New Ocarina of Time Details for Zelda’s 40th... It's About to BLOW UP!

Today we're going to be talking about how Nintendo is about to lift the veil on the Legend of Zelda 40th anniversary Ocarina of Time remake and honestly it looks like they have a massive plan to be pushing this for some time. Maybe even harder than they pushed Mario's 40th anniversary. We're going to talk about that because there's a lot of interesting things that have been developing. Some new information is out there as well. Before we dive in I just want to remind you we are giving away a switch to right now. You can enter through the link down in the pin comment or the description. No, it's not the Zelda special edition one. Sorry, but that's okay. Maybe that's in a future giveaway card. We'll we'll have to wait and see. We'll draw the winner on October 1st. Only requirement by the way to enter is to be subscribed. All right guys, let's talk about the Legend of Zelda and the 40th anniversary. You can see the hat. You guys have seen the logo. You've seen the leaks. We have a lot of information to go over because look, Zelda's 40th is really special to me for a number of reasons. For starters, Zelda is my favorite franchise of all time. I turn 40 years this year. Zelda turns 40 years this year. Technically Zelda is a little bit older than me. I turned 40 in July. I turned 40 back in well, February, but they don't really celebrate Zelda's anniversaries usually until September. At least that has been Nintendo's tradition. One time they talked about it during the like the the June Direct, but outside of that it's always been September and hours mostly because they're still celebrating Mario's anniversary from the September prior. So they kind of put a year between celebrating these anniversaries. So yes, it is expected next month we're going to get a Zelda 40th blowout probably part of a grander general Nintendo Direct as they continue to market Fire Emblem Fates weave. Maybe even bring up Xenoblade Genesis again. We'll see although we might not see that again till next year. I suspect another announcement for a game next year, some third-party release dates, new third-party announcements. Just like we had Kingdom Hearts 4 last time. Who expected that? So Nintendo really seems to have stepped up the game with their directs this year. Obviously with only one big one so far with another big one seemingly on the horizon. But, some developments have been happening with regards to Ocarina of Time cuz that is the big game coming out this year. They haven't gave us a date yet. We fully suspect we should know next month. And one of those things that lets you know that hey, Nintendo's pretty serious about this coming out fairly soon is this. Nintendo Company Ltd, according to NecroFelipe, filed a request for renewal and registration in some locations of the trademark The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, including in Brazil, which is where he reports from, on July 30th. So, this was all the way back in July. Obviously, you know, we're a couple months removed from that. So, the request remains pending approval. It hasn't been approved yet. Doesn't need to be approved for the game to release. But, obviously, Nintendo wants trademarks active for Ocarina of Time pretty much across the globe. Like, it's pretty obvious they're bringing the game back. They don't want anyone able to infringe on their trademarks. Uh more than that, of course, uh Zelda has a movie coming up. Zelda has uh merchandise, the console, other things coming. Uh and one thing Mike Odyssey has been paying attention to is some of the trademarks out there. And while he talks about the NecroFelipe one filed for a trademark in Madrid for Ocarina of Time, uh on his end in the US, which is the same end I'm on, we have a pending trademark for The Legend of Zelda, which could be used for the movie. Now, the Ocarina of Time trademark has already been renewed in the United States a while back and it is still active. So, they don't really need to renew that one. Uh The Legend of Zelda trademark coming up for renewal is obviously quite interesting since it's the 40th anniversary. But, again, they also filed for this. Again, you know, this was back in July 30th and this one was filed quite recently. But, again, it's one of those things where they're obviously going to get that trademark approved or if it's not already approved, not really a big deal. They already own that trademark. It's just a renewal. Same for Ocarina of Time. Those are usually just automatically processed cuz as long as you're doing something with it. Well, Ocarina of Time has a remake coming out. The Legend of Zelda has stuff coming out all the time. So, yeah, Nintendo owns those trademarks for good reason. We talked about uh some other stuff with Zelda's 40th as well. Uh if you guys remember, we did a video yesterday that featured uh a new third item for the Zelda 40th lineup. Uh and that's right here. This image right here coming from out of