The Legend of Zelda VR remake is immersive and scary

It’s Zeldathon all year here on Polygon — starting today with an unmissable oral history of smooching in the Legend of Zelda cartoon — and with impeccable timing, a virtual reality remake of the original 1986 Legend of ZeldaThe game is now available online. This game is quite impressive, but not scary.

This article was posted to TwitterYouTube and Japanese Retro Gaming and VR Fan Sugary Noe. (as seen by Nintendo Life), this VR ZeldaThis appears to be a mod. It’s actually the Legend of Doom mod, which faithfully recreates the first Zelda game in first-person within the Doom engine using the original maps and assets as well as enemy placements. QuestZDoom has been modified to incorporate this mod. Doom Playable with Meta Quest VR Hardware

Even witnessed through Sugary Noe’s YouTube playthrough, the added immersion of VR head-tracking makes this 37-year-old game surprisingly tense and threatening. An angry-looking Octoroks hide behind trees, while the first dungeon acquires a maze-like, claustrophobic quality. It’s like stepping inside your memory of playing the game for the first time, and a fitting reawakening for a game that remains unforgiving and mysterious to this day. (I should know — I’m playing it at the moment, for reasons you might be able to guess…)