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Some Bugs Were Intentionally Left In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

Nintendo 64 development team. Their job was to remake the game in a way that would feel fresh, but also stay true the fans’ memories of the original. According to a new Iwata Asks interview with the Grezzo team, this involved preserving some of the bugs present in the original N64 game.

 

“One conflict arose when, as programmers, we wanted to get rid of bugs,” revealed Grezzo programmer, Shun Moriya. “But the staff members who had played the old game said the bugs were fun! We were like, ‘What?!’”

 

Moriya elaborated: “It wouldn’t be fun if your friends couldn’t say, ‘Do you know about this?’ So we left them in if they didn’t cause any trouble and were beneficial.”

 

“If something simply could not be allowed to stand, we begrudgingly fixed it, so some bugs don’t appear, but we left in as many as we could, so people will grin over that.”

 

Unfortunately, Grezzo didn’t mention which bugs were left in, so I suppose that’s something players will discover for themselves over time. The rest of the Iwata Asks interview focuses on the challenges of re-creating Ocarina of Time

The original was 20fps? Man, I didn’t remember that. How technology changes. But I think they had already upped it to 30fps for the Gamecube version and maybe also the VC one, so I’m not sure why they needed to do any difficulty tweaks.

Anyway, one thing I noticed is how the framerate seems to be slightly less stable in 3D mode. Or maybe it’s just an impression due to the 3D effect.

I thought I had all the Heart Containers. I got the ones after each boss fight, so 11 or 12 I finished with.

I thought the game was rather frustratingly difficult, many of the enemies just had weird tactics, like the one that grabs you and sends you to the beginning of the dungeon, Navi never said how to defeat it, or the enemies that eat up gear, or the redeads! It honestly brought me to tears many times because Navi was so unhelpful and enemies weaknesses arent clear, I guess more in game context clues would have made it less hard or something, or just an easy mode? Navi was even more useless during boss fights, which were brutal. I mainly got through them on just a quarter of a heart left and wondering how I defeated after using all of my bombs, magic, and etc.  I still dont know how I defeated Bongo Bongo but charging the sword to spin it worked!  Playing games without guides is honestly tough.