The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is Out Now and IT IS GLORIOUS! 🧝 | Ep. 150

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Today happens to be Friday. It is November 6th. It is 8.02 a.m.

On the East Coast. This is episode 150.

Feels like a nice milestone. I appreciate it. If you've been around for a bit, thank you so much for the support of the show. I'm excited to be at 150.

Happy Ocarina of Time weekend for all those who celebrate. I picked it up. I started it.

It is absolutely incredible. It's everything I wanted it to be and more.

I did not make it very far. I just got past the Deku tree, kind of the first dungeon.

But I have to say, if nothing, it is the best looking Nintendo game I've ever played.

There were multiple times where I just stood still and just rotated the camera and just enjoyed the surroundings.

The art style, the overall execution, everything of it is just too good.

I'm really excited. The intro, they nailed the intro perfectly just with...

Link riding across Hyrule Field on Epona and, you know, the music comes in, the classic N64 intro, perfect.

The current Metacritic score is 96. That's based on 80-some reviews. So here's the deal.

I have some quick headlines for today, but I'm not going to do a full review roundup for Ocarina of Time.

I want to log some more hours in the game personally before I read a ton of articles and a ton of other people's opinions. I want to form some opinions myself.

But like I mentioned, the Metacritic score is so high, 96. That's based on over 80 reviews.

Femitsu matched the 3DS Ocarina of Time score with a 99910.

Nintendo Life's Ollie Reynolds gave it a 9 out of 10. Eurogamer gave it a 5 out of 5. IGN, 9 out of 10.

Kyle Hilliard over at Game Informer gave it a 9.25. So it's just looking like this is one of the best reviewed games of the year.

You're seeing that in a lot of the headlines. The scores are glowing.

So you don't need me to regurgitate a bunch of reviews to tell you that this game is a great game.

And also, I'm assuming listening to a Nintendo podcast that many of you have played Ocarina of Time in one of its formats at some point. So you know the bones are magnificent.

But let me spend some time with the reviews. Let me spend some time with the game. I'll drop either a bonus audio episode where I do my typical review roundup, or we'll just do that recap on Tuesday.

But in other news, it was not the only game that released this week.

So Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Encore Edition was reviewed by Nintendo

Life. That picked up an eight out of 10 I had mentioned in the last episode.

This is high on my list personally.

When this game released, I wanna say 2021 or 22, it was up there with a lot of the podcasters that I listened to, their top five, top 10 lists, right?

So I've always had this one earmarked and it looks like the Nintendo Switch 2 Encore Edition is a good version of this game.

Stellar Blade picked up a seven out of 10 from Nintendo Life.

One thing I noted there was that, you know, they kind of ding the story as being a little bit generic. So if you're looking for an engaging story, maybe this isn't it.

But I'll link to the reviews for both Guardians of the Galaxy and Stellar Blade if you're not already actively playing Ocarina of Time.

I also read a Nintendo kind of.

Financial performance report that said that the Switch 2 hardware sales now total 26.35 million and Switch 2 software is totaling 73.21 million units.

Really impressive. I mean, 26.3.4 million Switch 2 units out there in the wild, after such a short period of time. I mean, that is phenomenal.

I think I did read, though, that sales are down 30-some percent year over year.

And maybe that's to be expected. I don't know. I'm not really into the business side of things. So I'm not sure if selling less consoles the second year is just par for the course. But we shall see.

And finally, I read an article over at Ars Technica that said that chip manufacturer

Macronix announced in its third quarter earnings report that the company's production of ROM chips has reached its end.

And that it will begin gradually decoupling from the game industry.

So you might be thinking like, what does this have to do with Nintendo?

Macronix is the main chip supplier for Nintendo to produce their game cards.

So this could mean or will mean, right, that Nintendo has to find other providers or lean on other providers, which could lead to fluctuating prices.

Now I saw use cases or I saw cases for both prices going up.

It costing more for them to like acquire these ROM chips for game cards and

I saw some cases for prices going down. So,

This is just another area of, you know, the RAM, the ROM pricing situation where we won't know until it plays out. We won't know how long it's going to take to play out.

But I thought that was a really interesting article. I'll link to that too.

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I want you to enjoy the weekend.

I want you to have a fulfilling weekend, whatever that means to you.

Take advantage of it. Come back recharged. Now I will have a fulfilling weekend, playing the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. I am sure that many of you will be doing the same.

I hope that you enjoy it. I will be back on Tuesday. Much love. Now go play some games.