The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (ゼ ル ダ の 伝 説 で ん せ つ: 時 と き の オ カ カ ナ ナ Zeruda no Densetsu: Toki no Okarina ?, lit. "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time") is an action-adventure videogame of 1998 developed by the subsidiary Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 console. It was released in Japan on November 21, 1998,7 while in North America it arrived two days later, on November 23, 8 and in Europe it was it premiered on December 11th of that same year. Although in the beginning the designers planned to launch the game for the Nintendo 64DD peripheral, in the end it was decided to design it for a 256 megabit cartridge (equal to 32 megabytes), which were the highest capacity produced by Nintendo at that time. Ocarina of Time is the fifth release of the franchise The Legend of Zelda, and became the first in the series to make use of 3D graphics. His successor, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, premiered two years later. The story of the game focuses on the young hero Link, who undertakes an adventure in the kingdom of Hyrule to stop Ganondorf, king of the Gerudo tribe, before he finds the Triforce, a sacred relic capable of granting any wish to its possessor . For this, he must travel through time and explore several temples in order to awaken some wise men who have the power to imprison Ganondorf permanently. It has to be mentioned that music plays a very important role in the plot of the game, since the player has to learn to play several songs with an ocarina. Even the po[CENSORED]rity of Ocarina of Time significantly increased the sales of real ocarinas.

 

The game system of Ocarina of Time incorporated some new features that do not exist in its predecessors, such as the ability to set the camera on a specific goal and the use of controller buttons in specific situations (for example, talking with other characters). , using the sword, among other activities), which became typical features of the three-dimensional games of adventure. After its premiere in Japan, in 1998, it sold more than 820,000 copies, with what happened to be one of the ten best-selling titles in that year in the video game industry. Since then, up to 1.14 million copies were sold in Japanese territory, making it the 119th best-selling game of all time, 18 While worldwide the figure exceeds the 7.6 million copies offered for sale.

 Likewise, the game received a positive critical reception, winning the Grand Prize in the division of Interactive Arts of the Japan Media Arts Festival, 21 in addition to receiving six awards at the second annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony. Regarding the criticism in general, Ocarina of Time received praise and mostly positive notes , and even according to several sources, it is considered by critics and audiences as the "best videogame ever made". In 2008, the publication of the Guinness Record declared that Ocarina of Time is the "most acclaimed by the critic of all time », record that revalidated on August 1, 2010 and that until the end of 2018 still supported.