Not everyone is rushing to replay Hyrule. In a new Switchboard column, Polygon argues for sitting out the Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — at least for now.

The reasoning is less about quality concerns than reverence. Ocarina of Time occupies near-sacred status in gaming history, the piece contends, and that status raises the emotional stakes of revisiting it in remade form. For players with deep attachments to the 1998 original, the choice of when — and whether — to experience a modern reinterpretation becomes a genuinely loaded decision.

It's a familiar tension for Nintendo's remake-heavy era: the bigger the classic, the more fraught the update. Ocarina of Time routinely tops all-time-greatest lists, which means the Switch 2 version will be measured against a quarter-century of memory as much as against the N64 cartridge itself. Polygon's answer, for now, is patience.