Furen E Lustario Starts Ocarina of Time Remake, Reaching Hyrule Castle Town in a Detour-Filled First Night

NIJISANJI — Furen E Lustario, a Nijisanji streamer, began a playthrough of the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Monday. Over about three hours she took the hero Link out of the Kokiri forest, through the death of the Great Deku Tree and across Hyrule Field to the market of Hyrule Castle Town, stopping at almost every side path along the way.

She opened the stream by thanking viewers for the Splatoon tournament, saying she had fallen asleep during the second day’s broadcast and caught up afterward. She had marked the game’s release date, knew it overlapped the tournament, and had promised herself she would start as soon as it ended, so she set up the stream as soon as she got home. She had played Wind Waker on stream before, she said, and a viewer who loves the series had told her to begin with Ocarina of Time. She called herself nearly a first-timer: her older sister had played the original at home, but she remembered little of it.

“Well, this is fun. I could play it forever.” — Furen E Lustario, after the first session

The remake’s visuals drew comment from the start, from the water and Link’s hair to the leaves of the forest. She spent the first hour on the village, where she bought a Deku Shield, took a hidden Kokiri Sword from a tight passage and trained with a friendly Kokiri who taught her the jump attack. In the Deku Tree she learned to use the slingshot and beat the boss guarding the dungeon, which earned her a new heart container. The tree then entrusted her with the Kokiri’s Emerald and told her to go to Hyrule Castle. It withered, and Mido, a boy of the village, blamed Link and told him to leave. She stopped to talk to the villagers, said she hoped Mido and Link would make up, and at one point apologized to the screen for having Link backtrack during the farewell with Saria, who gave Link an ocarina she had made.

Once on Hyrule Field she visited Lon Lon Ranch and walked into the market. There she spent a long stretch at a shooting gallery, retrying until she hit all ten targets for a perfect score, then caught a bug in a bottle for a potion seller, picked up a mysterious egg from Malon and had it hatch into a rooster. The story had barely moved by the time she stopped; she said so herself and laughed, because she had wanted to explore everything.

She ended the stream by reading out the names of supporters, among the 33 Super Chats of the night, and said she hoped to continue Ocarina of Time the following evening if she could get home early, or hold a chat stream if it was late. Any change of plan, she said, would be posted on social media.