The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

 Nintendo 64
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9.0

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  1. GregS
    Jun 2, 2008
    4
    Why does everyone think this is the best game ever, it's boring.
  2. Galacta1310
    May 30, 2014
    4
    Lots of Zelda fans claim Ocarina of Time is the best Zelda, if not the best game of all time, I strongly disagree, I played up until the Fire Temple and I just couldn't finish, the game itself was boring and the world ws empty, the only places that were there were places you needed to be for the main storyline, the game lacked in charm and felt dull and bland. My favorites in the series,Lots of Zelda fans claim Ocarina of Time is the best Zelda, if not the best game of all time, I strongly disagree, I played up until the Fire Temple and I just couldn't finish, the game itself was boring and the world ws empty, the only places that were there were places you needed to be for the main storyline, the game lacked in charm and felt dull and bland. My favorites in the series, (Twilight Princess and Windwaker) were much better, Ocarina of Time feels linear, the puzzles are easy, the temples are uncreative and the game just doesn’t pull me in and get me hokked on it like TP or WW, so to be honest, Ocatina of Time is really, really overated.… Expand
  3. Panchogul
    Feb 12, 2021
    4
    Este juego manipula al Gamer mediante la nostalgia, no es malo, pero esta lejos de ser la increíble obra maestra que todos dicen.
  4. MaddSpazz
    Sep 21, 2016
    4
    Bad controls, uninteresting story, uninteresting game play. It's good for its time, but it has aged horribly. Not to mention I don't find the style or formula for the Zelda series fun at all.
  5. UltimateAnalyst
    Jan 20, 2018
    4
    Adventure is fun, but does not hold up well. Water temple is beyond annoying, camera is beyond revolting, and is often hard to understand what is ok to do, and what is not. What i mean by that is, sometimes it wants you to experiment, but then it punishes you when you get something wrong, which ironically discourages exploration. I wouldn't be so hard on it if this wasn't considered aAdventure is fun, but does not hold up well. Water temple is beyond annoying, camera is beyond revolting, and is often hard to understand what is ok to do, and what is not. What i mean by that is, sometimes it wants you to experiment, but then it punishes you when you get something wrong, which ironically discourages exploration. I wouldn't be so hard on it if this wasn't considered a masterpiece. Its an 'ok' game at best. I would say try it, really, if you haven't played it yet then try it. I don't have any nostalgia for the game so maybe thats why im so annoyed at all its flaws. And yes, i do think BOTW was more fun and 'adventurous' to play.… Expand
  6. adrewtoremember
    May 17, 2018
    4
    I never saw the appeal of this game. A Link to the Past was far superior in my opinion. Z-Targeting was a good concept but poorly executed, a lot of the issues I have with the game are simply products of 3d being a new concept in '98. An important game in gaming history, but it has aged poorly and some of the poor design choice are highlighted because of it.
  7. Vectis99
    Oct 26, 2018
    4
    Outdated and bland. While this may have at one time presented new and interesting ideas, they are not at all engaging or fantastic from a modern perspective. Coupling this with poorly executed mechanics, frustrating tedium, and an uninteresting world, Ocarina of Time is best passed up for future games in the series or even for other games entirely.
  8. Charcoalbro
    Oct 22, 2019
    4
    This is the worst Zelda game when i ever played., Puzzles are okay but combat and controls and combat are VERY BORING. The story is too clishe and character designs are horrible. The atmosphere was good but musics are s***. Weapons are unnessecary. Graphics and art design are worse than all other zelda games. I think this game was too dissapointing and i think this game is never looks likeThis is the worst Zelda game when i ever played., Puzzles are okay but combat and controls and combat are VERY BORING. The story is too clishe and character designs are horrible. The atmosphere was good but musics are s***. Weapons are unnessecary. Graphics and art design are worse than all other zelda games. I think this game was too dissapointing and i think this game is never looks like Twilight Princess. I think TP is m better than that baloon game… Expand
  9. BadAim81
    Jul 1, 2020
    4
    Bad kontrols. Bad graphics. Por story. Buggs.
    I just got angry playing this over hyped game
  10. nintendotax
    Sep 30, 2020
    4
    At a point in time I did enjoy this game however nowadays it's dated, has repetitive gameplay, and lackluster story. It does not hold up against the test of time unless you have nostalgia goggles on. I don't recommend unless you are a die hard zelda fan or wanting to complete games off of Nintendos catalog you'll have a better time with breathe of the wild.
  11. Jabarson
    Feb 2, 2021
    4
    esse jogo é a definição de super-estimado, primeiramente, quero dizer que eu não sou nenhum arrombado que pinta jogos com gráficos ruins ou antigos como ruins automaticamente, e também que eu tenho uma conexão nostálgica com esse jogo e com zelda, tanto que zelda majora's mask é um dos meus jogos favoritos, e ocarina of time foi um dos primeiros jogos que joguei e zerei.

