Countdown: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Dungeon Crawl #3 - I Hate This Place
Nintendo Life is continuing its weekly retrospective series revisiting dungeons from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, one dungeon per week. The latest installment covers the third and final dungeon accessible during Link’s childhood sequences, with the author expressing particular frustration with this challenge.
The series serves as a countdown specifically timed to conclude on the launch week of the upcoming Ocarina of Time remake for Nintendo Switch 2. This strategic scheduling combines nostalgic analysis of the classic N64 original with anticipation for the enhanced port, allowing the retrospective to culminate precisely when the Switch 2 version releases.
Ocarina of Time remains one of gaming’s most influential and beloved titles since its 1998 debut. The Switch 2 remake represents a significant launch-window title, poised to appeal both to longtime fans revisiting the adventure and new players discovering the classic for the first time. The game’s dungeon design has long been celebrated as exemplary 3D adventure game design, though—as the author notes—individual dungeons vary in player enjoyment.