're getting 18 20 million 30 million in sales with every brand new entry at least the big name ones so that means that Zelda is ripe to start having more releases come up more often with this remakes remasters and spin-offs and while we could get a Hyrule Warriors or another cadence of Hyrule type thing you know another indie game crossover potentially or maybe they bring back a Lynx Crossbow training or something like that it's interesting that Ocarina of Time has brought up I don't know that I trust or could ever believe that Nintendo is truly going to remake Ocarina of Time but if ever there was a game that was worth them putting the effort into doing it it would be this game it is the well now fourth highest best-selling game of all time but it's also a historical game and here's the thing Aonuma in a recent interview put out a little nugget and this little nugget just adds more fuel to the fire because this comes directly from the guy who's in charge of the entire Zelda series if an Ocarina of Time remake is happening or a HD remaster he would be the one making the call to make it happen it would be his decision he said this in a recent interview about a certain character in Tears of the Kingdom called Raaru he essentially said I don't think people would know who the original Raaru was anymore yeah that's kind of curious we literally got Ocarina of Time 3D in 2011 a little over a decade ago and he's saying that people play in Zelda today he doesn't think they know who Raaru is from Ocarina of Time that means that to him Ocarina of Time is so old that people don't know who this guy is anymore then if you have Raaru from Ocarina of Time obviously we have the connection with the Raaru name in you know Tears of the Kingdom maybe and he's just literally hinting to us that hint hint wink wink Ocarina of Time is coming back because we don't think people even know who these characters are anymore that to me would be absolutely like the idea of getting Ocarina of Time in HD remake 4k 60 fps on switch 2 you know maybe that's what it's for the idea of getting this game anytime in the next year or two is insane to me because I think we might be getting it before they even ring over Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD and if you had asked me you know even a year ago hey what's more likely we get the Wind Waker or and Twilight Princess HD let's say both of them or we get an Ocarina of Time HD or Ocarina of Time remake I would literally bet my house on the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD but now I'm kind of wondering if they don't want to bring back the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD without doing more to make it stand out from the Wii U version so now we could do the 4k 60 fps thing but is that really going to be enough especially in handheld mode you gotta wonder maybe they want to start remaking aka visually enhancing in massive ways or from the ground up like Final Fantasy 7 remake and just completely remake the game I think that is conceivable and the development time to make or remake Ocarina of Time would still be significantly less than making a full on Zelda game and they could have outside teams do it with obviously input and help from the Zelda team I do think a world does exist now and I I can't believe I'm saying this but Ocarina of Time is a real thing and a real remake a real 4k 60 fps beast of a game on Switch 2 or a cross generation game with Switch and Switch 2 I actually don't think this is so crazy and as much as I might not trust Zippo I think that this is a reality I am slowly coming around on and I'm curious if you are as well now throughout this video you've been seeing some footage of an Unreal Engine remake this is for those who don't pay attention to mods and remakes and stuff this is actually one done by Cryzen X who's been working on this for many many many years and and he's got some playable builds he has a Patreon I don't want to push it too much because Nintendo will probably shut it down if they knew he was making money to make this stuff although with the amount of time he puts in not so sure it's actually profitable I think it's just nice to get some community support for what he does but man it's really impressive but this is just what a fan's able to do you know obviously you have a lot of assets that are just off asset stores and aren't necessarily like custom built and even then for a fan project it looks pretty good uh Nintendo doing a ground-up remake should look even better and that is the crazy thing whether it's Nintendo or a studio Nintendo is working with on this it would just be incredible so while I'm not going to sit here and put all my eggs in the basket of hey the next Zelda remake we get is going to be Ocarina of Time look Zippo has me hyped Serkan Toto has me hyped Aonuma on the fringes out there bringing up Ocarina of Time unprompted Mentionina oh yeah Raaru's actually from Ocarina of Time and we don't think people know who he is anymore whoa what is going on so I'm just going to sit back I'm going to let myself ponder on this for a moment we'll have a deeper conversation on this tonight on our live stream and I want to thank you guys for being here so I am Nathan the Rebel Dance from Nintendo Prime and I'll catch you in the next video