The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time hit Switch 2 today, and, as Kyle Hilliard pointed out in our review, it is pretty excellent. Along with its remarkable visual upgrade, the new Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time adds quality-of-life improvements and modernizes the control scheme. As part of that, Nintendo has added the ability to jump and sprint. While that works well to make the game feel new, I quickly realized it sometimes clashes with another new improvement: a free camera controlled by the right stick. Holding down the sprint button to get through areas as fast as possible can make it tricky to keep the camera where you want it, but thankfully, if you have the Switch 2 Pro Controller, there's an easy fix.

After hours of running around, I was awestruck by the level of detail and updates, but I found myself constantly fighting with the camera, or at the very least, needing to take a strange claw-style grip to be able to direct the camera with the right stick, while holding down the A button to sprint. If you're a casual Switch 2 player, you might not have even noticed the back buttons on the Pro Controller, or you just have no idea what they do. Those buttons can be remapped on a per-game basis and it's a simple process. Everyone has their own preferences, but, for example, for high-mobility shooters, I like remapping one of those to reload and one to jump. I've never felt the need to remap in a Zelda game, but after feeling the need to do so with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2, I might do so going forward.

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