Continuing today’s theme of “Superhuman Efforts that Deserve a Standing Ovation”, we now turn our attention to The Legend of Zelda. MaJoRa, a member of the Zelda Fan Game Central community, has rendered all of the overworld from Ocarina of Time in the 2D style of A Link to the Past.
A recently discovered warp glitch in The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time on Nintendo 64 has almost halved the time it takes to complete the game, if you’re determined to do it as quickly as possible. In the video above, the player, who goes by the name “ZeldaFreakGlitcha” on YouTube, blasts through the classic in a bit under 26 minutes.
Wow. This is just… wow. Minecraft is home to some of the most incredible user creations I’ve ever seen, but this nigh on perfect reconstruction of Ocarina of Time is absolutely breathtaking.
Mark Langford sounds a little tired, and you can’t blame him.
As Managing Director of Gametraders, Langford’s company is at the forefront of another street date drama. After Gametraders grey imported copies of Super Mario 3D Land — selling ahead of Australia’s official release date — both EB and JB Hifi are reportedly selling official Australian copies ahead of Thursday. But according to Mark Langford, his company is just defending itself.
“If Nintendo would just do the right thing,” he says, “we wouldn’t break street date.
There’s a comforting wave of nostalgia. Then, slowly, the creeping sense that everything seems a little bit smaller than you remember. You wake up on the same bed, hear the same voices. Everything looks similar, but different. Enough to create that empty dissonance, a timely reminder that time doesn’t stand still; it pushes forward. With or without your permission.
Turns out the commercial that Robin and Zelda Williams put out last month was not alone in the universe. Zelda leaked on Twitter that another commercial existed somewhere. Here it is.
This video is like eating an entire bag of sherbet at once. It seems like a good idea at the time, but it just makes your brain explode and gives you an ulcer. This video is a bit like that. It takes an old classical song and uses sounds from Ocarina of Time to recreate the music. I think I have a headache…
Alright – so I’m pretty sure a bunch of you folks managed to get a copy of this game early as a result of the weirdest street break in Australian history – what are your thoughts so far?