    Mas jogando    esse jogo é a definição de super-estimado, primeiramente, quero dizer que eu não sou nenhum arrombado que pinta jogos com gráficos ruins ou antigos como ruins automaticamente, e também que eu tenho uma conexão nostálgica com esse jogo e com zelda, tanto que zelda majora's mask é um dos meus jogos favoritos, e ocarina of time foi um dos primeiros jogos que joguei e zerei.

    Mas jogando agora ocarina of time simplesmente não envelheceu bem nem em gráficos nem em quase nenhuma outra questão, o level design das dungeons é horrível, confusas e frustrantes, meu exemplo favorito é no poço onde quem tava construindo a dungeon teve um derrame cerebral, e resolveu que o poço estaria recheado de buracos invisíveis no chão que te levam pro mesmo lugar com nada de interessante pra fazer lá além de levar um seculo pra sair de lá, E ACREDITE, VOCÊ VAI CAIR NESSE BURACO MUITAS VEZES, mesmo com lens of truth, que revela onde esses buracos estão escondidos, você não vão estar com a lupa ativada o tempo todo, até porque ela gasta magia, e ainda vai cair muito nessa porra, não é divertido ou desafiador, é simplesmente entediante, e o jogo está cheio de coisas como essa.

    além disso, o mundo em si é vazio, com poucas coisas para se fazer, literalmente a primeira coisa que você vê quando sai da floresta é um campo enorme e vazio sem praticamente nenhum uso, e é lento e entediante passar por ele.

    a história é média, é incrível como as pessoas pintam ela como se fosse algo incrível, mas no geral ela lenta e entediante, e sim, é legal ver o futuro das pessoas que você conheceu no passado, mas isso não sustenta a história, que na maioria do tempo é só uma desculpa pro jogo existir

    aliás, lento e entediante, isso é o que define esse jogo pra mim, é simplesmente chato, sinceramente, eu não estaria tão puto com ele se não fosse por tudo mundo colocar esse jogo em um pedestal, e pelo contrário, majora's mask é um exemplo de como fazer um bom zelda.

    o mundo é vivo e cheio de coisas, principalmente clock town, e todos os habitantes tem seu próprio ciclo de dia e noite, tem rotinas, e suas próprias vidas, o que é impressionante até pra um jogo atual, a história a de oot, a mecânica de 3 dias é genial, pois sempre te mantém alerta e dá ainda mais vida ao mundo, as dungeons, são em gerais mais criativas, mesmo que tenha seus momentos ruins, e a história dos personagens te deixa intrigado e motivado a acabar elas, e o principal, o fluxo do jogo é mil vezes melhor que o de oot, enquanto oot parece se arrastar com tantas dungeons, majora's mask tem apenas 4 dungeons, e isso é bom pra mim, até porque ele tem quase o mesmo tempo do oot, ele não parece se arrastar e tudo corre muito mais suavemente, é melhor amarrado, e sim isso do nada virou uma análise de outro jogo, foda-se.

