Seems like everyone was real curious (in a "holding a knife and grinning" way) when it was Gears 1 & Halo 1 to unpack the question of if an old game that may have been very influential and even important back in the day still holds up now, when directly compared to the modern "children" of that path of game design. Especially as that formula would be refined a lot in the years between then and the remake's launch.
Anyway, now to take a big gulp of water and read some StarFox and OoT reviews... 😬
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Nuclear take: by ~2001 when I played OoT, it was already not a particularly great one of those. 2003 rolls around and I'm taking Beyond Good & Evil as a stone cold classic (I also think that has not aged amazingly, over 20 years later on).
The N64 is a USian console. 20m consoles sold in America. It struggled vs the competition in Japan (5.5m) and the entire rest of the world adds less than 7m to the total (as of Nintendo reporting, 2010). It's massively over-represented in the Anglosphere.