And while it’s still too early to tell exactly what gamers will make of the reimagined title, which released Thursday, musician Jon Batiste has offered up a teaser review as one of the lucky few superfans who got early access from Nintendo. And that’s to its credit,” Batiste told Variety during an interview at Nintendo’s “Ocarina of Time” launch event held at the Nintendo store in New York Wednesday night. As in the original “Ocarina of Time” game, the remake follows Link, who must become the Hero of Time and protect the kingdom of Hyrule from the evil Ganondorf, who is plotting to steal the mythical Triforce from the Sacred Realm in hopes of ultimately taking over the world.
Like, I love ‘Street Fighter 2’ and we love to play that because my sister and my cousins, we could have competitions and all of us could play together. But then there’s this sort of open-world RPG, but not, but action-adventure that ‘Ocarina of Time’ introduces to the canon and it makes you realize that you can blend this sort of gameplay and more.” As a musician, Batiste naturally has an affinity for the music of “The Legend of Zelda” franchise and says he has a special fondness for the “Ocarina of Time” soundtrack from composer Koji Kondo. And I started to even play those scores on instruments when I was getting to the age of us really getting into music.
So this was the game that opened my mind to the possibility of what peak gameplay could be, and then you could see sort of from that point on in my choices of what I would play and what I would immerse myself in. It’s like, oh yeah, I’m trying to find that feeling again. That’s the vibe, and now it’s coming back.
If it doesn’t change anything and it just captures that essence and reintroduces that to the world 20 years later, it would already be an amazing achievement.”
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