New ‘Ocarina of Time’ Sets All-Time Metacritic Records

Nintendo seems to have made the right choice by redoing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2, at least from a heart and mind perspective.

The visually resplendent remake, which hit store shelves last week, has already set two records on Metacritic in just a few days. For starters, it has the highest overall score (96 out of 100) of any game released in 2026 so far. This was established when reviews increased a week ago, so it’s not necessarily news at this point. However, as Forbes pointed out, Ocarina for Switch 2 has reached another spectacular milestone in Metacritic: it is now the highest-rated game in terms of user scores in the site’s history, with an all-time high score of 9.6 out of 10.

For reference, the original Ocarina of time for Nintendo 64 is the highest rated game by critics in Metacritic history, with a score of 99 out of 100, a record it has held for a long time.

Over 8,750 users submitted scores for Ocarina on Metacritic, so this score is not necessarily affected by a small sample size. It’s definitely worth noting and emphasizing that Metacritic does not require purchase verification for a user to submit a review rating, so it’s theoretically possible that some people are adding numbers to the mix one way or the other without having played the game.

THE Ocarina The remake has also only been in the hands of the general public for a little over four days at the time of publication, so these takes are coming in very hot and people might change their minds over time.

We would also be wrong not to mention that Grand Theft Auto VI will launch on November 19, so there is a chance (albeit small) that Ocarina doesn’t stay at the top of the user review throne for very long.

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