Also, if you travel to the depths there a significant amount of ruins more than really anywhere else such as the abandoned Gerudo mine and the ancient Gerudo cemetery these could also be some buried landmarks that were apart of a city
Screw the lore nitpickers. It's the Legend of Zelda, not The Timeline and History of Zelda. Every game is a retelling of a legend, using the same pieces to tell a similar but different story, except for Wind Waker and such where they are explicit about a continuation. The original, A Link to the Past, and Ocarina of Time were all telling the same story three times, just with different hardware to blow it up and add more. The developers are under zero obligation to make one iteration of Zelda fit together with all the others. Until the fans whined, there wasn't even a "timeline".
18:32 the instrument songs could have been used exclusively to travel back and forth from the temples for some reason that they could have created - maybe a weapon buff you can find there or a shield or weapon cache that you can only get back to by playing the song associated with the temple after you completed it. There's 100 million things they could have done very very very very very very very very very very very very very easily and they chose not to and that WAS their choice - they chose uninspired laziness for profit instead of creating inspired art which would revolutionize a generation
8:51 link's new arm could have transformed into his instrument - the ocarina could have just materialized at the end of his arm - problem solved. I feel like the Zelda team just didn't try, we can all come up with solutions for these massive problems they created in two and a half seconds but they couldn't do it with 6 years and millions of dollars and massive manpower at their disposal? *sigh
Maybe time to give answers, after a whole year of the game being released. 1st question: More than thousands of years. From being sealed by Rauru, to the intro for TOTK. 2nd question: He try to take over Hyrule, and kill Link and destroy the other tribes to pervent their sage’s awakening using his monsters and phantom clones/fake Zelda. 3rd question: Take over Hyrule and have it consumed by darkness ? 4th question: Epic and difficult battles. This Ganondorf can flurry smack Link, use all kinds of weapons, decrease Link’s heart containers, and become pseudo Demise and then a giant dark dragon with the tear he stolen. (And to think the Calamity is only a fraction of his power, and malice is only a far weaker version of gloom) 5th question: Right underneath Hyrule Castle (just like many had expected). And the castle is built on top of him as a way to seal him away.
I want to see origami king type companions but it’s for a whole area and not just for a region For example Teba follows you around the northwest part of the map (and maybe mount lanayru too) and helps with puzzles for that general ar How this would work for horse back though I’m not too sure but if anyone has any ideas in mind I’d love to know
With the fossils thing they could add a whole side quest or even main quest involving some fossils, maybe Purah would need help with something to do with some monster bones or something, the possibilities for a fossil based quest are almost infinite
Imagine a time travel style game. Link visits the past to do things that change things in the present. Flip flopping back and forth between times would be epic!!
I think for me, my change would be a combat system that takes longer/is harder to master. Once you learn how to reliably parry and enter bullet time all challenge kinda goes out the window in the last 2 games
There are a few inaccuracies I could nitpick about, bit I'll stick to the nerdiest of them all. The auroras in Hebra are not aurora borealis. They are aurora australis (i.e., southern lights). I say this because if the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but the two whirlpools in Lake Hylia and the East Reservoir Lake turn clockwise, then Hyrule is on the southern hemisphere of its planet. 🤓
There's a subtlety behind the arguments "it's BOTW again" and "it doesn't connect very well to BOTW" that makes these things a bit worse than in other contexts with other games, IMO. The specific context is that we were used to every mainline Zelda being completely groundbreaking and impactful, reeeally making up for the long development times and supplying Nintendo with their secure base of loyal customers that in part even buy their systems just for this one game in particular. And adding to that, they simply silently got rid of the top down entries, the "second main" line so to speak, making it so that IF this game is going to reuse assets of BOTW, it HAS to be completely different like Majora's Mask in order to break that ground and make it worthwhile; if that isn't possible, then at least they have to significantly improve on the biggest criticisms of BOTW like weapon durability and dungeon size, which they didn't completely do either. And so on. It's a bit of a situation where Nintendo has a really quirky idea that might work IF these other things align and then they didn't really 100% deliver on those fronts, so people have this understandable reaction. When Banjo Kazooie - Nuts & Bolts was released, developers knew they were taking a risk with the crafting mechanics, but they were extremely faithful and confident that the public is going to pick up on the sophistication of the crafting mechanic, but it didn't work, as these fans were so in love with the platforming gameplay of the older titles. It seems, with TOTK, that Nintendo really did it and actually had success with exactly this Nuts & Bolts strategy and the public fell in love with the crafting mechanic. Which is phenomenal and kudos to them! But the series' overall success still rests on the shoulders of the gameplay of the older titles and lots of us sadly aren't the biggest fans of crafting. So that's another big - IMO quite understandable - part of the backlash.
