The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

 Nintendo 64
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Universal acclaim- based on 8290 Ratings

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  1. Ratjunful
    Mar 24, 2021
    10
    This game is absolutely magic. If you played the game, I'm sure you understand what I mean.
  2. PapaShronk
    Mar 25, 2021
    10
    first of all i have no nostalgic connection to this game other than gerudo valley theme being in smash. i just beat the game and no wonder its the highest ratted game ever. its not the best 3d zelda game but it was the first one and set in stone the zelda formula. 9.8 out of 10
  3. Eikyy
    Mar 27, 2021
    10
    the best game of all time, just amzing on all senses, history, songs, gameplay.
  4. Kamerdeep1
    Apr 10, 2021
    10
    This must be best game out ever in my life. I am going to be 35 in May. Puzzles are cool and hard. Story line is cool. Other reason like this game get all items to use. Music good. If Someone ask if should went buy this game say yes.
  5. almadrigal
    Apr 11, 2021
    10
    Very Good. Best game of All time. The areas to explore in this game are quite fascinating. Multiple Dungeons and the world feels like it’s lived in. 10/10 OMG Nintendo.
  6. NavcraftYT
    Apr 12, 2021
    10
    Un buen juego aunque breath of the wild parezca mejor es un juego muy nostálgico y nos brindó lo más genial en su tiempo yo no lo jugué cuando salió porque yo no nací en esos tiempos pero e probado y disfrutado de este juegazo en emulador y espero una versión mejor que en la 3ds que de seguro la compro
  7. Demonio10
    May 21, 2021
    10
    El que le da 0 es porque no lo ha jugado nunca, uno de los mejores juegos de toda la historia.. hasta que le supero su hermano mayor breath of the wild.
  8. Savitar21007
    May 3, 2021
    10
    The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time is a phenomenal title that used the limited technology of the Nintendo 64 to make possibly the most successful and well-known game ever. It's combat system, z-targeting, and world are some of the best you'll see in any game.
  9. bananabrainok
    Mar 20, 2022
    10
    Greatest game of all time.

    Ahead of its time.. Influenced so many games that came after it.
  10. Patedus
    Mar 16, 2022
    9
    Most people say this is the best game of all time, it's certainly not my favorite game but I wouldn't disagree.
  11. AbradaKadabra
    Jun 14, 2021
    5
    Как, блять, можно было оценить это ископаемое выше таких шедевров сюжета и геймплея как: Ведьмак 3, Horizon zero dawn,Uncharted 4,(Minecraft?) и т.дВедьмак аж на 2 странице, притом его опережают какие-то старые и почти всеми забытые археологические экземплярыКак, блять, можно было оценить это ископаемое выше таких шедевров сюжета и геймплея как: Ведьмак 3, Horizon zero dawn,Uncharted 4,(Minecraft?) и т.дВедьмак аж на 2 странице, притом его опережают какие-то старые и почти всеми забытые археологические экземпляры
  12. Mutlaq
    Feb 24, 2022
    10
    Good Game best game forever I am like it because more ideaes and its very very very legend game
  13. andres_disez
    Nov 11, 2021
    7
    Si bien el juego fue extremadamente importante para la industria e historicamente merezca mas nota, actualmente considero que le falta para ser perfecto. Los secretos de la pradera de Hyrule son bastante aleatorios y poco intuitivos (con agujeros al lado de arboles random) y el control de apuntado bastante tedioso. Recomiendo que si se quiere jugar se use el remake de 3ds, que mejora elSi bien el juego fue extremadamente importante para la industria e historicamente merezca mas nota, actualmente considero que le falta para ser perfecto. Los secretos de la pradera de Hyrule son bastante aleatorios y poco intuitivos (con agujeros al lado de arboles random) y el control de apuntado bastante tedioso. Recomiendo que si se quiere jugar se use el remake de 3ds, que mejora el apartado gráfico, el apuntado es mejor, tiene ciertas ayudas como las canciones de la ocarina a tu disposición mientras tocas, y lo mas importante de todo: las botas son objeto de acceso rapido y no hay que entrar en el menu para cambiarlas (templo del agua, sí, te miro a ti)
    igualmente no podia poner menos nota porque invento una gran cantidad de cosas que aun hoy en dia se usan en videojuegos en entornos 3d    … Expand
  14. Mooprs
    Dec 4, 2021
    5
    Maybe I have seen too much praise for this game but I found myself disappointed and bored senseless. BOTW is the first Zelda game I have played and TP was the last one I beat, which I quite liked. This game just doesn't stand out and there is little good I can say about it. It has good music, the story is okay, decent characters and atmosphere. Obviously this game is an achievement forMaybe I have seen too much praise for this game but I found myself disappointed and bored senseless. BOTW is the first Zelda game I have played and TP was the last one I beat, which I quite liked. This game just doesn't stand out and there is little good I can say about it. It has good music, the story is okay, decent characters and atmosphere. Obviously this game is an achievement for it's time but that's really all that is. A trophy or a success that would have inevitably been earned by a different game if it weren't for this one. That's about all I liked. It's so sad that a lot of games have to live in the shadow of this and cannot compete for the greatest. This game is not timeless and not a masterpiece. The controls and gameplay are clunky, useless and obnoxious companion "Navi", unsatisfying puzzles/dungeons, really poor progression solutions, boring and empty map, very poor graphics... By poor progression I am referring to the pure randomness to the game. Use that one item you certainly obtained as young link from bombing that one specific rock in that area you only visited once. When you didn't have access to bombs. This game is impossible to beat without Youtube guides. "Bad graphics criticism for a 1998 game". True this is not a highly valid criticism. However, there are other games with graphics that aren't necessarily better but much easier on my eyes. Half-Life 1 and FFVII. They do not try too hard just to fall flat on their face but rather have interesting visuals, atmosphere, and world building. Both of these came out before OOT. That's about it. I hope you enjoyed my very needed review. Maybe I'm biased. Maybe I played the game wrong. This is how I will always feel regardless. Please stop trying too hard to be a critic and giving this game titles it doesn't deserve.… Expand
  15. 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
  16. Disaster_1991
    Feb 22, 2022
    5
    I can't understand why I loved this game as a kid. Maybe because we didn't had much. The story is lame, gameplay is meh and replay value isn't there...
  17. DarkwingSchmuck
    Mar 4, 2022
    10
    Still one of the very best Zelda titles to this day, Ocarina of Time brought the franchise into 3D in glorious fashion. While it uses the tried-and-true blueprint established by its masterful predecessor, A Link to the Past, it reinvents combat in a satisfying way and utilizes its addition dimension to great effect.
  18. Spleenicus
    Mar 16, 2022
    6
    To anyone living in the 90's: this game is a 10/10 masterpiece and you need to play it right now!

