The Next Zelda Open World Game Needs This! 

Open World Zelda has so much potential, but it needs to think bigger. Not in its world map size but rather what we find inside it and what makes a Zelda game the best in the world! What is that for you? Thumbnail: drive.google.com/file/d/1mO5ZEA13_wf27EtikBtwuQugs5KbLKEJ/view?usp=sharing

I would like a good balance of linear and nonlinear cutscenes. Nonlinear ones can be character or world building. Linear ones can be cryptic, or somehow locked to be unviewable until the previous ones are viewed to prevent spoilers.

Honestly I hope they get away from using memories to tell the bulk of the story.

And bring back the original zelda tune in subtle way

Underwater gameplay, a brand new item/inventory system, and actual multiple endings.

Bro, with just seeing the thumbnail I CONCUR WHOLEHEARTEDLY IT NEEDS A MONKEY!!!!!!!!

Number of shrines in the next game should be 0, not 100.

There are so many ideas that could make a good (next) Zelda game. >Definitely put more emphasize on filling out the world with "meaningful" content, perhaps shrink down the overall worldmap a little bit to help in that endeavour. >Make the environment part of the adventure/story and not something that exists mostly just for the player to traverse and "discard" after. >Sea/underwater exploration/traversal needs to make a comeback! >Let us help shape/build the world we play in, both figuratively but also practically, like some of us would've hoped for more rebuilding efforts in TotK like with TarreyTown in BotW. >Put more emphasize on the lore, by chance hire some proficient story writers, but don't bring in mysteries without sufficiently answering questions that players WILL inevitably have (this one's for the lore people and theorists *cough* Zonai) >More dungeons that actually challenge the player's wits and can't be cheesed or circumvented by sticking a rocket to a shield or climbing everywhere EDIT: I wrote the above while listening to the video, so some ideas may overlap, as I wrote them before you brought them up in the video. xD

I just want a "tolkien" style zelda game that doesn't have weird ancient technology

I would also like to see the return of Fi since our favorite construct companion has been helping out Goddess’s chosen hero in every era.

I can’t wait for what they’ll do next for the open world.

Would be happy having a story driven souls-Zelda game...

Since Nintendo is planing to move away from this Hyrule, I hope Nintendo can make a sequel to TOTK. I would like to see the Zora’s Domain Yona is from, and having both land, sea and landmasses where we can explore new territories is a brilliant idea. Hopefully Link and Zelda won’t be separated again since I would like to see the pair traveling together.

Having several islands or parts of the map we can’t have access to until we’ve beaten a previous area of the map that can be freely explored like BotW could be the solution to fix the linear vs open debate.

Speaking of a more better storytelling where past and present are integrated, a playable Princess Zelda would’ve hope the next game where we get to see multiple perspectives out of our two main characters (her and Link).

I agree with everything you've commented and that's how I dream about the next main Zelda. Plus I can add several somewhat more specific things I want for it as well: -A more realistic settings and characters, not something hyperealistic but more TPish than cartoon. -Bring back items such as the hookshot or boomerang and make them in a way that you can combine them with new abilites in a creative way. -Bring back pieces of heart as rewards from quests or puzzles and hidden throughtout the world. Also make more zones or events that require an amount of hearts or stamina, wich can help in the regard of make the game a bit more linear. -Not only an explorable sea on boat but underwater as well (for example, a massive Zora domain submerged can be gorgeous to see and explore). Also, seeing an area or dimension drastically different from the medieval fantasy, like something futuristic, would blow my mind and can be quite interesting. -A companion would be really nice after going alone in Botw and Totk. I would be happy with Zelda as in ST tbh. Also bring back diegetic music and instruments as key for the story and gameplay. -A darker tone of the lore wich delve into the witchcraft and dark magic aspect of the saga, maybe even something related to the twili and/or the dephts. Also a new villain related to that.

We need a real sequel to BOTW. One set In a different land with big dungeons, cool new Zelda bosses, get rid of shrines and koroks, a new menacing villain and threatening plot, and a story taking place in the present. The Zelda team is capable of something better than tears of the kingdom.

