Ocarina of Time (Remake)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo Switch 2 is a full remake of the 1998 Nintendo 64 classic, made for the Zelda series' 40th anniversary. It is the second time the game has been remade, after Grezzo's Ocarina of Time 3D in 2011. Nintendo announced it in a Nintendo Direct on June 9th, 2026, showed the first gameplay in the 40th Anniversary Direct that September, and released it on November 5th, 2026, exclusively on Switch 2. It sells for $59.99 in the US.

The story is the one you remember. Young Link leaves Kokiri Forest, gathers the three Spiritual Stones and opens the Door of Time, only to wake up seven years later in a Hyrule ruled by Ganondorf. Traveling back and forth through time with the Master Sword, he wakes the six Sages and sets out to save Princess Zelda.

Eiji Aonuma, who directed the original, picked Ocarina of Time for the anniversary after finishing Tears of the Kingdom, and produced the remake with Hidemaro Fujibayashi. Director HokWai Ng's team kept the original's structure, dungeons and pacing and rebuilt everything around them. Every character and place has new art in a style inspired by puppet theatre, the cutscenes are voice-acted, the music is played by an orchestra, and Hyrule Castle Town is now a full 3D town. Link can jump with a button, dash and turn the camera freely, and you can play the ocarina by humming into the Switch 2's microphone.