China. Look, it's quite interesting. It does have obviously the back of the Pro Controller. I will take a look at the Pro Controller a bit closer in a moment, but there's a mystery third item supposedly hidden there they're not allowed to share. We don't know why. Obviously, it feels weird cuz it feels like they shouldn't be allowed to share anything. It is possible they might be the only manufacturing plant for one of the Zelda 40th anniversary items. Someone did float that idea out to me yesterday that, "Hey, maybe the reason they feel that they can't share is they became aware they're the only place making the box for whatever item this is. And uh if you reveal that item, they'll instantly know where the leaks came from." Of course, this would also mean in order for this to not just automatically have Nintendo know where the leaks are coming from with a mystery third item cuz they would know where that's being made. Uh it's also possible maybe there's other items that are being manufactured elsewhere, and so it does make it actually harder to track down. So, maybe there's more than three Zelda 40th anniversary items. Maybe there's four or five, and that would then make sense why they don't want to reveal which one this is as those might get manufactured elsewhere. Whereas, the controller and the console, at least the boxes and all of that, hey guys, like they're going to make a lot more of those than probably the other items. And so, yeah, those might be a bit harder to track down the exact place. Again, that is I guess a worthwhile excuse for why they feel like they couldn't reveal it. Um but there's also like this weird thing with Nintendo themselves. So, Nintendo has been marketing Zelda already. They're not quite going with the 40th anniversary moniker yet. We know that's going to start next month, but they are starting to push Ocarina of Time. This was spotted in a news thing on the Nintendo Switch 2. And again, I I I went to look, and I guess it's been edited or deleted. I'm not really sure. Maybe my Switch 2 is just being wonky. We do have issues with internet at of right now. In fact, this video might be going up later than I wanted it to because the internet's again acting wonky. Uh but this guy here uh took some uh images with his phone, obviously. Why he didn't just use the screenshot function and share it to the Nintendo app and put it online, I don't know, but whatever. I guess this was just quick and easy. And you can see here that it says, "Link and Ganondorf have had many different appearances throughout the Legend of Zelda series. If you'd like to experience some of the legends, please check out the list below." And the very first game they have on that list is uh Ocarina of Time. Nintendo put it at the tippity top, even though you can't pre-order the game yet. It says, "The critically acclaimed classic returns for a new generation in 2026, reborn." They keep using that word exclusively for the Switch 2 system. "If you're interested in this game, please add it to your wish list." Which this person obviously uh did do. And there's another image here showing the actual like news article what it looks like. It just says The Legend of Zelda with the Triforce sold. It's just like an advertising news post, except that it's marketing Ocarina of Time already. Nintendo's already marketing Ocarina of Time, which is fascinating considering we still haven't seen the game. Now, one thing we have seen, of course, are the uh console and the controller. Let's go ahead and look at the controller. All this stuff leaked out. These are some renders here. Um but they're not exactly correct because like this Triforce logo, what AI did to this logo is not actually what it looks like. You can see it on the box art. But yeah, this gives you a really good look at the controller, the front and the back. This back is actually extremely accurate, which there's not as much going on, so it's not surprising that it's extremely accurate. Really neat that Nintendo put that whole sword beam thing from the original Zelda. Just a really neat touch. I like it when Nintendo does stuff like that. Um and then we have this. You guys have already seen it in the thumbnail, uh but this is obviously uh put together by someone based on the box art and the controller. You can see someone kind of like put it together in a way. Now, we do know the front of the box actually has the 40th anniversary logo on it. Uh so we know that they Okay, maybe that's not 100% correct here, but this is basically what the console and the controller looks like. It looks like the controller on the left might be black, although maybe it's also green. It's hard to tell because of the lighting. We know the Droid con on the right is green. We know about the Triforce symbol. We know about all the markings. Yeah, this is all fairly accurate to what was leaked out there. You guys have seen it. None of this stuff is really new to you guys, but it's just noting that obviously with this stuff leaking out Nintendo