Nintendo gave press an hour with the Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2, and the real story isn't the fan argument over its art style.
The demo ran natively on Switch 2 hardware, timed to the broader marketing push around Nintendo's related Zelda movie. Dungeon layouts and puzzle logic are nearly unchanged from the 1998 original, but the visuals swap the anime-leaning look of recent open-world Zelda games for heavily detailed textures on characters that read more like posed puppets than people. Small physics-minded tweaks got added, like a first-dungeon puzzle that now trips a stone mechanism instead of a ladder that was simply fixed to the ceiling, and Hyrule Castle Town NPCs now visibly flinch when Link picks a fight with a chicken. New sprint and jump buttons replace the N64 game's automatic ledge-jump, and select cutscenes now have voice acting.
The bet here is that density beats scale. Ocarina's world is tiny by modern open-world standards, and rather than stretch it or reskin it to match Breath of the Wild's house style, Nintendo packed it with detail the way Sega's Yakuza games make a few city blocks feel lived-in. That's a different remake philosophy than just running an old game through an upscaler, and it doubles as an answer to critics who assumed a movie-timed cash-in would be visually lazy.
Whether painstaking texture work on a Deku Shield is enough reason to replay a dungeon you've already solved three times since 1998 is a question no amount of puppet-grade detail can settle.