The notion of rebooting the Zelda franchise isn’t a new idea. There are quite a few editorials out there probing the possibilities for the future of the Zelda series, but this is a concept I’ve personally championed for a few years now. All things considered, now is the perfect time for Nintendo to give serious consideration to handing over development responsibilities to a new studio, and start the series over from a fresh perspective. Otherwise, Zelda’s in danger of heading down the same road Square Enix has taken for Final Fantasy – a path to irrelevancy.
Screen Rant, "The return of one controversial character could have an incredible effect on The Legend of Zelda, prompting the introduction of new features."
Honestly I really changed my mind on Fi with the remaster because they didn't make her interrupt your gameplay every 5 seconds, that drastically changed my views on her
Technically she's in ToTK but obviously can't take any other form than the sword she was made into. Also the companion feature has been done plenty of times in Zelda, I don't think it'll add anything new. If anything should be brought back it should be the Minish.
Matt from We Game Daily writes "The Legend of Zelda series has gone in a different direction. One which, try as I have, I just can’t get on board with. Here is why I think Zelda should return to its 3D roots."
Amen! A good, tight, Zelda game with a focus on dungeons and puzzles. Let people have the new style Zelda if you gotta, but let us have the OoT style games too. That's not without precedent either, the handheld 2D Zelda's in the style of A Link to the Past etc have coexisted alongside the 3D Zelda's before
As much as I like BoTW, TotK, I need my traditional Zelda games as well, I could not endlessly play the open world Zelda games, plus it's harder to keep those fresher than the traditional games.
BotW was just as fresh to the franchise as OoT was. TokT was great but the next LoZ would have to move from that formula to be fresh again. There's only so much they can do with the hardware. I think they focused too much on making the world big instead impactful. I felt the world was sort of empty and repetitive in TotK, sure there was a lot to do but no more difference a Ubisoft game..
Wind Waker had a perfect balance of open world and a cool, well hand-crafted design. Maybe try to keep the open world but put in effort to make more memorable story driven quests and locations.
A fan of The Legend of Zelda has recreated the iconic Japanese monster Godzilla in Tears of the Kingdom using the game's Zonai devices.
I like it would also be cool if some created Dragon Caesar in the game I would love to watch the two going at it.
This coming up at the same time as the article about Zelda: Valley of the Flood is kind of interesting. The author of this article says that there aren't any places in the timeline that need more flushing out, but when I look at the timeline, I see a number of gaps. Wars, eras, and most importantly - the freaking world flooding. Of course there are gaps between the games (with many people guessing at thousand year gaps)... Why reboot the series? Because people complain about the series becoming stale while buying every last cookie-cutter shooter that comes out? Nintendo doesn't seem like the type to reboot an iconic series - Capcom rebooting Resident Evil seems more likely.
Why to fix if it isn't broken?
Yes. Do a Zelda reboot, even if it's a side-project, something like "New Legend of Zelda" (like NSMB on DS). Go back to the way things were on the NES/SNES. Focus on combat, non-linearity, and exploration. Cut down on the puzzles (Zelda was NOT puzzle-focused until well after Ocarina) and cut down on the stupid NPCs.
ff is irrelevant? anything that sells 3 million copies each main addition isnt irrelevant regardless of whether you like it or not