By: DSCUBED
Wow! This really saves me from the disk golf story!

Anyway, so apparently, the Official Nintendo Magazine in the UK interviewed Eiji Aonuma, the current development head for Zelda.

In the interview he says:

"I have to say though, the first Zelda game that I played and felt potential in was Link to the Past. I’m actually very interested in what it would be like if we remade that title as a 3D game."

I highly recommend checking out the full feature. I wasn't able to find any more than what GoNintendo provided, sorry. If anyone has a full interview, then please post it in the comments.

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OMG!! that woud be just awsome. realy hope this is true

yawn, didn't they already call it OoT?

just kidding XD

Make it and sell it as WiiWare for $10-15.

Great job Aunoma! Start making remakes like the terrible hollywood movies lmao XDDDD.

Yeah, um they already totally did this with OoT. But hey, whatever works for them.

I've heard with my own ears from Aonuma's own mouth that OoT was a 3D remake of ALttP but hey, if he wants to make another version...COOL!

Ocarina of Time was NOT a remake of A Link to the Past. I don't care what anybody says, even Aunoma. It wasn't. They are two completely different games, different stories, different everything. I guess the only thing that's the same is the fact that they both use an Ocarina and they both have pig Ganon, and they both have two parts to the game. But OoT wasn't really as much two parts as ALttP.

I personally think a 3D remake would be an awesome idea. I would totally buy it, it might even become my favorite Zelda game.

You're right, OoT isn't a remake of ALttP at all. I mean, except for Kakariko Village, Death Mountain, Lake Hylia, Zora's River, Hyrule Castle, basic structure (collect 3 pendants/gemstones in 3 dungeons roughly equivalent to the three parts of the triforce --> mid-game twist involving the master sword --> collect x number of crystals/medallions --> break into Ganon's tower and kill Ganon with light arrows and the Master Sword), music, dual realities, and various other irrelevant details, the games are almost nothing alike. Sarcasm aside, these are two of my favorite games of all time (and I'm obviously oversimplifying things), but I've already explored four different Lake Hylias! Can't we get a Zelda that's not set in Hyrule (or anything remotely similar)?

Isnt that called Links Awakening?

I would prefer to have a new game. and maybe this time without happy end! A dark atmosphere like in MM would be awesome. The darker the better. Also, how about people actually noticing link? wouldn't that be cool? not being the only person fighting against evil but just the key person? I'm sick of it that you save the world again and again and nobody notices. In TP the castle was on fire or in a big yellow cube but nobody cared. Man, please, something new and more epic!!!

@ AndyZX and others...

Maybe you mistken it for OoT beta Since it is theorized that a certain version of OoT's development was a ALttP remake. But the final version is NOT a remake of ALttP. You guys need to really play ALttP or something. It may be similar, but only with Kakariko Village, 3 stones/pendants, and the medallions/awakening sages. But pay attention to ALttP...they are DESCENDANTS of sages. And when the hell was Link ever able to grow older by pulling the Master Sword in ALttp? And why did Ganon have the whole Triforce in ALttP and created the real Dark World. OoT's Hyrule as Adult Link was not a Dakr World...The dark world is actually the golden land..aka sacred realm.

No, obviously OoT isn't EXACTLY like ALTTP down to the letter, but Nintendo created OoT to basically be a 3-D version of ALTTP. They obviously changed some things so it would be a remake in the strictest sense of the word. Like it or not, OoT is a 3-D version of ALTTP.

*"...so it would NOT be a remake..."

Typo. My bad.

I think the core elements of story-telling (not the story itself, mind you), basic structure of the over world, and the fact that you have to get three of something to get a sword and then travel to another "realm" make OoT appear to be a "remake" of ALttP, but only on the surface.

I think the term remake entails much more than just those things. The stories, outside of Sages (Wise Men) and a Golden Land, are far too dissimilar in every other aspect to constitute OoT as such. Plus the dungeons in each respective game have almost no similarities at all (aside from treasures obtained).

If OoT was a remake of ALttP, then the same could be said about pretty much every other Zelda game to follow in regards to its predecessors. The Zelda Formula has stuck to its roots for twenty years running; of course each proceeding game is going to feel familiar to the previous entry.

