For 28 years, Princess Zelda spoke only in text boxes. In the Nintendo Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, released on November 5, 2026, she finally talks, and players can hear her in Latin American Spanish.
Nintendo Latinoamérica confirmed the dub with its own cut of the game’s trailer. Casandra Acevedo voices Zelda and her alter ego Sheik, Emmanuel Alejandro plays Ganondorf and Nycolle González takes over Navi, the fairy who never stops calling for Link’s attention, according to LevelUp.
A classic that never said a word out loud
The 1998 original on Nintendo 64 had no spoken dialogue. Apart from Navi’s calls and Link’s shouts, every line lived on screen as text, as GamesRadar pointed out when Nintendo showed the remake in September.
That changes now, within limits. Voice acting is limited to cutscenes, and Link stays a hero of yells and grunts, not sentences, Nintendo clarified to Shacknews.
For Spanish speakers, the jump is bigger. The original cartridge didn’t include Spanish text at all, Vandal reported. Spanish only arrived later, with the Nintendo 3DS version in 2011.
Eight dubs, and two kinds of Spanish
The remake is dubbed in eight languages, per Vandal: English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish from Spain and Latin American Spanish. Spain and Latin America each get their own cast instead of sharing one.
In English, the game’s credits list Erica Mendez as Zelda and Matt Mercer as Ganondorf, Destructoid reported.
The Spanish version is already getting noticed. Xataka México’s review called voice acting the most important change in the remake and described the Latin American dub as extraordinary.
Why the voices land at the right moment
The new voices arrive in a game critics already love. The remake hit a 96 on Metacritic, the best score of 2026, GamesRadar reported on November 4.
There’s also a bigger audience on the way. Nintendo has set the live-action film, titled The Legend of Zelda, for April 30, 2027, MP1st reported. For many new fans, this remake could be the first time they hear Zelda speak, in whichever language they choose.
Pick your audio language before the first cutscene, because Zelda sounds like a different person in each one.
