Nintendo Remade Ocarina of Time With Zelda's Future in Mind, But Not the Way You'd Expect

Of all the reasons Nintendo could have had for remaking The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I don't think I would have guessed that one of them was to teach its own developers something about Zelda. However, according to series producer Eiji Aonuma, that's actually part of the reason the remake exists in the first place. Apparently, many of the developers working on Zelda today are much more familiar with developing games like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom than they are with the older games in the franchise, and Aonuma wanted them to understand what ultimately made Ocarina of Time such a beloved masterpiece. More importantly, he hoped that rebuilding the N64 classic would give those developers some new ideas they could eventually use in future Zelda games, and I have to say, that's probably one of the most encouraging things I've heard about the franchise's future in quite some time.