The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time review – a dream come true

Nintendo Switch 2; Nintendo This ambitious remake transforms Zelda into a modern masterpiece, clearer and easier to navigate, more beautiful to look at, with playful musical touches, yet the melancholy remains

It’s always a worry, returning to a formative piece of art from your childhood. Will your jaded adult sensibilities render you unable to locate the magic that captivated your child self? Will revisiting it reveal that it was never actually that good, and that your tastes are built on a foundation of lies? With video games, there is the added complication of technological advancement: decades-old games can look so basic and feel so treacly to play that it’s hard to explain why they were mind-blowing at the time.