It’s still a secret to everybody?
11 November 2026
by rawmeatcowboy2
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is now available on Switch 2, giving the N64 classic a massive overhaul. While the core gameplay mechanics remain largely the same, the visual presentation has been revamped in a huge way, the soundtrack has been given the orchestral treatment, there’s a whole host of new voice-acted cut-scenes and so much more. Without a doubt, this remake gives Ocarina of Time the love and attention to detail it deserves.
IGN had the chance to chat with Nintendo’s Nate Bihldorff about the care and attention to detail that the localization team put into Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and not surprisingly a ton of effort was put forth. According to Bihldorff, the team painstakingly combs through every bit of line, including the ones that are extra hard to come by, as they know those interactions can mean a ton to fans. Bihldorff even goes so far as to say that he hopes there are some dialog bits in there that players are yet to discover.
“My group handles the localization of these games and I can tell you that the localization team, absolutely, puts the most importance on those single lines that are really, really hard to find. And you know, of course, they are murder on testing teams because finding that specific line and making sure that it appears correctly in the game is super important… But there was always something special about localizing those lines and knowing that only a few people were going to read it, that it took a specific course of action to get there, whether it’s in a Zelda game like this or you’re sequence breaking in a Metroid game.
Knowing that the person who’s experiencing that line did something special to get it and wanting to make sure that it had that little extra oomph, I guarantee you the localization team would love to hear you say exactly that… You feel like you’re connecting with the developers in those moments. It’s a direct line where they’re kind of winking at you.
I like to believe that there are (things in Ocarina of Time no one has discovered). Of course, that’s a question for the developers. They probably would be very cagey in the way that they answered it. But I also feel like Nintendo games in general have a wondrous way of having something that you just don’t discover forever.”