    To people living in 2022: This game, like Half-Life and Halo, are great games, but have, since their release, begun to show their age. The rapid improvement of the medium means that everything from aesthetics like sound quality and controls to game content itself has been exponentially    To anyone living in the 90's: this game is a 10/10 masterpiece and you need to play it right now!

    To people living in 2022: This game, like Half-Life and Halo, are great games, but have, since their release, begun to show their age. The rapid improvement of the medium means that everything from aesthetics like sound quality and controls to game content itself has been exponentially scaled in the past 20 years, and though Ocarina of Time is a masterpiece for its time and still is a showcase of excellent game design, its age makes it difficult to place among the greats of the current generation without admitting to some level of nostalgia blindness. Tl;dr if you love zelda games, this is one of the best, and worth your time despite its age.    … Expand
  19. DarthRevan4
    Mar 25, 2022
    9
    The only reason it's not a 10 is that certain elements have aged, which you'd expect for a 24-year-old game. One of the most important games in the history of games.
  20. Apovo
    Mar 30, 2022
    1
    Hra si nezaslouží být v top nejlepší je nudná a specializovaná na konzoli Nintendo
  21. MetalLiquido
    May 4, 2022
    10
    Marcou minha infância, e realmente é um dos melhores jogos de todos os tempos!
  22. GDsReviews
    May 27, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ocarina of Time launched the Zelda series into 3D and set a bar for video game excellence that has stood the test of time to this day. This game is the video game equivalent of The Godfather movie it is that excellent and brilliant. Like The Godfather, it did not just make waves, it made a tsunami still being felt today.

    When I booted it up and saw the title screen for the first time, I realized immediately that Ocarina of Time would be absolutely historic before I even started playing it. When I started playing it, the game completely blew me away with its excellence, and kept topping itself over and over again all the way to the end. After beating it for the first time, the feeling I had at that moment was to replay the whole game from start to finish all over again. The key to this game’s greatness and timelessness is its story. It is so solid, that most movies have worse plots than this game. The plot of Ocarina of Time was clearly intended for it to be the keystone game of the Zelda series for everything that came before and after it, well before Nintendo came out the official Zelda timeline. When Nintendo came out with the official timeline, Ocarina of Time was placed as the keystone game of the series in it.

    The rest of the game is just as solid as the story. The soundtrack is an all-time great, The villain in Ganondorf is extremely intelligent akin to a real life dictator, despite being mostly third person felt first person in immersion, and has easily some of the most powerful women warriors and leaders in all of fiction; topped off by a princess in Zelda that disguises herself as a reclusive warrior boy called Sheik for 7 years, and is never a damsel in distress. As I have grown over the years, it is that latter I have the greatest respect for in this game because it is still extremely rare. While Zelda/Sheik is the most notable woman warrior and leader in Ocarina of Time, there are many other powerful woman warriors and leaders in this game as well. Princess Zelda literally gets trained to be a warrior by her caretaker in a warrior woman in Impa. There is also a strong willed but bratty Zora princess and sage in Ruto, your forest friend and later sage in Saria, and a tribe that consists of nothing but powerful women warrior of color in the Gerudo. One of them in Nabooru gains the courage to defy her evil leaders in Kome, Kotake, and Ganondorf, and pays the price for it only to be revealed as a sage.