is clearly going to have a blowout fairly soon. And how soon? Well, look, friend of the channel and I I got to make sure I know this. This is not a leak. This is a prediction from Keevy Taxi. He also works at Insider Gamer. So, yes, he's got a lot of connections in the industry. Maybe he's heard some whispers. We can't know. But he has put out there that calling it Zelda Direct next week. He said this on August 12th. We're on the weekend, so next week he's saying he's calling his shot for a Zelda Direct next week with the accurate time release date and the Zelda movie trailer. Now, we've also had like movie cast leaks. We're not going to go back over those today from Deadline, but I do appreciate that we now actually have a good idea of who some of the main characters are going to be. And I actually really do like a lot of the choices, but this goes back to obviously Ocarina of Time. That's the big thing this year. Yes, we're going to get the console. Yes, we're going to get the game. We're going to get the controller. We're going to get whatever, right? There's going to be a bunch of stuff coming out around Zelda's 40th and Nintendo's looks like they're going to make a very, very hard marketing push. Hell, we've even heard things about The Legend of Zelda movie having licensing deals for merchandise next year. Don't know if we're going to see that merchandise this year, but still, it's really cool to know that hey, this Zelda stuff's going to keep going all the way through the Zelda movie. So, we have a lot of Zelda coming our way beginning next month. And obviously the big thing we're all curious about is Ocarina of Time. Look guys, we had that trailer, that teaser trailer, and it was really good. In fact, so good, I think we need to listen to the full thing with the full audio. I know I've played it over many a video, but when's the last time you sat back and actually listened to the audio of the teaser. So, here's that Ocarina of Time teaser that we all know and love. >> Long ago, there was a land called Hyrule, created by beings of supreme divinity. At the very edge of this kingdom, there lay a small forest. Within it, an ancient solitary tree quietly watched over the inhabitants of the forest. These forest dwellers were called the Kokiri. Each had a fairy companion, and they lived out their innocent lives in these woods. >> [music] >> However, there was one particular boy who did not have a fairy. >> [music] [music] >> Yeah, I still get chills down my spine when the da da da happens and um you know, when he when he kind of does the Harry Potter thing where he says, "One particular boy." I'm like, "Oh man, that's so Harry Potter-esque." But also because the Harry Potter movies were so epic. Uh and obviously we're dealing with an epic here in Ocarina of Time. I think it's a wholly good thing that that pops to my mind cuz how epic that moment felt and how obviously the author and the movies and all that described Harry Potter at the beginning about being a special boy, the boy who lived. And here we kind of have another situation where, hey, one particular boy survived things like his parents dying. He's dropped off with the Kokiri. We know the history of Link in Ocarina of Time. And so because of that, uh it just felt very fitting that, you know, hey, we're acting like this is a very special boy. He's a very different boy. He's a boy without a fairy of his own. Uh I really, really enjoyed this. It's like a retelling of the beginning of the game, but done in a very epic storybook kind of way. And then that transition into the hyperrealism or maybe hyperrealism's a little strong, but at least the most realistic art style we've probably ever seen fully realized in HD for uh a Nintendo game in terms of Zelda. Like this is really crazy. I really like what we saw. Obviously a lot of hopes uh and curiosity cuz like Link's design has changed, right? They changed things like he somehow he has the Triforce now at the beginning of the game. Now, maybe that was a trailer trick uh and not actually in the final game. That is possible uh just to hype us up. But uh if that is part of the beginning of the game, that's interesting cuz he doesn't actually have the Triforce of Courage to begin the adventure in Ocarina of Time. So really interesting there. Uh and then beyond that uh or at least he doesn't have the Triforce of Courage awakened in him yet, right? So we don't see it glowing that early in the game. We don't see that till way later in the game. That being said um obviously his design has changed. And that leads to us speculating on, man, if his design changed, then has the Kokiri design changed in general? Has the green tunic design changed even a little bit when he finally like gets that cuz technically he's supposed to already have the green tunic. Like he starts the game wearing it. But, here he clearly isn't wearing that. So, is that something he gets later? Did they make a change with that? Or, do they get rid of that entirely and replace it