Poko Rakun Clears the Water Temple in a Nearly Eight-Hour Ocarina of Time Remake Stream

CHROMASHIFT — ChromaSHIFT’s Poko Rakun spent nearly eight hours on the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, playing from Lord Jabu-Jabu’s belly in Zora’s Domain through the Temple of Time, the Forest Temple and the Water Temple, where she beat the boss and picked up the heart container.

She opened by saying she had been daydreaming about the game for two days. She played with the Japanese voice acting because she did not care for the English cast. In Jabu-Jabu’s belly she carried Princess Ruto through the dungeon and said the princess’s “I can do it myself” attitude reminded her of herself. The first boss, she noted, went down far more easily than in the original, which she had played a few months earlier.

“I’ve been daydreaming about this game for like two days straight. I want to play more.” — Poko Rakun, as she wound down the stream

Her favorite moment so far, she said, was the new cutscene of the young hero pulling the Master Sword in the Temple of Time and growing up. Afterward she picked up the hookshot from the ghost in Kakariko Village and worked through the Forest Temple, where she lost her first fairy of the night to a pair of wolf-like enemies. She praised the remake’s quality-of-life changes, including the auto-save, quick item switching, clearer hints and a map that marks the doors already visited. She said the Water Temple no longer forced her to swap boots and backtrack, and she missed the original’s spookier lighting in the Forest Temple. The game’s option to play songs by humming or whistling into the microphone gave her trouble, since she said she could not whistle well enough.

In chat, viewers compared Ganondorf’s Japanese and English voices, a topic she took up herself, saying she liked the gravelly Japanese performance better. Chat also traded notes on how the remake changed the original’s fights, and five Super Chats came in over the stream.

Between puzzles she talked about making more videos and said she might stream a little less, while adding she would never quit streaming entirely. Near the end she was searching Death Mountain for a Great Fairy fountain when she said she was too tired to go on. She said she hoped to pick the game up again later the same day.