I just realized that part of why my roommate might be having a little bit of trouble with movement in ocarina of time is because he's using an Xbox controller and those don't have the physical octagonal gates that N64 and GameCube controllers do. But he's way too stubborn to use one. These zoomers, man.
They were born when the Xbox controller was already pretty much the cemented golden standard and never had to use all these different wacky controllers. They can't wrap their mind around using anything else. Sad.