    em geral, eu ainda não consigo acreditar que oot é tão superestimado e muitas vezes considerado melhor que majora's, então eu criei uma conta no metacritic só pra expressar minha raiva, obrigado.    … Expand
  12. xxx00mlf
    Dec 13, 2021
    4
    The game is good for 1998 graphics and sound effects but music and soundtrack is iconic and so good and about the story is just fine and normal but story is so simple and not good and about difficulty in the game is so easy you fight with enemies and bosses they are so easy to be defeated but about puzzles puzzles are so hard and you have no clue what to do I hate dungeon's puzzlesThe game is good for 1998 graphics and sound effects but music and soundtrack is iconic and so good and about the story is just fine and normal but story is so simple and not good and about difficulty in the game is so easy you fight with enemies and bosses they are so easy to be defeated but about puzzles puzzles are so hard and you have no clue what to do I hate dungeon's puzzles dungeons are good but they have too many puzzles and very hard puzzles without walkthrough in YouTube i couldn't finish the game… Expand
  13. ShlimN.
    Mar 8, 2002
    3
    It really isn't as good as they say it is!
  14. Shawn1299
    Sep 1, 2013
    3
    The game honestly has value but aged pretty terribly. Anyone who says its fantastic just has the feeling of nostalgia when the played it as a kid. Me personally only played it once like a month ago. The only thing I liked in the game was the music, and even the music wasn't that good! Legend of Zelda is a thing of the past and people wont realize because it probably resembles yourThe game honestly has value but aged pretty terribly. Anyone who says its fantastic just has the feeling of nostalgia when the played it as a kid. Me personally only played it once like a month ago. The only thing I liked in the game was the music, and even the music wasn't that good! Legend of Zelda is a thing of the past and people wont realize because it probably resembles your childhood or 2 years of your life. I think when people who like this game play it, they don't open their eyes and realize that the game is boring and lacks something.… Expand
  15. justagamer123
    Nov 14, 2014
    3
    maybe its just me but i find this game to not be that fun i know i did not enjoy playing it, i would like to hear why so many people think its the best game of all time to me it is just not fun the game play is not that great the story bad nothing good in this game
  16. sarisa
    Aug 24, 2020
    3
    It was 9/10 back in 1998 indeed. Game of our childhood one could say. However lets be honest here... I played this game recently on WiiU virtual console to bring back old memories and... Well... in 2020 I can't give it more than 4/10 (not counting graphics!). if you take graphics to account this shouldn't be more than 2/10 game. Even If you remade all visuals and correct many issues thisIt was 9/10 back in 1998 indeed. Game of our childhood one could say. However lets be honest here... I played this game recently on WiiU virtual console to bring back old memories and... Well... in 2020 I can't give it more than 4/10 (not counting graphics!). if you take graphics to account this shouldn't be more than 2/10 game. Even If you remade all visuals and correct many issues this game has, it still wouldn't be that cool as you remember. 9/10 in 1998, 3/10 in 2020.… Expand
  17. Rclose333
    Jan 4, 2015
    3
    I really found this game to be one of the more disappointing games in the Legend Of Zelda Series. I found the dungeons very repetitive and the story lacked in plot twist and there was no character development at all.
    The graphics have not improved at all and the enemy's do not get harder as the games go on.
    overall i found Ocarina of Time to be a massive disappoint,
  18. CodyZamboni
    Jun 15, 2019
    3
    Played this back in 1999, bought into all the hype. Color me bored. Fun lasted all about one day, then things got really repetitive, I hated learning to playing the songs, dealing with cartoonish characters, and unexciting action.
  19. BennyWott
    Oct 20, 2020
    3
    Overrated way too much. The game is boring, repetitive, frustrating, and I can't play it for more than 30 minutes without getting bored and wanting to change game. I don't think that this game is complete garbage but I am sure that this game could've been way better if only they took more time to make it, making it a bit more intuitive and also creating dungeons that aren't only going toOverrated way too much. The game is boring, repetitive, frustrating, and I can't play it for more than 30 minutes without getting bored and wanting to change game. I don't think that this game is complete garbage but I am sure that this game could've been way better if only they took more time to make it, making it a bit more intuitive and also creating dungeons that aren't only going to one place to another and using the obvious tool to shoot a certain thing and having to go up and down again and again like the water temple. Also the combat system is boring and repetitive where you just engage an enemy, wait for them to attack your shiled and then attack them, or you shoot them from far away with a slingshot or something else. Again, this game is definetly overrated and it annoies me that this is the highest rated game on this site.… Expand
