I was 6 years old when Ocarina of Time hit store shelves. What was your experience like as a kid? –Chris The same held true for early polygonal games like Ocarina: The reset button had been pushed, and suddenly designers were shackled by a new set of restraints, triangles instead of pixels. It's been pointed out in the past that because designers of early 8-bit games had so few pixels to work with, they had to wring as much meaning as they could out of each one, which is why those games could feel so well-designed compared to the more bloated, showy games that would come later. This is remembered as one of the best games of that early era, and the 3DS version makes clear why that is more than just nostalgia talking.
Playing Ocarina on the 3DS has given me a new appreciation for the game's design. I rarely if ever replay lengthy single-player games, so I never touched it again in the ensuing 12 years. All I knew at the time was that it was great retaining the intricate, vast gameplay of previous Zelda games but doing it all with the new quantum-leap technology of 3-D.
Since it was still one of the earliest open-ended polygonal games, I didn't have the perspective to describe why Ocarina was so well-designed.
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