For The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's shiny new remake, Nintendo unintentionally cast the same actor twice - 28 years apart - to deliver Navi's infamous "Heys!" and "Listens!"

The Switch 2's Ocarina of Time makes a pretty substantial change to the N64's Ocarina of Time, released almost three decades prior. There's proper voice acting this time, of course - not just grunts and murmurs and hyahs. But even when retroactively adding new things, Nintendo wanted to ensure the remake's cast matched the original's pretty faithfully, so the developer held blind auditions that eventually paved the way for one actor to reprise their role during Link's adventure.

"We felt that if we were going to improve the graphics so dramatically, the cutscenes needed to be fully voiced to match," director HokWai Ng explained in the most recent Ask The Developer blog. "But at the same time, we knew we shouldn't mess with established perceptions of how certain characters sound based on the original. Navi's "Listen!" is one example. Even someone who's never played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time may have heard it before. We absolutely didn't want to change anything as iconic as that."

To maintain the original's nostalgic sounds and voices, Nintendo held blind auditions with the goal of finding actors who could recreate the "feel of the original game."

" And, who woulda guessed? "As fate would have it, one of the actors we selected had actually voiced the same character in the Nintendo 64 version.

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