  20. Guxi13
    May 24, 2021
    3
    Pues para mi esta muy lejos de ser el mejor Zelda pero muuy. Es que miren una cosa es que el juego haya tenido unos grandes gráficos y otra que sea una completa revolución para la narrativa, los personajes la historia, de eso Ocarina no tiene nada, solo un poco de merito de los gráficos, pero si mario 64 ya lo habia hecho perfecto. Esa es mi opinion, y su secuela Majoras vino a remandarPues para mi esta muy lejos de ser el mejor Zelda pero muuy. Es que miren una cosa es que el juego haya tenido unos grandes gráficos y otra que sea una completa revolución para la narrativa, los personajes la historia, de eso Ocarina no tiene nada, solo un poco de merito de los gráficos, pero si mario 64 ya lo habia hecho perfecto. Esa es mi opinion, y su secuela Majoras vino a remandar todo lo malo que hizo este jueg.… Expand
  21. Evocable
    May 4, 2022
    3
    As someone who didn't play this game when I was younger and have the bias of it being a game I played when I was young, I can't stand this game. I very much understand why someone who played this game when it came out, or when they were a child would love it so much. But coming from a person playing it in the year 2022, this game just isn't fun. I really don't think I dislike the game asAs someone who didn't play this game when I was younger and have the bias of it being a game I played when I was young, I can't stand this game. I very much understand why someone who played this game when it came out, or when they were a child would love it so much. But coming from a person playing it in the year 2022, this game just isn't fun. I really don't think I dislike the game as much as I'm putting here, but for how much love this game gets I think that definitely brings it down. For me its at a point where its not at a retro point where its simplicity is fun, or at a modern point where exploration feels exciting and interesting. It's in between in a really gross area where everything feels janky and outdated in a horrible way. I very much understand why people like the game, but to me this just is not it.… Expand
  22. WohaoGaster
    Feb 6, 2023
    3
    For 1998, this game was absolutely amazing
    Nowadays, however, it's just a boring walking simulator for the majority of the time you are playing, with nothing to do in the large areas that the game offers. It's like they thought big = good automatically and forgot to give you anything to do in the large areas. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the gameplay, but with the large and    For 1998, this game was absolutely amazing
    Nowadays, however, it's just a boring walking simulator for the majority of the time you are playing, with nothing to do in the large areas that the game offers. It's like they thought big = good automatically and forgot to give you anything to do in the large areas. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the gameplay, but with the large and mostly empty Hyrule and boring low-res 2D towns I can't recommend it or the 3DS remake over any other 3D Zelda unless you like playing goofy music on the ocarina. If you liked the basic gameplay I'd suggest checking out Majora's mask specifically due to it's extreme similarity but the gameplay is extremely similar to any other 3D Zelda game    … Expand
  23. aceganer
    Feb 28, 2023
    3
    The sword in the logo is cool, the game has old graphics do not recommend, if not for the sword would have given it a 0.
  24. Puggoh
    Mar 15, 2023
    3
    The critically acclaimed video game from the 90s. Loved by many. Made childhoods. Too bad the game is the worst Zelda game, other than Zelda 2. Zelda is my second favorite game series, other than hollow knight. I can see the importance of this game, as it was the first 3d Zelda, but nowadays, there are just so many better Zelda games. If you want to play it, play the 3ds remake. Or justThe critically acclaimed video game from the 90s. Loved by many. Made childhoods. Too bad the game is the worst Zelda game, other than Zelda 2. Zelda is my second favorite game series, other than hollow knight. I can see the importance of this game, as it was the first 3d Zelda, but nowadays, there are just so many better Zelda games. If you want to play it, play the 3ds remake. Or just play Twilight Princess or Windwaker.… Expand
  25. ScottMuggz
    Aug 11, 2023
    3
    Old game, make way for new things.
    Zelda isn't a relatable character and the game is way too long for no reason. Too many puzzles.
  26. MichaelCorleone
    Apr 15, 2008
    2
    Pointless game, i'd rather count my fingers.
  27. Somebody
    Jan 11, 2007
    2
    I only give this a two because it's fun to watch other people fight the final boss. Couldn't hold my interest for any amount of time.
  28. EnddorD.
    Jul 23, 2007
    2
    One word: Boring.
  29. javaleno
    Sep 11, 2013
    2
    I love legend of zelda, but this game almost killed it for me. First of all, NAVI IS SO ANNOYING, this fairy always says stupid things and states the obvious 100% of the time. Second, the intro to this game was horrendous, and the entire first act was annoying. Third, the over world and transportation was annoying. Fourth, the locking system was terrible.

