And the Zelda series has excelled within this trend, too, as highlighted by Nintendo's top-to-bottom retouches of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask for the now-discontinued Nintendo 3DS.īut if those games are examples of Zelda remasters at their best and most ambitious, then this week's Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD (a re-release of the 2011 Wii adventure game for the Nintendo Switch) is arguably the opposite. Further Reading The diminishing value of gaming’s “HD remakes”In the intervening years, expectations for 'HD' versions of older games have exploded, primarily because gamemakers have gotten better at this.
