Breath of the Wild was an undeniable home run for Nintendo, but knowing the Big N, the next Zelda game could be anything: it could be ultra-similar to Breath of the Wild or it could take an extreme detour and surprise everybody. Dreaming of what the next Legend of Zelda could be is a grand exercise for the imagination.
Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."
The feeling this game gave me the first time i had my hands on it is indescribable.. i still get the chill from that day..
botw is like a spin off of the series.. it’s fun but with many flaws and the most important which is Zelda formula isn’t there..
I can't even remember how many times I played through OoT, I finished that game, and collected everything so many times.
I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.
but still considered the best of the seties.
i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.
25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.
Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.
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The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has again commented on the possibility of revisiting the style of past entries in the series – but there are no plans as of now. Speaking with RTL Nieuws, Aonuma said that games like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were possible because of what came before them.
Which is very sad. I still wish we could get a zelda like twilight princess, the dark tone and theme in the traditional style. But times have changed and the masses prefer open world sandbox. Smh. Perhaps we can get a proper hd remake of ocarina of time some day.
I played 100 hours of Tears of the Kingdom, enjoyed it, but ready for a game like that next.
If they can bounce between 2D and 3D Mario games, they can bounce between classic and modern Zelda games too. I thought this was a given when the Switch combined a handheld with a primary console.
Then this is where I part ways. I won't disagree with anyone who says that the old formula was getting stale. And I do think BoTW in a few ways was a step in the right direction, but there's way too much good that was left with the old formula in the transition.
Well that sucks. I still love the classic formula WAY more than the Hyrule Engineering Simulator
I’m pretty sure the next Zelda will be 2D
3D Zelda games are very lengthy in development and Switch as a hybrid system has to have more titles in the series on it
I love BotW's approach to overworld BGM by mostly letting the music of nature take over, but I do miss my overworld themes and the boss tracks felt uninspired, though not horrible.
I've dreamed up a far better remix for the Ganon fight alone, alongside a better scenario that wouldn't end with just shooting the big boar in the eye, and the music to accompany the remixed fight alongside it. [it's a shame I don't have a laptop that can handle the music program I'd need to create and share the track, at least...XD]
The combat was great, though. I'm re-doing my Master Mode playthrough right now just for fun and it's still as wonderful as it was the first time I did it.
If not more-so, now that I know I'm playing through ALL of the extra content alongside the vanilla game, back-to-back.
I even liked how they fixed the breakable weapons feature that would normally make an open-world game un-fun. It was balanced out very well and I've only heard unskilled whiners that quit shortly after The Great Plateau even raise a peep about it so far, outside of reviewers.
My dream Zelda would be open world like BOTW but in the style of OOT/Twilight Princess. Bring back proper dungeons as well.