This is Awesome!! Don't let any body drag you down! The people saying "it looks like crap" cant respect the time and effort put into this. Not to mention they are fools thinking you ruined this. You did not!! People make mods and reiterate things all the time. Take skyrim for example. Tons of mods that make it look way better and not a single negative thing came out of those. Again, awesome work!! Love the models and textures!!

I love how Navi works like a torch in the darker areas, it gives her actual utility.

It turned to an actual horror game now 😭😂

Now imagine how absolutely horrifying Majora's Mask would be in that style

I just love how you turned that dungeon from "spooky and quirky" to "how Link got his PTSD"

"A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage" -Hero's Shade. Link certainly has courage here.

Having Link's face to have him look like hes feeling uneasy, and adding the thin hair on Dead Hand's head was a nice touch

I remember this being scary as a kid, but now it's absolutely horrifying.

There was something divinely magical about playing a song to teleport you from such horrible places to a less scary one like the lake for example. As a kid, I remember feeling link's exhaustion (imagined of course, but very real to me) and thinking "he's been through so much, he needs a break" and then going to ride Epona for half an hour in the plaines to chill :)

I'm 39 years old and I swear that these graphics, sounds, and visuals are exactly how my brain remembers Ocarina of Time for the first time playing way back when. LOL! Then you play it today and you're like "oh..." If the game actually looked like THIS when I was a kid, I would have NOPED my N64 into a wall.

I wish we could have a modern day Zelda that had enemies like this. BotW was a good game but I miss fighting re-deads, dead hand, iron knuckles, the hand in the forest temple and of course that final fight with Ganon. The enemies in games today don't invoke the same sense of courage I felt as a kid when I overcame my fear of places like the well. I'll never forget my little brother crying in terror whilst he watched me play this part of the game.

The redeads being lit up by Navi was super cool to see. Was scary enough as a kid let alone in URE5! Too many skulls though 💀💀

Being a huge Ocarina of Time fan, I feel like this would sell like crazy on the Switch cause of the nostalgia and the fact you made this so incredibly awesome! ❤

If this is how scary he made the bottom of the well, I can’t even imagine what he’s gonna do to the shadow temple. Imma cry myself to sleep after that vid.

One thing I would have recommended is instead of having the fire sounds each independent sources, have them all just one source, which increases in volume when Link is near a lit torch. That way, there isn’t a lot of over crackling in the ear. Should help with a little bit of performance as well.

Incredible work. So many little touches that make Link more alive, from his struggling against the ReDeads and the screaming when a hand catches him. You nailed the horror of this area, in this little demo. Well done!

Even though I'm in my late 20's, the Bottom of the Well still makes me extremely nervous and my heart feels like it's racing. Not only did you capture the complete horror experience from the place, you upped it by 1000%, making it a truly unforgettable watching experience. It's honestly perfection and gosh, that Dead Hand model is insane!

I love the fact Link’s face shows fear, since after all, he’s still a kid, and it really sells the fear even more when Navi speaks about the danger and seeing the skeleton with blood splattered all over

Absolute nightmare fuel. Dead hand creeped the hellout of me as a kid and this evoked the same "holy shit wtf" feeling as back then. Major props.

By Din, Nayru, and Farore.... My friend, you have turned one of the scariest dungeons in Zelda history into a literal descent into Hell... and I love you for it! I cannot wait to see more of your amazing work! You have totally transformed one of my most cherished childhood games while still invoking that nostalgia! If only Nintendo could see this and recognize your talent!

One change I don’t like is changing navi’s dialogue at the beginning. Her echoing what the unseen spirits are whispering to link trying to get him out safely from this hellhole is far creepier. Also “That is what they are saying…” After every line made every dialogue unnerving since she can hear the whispers of the dead and you can’t

Dude you made my childhood nightmares even worse and I LOVE HOW TOU HANDLED THE REDEADS! I remember a warning in the royal family tomb that went as such “those who break into the royal tomb will be obstructed by the lurkers in the dark” and the fact that you put them in pitch black areas is a very nice touch well done to you sir/madam

No other Zelda games will come remotely close to the creativity and effort put into the enemies, music, and atmosphere that OOT and MM have. Still the best Zelda games to this day.

That battle with DeadHand you made here may be the single best Zelda fan creation thing i've seen other than that Majora's Mask short someone made years back. This was amazing and i mean it made my chest fill up cause it was truely epic in soooo many ways. This kind of stuff proves why this game not only needs to be remade like you're doing, but also needs a movie with a vibe just like you're giving it. Keep going this is perfection.

Just makes you realize what kind of brave lad Link truly was! And all the ones that guided Link :) Absolutely outstanding work, it leaves me speechless!

