The Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is now first on Metacritic’s all-time user score list, at 9.6 from 7,796 user ratings. That puts it ahead of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, at 9.4 from 27,653 ratings, 3.5 times as many. We read those figures on Metacritic’s own pages on the evening of November 8, three days after the remake’s November 5 launch, and they are still moving.
Ocarina holds 9.6 from 7,796 ratings, Expedition 33 9.4 from 27,653
The ranking is real, but the samples are very different. Expedition 33, out since April 24, 2025, has 3.5 times as many ratings as the remake. The remake also leads with critics, with a Metascore of 96 from 87 reviews on Switch 2 against Expedition 33’s 92 from 84 reviews.
The list and the game pages don’t always agree. A screenshot of the list posted to r/videogames on November 7 showed the remake at 9.7, while a commenter there said its own page read 9.6 from about 4,400 ratings. It has stayed at 9.6 as that count has grown to 7,796.
Against the 1998 Nintendo 64 original, users rate the remake higher and critics rate it lower. The original sits at 9.1 from 15,420 user ratings, with a Metascore of 99.
A Crimson Desert expansion with 56 ratings sits second on the list
Expedition 33 is actually third right now. Second place belongs to Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown, an expansion, which the list shows at 9.5. Its own page showed 8.9 from just 56 ratings when we last checked, so that spot may not last, and the list says “Titles with fewer than 50 user ratings are excluded,” so it only just qualifies. Among full games, the remake is first and Expedition 33 second.
Only 3% of the remake’s ratings are negative, below Expedition 33’s 4%
The claim going around is that the remake reached the top “despite review bombing.” Metacritic’s own breakdown doesn’t show a bombing that dented the score. Of the remake’s 7,796 ratings, 7,455 are positive (96%), 109 are mixed (1%) and 232 are negative (3%). Expedition 33 is at 93% positive and 4% negative, and the N64 original is at 90% positive and 6% negative.
Low scores do exist, including zeros. Many of the written negative reviews make ordinary complaints: the price, the lack of new content, an easier game. “Kind of weird to release a game in 2026 with almost no voice acting,” one reads. Another says “Nintendo did a good job with 60fps. But the image quality deserves criticism with shimmer and flicker when moving the camera being particularly bad,” and blames “AMD FSR 1.0,” the upscaler listed in the game’s license notices.
One pattern is worth noting without reading too much into it: three accounts with near-identical names posted negative reviews in Portuguese on November 6. That could be one person or a coincidence, and three reviews would not move a score built on 7,796 ratings.
Reddit says Metacritic removed bad reviews, but nothing confirms it
The poster on r/zelda wrote that “It looks like Metacritic removed some of the obvious review bombing.” We found no statement from Metacritic saying it removed ratings from this game, and its pages don’t show removals, so that remains unconfirmed. One commenter in the same thread asked the fair question: “Is there actual evidence that the review bombing for this game is worse on average than other top games?” On the share of negative ratings, at least, there isn’t.
[OoT] Ocarina of Time remake has highest Metacritic user score despite review bombing
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