Comments on: Ocarina of Time Revised Over Time

By: Dante

Dante — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:22:33 +0000

@ Deus – The symbol was only swapped on GC and 3DS versions, all the N64 versions have the “crescent moon” symbol. The “diamond” symbol it’s GC version onwards

By: Deus

Deus — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:10:57 +0000

@ Irene – They’re taking it too seriously. It’s just a religion, boohoo.

Anyway, I prefer the version before the changes. I just checked and ironically enough, Ocarina of Time’s manual still displays the Mirror Shield with crescent moon. I’ve got the PAL edition of the game.

By: Scyphir

Scyphir — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:04:55 +0000

I’m glad I have the Collector’s Edition. I’m not a big fan of editing things, an example being the music sold at Wal-Mart. I’ll buy my music elsewhere, thanks. I have no problem with them changing/removing things pre-release, but if it’s already out, leave it alone.

I thought it was quite odd seeing Ganondorf cough up green blood while my friend played his copy of OoT, yet had red in mine.

Does anyone else remember the Heart Piece on top of the Kokiri shop, but only on the first play through of the save file? I thought that was strange.

By: Irene

Irene — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:36:36 +0000

I’m happy that the music was removed; as a child, I was always creeped out with the Fire Temple because of the chanting. Now that I know it’s an Islamic chant, and that it’s as if they’re saying that Muslims worship the devil by plastering it in the temple that represents a hellish environment, I’m glad it’s gone. The crescent moon symbol is nice to be removed as well; it was all around Gerudo Valley and gave a bad impression on Islam in general. It was as if to say that Ganondorf, being the only man of the tribe, had a crapload of women, lived in the desert, stole, killed, etc. as if Islam is like that, when it’s not. A lot of people think Islamic paradise is a lot of virgins, too, when it’s not. That’s what extremists use to control people.

I’m proud that Muslims take their faith seriously; no body else does anymore.

By: Dale Smith

Dale Smith — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:43:31 +0000

I agree that revision of games to avoid controversy in this day and age is ridiculous. I own the version with crescent moons and chanting, and for me anything changed just seems….wrong. Let it be, man, let it be.

By: Devon

Devon — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:02:38 +0000

That’s interesting. I had no idea the chanting actually meant something (thought it was mimicking actual chant). Though it still doesn’t bother me. I remember when I played it, the chanting itself added to the creepy atmosphere (just since it was chanting).

As for the symbol, I think the new Gerudo one looks lame. It’s too “flat”, if that makes any sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent

It’s obviously related to Islam, which is why it was used, since the Gerudo desert was inspired by real-world desert regions.

I understand why some might feel this was a mistake (like adding a Satanic symbol in a dungeon, or such), but it seemed to fit, to me, and since they already released a version with it, why remove it? They obviously felt it was okay the first time around…

So, I agree with the revisionist criticism here.