I remember how scary Dead Hand was in the original, but totally lost its fear factor in the 3DS remake, and you just managed to make it even more scarier than in the original! Love your work! 👏🏽 👏🏽

It's just insane you make this all by yourself for so many years, and it keeps growing to look more and more beutiful.

I love how Link looks SCARED lol. I don’t remember him animating like that in N64 version. But that dungeon scares me as a 39 year old…. You have fine mind blowing work dude

The blood is much more graphic here, I shrugged it off when I was younger but if I saw this I would’ve been terrified - great work

great job, the lighting effects, the creature design, everything. It was one of the scariest parts of the original game, I was 11 years old when I saved Hyrule in Christmas 1998.

Holy crap, that looks fantastic! Not only is it gorgeous to look at, but it still gives off that claustrophobic vibe that "bottom of the well" had in the original, as well as feeling like a Zelda game, through and through. Amazing job man, kudos.

Honesty looks really good, terrifying how real and accurate everything looked. Gooe job

This looks simply incredible! Thank you so much for your hard work 🙏🏻

The blood effect looks amazing, this gives such a creepy vibe for a creepy place.

I like how scared link actually looks makes it more realistic in this setting ! Your version looks amazing !

When he got down to half a heart and started running about looking for hearts and got grabbed by the hand with the camera angle and room going dark. That was peak horror. I can feel the panic. Starting at 14:38

Holy sh*t this is insane. I'm not generally a horror person but this is incredible, the lighting and the sound effects... the blood... and Link's bloody face, it really comes together

The Dead Hand is impressive, I like how you took inspiration from the official artwork where it has dozens upon dozens of disembodied hands, rather than the four or six we saw on N64 OoT. I think it would be cool if the Dead Hand's animation involved it shuffling its grotesque mass through the dirt to show that its bound to the ground, not that the animation is bad or anything, far from it! However, as it speeds up during the fight, I'd recommend changing the shuffling animation to something more aggressive or desperate. The current animation paired with the exaggerated speed makes it look a little silly towards the end. Thank you CryZen for putting my childhood nightmares into a whole new terrifying light! :)

just imagine this backed by an entire studio. We would pay out the wazoo. Excellent work

Damn, this looks AMAZING! I love the expressions that you gave Link. Like a sort of scared but pensive idle expression, and his idle pose in such a scary place was spot on! And then his in-combat determined or resolved expression was *chefs kiss*. This entire dungeon and the fight were exactly what it felt like as a kid. You recreated it as it was meant to be perfectly. I was even looking around those corners waiting for those floating skull things. And then the mini boss music bumped off and I was like "WHOA okay! :D"

I can't believe how amazing this looks, my inner child is really excited for this one

Du kannst so stolz auf dich sein. Ich sitze hier mit 27 und meine Augen leuchten auf. Das Spiel hat uns geprägt und was du hier seit Jahren an harte Arbeit für die Menschheit machst, ist großartig.

Dang i feel sad for Link in the beginning, He doesn't want to be there and also he has blood in his eye. Poor Link. Also good work on the graphics and stuff, You've made a nice work so far

This really is quite amazing. Love what you have done so far!

I love how brave Link is but you can't help but feel for how scared he is. Poor little guy.

This. THIS is what is missing from Zelda! That boldness to make the player experience REAL immersive fear! That moment where you don't know what to expect next, where you're totally off one foot when stepping into something that invokes the unfamiliar. The danger. I miss when things used to be like this. Breath of the Wild is far too cutesy and happy for a mood like this to ever be present. Even Tears of the Kingdom isn't even APPROACHING this kind of vibe and I don't expect it ever will. Man, this takes me back to a time where devs were allowed to push the boundaries. Where creators made something risky, but had faith that that shared human experience we all feel was enough for others to relate to. And here we are, living in a world where so many people can fondly recall a favorite childhood memory where a child wanders down a well, only to find himself diving deep into a torture chamber, that happens to sit silently underneath a happy little village.. No publisher or dev in today's AAA gaming climate would ever DARE to think that something like that would work and surely not Nintendo, who has continuously watered down the style and formula of a lot of their games in recent years. Despite, claiming they are making effort after effort in remaking the wheel with every entry. Thank you for this creation, this vision, this trip down memory lane. You are helping to pave the path to future gaming my friend.

God I love this so much, this is exactly how my brain remembers it, or at least how I thought it looked in the original. Only thing I can comment on here is that the light flickering makes my head hurt, but other than that, it's truly masterfully done

can't even imagine what a ganon fight would look like! 0_0 amazing work dude!

Uh oh, not Deadhand in a realistic artstyle...

You not only made Dead Hand creepier, but you also gave him hair! You really did my favorite miniboss and bottom of the well justice! I know this will make me sound like a psychopath, but love the detail of the spattered blood on Link's clothes, the walls, and floors, and the countless skeletons littered all over the place! Do you plan on recreating the entire Shadow Temple too?

