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Nintendo Direct Reactions: The Ocarina of Time Remake Gave Us Goosebumps - NVC 816

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The big June Nintendo Direct aired this morning, and it gave us first looks at The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, Xenoblade Genesis, and a lot more! Plus, Square Enix brought Kingdom Hearts 4 and a gorgeous HD-2D Final Fantasy game. Join Logan Plant, Peer Schneider, and Nick Limon as they react to all the big announcements from the 50-minute show, talk about how leaks deflate the hype of a moment like this, and a lot more. Plus, thoughts on achievements (kind of) coming to Switch, Splatoon Raiders, The Duskbloods, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat, part of IGN Summer of Gaming. We just watched a brand new Nintendo Direct, and for the next hour, we're going to break it all down. Kingdom Hearts 4, just barely a tease at an Ocarina of time, where you're like, oh, I'm Logan Plant, Pairr Schneider, Nick Limon. Guys, let's start with Zelda. It was a tiniest, tiniest look, but it still, it came a goosebumps. Oh, it's so good. What'd you think, Perra?

0:23.0

I mean, I love that they went to the sort of tapestry presentation style of Wind Waker, right? Like the, showing the story and setting it up like this. Really, really cool. Great voice acting. You know, we saw a really good voice acting. I saw a hint at the deco tree and setting up the story of Link being born.

0:41.3

He's living among the Kokiri but not actually being part of them.

0:45.3

And then obviously setting off his quest to get a fairy of his own.

0:49.3

And then you see just this short glimpse of Link in a bed with sort of the half tapestry, half actual game wall look.

0:57.3

Did you see it had a little filter over it?

1:00.1

We can't tell what this is going to look like just from that, but it looks different from what I imagine.

1:05.0

Me too.

1:05.4

It looks a lot different, but that transition from the tapestry to the character model, like all of us reacted.

1:10.4

It was a really good moment in this trailer.

1:13.1

I wish we had seen more.

1:14.7

I know.

1:15.1

I wish just like a dungeon scene, like anything in the world.

1:19.4

Like walking into the great Dekutri's mouth or something like that.

1:21.8

Look at this style.

1:22.9

It looks like a old, like a fairy tale picture book drawing, right?

1:27.2

Yeah.

1:27.7

And his clothes are different too even.

1:29.4

Then like this is, yeah, it's not a one for one like just asset flip up res.

1:34.3

He looks way different in this game.

1:36.1

It's a distinct art direction take because the decou tree, again, looks vastly different in the tapestry

1:41.3

than what he's ever looked like in any Zelda game ever.

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