Kitakoji Hisui Returns to Ocarina of Time in Its Remake, Twenty Years On

NIJISANJI — Kitakoji Hisui of Nijisanji began a playthrough of the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Friday, streaming the first session for 217 minutes and covering the story from the Kokiri Forest through Hyrule Castle Town to Death Mountain.

She told viewers at the start that she had tried the game long ago on the Wii’s Virtual Console while her older sister played it, and that she had given up because the Shadow Temple frightened her too much. She also said she had read the Zelda manga by Akira Himekawa dozens, even hundreds, of times. Early in the game she said the original had looked very low-poly by comparison, and she praised the remake’s graphics as the Kokiri’s village and Link’s tree house came into view.

“I hear it’s become incredibly beautiful, so I’m looking forward to it.” — Kitakoji Hisui, at the start of the stream

The story’s early beats drew laughs. When the Great Deku Tree spoke of the Kokiri’s Emerald, called “Kokiri no Hisui” in Japanese and sharing her name, she introduced herself to it with a joke, and chat took up the pun. She went on to defeat the boss inside the tree, receive the ocarina from Saria and leave the forest, then reached Hyrule Castle and met Princess Zelda.

Along the way she spent long stretches on mini-games. At the shooting gallery in Castle Town she kept asking for another round, and later chased the hard version of a target game with the same “one more time” refrain. At the graveyard she took part in a digging game, lost her money and had to turn to slingshot targets to earn more, which drew a run of crying emotes in chat. Late in the stream she met Darunia, chief of the Gorons, who was in a bad mood over hunger and a shortage of bombs, and she spent the rest of the night working out how to light a fire to get past him.

She ended the stream by saying she would continue the next day, and added that she would like to play the game late at night. The chat counted eight Super Chats and filled with farewell emotes at the close.