Being subscribed for years on end, you can see MAJOR improvement with this person’s progress. Love it

The expression of fear and being absolutely creeped out in Link is chef's kiss. Reminds me of how I felt when I played this part as a kid! This is absolutely stunning and you definitely nailed the horror the Bottom of the Well held! Keep up the amazing work, you're doing awesome!

Absolutely love. I loved that Link actually looked scared. That small detail shows that having courage doesn’t mean you’re not frightened. The Bottom Of The Well was everything I hoped it would be. The skeletons and bones, the fact that it was so dark and suffocating. I could almost feel the damp tepid air and smell the metallic stench of old blood and soil. The way I screamed out loud when Dead Hand opened his mouth to bite you! 😅😅 Excellent work.

Woahh, this is actually how I saw the game with my 8years old eyes back then, you did such an amazing job, I hope your remake will come out and we will have the honor to play it. You truly kept the real frightning ambience of the game and made it even more intense! Keep going! I am impressed !!! Never thought will experience this in my lifetime! Somethng Nintendo failed so hard afterwards same. Metroid and Zelda were the best games for Nintendo.

The gasp I did when I saw that Skulltula was very real. This gave me genuine chills, what a great video.

Wow its like the idealized version I have in my head. Incredible work, easily one of the scariest moments in the game and you made it even more terrifying

This looks so good and so creepy and all I can think is this poor boy is like... 10. No little boy should have to go through this good lord poor Link

Even though I'm in my late 20's, the Bottom of the Well still makes me extremely nervous and my heart feels like it's racing. Not only did you capture the complete horror experience from the place, you upped it by 1000%, making it a truly unforgettable watching experience.

The way you kept the fact that Dead Hand doesn't just banish after being killed. The amount of detail. Despite the minor lightning fixes that could be done, this is incredible. Please keep it up!

As much as it is often joked about when people put Nintendo characters in unreal engine, this is actually fantastic. This is exactly how I would imagine OOT on current gen hardware. Keep up the good work!!!😄

been watching your uploads for many years now. You have a real talent, and this one really blew my mind. so much nostalgia! cant believe you made the well even more terrifying then it was in my childhood. great job, will keep watching all of your uploads as well. best of luck!

This thing scared the hell out of me as a kid. I had nightmares for a while, then the movie deadbirds came out which had a similar creature in it and I freaked out. This is for me the most horrifying part of the game aside from the invisible ceiling grabber. The details in this brings that horror to a while new level. Amazing job dearie.

This is fantastic work! I've always wanted to see how you'd portray the dark aspects of Ocarina of Time, especially with one of my favorite areas of the game, the bottom of the well! Nice job!

Damn, this *PERFECTLY* captures the bottom of the well: eerie, dark, and full of horror. By dark, I am not just talking about just the absence of light, but thematically dark as well. This may sound like a cognitive-dissonance, but you did a beautiful work of art with this game in general!

cryzenx i see you listen me like a loyal follower and positive critic, you improved the new face from link and now looks really good and not like rumplestinkin from shrek. I personally love how creepy you turned the dead hand bro congrats i cant wait for play this when you finish the entire game

Excellent video as always CryZENx, you are an inspiration for all us video game designers, video game developers and artists You deserve a lot more recognition

Mate so much thanks for your incredible work !!! It looks so great !

Man I’ve been watching this project slowly blossom over the last few years. You’ve done such an incredible job.

Well done. 🔥Thank you for all the hard work, to give us quality content, and a remake of one of the best games in history with realistic graphics, but still being faitful to the source material. Wishing you health, peace, and success.

Wow, what a vibe you created here! Ending was a great way to wrap that up. :)

This looks absolutely gorgeous and I hope Nintendo collabs with CryZENx! Amazing! You've really got the vision.

This is a really impressive achievement, elevating a masterpiece like this. Love the work you did with the lighting and Link's characterization; the trepidation on his face before the boss gate like "Uh, you sure about this, boss?" is perfect

Maaaaan! I remember playing this as a kid and being upset by the gruesome catacombs underneath the windmill, but this is another level of creepy. Well done!

I think it wouldn't be too playable I think you need the light to bounce at least twice, or somehow have Navi's shadows not be too harsh. The harsh shadows from navi are unpredictably reducing visibility. Everything else looks incredible and accurate, great work!

