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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
System: Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 3DS
Genre: Adventure
Year: 1998
Rank last year: 1 (=)
And there we have it. All 50 best games of all time have been features, to end with the best game of them all; The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. To me, this game is as close to perfect as it could be. For all intends and purposes, it's perfection and there ever was a series that made a decent enough transition from 2D to 3D, it's this and it showed how it should be done.
The legendary game comes with a legendary story, about a boy who is destined for greatness, even if he doesn't know it himself. Set out on a quest by a young Princess Zelda too rashly, he unwillingly dooms the land of Hyrule to servitude under the evil thief Ganondorf. The villain has devised a devious plan to accomplish this, by seizing the legendary Triforce when Zelda allows the Hero access to the Chamber of the Master Sword which sends him into hybernation only to wake up seven years later when Ganondorf had enough time to make his moves. The moment anyone draws the Master Sword for the first time is surely one of the most epic moments in gaming history.
This game is an adventure from start to end. It is the embodyment of the genre, some would even say this game created the (modern version of) the genre. Even though it was already a very ambitious game for it's time, and content-wise it still doesn't look bad compared to new games, it was supposed to be even bigger. The 64DD add-on was supposed to be the main platform for the game, which would have made more dungeons possible and it was supposed to include a world that evolved as the game progressed. Crates would stay wrecked, footprints would stay in the snow. Maybe now when the next game releases, seventeen years later, we'll finally see such immersion. Ocarina is already great at this though, when you realise you've been playing for half a day. It has a kind of magic that just sucks you in. It's a mutual feeling because when the game ends, it still won't let go. After an 8 minute celebration, the only way to remove the line "The End" from the screen, is to reset the console. Something you don't really want to do.
