Despite high sales for Twilight Princess and popular online fan bases for games like Majora’s Mask, at the end of the day we all understand that Ocarina of Time is considered by and large to be the cream of the crop for Zelda experiences. The defacto Zelda game, even if you can point to older games that did it first.
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.
But trying to make a game that is better than the best of the series is something great because he tends only to improve LoZ with the objective of accomplishing this task.
What Zelda needs is to be epic again. They need to make it more cinematic, have great moments like God of War, Uncharted, etc has. It needs great bosses with clever ways to defeat them. Also, get rid of the formula: go to dungeon, get map, get compass, get item, defeat boss with item, repeat. The experience should be seamless. Even if you know where to go to advance (that means not completely open ended) you should be able to do things differently. Maybe like Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. Link can still be mute, hell everyone can still be mute but they need to make a better story. Just look at Fire Emblem Awakening. Most of the story is told by text, and still has an engaging story and great characters.
Another thing is that Nintendo needs to realize that they now have a system more powerful than a PS3, so they need to make a game with absolutely great graphics. They can still have art style and all that stuff, but they need to put those polygons to work. Everyone wants to see a Zelda game as detailed as Uncharted, God of War, etc. and the Wii U can pull it off.
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