The more I see these enemies in more realized defined graphics, I completely understand Link having intense trauma and PTSD after these events. No amount of courage as a child just gets you through these situations 😅

You might've heard this a thousand times already, but this is an amazing TREASURE. For gaming's history, for the community, formed by each of our hearts that keeps this game deeply cherished. You're simply incredible, because you put your skills and passion into a transcendental, valuable work of art!

liked anyways, i love the bottom of the well and scary monsters like dead hand, video will be amazing anyways

Oh man, this is absolutely terrifying. Terrific job! Can't wait to see more!

respect on that gameplay, you had me in full suspense, That quarter heart at the end.. wow. Additionally, im blown away that someone recreated this in unreal engine 5. What a cool time to be alive. Respect.

Dude that's litteraly one of the most beautiful thing i've ever seen i love Zelda OOT and seing it with such beautiful graphism makes me so happy. Keep up the good work dude. If you ever release it no matter how much it cost i'll buy it no cap ❤

This looks amazing ..imagine what shadow temple will look like..just love the expression on link's face that uneasy feeling

Wow! I've always considered Dead Hand to be the most horrific/nightmarish creature from all the Zelda games personally, and that's an impressive feat considering it's a series that's jam-packed with monsters that made the games very difficult to play through growing up, just from the fear they instilled. I'm a fair bit older now and things of a 'horror'-like vibe rarely get a fright out of me anymore, but you added a whole new level of creep to the bottom of the well and made Dead Hand look precisely how my child self saw it, if not a whole lot worse! This would look right at home in the Dark Souls games, and would probably even be one of the scarier things to face in those games too! This just makes me really hope they bring the Dead Hand back as an enemy in TotK since they do seem to be going for a darker atmosphere. The whole underground area could be home to some of the darker-themed enemies of the series such as Dead Hand, redeads, wallmasters, skulltulas etc.

Ok, this is really impressive! Amazing work! The atmosphere is on point, so is the creature design. Perfect reimagination of their original N64-version!

This is so cool! I really like that you made Link look so young and expressive, since he really is just a kid so I like that he looks the part here, especially with the expressions and his eyes

I didn't realize how much of the game part is a work in progress. There is so much jank, but it's definitely interesting to see it being worked on. I will have to admit, the presentation there is amazing, and seeing the redead's only lit by Navi is absolutely freaky.

I remember being horrified of re-deads when I was younger, but if I saw this dead hand, I can only imagine just how scared it would make me! This is amazing, keep up the great work! 👍

Great job at making the bottom of the well absolutely horrifying! Hearing the groan of the ReDeads far off in the distance and darkness is the stuff of nightmares. I'd actually dread having to come down here, in a good way!

Great vid! My favorite part is the beginning. Showing a frieghtened Link that is willing to be brave enough to overcome his fear!

Nice work. Good to see you're working on new content!

This is really well done wish to have a complete game of your work in the future 😊

I didn't grow up with LoZ and only got into the franchise through Botw. I cannot wait to play your OoT demo! This looks awesome!

This is amazing. The animation for the fire is beautiful. I love this!

I am actually playing this right now and i don't care if I get spoiled. The effort and work put into this is amazing! Great Job

This was almost (not quite, but almost) too dark for me, emotionally speaking. Still, amazing work. I'm really surprised the big N hasn't taken your work down. I hope they're taking notes because you're stuff is exactly what fans want in an OOT remake.

Looking back on when I first played this game and looking at this now I can truly say that this is a huge overhaul and I'm loving it. Literally love horror games, and this level is giving horror game vibes. Honestly a 10/10 from me. Please continue the fantastic work. This gives my nostalgia even more life than it used to

GAH! The redead, the well demon and the hand in unreal engine! DX Hate-love it! Love-hate it! The SOUNDTRACK is amazing! It’s especially nice effect that the music quiets when not facing the opponent and then gets louder and more dramatic while facing the opponent. It’s absolutely panic inducing! Nice flare up in music tone too when the enemy re-emerges from the ground. Wish that there was this much attention to detail with other games. I’m gonna have nightmares tonight I haven’t had since playing this game when I was a kid. Omfg, I you remade the whole game I’d buy it!

Wow that is really amazing, I grew up with OOT and it's still my number 1 game of all time. I can tell you put a tonne of effort and hard work into this liked and subbed, keep up the amazing work bro!

You did a amazing job on this I could feel the uneasy and scary emotions watching this. Links face expressions was icing on the cake✨💕

Absolutely incredible I am in awe. The graphics are so beautiful I wish I could play this game in this style now. I would never have imagined we would see it rendered like this. Wonder game play you did a fantastic job of showcasing this. Thank you for sharing.❤

This was INCREDIBLE! Zelda just went from being rated E to rated M for being SO scary and I LOVE IT! I thought it was so freaky the way the ReDeads heads were twitching, and they looked so grotesque! But Dead Hand absolutely took the cake for being the freakiest thing in this video! It truly seemed to be some forgotten monstrosity that slew any that was unfortunate enough to wander into its lair.