Marie☆FD Goes Into Ocarina of Time Blind, Sees the Deku Tree Fall and Meets Princess Zelda

INDEPENDENT — Independent streamer Marie☆FD played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the first time on a stream that ran more than five hours, going in knowing nothing about the game beyond Naruto songs she had seen played on its ocarina. She got through the Great Deku Tree’s dungeon, left the Kokiri forest and reached Princess Zelda at Hyrule Castle before exploring Lake Hylia.

The stream started late after a Windows update slowed her PC, and she ate dinner on air before picking up the controller. Early on she told chat she had just learned she was Gen Z, not the millennial she had always assumed, and chat welcomed her to the generation. When the game began she said she had no childhood memories of it, unlike many in chat, and that meeting Link as a child felt like learning about “my husband’s childhood”, since she knew him from Breath of the Wild.

“I’ll do my best to do what I’m being told and progress in the story.” — Marie☆FD, on her plan for the next Zelda stream

Inside the Deku Tree she collected the slingshot, map and compass, solved the scrub puzzle by trying every switch, and beat the dungeon’s boss. The tree’s death afterward drew a wave of crying emoji in chat. She was more taken with Saria’s parting gift of an ocarina: she spent a long stretch working out how to play it, humming into a microphone, matching notes by ear and writing them down. Later, at Lake Hylia, she taught a scarecrow a melody she had composed herself and said she would play it before the final fight with Ganondorf.

Along the way she met Zelda and Impa, who taught Link Zelda’s Lullaby, and learned Epona’s Song from Malon at Lon Lon Ranch. She also played the cuckoo-finding game, bought a Deku Shield and a Deku Stick, and wandered Hyrule Field, Kakariko and the lake instead of heading straight for Death Mountain. She said she had played about five hours in total and done almost nothing in the story, and that she loved it.

She said she would play the early-access horror game Dreadmore on Thursday, then hoped to stream Zelda on Friday and over the weekend, possibly as a longer session on Saturday. She promised herself she would stop fighting the game’s order and follow the story, starting with the village of Kakariko, though she added that she still wanted to explore.