The Next Zelda Should Bring Back a Traditional Soundtrack

Breath of the Wild got rid of a lot of series staples, like a set of deep, long-lasting dungeons, exclusive items with each of those dungeons and a linear structure focused on progressing the story in a singular fashion. It also stepped back from the epic, beat-you-over-the-head music that the series has always been known for. For the next installment, it’s time to bring that style of music back.

[Neonridr]

music, dungeons and the ability to repair weapons (maybe even armor if they add a durability factor into those too). But keep the open world style of BOTW.

[Gemmol]

no need to repair weapons, there are so many in that game, and they all respawn after the red moon, no one should be complaining about weapons breaking, so many all over the world, lot of places to fast travel so the weapons not far walk, and so many options to map where the weapons respawn at.........

the game is great the way it is, I am curious to what else they can do

[Neonridr]

yeah but some of the really nice weapons that you get as rewards from beating each of the divine beasts. Can you find additional verisons of those ones? I am always afraid to use those things.

[silkrevolver]

@Neonridr You can rebuild them by giving materials to blacksmiths at those respective towns, but it's not worth it, honestly.

[-Foxtrot]

I think they need to go back to a traditional Zelda game when it was better

Music, story, memorable NPCs, good sized hubs filled with life along with their own themes (Forrest, field, ruins, snowy mountains etc), amazing complexed dungeons, epic boss fights, better weapons that if you earn it it’s yours they don’t break, variety in side missions

Basically nothing like BotW, more like OoT/MM/WW/TP

[Teflon02]

that's not even a opinion, this comment is just questionable. No need to repair weapons? Dark Cloud 2 you find weapons every few dungeons and you could upgrade weapons while having weapons last multiple floors. Yet you always got to use what you wanted and didn't have to say hey my favourite weapon will disappear and I gotta go back and get it again to use it. Reason they removed weapons completely disappearing in dark cloud 2 when it did it in 1. It's a bad game design, especially for a game like Zelda. Especially when weapons don't even have alot of durability. Should atleast have a default weapon with okay stats that's always usable while having other weapons and possibly a repair item or whatever you can get so you can limit weapon use

[OzzY-waZZy]

Weapons weren't really an issue.. maybe just make the legendary ones unbreakable but other than that there were far bigger problems like what you mentioned music, dungeons, memorable bosses, kooky characters.

[DivineAssault]

agreed.. Make a skip time feature too so we can pass the rain

[ClanPsi1]

It doesn't rain everywhere at the same time. If it starts, just go to another place for a few in-game hours.

[Neonridr]

well you could always find a place to set up a campfire to pass the time :P

[Nyxus]

I would also like a better story.

[Gemmol]

hard to make a great story, when you can go in any order to beat the game..........this is why linear games always have better stories because everything goes in a order and so do the story,......even bioshock developer said the same..........

horizon have a good story because its a linear game, its like ocarina of time, like zelda developers said it was a game that gave a feeling of it being open world, but in truth it was linear......

[Nyxus]

Horizon is also an open world game.

[smashman98]

I feel like a good way to combat this would be to separate the game into parts. IE the game throws a few dungeons at you to complete, with each dungeon having its own self contained story once they're complete the overarching plot progresses in the process more dungeons are revealed so on and so forth

[NecrumOddBoy]

BOTW is an empty world filled with puzzle dungeons. Everything in the game is completely irrelevant to the outcome of the story nor are you ever rewarded for completing any task with anything truly useful. Everything you get breaks, nothing you create means anything. The game not holding your hand or encouraging you to find the story is not what's going on. Breath of the Wild makes no effort in delivering anything compelling to include only 5 garbage boss fights. Four of which are the same fight over again but the enemy has one or two different moves. There are no special weapons, there are no special abilities which unlock new areas. The game is overrated and such a back from what Zelda should be.

[DivineAssault]

Im with you on the story.. BotW was told strictly through memories.. It wasnt bad but it couldve been much better.. Some good voice actors too because that wasnt very good to listen to

[Gemmol]

like @djking wrote, you cannot pick what order to do the story in Horizon, since you cannot pick, you follow the path that the developers made for you to follow, which is why its Linear..........and if you understood what the zelda developer wrote you would understand what they mean by a game that gives the feeling of it being open world by different things you can do, but in truth it is a linear game.....its a fake open world.........this is nothing new, you seen this with Assassin Creed, and etc..........Ocarina of Time was the first to do it good, fake open world that follows a story from point A to Point B......how hard is that to understand

and this is why even Zelda maker said its hard to make a story with the way they design Zelda in breath of the wild, and Bioshock developer said the same........breath of the wild is probably the very first real open world game.....letting you do anything in any order.....but I could be wrong, there could be a company who did one before Nintendo

[Gemmol]

go back in time if you like those things from the old games.......breath of the wild audio was great..........

[DivineAssault]

Yeah, them voices were incredible! SMH.. Good thing zelda is all about the experience of the quest and not story driven..

[Lighter9]

How about some new music for a change? Instead of remixes of the same old songs.

[DivineAssault]

It wouldve been nice to have good theme songs for the areas.. Music can really make a game a lot better.. That forest dungeon in OoT for example.. That track made the level more enjoyable.. The goron city music immersed me into it more

[TallonIV]

This.

[Teflon02]

Bring back traditional Zelda in general. I wanted Zelda, not Skyrim with Zelda paint lol

[Last_Boss]

The opened areas were very welcome. The huge underlying problem was it needed a ton more things to do and see before even thinking about being on par with Skyrim. This type of build begs to be explored and not just on the surface and through forced narrative.

[Teflon02]

I agree with you, I love open areas with alot of exploring if done right. Just like you said though, that's the problem, it's just in the game to make the travel feel long, not exciting. Atleast how it feels too me. It just feels like a empty field. Why I said traditional Zelda. Mind you I mean like having a real reason for everything in the open parts of the game. If you're going to have the fields, make it where each part separates the story. They don't continue. Make it separate stories that come together at the end and the more you get done the more you learn and possibly have like a true ending based off it. Not all this flashback nonsense. I get y
What you're saying though. But I play Zelda to actually play Zelda. I want Temples with themes, not 100+ shrines that have the same look artistically with one theme.