The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is filled with little pieces of dialogue tucked away in secret moments. You can trigger them by talking to a character at a very specific point in time, getting an item out of order and seeing how characters react, and various other ways. There are dozens of interactions that are really easy to miss: I\u2019m on my third playthrough of the remake and am still stumbling into lines of dialogue I didn\u2019t see the first two times around. During a launch event at Nintendo\u2019s New York retail store, I spoke with Nate Bihldorff, Senior Vice President of Product Development and Publishing at Nintendo of America, and asked about how the localization team approaches these small moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy group handles the localization of these games,” Bihldorff said. “And I can tell you that the localization team, absolutely, puts the most importance on those single lines that are really, really hard to find. And you know, of course, they are murder on testing teams because finding that specific line and making sure that it appears correctly in the game is super important\u2026 But there was always something special about localizing those lines and knowing that only a few people were going to read it,<\/p>\n