Mido still blocks the path to The Great Deku Tree, even in 2-D.
With Oculus Rift on the horizon and modern filmmaking techniques infusing gaming, all eyes are on virtual reality and 3-D. But one group of fans is taking a beloved game forward into the past, giving the Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time a gloriously old-school 2-D look.
The project uses original graphics and audio along with 2-D Zelda artwork, sprites, animations, and sounds largely taken from Link’s Super Nintendo outing A Link to the Past. It’s still a work in progress—the team estimates it’s 10 percent of the way through—but you can download a playable version of the game’s opening.
Ten percent may not seem like much, but it’s impressive considering the scope and scale of the project, especially for a team with just a handful of people. Ocarina of Time is a huge game, and porting it to 2-D means essentially building a new game from scratch. New cut scenes are being animated, enemy A.I. programmed, and Ocarina’s famous and time-honored songs re-recorded as 16-bit chiptunes.
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