IGN Was Wrong About Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake

Did IGN get it wrong? With the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time finally hitting shelves, midnight launch lines stretched around the block. Phoenix braved the cold to pick up his copy and breaks down his hands-on gameplay impressions—from the 60 FPS performance to the brand-new dedicated jump button. Then, we dive headfirst into the review controversy: why did Ocarina of Time Remake receive a 9/10 while Mixtape walked away with a 10/10? We unpack former IGN editor Fran Mirabella’s comments, discuss how review scales treat indies versus landmark remakes, and ask the real question—what actually defines a 10/10 game? 00:00 - Surviving the midnight launch line 00:25 - Missing out on the gold cartridge 02:18 - Hardware shortages & sellouts 02:55 - Introducing Zelda to a new generation 04:37 - Hands-on gameplay: 60 FPS & jumping mechanics 07:18 - The IGN score split: 9/10 vs. 10/10 08:10 - Fran Mirabella’s take on the review controversy 12:25 - Defining what makes a game a true 10/10 14:09 - The fast food vs. five-star dining review scale 💬 What are your thoughts on today's topic? Let us know in the comments below! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE & HIT THE BELL to never miss a live show or video:    / @sidescrollerspodcast   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT & FOLLOW SIDE SCROLLERS • Our “Patreon”: http://www.SideScrollersPlus.com • Tips: http://www.Streamlabs.com/StutteringC... • Follow on X (Twitter): https://x.com/SideScrollers • Listen on Spotify / Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/1wFvIfAlXJ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 WATCH MORE FROM SIDE SCROLLERS • Clips/Bits from our show:    / @sidescrollersbits   • Clips/Bits on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4PpLyRW... • Gaming & Extra Streams on Kick: https://kick.com/SideScrollers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Gaming #GamingNews #SideScrollers #VideoGames #Reactions #StutteringCraig