On topic, ALttP is still my favourite Zelda to date, so I am eager and hesitant for a 3D remake.

Chrono, I did make one mistake in my comment;

The quote wasn't from Aonuma, it was Miyamoto on the show Icons, a G4 program.

I recognize that there are some differences between the two games but overall they're extremely similar. And if the head producer from both games says that OoT is a remake, well...

Nooooooo. I want a new zelda!

I would love aonuma soooo much, if he did this.

If you consider OoT a remake of ALttP, then TP is basically a remake of OoT. There's a difference between remaking a game and drawing off of past games for content.

I'd be glad if this was for DS, but I'd rather have a brand new Zelda for the Wii. However, with a 3D remake maybe they could add to the story a bit to reconcile some timeline issues and maybe clarify a few things with games that have been released since the original SNES. I wouldn't want just a straight remake, but an expanded ALttP. This is Aonuma's chance to help clarify and tie up the timeline like he said he wanted to do.

"Nooooooo. I want a new zelda!"

Yeah, then you, like every other Zelda fan lately, would probably cry about how much it sucked and tried to hard to be too much like ALttP anyway. So why not cut out the middleman?

Other than that...I'll be looking foward to this if its true.

ROFL, He said the exact same thing about The Wind Waker. :)

You're right. OoT wasn't a remake. It was re-worked for 3D capabilities. xP

In a sense, Twilight Princess was also a remake of A Link to the Past. I mean, they both involve a normal world and a darker version of that world and in both games Link transforms into an animal. Some people might even say that all Zelda games are remakes of ALttP or OoT.

The remake accusations get so tiring. You can carry it from LoZ to LttP to OoT to TP all you want if you conveniently ignore everything beyond the basic formulas they all draw off of. But beyond that the case gets really thin. There are ten other games in the series that have strayed a lot further in different ways from the standards adhered to in those four. Many of them don't even feature Ganon or take place in Hyrule.

Anyways... Wow. I've said many times before that I'd be interested to see LttP properly remade for 3d, assuming they can balance new material and updates with keeping it all exactly the same somehow. Mumbo makes a good point about a need to officially clarify its continuity in relation to the rest of the timeline as Aunoma has been trying to present it.

Though if we're going to take that angle I'd rather see LoZ and AoL redone. LttP is fairly workable as it is. It's the original games that really don't fit so well. I don't even see how the continuity from LttP/LA into LoZ/AoL was ever supposed to work in the first place anyway. From what I can tell we could just as easily place the NES games and the Oracles after TWW/PH.

Anyway, a version of LoZ reworked to have some semblance of a story and a version of AoL with SSB-inspired gameplay would be my top picks for remakes. Well, that and a wishlist of unlikely fixes for TWW (complete the dungeons that were cut, take a cue from PH and compress the map layout somewhat, etc.), but that's not going to happen. Though, as always, their effort would probably be better spent on entirely new games anyway.

Yeah, I think you're onto something with the original NES games being remade, Muljo. ALttP doesn't really need to be remade, as it's pretty much "perfect" the way it is. Something along the lines of a FFIII/IV remake would be killer (or rather, something like the FFI/II PSP remakes, as I imagine the classic two would work better with highly stylized sprites as opposed to a 3D overhaul) on the DS.

As long as they don't feel too dated and have loads of expanded story. I mean, as far as Zelda games fare today, the NES ones really DO feel archaic. And that's saying something for a series that rarely strays from its original formula.

Stylus optional. Please.

Oh, and the same goes for Link's Awakening and the Oracle games as well. Maybe I'm just not as fond of 8 bits as I used to be...

If he's going through with it, I'd like it to have graphics similar to MM (but with art style that reminds more of the classic official art), and it should be released on the WiiWare. It should also have some of the features that were planned for the canceled Ura Zelda.

I could see a remake of the first two...and I would love to see a Master Quest version of the TWW (although I seem to be the only person on the planet who enjoyed the distance between islands), but I think LA and the Oracle games are already the best 2D Zeldas in existence, so why mess with a good thing? Same goes for ALttP. A 3D remake would, by its nature, be so far removed from the feel of the original that all you would be left with is the basic structure, which is the one thing everyone seems to agree has already been done in 3D. Unless someone can convince me that the 2D overworld design can be converted into a similar 3D environment, I would just prefer a new Zelda. I don't think anyone will argue that 2D and 3D Zeldas have totally different approaches to field construction.