with all new stuff, which would be a bold move, but I'm not entirely opposed to it. It kind of just depends on what they're doing with the rest of the game. Like, if the whole game's been redesigned, I'm not really going to be that mad about like the green garb being gone if it's consistent with the redesign of the whole world. Like, if the Kokiri aren't wearing the green garb, which is where the inspiration came from, and yeah, okay, it would make sense if maybe Link's not doing that. But, then there's the different color garbs later in the game, the blue, the red. How does that fit in? I have no idea, right? Obviously, guys, there's a lot we want to see with this game, and most of it we're not going to be satisfied with till we're playing it ourselves. I got a feeling a lot of people like me that grew up with this game, we're going to have a lot of moments where we're just stopping in the game and looking and just being in awe or disgust at what they're doing to the world of Ocarina of Time. So, uh it's going to be really interesting. I, you know, hopefully we'll live stream it with you guys one day so you guys can see my reactions to all this stuff, uh because I really uh think that, you know, I don't really replay a lot of games, and Ocarina of Time is kind of this special one. And look, there's nothing like a spoilery about like the overall story cuz we all know it already. So, actually, I think a live stream of it would get quite a few views. It's just, you know, >> [laughter] >> we're on a game buying freeze over here. So, I I I can't be going against that just because I'm super hyped for a game. Uh but, what I can do is still get really hyped with you guys and then eventually play it in front of the whole audience, uh probably sometime next year so you guys can see my raw reactions after you guys have already experienced the greatness that is this this remake, or at least the greatness we hope it's going to it's going to have because it's remaking a great game, the highest-rated video game of all time. And I understand people have challenged that lately. They've looked into the history of some of the reviews listed on Metacritic, and turns out some of them might have been fake. And if that's the case, then it's actually more like a 98, not a 99, which means then it's tied with a whole bunch of different games. I get that, okay? Um that doesn't change the fact that it's a really excellent game, regardless of if the highest rated game of all time is actually an overhyped, like kind of a That is what it says on Metacritic, to be clear, but if it's kind of a misdirection, uh because Metacritic did a very poor job back then grabbing those reviews and verifying them. Uh that seems to be the case that they did a bad job of that, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't change the fact that when it re-released on 3DS, it was still a really high-rated game in the '90s. And yes, this is should be another 90-plus rated game, unless Nintendo and I don't know, whatever company's working with them on this, if it's all internal, cool. If it's some external, cool. Uh unless they really messed it up. And look, we've only seen one little teaser trailer, and I can say so far, they haven't messed it up, but it's like the tiniest, littlest, smallest possible thing they could show us about the game, outside of just maybe just giving the title and giving nothing else, which I guess they could have done. But I'm glad they actually gave us a little, just a tiny teaser look at what the game looks like. Um but yeah, we're on the verge of Nintendo blowing this all out. This is a thing that Nintendo's going to be pushing really, really hard. And I think they're going to continue the Ocarina of Time push throughout the 40th anniversary, through the movie. And I wonder if some of the movie designs will be seen in Ocarina of Time as well. I wonder if there's going to be a little connection there. Nintendo likes to line games up with their movies. And while the movie is, you know, 5-6 months after the game comes out, you can see a re-promotion campaign happening around the Zelda movie. Um maybe with some more Ocarina of Time LEGO drops, maybe some Zelda movie LEGO drops, and some other stuff. Like guys, we're about to get a big blowout for the 40th. And uh look, there's a lot we know, but it's what we don't know, such as nothing has leaked at all in terms of screenshots or footage of Ocarina of Time remake. That means media probably hasn't touched this game yet, right? There's been no behind-the-scenes previews yet. There's been nothing, just radio silence. And look, as hopeful as I am that Ocarina of Time, even if they the directors after PAX West, as hopeful as I am that Ocarina of Time is playable behind scenes with Nintendo at PAX West, and that might be the case. Even if it's not, I can't be mad because if it is playable behind the scenes at PAX West, it's going to leak. I'm just going to tell you guys right now, it's going to leak because some of the people