Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake’s Tapestry Shows Off A Weird New Hyrule Map

Nintendo has been quite cagey with its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Its reveal trailer shows us very little of the game itself, only making allusions to Ocarina of Time's earliest plot details, and focusing mostly on a tapestry. Such imagery has become a staple of recent Zelda games, with Breath of the Wild's tapestry showing the First Great Calamity and Tears of the Kingdom's relief depicting the Imprisoning War.

We're all anxiously waiting to see how much the Ocarina of Time remake changes from the original, and whether this new version of Hyrule has any significant alterations. The only clues we have so far are a few glimpses of the trailer tapestry, and while it is definitely a new depiction of Hyrule, I don't think it's much of a map in the traditional sense, even if it can tell us a lot about this new version of the kingdom.

Ocarina Of Time's Hyrule Tapestry Is A Narrative Map

The gallery above has 4K screenshots of every significant view of the tapestry shown in the Ocarina of Time remake trailer (which you can watch below), in the order they appear. Altogether, we're only able to see its top edge – you can actually see the rod that it is hanging from. Going from top to bottom, left to right, the tapestry seems to be an illustration of Ocarina's story, and all we're able to see in full is what's mentioned by the trailer narration.

We see Hyrule, or, more accurately, the most prominent symbol of the kingdom, Hyrule Castle, and we're shown the Great Deku Tree, the Kokiri it protects (including one notoriously unable to pick up a big rock), and a slumbering Link. The tapestry omits Link's nightmare about confronting Ganondorf outside the Castle Town gate, but this top border can be interpreted as depicting Ocarina's opening moments: the Deku Tree's monologue, Navi's flight through Kokiri Forest, and Link asleep in his bed – this lattermost notably in the top-left corner.

To the right of Link sleeping is the Deku Tree, then Hyrule Castle, the first two major stops on Link's adventure. Underneath this row we can only partially see what the tapestry shows further down. My theories for this next row of imagery are, from left to right:

• Castle Town Market, the Hyrule Castle Gardens, or the Castle Courtyard – All that can be seen below and to the left of the Deku Tree in the tapestry are some parapets. This is likely a closer look at Hyrule Castle, with the smaller one above and to the Deku Tree's right being a more broad depiction of Link seeing Hyrule for the first time (consciously; he was a baby when his mother fled the Hyrulean Civil War). The tapestry showing the Courtyard, where Link first meets Zelda, seems the most likely.
• Two symbols broadly representing the Goron and Zora people and their respective Spiritual Stones – Directly below the Deku Tree are reddish-orange, elongated diamonds arranged circularly and what appear to be stylized waves or tentacles. These two are the most difficult to parse since they can barely be seen at the very beginning of the trailer.
• The chamber behind the Door of Time, which holds the Master Sword – This is the easiest to deduce. The Master Sword seals the entrance to the Sacred Realm, where the Triforce is safely held. The vaulted ceiling in the tapestry looks just like that in the original Ocarina of Time, and even has a subtle Triforce in its details.

What The Tapestry Actually Tells Us About Hyrule In The Ocarina Of Time Remake

As some sort of abstract narrative map, the trailer tapestry doesn't really show us how Hyrule has been redesigned in the Ocarina of Time remake, if it's undergone an environmental shift at all. For longtime fans, it may be a comfort to know that the tapestry seems to hint at a remake without major structural changes, at least to Link's childhood era. Link will probably wake up in Kokiri Forest, enter the Deku Tree, then cross Hyrule Field, just like in the original.

A detail that may be of interest is the tapestry's version of Hyrule Castle. The seat of the royal family looks to be arranged quite differently than the original Ocarina of Time castle design, with one tower separated from the rest of the structure and what seems to be a greater prominence of sloping roofs, rather than the original's boxy profile. It's still a possibility, though, that this isn't representative of what the castle looks like in-game.

I'm convinced there is quite a lot of the tapestry that we haven't seen, that it is quite long vertically. Whether we ever get a good look at the full thing is another matter, though. Breath of the Wild's tapestry appears in-game, and Tears of the Kingdom's relief is one of the first things you see, but the Ocarina of Time remake's trailer tapestry showing the whole game's events would be nonsensical in-universe. It may be proof that we're getting something close to a one-to-one remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but we'll need to see more to know for sure.

Released 2026

Developer(s) Nintendo

Publisher(s) Nintendo

Number of Players Single-player