It's not even my favourite Zelda, yet objectively I have to rank it as the greatest game of all time.
When it came out it was the closest thing ever to what we imagined at the time as "the perfect game". There is no other game in video game history that had an impact as massive as this one, that crystallized all of the players' dreams and wishes about the future of video games. The opinions were universal ; critics, casuals gamers, hardcore gamers, young and old, everyone was dithyrambic about this game, for good reasons.
It came at a crucial and UNIQUE time of video game history. A time we will probably never experience anything of that magnitude again : The transition from 2D to 3D. And while many companies struggled to transcend their IPs from 2D to 3D, Ocarina of Time gave a masterclass of creativity, game design, optimization, etc.It set the bar extremely high for all adventure games to come. And it may very well be the game that influenced subsequent games the most, i can't think of a better example.
10/10. Masterpiece. Legendary game.
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