    The second act was good, but    I love legend of zelda, but this game almost killed it for me. First of all, NAVI IS SO ANNOYING, this fairy always says stupid things and states the obvious 100% of the time. Second, the intro to this game was horrendous, and the entire first act was annoying. Third, the over world and transportation was annoying. Fourth, the locking system was terrible.

    The second act was good, but the first act was so terrible that it ruined the entire experience for me. I don't understand how anyone thinks this game is a masterpiece. The only thing that is good about this game is the story. The overall experience is frustrating at times and some of the bosses are bad as well. I will definitely will NOT recommend this game to anyone.    … Expand
  30. red_ded
    Dec 23, 2015
    2
    I am gonna be honest. i thought this game was TERRIBLE. I remember when i first bought it i was like hey look the zelda game people were so wow about. MOM GET ME THIS. she got me it then. the cutscene was ok but i took me a hour to get 30 rupees for a shield. i went to the tree and i tried to set the thing on fire but it was litterally impossible. it also has a game breaking glitch whereI am gonna be honest. i thought this game was TERRIBLE. I remember when i first bought it i was like hey look the zelda game people were so wow about. MOM GET ME THIS. she got me it then. the cutscene was ok but i took me a hour to get 30 rupees for a shield. i went to the tree and i tried to set the thing on fire but it was litterally impossible. it also has a game breaking glitch where you could finish the game in 10 mins. anyway i did play through it some more. i liked some of the stuff but i just rage quitted at the water temple. i betcha this game hadnt got a water temple it would have got 100% people saying "Best Game EVER" and stuff like that. now te super mario 64 was revolutionary and one of the best games ever made for it. so was goldeneye. but i still cant forgive nintendo for the disaster of this game. rather play ride to hell retribution… Expand
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#1 Best N64 Game of 1998
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#1 Most Discussed N64 Game of 1998
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#1 Most Shared N64 Game of 1998

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Metascore
99

Universal acclaim - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. My Gamer
    Mar 24, 2016
    94
    The player will be drawn into the Zelda fantasy world from the moment the opening sequence bursts onto the screen, and the game won't let go-not even after finishing the quest.
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  2. Happy Puppy
    Mar 24, 2016
    90
    Realism is one of the major reasons this title is so amazing. After playing for a while it feels as though you have actually been to Hyrule.
  3. Gaming Age
    Mar 24, 2016
    95
    Featuring unparalleled 3D environments, a deep and involved quest, brilliant and intuitive play controls, and a well-developed cinematic quality that enhances rather than overwhelms the whole game experience, Miyamoto's latest soon-to-be-classic title deserves to be played by each and every person who might deign to consider themselves a fan of great games.
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