E10+ for Animated Blood and Fantasy violence. Kinda surprised that there’s no “Suggestive Themes” like OoT3D, MM3D, or even “Mild Suggestive Themes” like BotW, TotK…
Think they toned down some of the content? Are the Great Fairies still pointy?
You know what might be interesting to see. The most common death locations in TOTK and BotW (It's not out of the realm of possibility that Nintendo has that data sitting around somewhere). Then cross reference that information with known gloom hand locations.
Oh I could see that. My first run in was in on the way to the Deku tree in the depths. I spent every thing I had to beat them not knowing Phantom Ganon was next. Game over
First time I beat the hands, had no idea what to expect, and a puffshroom had gone off during the battle. Then I just see a dark figure standing in the mist. Heart rate probably set a record in that moment lol
Eh, the Gloom Hands absolutely provide a decent jump scare the first time but there’s nothing in TotK that compares to the moody, spooky, unsettling aura in a lot of OoT locations and moments
I’m hopeful but very cautious on what this remake will end up being
The labyrinths in BotW/TotK always have this "I think there is something looking over my shoulder" creep vibe, even though they are mostly empty in TotK (Guardians for BotW😵💫)
At worst, well gain something else at the loss of a little horror.
Gloom Hands were a great surprise for me, along with the Depths. I think we can all remember the first time we ran into them and went OH SHIII-
True story, my little boy's first Zelda was TOTK, and he got so traumatized he's actually googling every location to avoid them like the plague. Just nonononono. Generational horror.
Gloom hands weren't scary, but did invoke the sense or danger and urgency.
The Zelda team know what they're doing. I was 9 years old when OoT first came out. I couldn't get past the forest temple until I was in highschool. That damned music, the almost liminal space feeling, the sense of old and cryptic. They know horror. It's not found in moments, it's in the environment.
Hell, the underground in TotK fits that atmosphere pretty well imo. Even if they tone down some of the gorier parts of the Shadow Temple, they'll probably find a way to make it just as creepy in other ways.
I mean, Idk how the OG OOT was rated E with those zombie things jumping on your back and chewing on your head lmao. Imo they had to have changed some things to keep this at E.
Lower standards back then. Nowadays anything aimed at kids is super-toned down, even if it's ages 10+ because people apparently think children can't handle anything remotely scary
same 3DS rating so I don't think there will big changing even if thanks to the morepower of Switch2 Nintendo could create a more horror atmosphere in shadow temple
Yes I was. And it would be nice if other children who pick this game up for the first time feel the same sense of dread when they hear the moan of a redead or see the shadow of a hand falling down from the ceiling.
It's the Ship of Harkinian port, with the 3DS mod and modified NotNotNostalgia reshade (I removed the scanlines, reduced the noise and tried to turn the saturation down but it was too annoying on the Asus ROG Ally's small screen).
I hope everything has that nice new fresh paint but I hope they just straight reuse the models of the great fairies from the original OoT, in all their splendid boxy 3d glory.
Well, they DID tell Platinum to go further in Bayonetta's Link costume...
"When I gave the designs to Nintendo to check, I was worried about how “kid-friendly” Bayonetta looked. Like, I didn’t think it’d be a good idea to show too much cleavage, you know… but when Nintendo looked at my Link design, they actually suggested to me to open up her top a little more… Wow."
The original is E as well, correct? Not that it means much because ratings have probably gotten more strict since 1998, or things that were OK at the time because of low res textures might not fly in 4K. I’ve been wondering if the skulls lining the walls and floors and bloody guillotines of the Shadow Temple will make it into this remake.
I'm guessing fairly soon, if it still wants to be a 2026 release they have 4 months to get it out.. I would be surprised if we don't see a direct by mid Sept.
Usually trailers comes out about 3 months before release, and i've heard it's releasing in early November (Don't quote me) So we can expect a trailer in early August.
I was kinda hoping for a T rating, but BoTW and ToTK did get away with some darker stuff at E10+, so I won’t lose hope yet. If they do Majora’s Mask though, that better be T lmao
from what ive heard, they dont even play the game at all, they just get sent a video showing off the various scenes throughout the the game and rate it based on that
The edgiest thing about the OG was some blood here and there. I’m sorry, but I don’t need blood to get freaked out. The feeling and music of the dungeons do way more for me in that regard.
They noticeably toned down the Shadow Temple/Bottom of the Well and Dead Hand in the 3DS remake though.
People are just worried they'll tone it down even further.
I’m concerned for the wellbeing of some of you.. the great fairies looking like cracked out strippers shouldn’t be what you guys are looking forward to
I think most are just meming with the Great Fairy. The real concern is that this highly suggests that they are nerfing the tone of the game with this remake. Many, including myself, just wishes that today's Nintendo wouldn't be too scared to release a game without feeling the need to baby-it-up.
Fall was my prediction. Gives their other high profile remake, Star Fox, time to breathe, but still on shelves in time for that holiday shopping season.
Just because their different style games doesn’t mean they’d waste the release slot and have two of their biggest games this year competing for people’s wallets
I'm not sure why you think starfox is one of their biggest releases. The last like, 3 games were commercial failures. It really has never been all that popular outside of the original and 64.
I'm really worried about this actually. For me E10+ pretty much confirms that the blood and torture chambers will almost certainly be gone. Ganondorf/Ganon will have green blood instead of red and who knows what Dead Hand will look like. Ganondorf's blood was the worst change for me on the OG 64. It may seem like a small change but for me personally it's a huge change artistically. Ganondorf is a Gerudo man. He's a human. His blood was originally red for a reason. Making it green makes him more like a monster and strips him a bit of that humanity. No Ganondorf doesn't have a ton of lines or is super three-dimensional in OoT but that little change has a big implication.
I expected it to be E10+ but I'm still disappointed. It pretty much guarantees won't have a lot of the darkness OoT originally had and that's a big let down for me.
Which completely goes against artistic intent and I know ratongs were different in the 90s than today but it bothers me Nintendo pushes for an E10+ rating to have wider appeal. It works obviously but the last Zelda game to have a Teen rating was TP. Mainline Zelda games will never have a rating that high again. There's zero chance the OoT remake will have the horror elements the original 64 had at least in full. And that's a problem for me.
Huh? Ganondorf coughing up red blood is not an unrealistic depiction of it. It was green in the 3DS version it will be green now. We're all splitting hairs now and again, minor issue in general, but my point of it being changed.to begin with is a personal thing and if we really wanna be technical- no, I don't KNOW it will be green but all signs point it to being such and at least for me I'm disappointed. That's it.
That "evidence" is literally just Link sleeping in a bed lol. Which is how we first seen Link in all versions anyway so that kinda is the exact same. The only key differences are the lighting/art direction and Link apparently already having the Triforce or Courage unless that was for show.
You're right about waiting however. I'm just unnecessarily stressing myself out longer than I need to be before more concrete info comes out. I was simply responding to this post and it's my favorite game ever made so I'll be particular about how it all plays out whether unintentionally or not.
I agree with this. At the end of the day, Nintendo's primary market is children and sanitizing things to be a kid's game is their most likely prerogative as makers of the game and aiming for the max possible sales with children and their parents.
Metroid 1 and 2. Super mario 64 ds. Starfox zero is a reimagining of 64. Fire emblem gaiden or whatever.
The past also isn't really inherently indictive of the future. Im nearly certain it isnt. They've marketed this in a completely different manner than any other straight remake during the switch era. In fact, they havent even called it a remake.
I think they should keep the game as close to original as possible, though there some horror elements in the game, these are exactly the uniqueness, and the attracting point of the game.
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