    This Gerudo tribe portion is by far the weakest point in Ocarina of Time. I have massive respect for the Gerudo tribe being powerful women of color, but the way you defeat them I recoiled in racist disgust. You have to stun them by taking pot shots with arrows, and it was exacerbated by Link being white, blond, and blue eyed. Despite this cringing way of winning over the Gerudo, the game still shows extremely powerfully how their own leaders in Kome, Kotake, and Ganondorf abandoned and betrayed them, with Nabooru proving to be the only Gerudo Leader with a moral compass to care and believe in her own people. This racial factor also led me to conclude that Princess Zelda is only member of the Hyrulian Royal Family with a moral compass because she is the only one not imperiously detached from the rest of the kingdom, and saw it all as Sheik. (An extremely rare occasion where the material redeemed itself by the masterful and perfect execution of the story around the Geurdo Tribe, Nabooru, Kome, Kotake, and Ganondorf.)

    As for Ganondorf abandoning and betraying his own people, you can just see him lose all shreds of his remaining morality as the story progresses. He wanted to better his fellow Gerudo when seizing the royal throne, but in that timeless phrase “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” he unleashes a seven-year long reign of terror. By the end of the game, he becomes an isolated out of control dictator seeking more and more power in a complete loss of morality, and completely abandons his own tribe. Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time reminds me vividly of real-life dictator Idi Amin of Uganda. They both seized power in a similar way in a coup, and unleashed a reign of terror and destruction of similar length that ended with them being forcefully removed. (Ganondorf 7 years and Idi Amin 8 years)

    Despite its racial flaws, Ocarina of Time remains a masterpiece of a game that has and will be remembered for decades to come as one of the greatest games of all time. You simply will not see all of video gaming, never mind Nintendo and Zelda until you play Ocarina of Time.    … Expand
  23. Controversial27
    Sep 8, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is clearly overrated. And I can see why, most people look at this game as a part of their childhood, and yes, for most, it was. But when you look at it from a quality standpoint, it's not that great. For one, it's ugly, even for the time. The environments and bland and usually boring. The controls also suffer from being terrible. Most of the dungeons are tedious and boring, with the Water Temple being the worst. The only thing I really enjoy about this game is the time travel mechanic, but it felt to much like A Link To The Past, the greatest Legend Of Zelda game. I always come back to this game after a while to see if my opinion has changed, but it never seems too. Some times it pains me to see how blind people are when it comes to games like this and the N64 its self. But I guess you can't change opinions that have been set in stone.… Expand
  24. matheusouza
    Nov 6, 2022
    1
    Eu odiei o jogo, achei horrível não tive uma experiência positiva, os gráficos são horríveis
  25. camoz
    Nov 19, 2022
    5
    Shockingly overrated. This game is impressive in that it took the series into 3D. That is where the positives end. Otherwise it is the standard Zelda affair. Nothing of particular note. Not only that the visuals age horribly (as most n64 games do) I would never recommend this to anyone besides a diehard Zelda/N64 fan.
  26. Pokemandeluxe
    Nov 21, 2022
    10
    the people rating this game a 0 will absolutely hate any game that isnt a fortnite
  27. 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.
  28. 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
  29. 1barney
    Apr 24, 2023
    10
    masterpiece, the mecanics can be seen on modern games, this is revolutionary for the game industry.
  30. JosePorta
    Jun 3, 2023
    6
    El trabajo del crítico es sencillo en más de un sentido. Arriesgamos muy poco, y sin embargo usufructuamos de una posición situada por encima de quienes someten su trabajo y su persona a nuestro juicio. Prosperamos gracias a nuestras críticas negativas, que resultan divertidas cuando se las escribe y cuando se las lee.
    Pero la cruda verdad que los críticos debemos enfrentar es que, en    El trabajo del crítico es sencillo en más de un sentido. Arriesgamos muy poco, y sin embargo usufructuamos de una posición situada por encima de quienes someten su trabajo y su persona a nuestro juicio. Prosperamos gracias a nuestras críticas negativas, que resultan divertidas cuando se las escribe y cuando se las lee.
    Pero la cruda verdad que los críticos debemos enfrentar es que, en términos generales, la producción de basura promedio es más valiosa que lo que nuestros artículos pretenden señalar. Sin embargo, a veces el crítico realmente arriesga algo, y eso sucede en nombre y en defensa de algo nuevo.
    Anoche experimenté algo nuevo, una comida extraordinaria hecha por alguien único e inesperado. Decir que ese plato y su cocinero pusieron a prueba mis preconceptos equivaldría a incurrir en una subestimación grosera, cuando lo cierto es que ambos lograron conmover lo más profundo de mi ser.
    Antes de este suceso, nunca escondí mi desdén por el lema del Chef Gusteau: “cualquiera puede cocinar”. Pero, me doy cuenta, recién ahora comprendo sus palabras. No cualquiera puede convertirse en un gran artista, pero un gran artista sí puede provenir de cualquier lugar.    … 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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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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