That’s not too surprising for anyone who’s seen Kaze’s previous mods, including ambitious add-ons to Super Mario Odyssey 64 and Super Mario 64 Land using the old-school console’s Mario 64 engine. But as fan-made games go, it does an amazing job preserving the spirit and feel of Ocarina of Time and its time-looping lunar sequel on the N64.
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We don’t want to spoil the story too much, but the setup finds all the fairies (including Navi!) missing from Kokiri Forest, a mystery surrounding the Great Deku Tree, and everything in the game world looking a little sadder a little darker, and a little less lively without Navi’s chirpy, ever-present banter.įiguring out what happened to the fairies is Link’s new goal, explored below in the developer’s hour-long playthrough (which takes things about 80 percent of the way through the full game mod):įree to play (of course) as a downloadable ROM add-on, The Missing Link is as far from an officially-recognized Zelda title as you can get.
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Using the Nintendo 64 engine and combining assets from the N64’s pair of classic Zelda adventures with new dungeons and boss fights, new weapons, a new story, and new music, modder Kaze Emanuar and a small team of enthusiasts have released the aptly-named The Missing Link, a brief but impressive Zelda-inspired episode that follows Link back to Kokiri Forest after defeating Ganon in Ocarina of Time. But a longtime Mario modder’s newest fan-made adventure is taking players all the way back to the late 1990s, telling a new story inside a bite-sized homemade Zelda game that theorizes what became of Link between the events of Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask. It’s far from Breath of the Wild 2 - heck, it’s not even an official Legend of Zelda sequel that Nintendo is likely to come anywhere close to recognizing.