Grezzo behind The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

by JC Fletcher on Apr 13th 2011 9:30AM

Grezzo is a company founded by Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy XI director Koichi Ishii. It currently only has one released game to its credit: Line Attack Heroes, which was originally planned as a retail Wii game and then released as WiiWare in Japan. Grezzo's second project is a much higher-profile one, it turns out: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.

Grezzo turned up as the "author" of the 3DS remake in the Australian classification board's listing. Following a recent hands-on event (look for our preview later today), Nintendo confirmed this information to Joystiq. That means there is now a direct link between Square's Zelda-esque Mana series and Zelda itself. What's next, Mario and Sonic in games together?

Tags: 3ds, ds, grezzo, koichi-ishii, nintendo, the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time, the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-3d

Reader Comments (37)

I'd take Flammie over Epona any day.

@ColorblindMonk

I would have your babies for this comment. Oh and I'm a dude.

Flammie far > Epona

Hmmm. Mario and Sonic together in a game. IGOTIT! How about the Mario universe and the Sonic uni verse in a cometition not just any competion though, the greatest collaboration of sporting events ever...(wait for it) the Olympics!

@The black suit

What are you, stupid? Like that'll ever happen.

So what does this mean exactly? The game's being made by a group of people that haven't really had much success out on their own yet? Should we be worried?

@KenobiEagle

This will give them a chance to prove themselves.No were to go but up.

@KenobiEagle

No, because they're just taking the source of the game and porting it to the 3DS. If they were rebuilding it from the ground up, yes. It's safe.

I wonder if people are aware that a lot of Japanese developers go external.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tose_(company)

@randomarchitect Yup and if it does well maybe Nintendo will give them a chance to make a Zelda spinoff for 3ds.

@KenobiEagle
Retro Studios hadn't released any games prior to Metroid Prime.

And that didn't turn out too badly.

@Punkrawk Bbob I'm pretty sure they ARE rebuilding it from the ground up. It's clearly got much better graphics than the original, with higher-resolution models and such, plus the control scheme is entirely different, there have been hints at new features (for one thing, something'd need to replace the rumble pak for certain things), etc.
Sounds like it'd take more than a simple port to me.

@frenchie16
No, it's not a direct port, for sure. But I doubt that's what Bbob meant. Rather, OoT, whilst being rebuilt from the ground up, is still using existing material. The story is the same, the maps are the same, the artwork was already there, the mechanics, all that already exists. So they just need to give it all a face-lift. And thus, it's far less likely that they will screw up.

It's all supervised by Nintendo too. There's really no reason to worry.

@Greippi

Exactly. They're retooling it, not building it from ground up. You can put on new textures and HD it up a bit (like all the PS3 'Collections' coming out with HD skins and some tweaks), but really its just a heavily modified form of the original code.

@KenobiEagle

Aonuma is supervising the project, so it's in good hands regardless.

@Mr Fister

Except he's responsible for TINGLE.... -_-

@Punkrawk Bbob

And Gunpei Yokoi was responsible for the Virtual Boy.

Didn't make him any less of a genius.

Did you forget Super Mario RPG, or the Mario 3 on 3, both developed by Square for Nintendo?

The best Mario RPG was Super Mario RPG.

@Elranzer

I'm more of a Superstar Saga fan myself.

@Elranzer
I prefer The Thousand Year Door, personally.

@Elranzer
the first super star sega and paper mario were much better imo. The quality of the writing and story was much better(nintendo actually knows how to make a joke) and the gameplay was about the same with minor improvements.

Hyoure right. Sega would have too much respect for Sonic * the 20 year beef with Mario to place sonic on a nintendo console...right?

Hmmm, that's really interesting that Nintendo outsourced this; seems like something they would have wanted to handle internally, but in truth I'm glad since more of their internal staff can work on other things

Sidenote: Mmmmmmmmmm Secret of Mana

@Dopple Boppler

Right there with you buddy. All of the SNES RPGs I loved have been ported to portables except for Secret of Mana. Final Fantasy, Chronotrigger, Dragon Quest, Tactics Ogre, Lufia. - Yet some reason SoM goes overlooked =(

@Punkrawk Bbob

If you like terrible controls you can get SoM on iOS.

But I don't really like terrible controls.

@Punkrawk Bbob

Uh, Final Fantasy 1&2 can be picked up on GBA, and Chrono Trigger is also on DS.

@Mr Fister

Reading comprehension and you are fighting right now, aren't you?

"All of the SNES RPGs I loved have been ported to portables EXCEPT for Secret of Mana."

Meaning everything I love (that list provided) has managed to get a port, yet Secret of Mana remains not ported. I forgot about iPhone, but that was intentional forgetting. Horrible idea putting that on the iPhone.

@Shadow Hog

I'm not responsible for what font family you're viewing. Get off your Helvetica machines, damn it!

@Dopple Boppler

Nintendo's been outsourcing absolutely everything lately. Either they're laying off a helluva lot of people (which we would have heard about) or something big is coming

@Mr Khan
Did you see that article about how they're building a new office block so they can expand? Not exactly layoff time.

Perhaps wishful thinking, but I hope they're just holding to their 'don't announce anything until a few months before it's due out' policy and they're busy working on loads of Wii and 3DS games we don't even know about yet, all due to start coming out toward the end of the year :)

Alternatively, maybe it needs a team of 500 to really make progress on software for the vitality sensor.

@Punkrawk Bbob
that totally is a comma :/

@darkfocus

That's so weird since all 3 machines I'm looking at it on are periods. All all three windows 7, two through Chrome and one through IE. That and I've been typing for the past 14 years... I know where my comma is and where the period is. Wonder what kool-aid you're all drinking.

Little known fact, Han Solo shot Grezzo first.

/derp

OotTD sounds like something an ewok would say.

@Dirty

Not to be too much of a nerd, but I think you mean Jawa. It sounds like the war cry when they shoot R2 with electricity in A New Hope.

Ewoks are more about the 'yub yub'

@Punkrawk Bbob

Your totally right.

Hey, I was certain that we were going to find out two years from now that this was secretly made by Tose, so I actually think Grezzo is a step up.

@Alexisonfire

Tose developed Rocket Slime. Aka the best DS game. I would have had faith in that alternate universe

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Grezzo behind The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

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