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'Very, Very Scary' — Ocarina of Time Remake Producer Reveals the New Game's ReDeads Were Originally Even Scarier Than What We Got

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Producer Hidemaro Fujibayashi explained why the development team behind the Ocarina of Time Remake toned down the ReDeads to make them less scary.

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Those who played the original The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time should still remember the ReDeads. The zombie-like figures were already in 1998 among the most unpleasant inhabitants of Hyrules. Their eerie moaning and their ability to paralyze Link with a scream caused some players to sleepless nights. In the remake for Switch 2, however, the undeads would have become almost more frightening. Nintendo had to intervene because the developers h…

Interesting remake statements from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo Switch 2. After knowing its official prices, as well as its download size, we have now known that the producer of this remake, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, has explained that Nintendo had to reduce the level of terror of the ReDeads during the development of the new [...]

Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi, producers of the Nintendo Switch 2 version of "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time," spoke to the gaming media outlet GameSpot about the game's production secrets. Read more...

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IGN broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
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