Okay I have a controversial one, I want Link to talk. Okay I said it I think it's about time we give him a personality like zelda got in the last two games. I'm sick of people just talking at him, let him have an opinion on things.
And to all those who might say him talking will break the emersion or make the game un enjoyable the mkst popular games have main characters who talk, red dead 2, last of us 2, spiderman etc... so Link talking might make the game better, especially if he has someone to talk too
That would be cool & it would give him so much more personality! Right now, Link (from the last 2 games) is just someone who can fight, has a sense of duty, I guess, and... likes to cook? I think they could easily go there after the Zelda movie.
I think it would’ve been interesting if the gloom hands popped up anywhere (not in the sky, that is) and anytime instead of specific locations. It would make the game a lot more anxiety inducing and fun, in my opinion.
Oddly specific things I'd like.... 1: : think of "Wile E. Coyete: Super Genius", but as a bokoblin. You go through his dungeon, which is loaded with goofy traps, all the while the bokoblin watches and gloats. That is, until you make it to him. 2: : Link has ridden across the fields of Hyrule on Epona, and flown the skies on a Loftwing. Why not have both in one mount? 3: : Because nothing breaks the immersion with Captain Vanilla like an NPC commenting that he doesn't like the rain. 4: : I just want it, okay?! 5: : That'd be far more relatable to me than what BotW gave. 6: : include some kind of silly bit that plays on a rival IP. 7: : best farm girl ever. It's been a while since she's appeared in a new game. 8: : if you jump in lava repeatedly, then perhaps the goddess idol should call you out on it. 9: : give Link lots of cartoony deaths for the fans to compile. 10: : think of the humor from "Immortals Fenix Rising".
The poisonous food idea makes me think of how on Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, there was rotten flesh and expired milk you could find. Eating it would harm you, but if you equip the Flesh Golem’s soul, it heals you instead. It makes me imagine if the transformation masks were in the new games, the idea of Gordon Link being able to eat rocks. The rock food would go from a quarter heart to 5 or 10, and maybe cooking gemstones could create different meals. But more on topic, I like the idea of poisonous plants that are harmless once cooked. Maybe a plant that’s only useful for a stat buff needing to be cooked into a meal before it can be used.
I can understand why they lifted up the great sky island up to protect link, but that doesnt really explain why all the other islands are there. What's the deal with them?
Wasnt worth playing at launch. Isnt worth playing now. Would have loved to have gotten into it before now but its no use trying now. Shadow of the Erdtree is coming out soon and after that, totk will reduced from a disappointing memory to an absence of memory
I'll be happy as long as it's not another open world! BOTW was good, but far from my favorite Zelda. TOTK was fun but....disappointing. And the monotonous, grueling grind to upgrade, well... ANYTHING! Just no more of that. Also, the breakable weapons are the worst thing to happen to Zelda ever! The only really specific thing I would like is swimming and underwater battles. And I want more mind puzzles that are actually challenging rather than easily skippable with game breaking mechanics. I like classic Zelda because it makes you use your brain! Newer Zelda games are too freaking easy! We don't need another Fortnight! Twilight Princess was the last really good Zelda.
I actually got in the locked house once when I was a kid. But I don't remember how 😭 I think I did some kind of glitch accidentally by jumping from the sign and climbing through it or something?
i think the are the tree dragons from skyward sword, cause we can know that at least the desert dragon was long dead by the time of the game, and only can life again when link hits these time travel stones.
That’s actually a pretty cool idea, adding different types of bows. Maybe crossbows as well as slingshots, though I haven’t thought of how they would differ from each other.
I'd love for certain retro elements to be re-introduced. The Roc's Cape for a double jump, for example, or Pegasus Boots for a speed boost. Maybe having 4 armour slots; 3 slots for normal armour and 2 slot for enchanted items. Also I'd love for the Minish and shrinking mechanics to come back. Seems like a great way to squeeze the world for a little more engagement.
How about a complex and rewarding story? 😞 I’m semi-joking….not really…but I hope they take care of that on their own. What I’d actually really love in the next Zelda game is a more complex combat system on the level of something like Dark Souls, perhaps with a toggle-system for the levels of difficulty? I dream of a Zelda II remake that is Soulsborne-like both in combat and aesthetic-would be appropriate given the difficulty of the original
Honestly a Souls-like Zelda game would be amazing. I mean Botw is basically an easier version of one. Just ramp that difficulty up a ton and give it that souls atmosphere and it’ll be amazing.
