The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is a remake of Ocarina of Time with more up-to-date graphics, streamlined UI and different additional game modes. Most textures are significantly more detailed, and many…

92 16 June 2011

Adventure Puzzle Action Fantasy

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is an adventure developed by Grezzo, released 16 June 2011 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 55 hrs to finish.

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is an adventure game developed by Grezzo and released in 2011. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A young boy named Link was raised in the village of the elf-like Kokiri people. One day a fairy named Navi introduces him to the village's guardian, the Great Deku Tree. It appears that a mysterious man has cursed the tree, and Link is sent to the Hyrule Castle to find out more. Princess Zelda tells Link that Ganondorf, the leader of the Gerudo tribe, seeks to obtain the Triforce, a holy relic that grants immense power to the one who possesses it. Link must do everything in his power to obtain the Triforce before Ganondorf does, and save Hyrule.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is the 54th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. It arrived 2 years after The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D: First Edition in 2011. Its critic score of 92 is 6 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 530 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 55 hrs.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D launched on 16 June 2011, within three weeks of Infamous 2, Alice: Madness Returns, F.E.A.R. 3 and Shadows of the Damned. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Infamous 2, Alice: Madness Returns, F.E.A.R. 3, Shadows of the Damned.

Cheats and codes

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