How could Nintendo reinvent the game that critics disposed with their usual ‘one of the…’ and just stuck an outright ‘best game of all time’ onto? They could do what they did to GoldenEye; make a completely different game and use the GoldenEye name to have it fly off the shelves to widespread indifference and discontent. No, this is The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of time, Nintendo can’t mess with it; it was a masterpiece, a game which still stands the test of time after 13 years.

Nintendo had no choice other than to keep it the same, but in order to reinvent it, they remade it in 3D for the Nintendo 3DS. Surely the added dimension will take The Ocarina of Time to another level, a level that computer games won’t be able to reach until players are physically able to enter the game and have sex with mind-bogglingly beautiful women.

Anyone who's picked up a computer game in the last 13 years will be aware just how highly regarded The Ocarina of Time is, with it's hundreds of characters, winding storyline, vastly explorable areas and frustrating puzzles it rightfully holds its place in the top echelons of computer gaming history. So what have Nintendo done to improve it for 3DS users?

Obviously the first thing that you look at when you turn on the game is the graphics in 3D. Do things jump out of the screen at you? Not really, because the 3DS’s depth goes into the screen, rather than have things coming out, so as Link you are at the front, while the landscapes and enemies are deeper into the screen, behind your main protagonist.

Visually (as well as content-wise) the game remains identical to its original; the 3D adds that little something extra to areas, Hyrule Castle Town and the Dodongo’s Cavern in particularl look wonderful laid out, as well as the possibility of fighting Bongo Bongo in the Shadow Temple is extra tense with the added depth. As the game’s graphics have been kept true to the original, in some areas this falls short because some areas would have benefited from a tweak in graphics, especially on some of the landscapes and steps which still seem a bit blocky and pixelated whilst exploring the vast landscapes.

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