If you are from the ages of 9 - 17, you are not allowed to say "OoT is a remake of ALttP." They are similar, yes, but OoT is not a remake. Even if you youngins have played ALttP, your opinion is still not valid. And if you have, I would imagine you played OoT before ALttP. Take it from me, and any other gamer 20+, OoT is not a remake. There is a difference in playing a game during its hayday and playing it 6-7 years later. You appreciate the game in a much different way, and your opinion of the game is not skewed by newer, more recent incarnations of the game.

Back to the point of the article - while it sounds like it may be a good game, I think it would ultimately take away from the original's magesticness.

lethalbadger- I probably should have made it clearer that I'm more in favour of higher resolution 2D-based remakes of the GB/C Zeldas, not so much 3D remakes.

I don't think they should.

OOT was sorta a remake of LTTP which OOT became the best game IMO. Then they remade OOT again into Twilight Princess.

Symphony_in_C...that would rock harder than a bombchu at a bowling alley.

It's really just the fact that the Zelda series has been using the same formula since the original. Not every game is the same, but will have similarities. I also don't trust some Miyamoto and Auonoma interviews mainly due to bad translations at times...When miyamoto supoosely said OoT is a remake of ALttP, he probably really meant it will be using a lot of aspects from the game.

Bring it on! I want me some Dark World music love. <3

Oooooh! I can't wait!

But I'd rather AoL remade in 3D.

"OOT was sorta a remake of LTTP which OOT became the best game IMO. Then they remade OOT again into Twilight Princess. "

TP is MUCH more similar to ALttP.

In a sense I guess OoT is a 3D ALttP, but if so they did a bad job. The storyline/lore is poor in comparison, the characters are less interesting, there are WAY too many new races, there are less dungeons, the game is far too easy, both in puzzles and enemies/bosses, the bosses are no where as inspiring, etc.

When it was said that OoT was a remake of LttP, it was not meant in a literal sense.

--Ray

Yes! I hope they make the graphics as good as Assassin's Creed for ps3 or at leats as good as Twilight Princess, cause Im not accepting any horrible graphics now, I mean come on its freakin 2007 man lol.

EL OH LOL! RAWFLECOPTER!!!

On a serious note, I can't imagine ALttP being redone on anything but the DS, and I can't imagine the DS pulling off Assassin's Creed graphics. You silly billy.

he was also talking about a remake of The Wind Waker .Hope this one is True .i love ALTTP

Well, I wans't talking about anything being on the DS lol. I mean, atleast on the Wii or perhaps a new upcoming nintendo system that can pull off Assassin's Creed graphics, I would just love to see an old Zelda in 3D with those graphics or just Twilight Princess graphs wouldn't you?

Anyway, even if we oversimplify things, OoT and LttP resemble each other the most in story development/pacing. That little tidbit can't be ignored no matter how we approach the other Zelda games. The same can't be said about the OoT-TP connection or the Zelda1-LttP connection.

I'm sorry for all of you who would dissagree (and possibly bite my head off) but I wouldn't mind seeing an Exact 3D rendition of ALTTP. OoT was all good in that it was similar, but it wasn't THE SAME. was I the only person who played ALTTP in their childhood who wanted so badly to plunge themselves in to that world and see it from link's perspective???

YESSS!!! THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!

Difference between OoT and ALttP- ALttP has NO adult Link, NO time travel, and NO single instrument so important that it is part of the title. And OoT has NO magic rods which would be totally cool to see on 3D. And the landscape of OoT and ALttP is totally different. Different characters, different world. The only thing similar to them is that there are seven princesses and Link needs to defeat Ganon to save Zelda and Hyrule... but that's his role in every Zelda. Not to mention that 2D and 3D worlds are completely different and change game style and quality. So I say YES!

Link's Awakening DX is a remake of LttP. Wake up, people.

AdamPalma, Link's Awakening DX is a remake of Link's awakening