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Jose Enrico Coronel

Ocarina of Time Is Finally Giving Link a Modern Camera — How Much Can Nintendo Change Before It Stops Feeling Like the N64 Classic?

Nintendo's Ocarina of Time remake adds free right-stick camera control, manual jumping and faster movement while rebuilding the 1998 adventure for Switch 2. (Credit: Nintendo)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives on Switch 2 on November 5, and series producer Eiji Aonuma has described the project as a "faithful interpretation using modern technologies" built for the series' 40th anniversary. The word doing the heavy lifting there is interpretation.

Because among the modern technologies is a control scheme the 1998 original never had. Nintendo's own pitch is that players can "jump and run freely with newly added button commands and enjoy improved camera control with the Right Stick."

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