[ALL][OOT]The Ocarina of Time remake may change the lore, and split the Zelda Universe
I have a theory that Nintendo may be re-imagining the story and lore of the Ocarina of Time remake. The reason for this (in my biased opinion) is to bring it in line with the events of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
This would seperate the Zelda Universe into a new "OOT remake" canon, and "Classic" era canon. Like Grand Theft Auto has done, or the upcoming Halo: Campaign Evolved will do. Except in this case, it may retcon two previously released titles into the new canon.
Companies don't usually do full remakes of their franchise titles without altering the story. There are some obvious exceptions (Last of Us part 1), but it has become popular to create re-imaginings of certain series.
My first question was, "Why would Nintendo fully remake Ocarina of Time, instead of just updating the original like it always does?"
The answer is probably that they want to change things about it. But they've altered original oot before for 3DS, so why not just take that route, and apply a range of qol updates to the original, making a definitive "remaster" rather than "remake"?
The only reason I can think of is that Nintendo wants this version to stand as its own game. Why would they want to separate it so much from the original? Because they aren't making the original. They're making a "new" Ocarina of Time. With a new story, new gameplay, possibly new characters, new Hyrule.
Whether or not they do this to bring it in line with botw and totk lore is bias on my part. I have a lot of issues with totk in general, and if they managed to "move" it to another Zelda universe, I guess I would be happy.
But I could be dead wrong. Maybe they consider the original timelines complete with the ending of totk, and want to start fresh, starting from an oot re-imagining.
Regardless, I would love your thoughts.