that they have allowed into that private room, maybe they'll be more cautious about that. You know, I can see them being a little a little bit more cautious if Ocarina of Time is back there cuz the games they had back there were all known games. This would be a game that hasn't really been seen by people much, so I do think there's a high risk of leaks if it if it's back there. So, I can see Nintendo maybe not doing it if the direct isn't before that. Or maybe they don't care. It is possible that, hey, beginning on that Friday, you can play it, you can record it, and you can post about it. Maybe they just have a straight-up, hey, look, we want previews going out that weekend. We're good with it. Cool. Maybe that's the case. I doubt it. Nintendo will likely make us, if it is there, hold out for weeks or months, possibly, to put a preview out. But that's if it is there. I can see them not putting it there because I just don't know how I just don't know how it doesn't leak. Not because we're going to do it or the Nintendite crew is going to do it, but somebody is going to be in that room. Somebody's going to grab footage they're not supposed to have, and somebody's going to put it on the internet. You just know it. This happens all the time. Heck, Skyward Sword, they couldn't even show media a piece of art for Skyward Sword without that leaking on the line back at E3 back in the day. So, if the media itself, now imagine event they're like in content creators and media in, it's kind of like, okay. Yeah, at that point, you know what's going to happen. And that sucks. This isn't like Star Wars Outlaws where nobody recorded footage and nobody leaked that a week before it came out because, you know, weren't allowed to at that event. But that's Star Wars Outlaws, there also wasn't a lot of interest in it. This is Zelda. This is Ocarina of Time. We know people will be interested in trying to leak this stuff. So, I can see them not bringing the demo there, and that sucks for me. And then Nintendo byte crew, uh but we'll see what happens. Obviously, guys, the big push is coming. And as soon as they have this direct, I think all bets are off on media events, all bets are off on demos. Maybe a demo even pops up at God, can you imagine a demo for Ocarina of Time is at the stores? That I can go to Best Buy and play a full demo of Ocarina of Time. Man, would that be great. I obviously would be talking to Best Buy because at that point we're bringing in the professional equipment. We're We're We're zooming in. We're getting like the best possible look we can get. Uh my demo kiosk at my Best Buy are only handheld, only no docked mode. But hey, getting handheld footage would be great. Um and their stationary systems so they're like really easy to like point a camera at and try to get a good a good angle. If we can bring the tripod in, I'll talk to Best Buy about that if that's the case cuz obviously, guys, I'm going to want to get you the best preview coverage I can possibly do for the game. And I have a lot of experience playing Ocarina of Time, a lot of experience playing Zelda. So, this is one that I can actually can go quite in-depth on on some of the differences between the demo and the and the normal game, the original game. Uh and I can talk about obviously what it felt like to play, um what I think about any of the new features or any of the new combat or the new controls or whatever they're doing, right? There's a lot we don't know. And yet I'm this hyped. Guys, Ocarina of Time started my career. A lot of people don't know this. Uh this game started my career. I wouldn't be a YouTuber today without this game. It got me into uh inspired me so much I started making guides for Zelda games back in 1999. And then uh that led to obviously all the Zelda fan sites I worked for, including that the one that I helped make really, really popular in Zeldainformer, which then eventually led to me becoming a YouTuber here. Although we cover for than Zelda, obviously, now. When a Zelda game comes out, it might feel like we only cover Zelda for the month leading into it, but I promise you we cover a lot of other stuff. Uh I just have a special place in my heart for this franchise. Uh so, it gets a lot of attention heading in because it's special to me. Uh video games are special to me in general, but this IP is just very special. This game is very special to me, and I hope this is one of the good remakes and not one of the ones I walk away from disappointed. I'm going to give you the best coverage we can. Um and I can't wait for this all to begin next month. And if you're asking me when it's going to happen next month, um I've heard some rumblings on two specific dates, but uh we're going to keep that to myself cuz they're just rumblings and they're unreliable, and I don't have permission to tell you anyways. So, we'll just have to wait and see, but I'm I'm very, very confident in September. Thank you guys for being here. I'll catch you in the next video. >> [music] [music]