{"id":84386,"date":"2026-06-12T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84386"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:43:27","slug":"nintendo-loves-remaking-3d-zelda-games-but-for-some-reason-not-the-2d-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84386","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Loves Remaking 3D Zelda Games, But For Some Reason, Not The 2D Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After months of speculation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-finally-reveals-the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-for-2026\/\">The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was unveiled for Switch 2<\/a> during this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-direct-june-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">Nintendo Direct<\/a>. It&#8217;s the latest in a long line of remakes and remasters for Zelda 3D titles, but also raises the question: Why aren&#8217;t there new versions of the franchise&#8217;s first three mainline entries?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo has never remade The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, or The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. These 2D classics for NES and SNES are what made people fall in love with the action-adventure series to begin with. They even feature gameplay features still seen today in the series, like puzzle-filled dungeons, pot breaking, and satisfying secrets to discover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ze-346WTsI0  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weirdly, the only 2D Zelda to get a proper remake is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/the-legend-of-zelda-links-awakening-review-a-respe\/1900-6417309\/\">The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening on Switch<\/a>. That&#8217;s the fourth entry in the mainline franchise, and while a dark-horse favorite of fans, it doesn&#8217;t have the same widespread acclaim as A Link to the Past. In fact, to this day, many still consider that SNES game as the pinnacle of the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past did get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/the-legend-of-zelda-a-link-to-the-past-review\/1900-2901300\/\">re-released on Game<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was unveiled for Switch 2 during this week&#8217;s Nintendo Direct. It&#8217;s the latest in a long line of remakes and remasters for Zelda 3D titles, but also raises the question: Why aren&#8217;t there new versions of the franchise&#8217;s first three mainline entries? Nintendo has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":84388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84389,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84386\/revisions\/84389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}