The Legend of Zelda VR remake is immersive and scary - Polygon

It’s Zeldathon each twelvemonth present connected Polygon — starting contiguous with an unmissable oral past of smooching successful the The Legend of Zelda cartoon — and with impeccable timing, a virtual world remake of the archetypal 1986 Legend of Zelda crippled has surfaced online. It looks fantastic, if not a small scary.

Posted to Twitter and YouTube by Japanese retro gaming and VR enthusiast Sugary Noe (as spotted by Nintendo Life), this VR Zelda appears to beryllium a mod of a mod. It’s really the Legend of Doom mod, which faithfully recreates the archetypal Zelda crippled successful first-person wrong the Doom engine, utilizing each the archetypal maps, assets, and force placements. This mod has past been applied to QuestZDoom, which makes Doom playable connected Meta Quest VR hardware.

Even witnessed done Sugary Noe’s YouTube playthrough, the added immersion of VR head-tracking makes this 37-year-old crippled amazingly tense and threatening. Angry-looking Octoroks lurch from down bushes, and the archetypal dungeon takes connected a claustrophobic, maze-like quality. It’s similar stepping wrong your representation of playing the crippled for the archetypal time, and a fitting reawakening for a crippled that remains unforgiving and mysterious to this day. (I should cognize — I’m playing it astatine the moment, for reasons you mightiness beryllium capable to guess...)