The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2 now has an ESRB age rating, and if you can believe it… it's the same as last time. Mostly.
Over on the Nintendo US website (spotted by Nintendo Life), the store page for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 has been updated slightly, with an ESRB rating now included. This age rating is E10+ with "animated blood, fantasy violence" descriptors attached, which is the exact same rating The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D got back in 2011, albeit missing the "suggestive themes" descriptor the 3DS game got.
Meanwhile, the original N64 version of the game nabbed an E rating – which makes sense when E10+ did not exist until 2005.
The ESRB website currently doesn't have a page live for this remake, so a more in-depth description isn't available right now.
So, what does this mean for Ocarina of Time on Switch 2? Well, not too much other than it sounds like it's going to be very similar to Ocarina of Time. The omission of a "suggestive themes" descriptor could in theory mean that there have been changes to some of the more risque elements – see: The Great Fairy, who is somewhat scantily clad, but more crucially makes the loudest noise on the planet when they emerge. But then again, it could just be that these elements aren't deemed "suggestive" anymore.
However, an ESRB rating is usually a sign that there will be some news about a game soon, as it's likely nearing release, so we could be seeing a random Direct or a news drop on Nintendo Today out of nowhere sometime soon.
If not that, then Nintendo typically hosts a September Nintendo Direct, where we'll be very likely to see more of Ocarina of Time remake than the pretty much nothing we got back in June… perhaps as some sort of Zelda 40th anniversary Direct stapled onto a regular Direct like we got with the Super Mario Bros anniversary in last year's. After all, the remake is supposed to launch this year, so we definitely need to see more of it before too long.
