Bizarre Ocarina of Time Mod Replaces All Game Textures with Toad’s Face

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At just over three and a half decades old at this point, The Legend of Zelda series is one of the longest running franchises in gaming history, right behind the likes of Super Mario and Wolfenstein. While the majority of the entries are seen as classics, 1998's Ocarina of Time is considered one of the most influential. As one of the best Nintendo 64 games of all time, it really showed what Link in an open world could be capable of. Recently, there's been talk of PC ports of the game on the horizon, and already it looks like one of them is being modded.

According to a report from VGC, a team known as Harbour Masters has been working on an unofficial PC version of Ocarina of Time, which uses reverse-engineered code from a separate project two years in the making. While the port is still being developed, the modders behind it have already been experimenting with mods to see what's possible. Among numerous ways the game has been tinkered with, one of the weirdest mods swaps out every single texture in the Zelda game with the face of Toad, for seemingly no reason.

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Although Toad is the adorable mushroom from the Super Mario games and an all-round good guy, the image of their face as part of Ocarina of Time's grass, road, sky, and even signposts, is a little unsettling, to say the least. It even looks as though Link's whole costume is made from the same two huge eyes and smiling face, as is the mini map in the corner of the screen.

As it happens, this is not the only reverse-engineered version of the game in the works. There is also another unofficial PC port of Ocarina of Time being developed by another team. This one, titled Ship of Harkinian, which comes from a line