These are some very good points you made for what the next open world Zelda game should be like. As someone who loves a good story, I wholeheartedly agree on the storytelling point you’ve made. If I may add to your list, I’d like to add return of certain items (hookshot, iron boots, special tunics to help brave elements. I know some of these have returned but I don’t want to survive the element (s) I’m in for a certain amount of time and not have to rely on food too much), the use of music on your quest (something I’m sure everyone would like as the music of the Zelda games is classic and was one of the things that attracted them to the games as a whole.), NO WEAPON BREAKAGE (nobody wants their weapons breaking on them in the middle of a battle. It’s embarrassing and potentially could leave link/you open to enemy attack. I know I don’t like weapons breaking on me.), and maybe having songs sung by the characters via quests and maybe making the game a musical (I can imagine Zelda singing something to help link on his quest and maybe link having to sing a cappella at first before he obtains the magic instrument (s) in question to help him with usage of the song (s) in battle and puzzles. Who knows? Maybe the instrument can turn into a weapon that you can use in battle and they WON’T break on you.). Perhaps even link and Zelda being made to work with a new ganondorf to stop a new evil and maybe as the story progresses, the solo songs would be powerful and sung by either party member and/or become duets and trios. The new ganondorf could even have a story arc where he not only redeems himself as a better ganondorf than his past reincarnations but one everyone can actually put trust in more. Heck, if Nintendo can’t do that, they should at least have a story on why the famous gerudo male born once a century came to be (I have an idea of it where the first ganondorf was noble and was forced to kill his own twin brother Deimos because of him betraying his own people and ganondorf having been forced to banish him because of deimos’s bad actions (spreading lies to get attention and the like along with thinking things that are not true). After Deimos dies, ganondorf and his queen, a sorceress named Fortuna, decreed that only one male gerudo can be born once a century in order to prevent brother killing brother from ever happening again. But that decree, as we saw in later Zelda games, had disastrous consequences.).

I want to get a new prominent race to be added to the Hylians, Shiekah, Zoras, Rito, Gorons, Deku and Gerudo. Since getting to dwell into "The Elder Scrolls" and reading about various "Dungeons and Dragons" inspired stories, I have been all over the Lizardmen trope and feel like the "Lizalfos" evolving beyond being simple enemies (like how Zoras started of like) and become their own cool unique civilized folk in Hyrule. If they are at it, they could do something similar with the Bokblins but I have had ideas for how there could be a cool underline story of how Ganons forces could potentially reside in some sort of dark kingdom where the inhabitants are forced to serve under him and we could have one or several characters secretly helping Link and Zelda to bring freedom back to their folk. Imagine some slender assassin of a Lizalfos mostly staying in the shadows and hiding their face under a hooded cloak revealing himself in front of the heroes and it's unsure at first if they can be trusted or not but then they become an active freedom fighter alongside Link and the other major representatives that wish to change the fate for their people.

0:49 That's a good idea 💡❤

I would love for Nintendo to dial back a bit on the open-world aspect and focus more on dungeon and puzzle design. While I enjoyed *Tears of the Kingdom*, I felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content. I believe they could have done a much better job with the dungeons. The time spent on creating the building system could have been used to develop more intricate and engaging dungeons. I hope Nintendo considers this for their next game!

9:26 haha I see what you did there

It’s incredibly unfortunate to see you supporting and normalising not paying artists with that AI thumbnail ☹️. Being a fan of beautiful games like Zelda and being a creator yourself I would’ve thought you’d be against that crap like the rest of us.

I’m excited to see River and sea zoras interact in the upcoming echoes of wisdom as well as deku who are an underused race

“Rise of the sages” Link will have a grappling hook to help him doing obstacles or travel around the land A friend who will accompany him on his journey like a fairy Being able to go under water and there will be a stamina for breathing and also dungeons or caves underneath Having new monsters ,my concept is an invisible monster that tries to frame them (link and sages)while also bring in previous monsters from previous games A weapon smith that could restore weapons durability that are about to break

I thought they decided not to have anymore open world ones since echoes isn't. Is echoes supposed to be an in-between type game to hold us over until a more detailed open world is made?

I really want to see the Picori in a mainline game. 😢 It would also be so awesome to have a non-Ganon villain in the same vein as Ghirahim, or Zant.

I've been hoping the next Zelda game would take a leaf out of Zelda II and move the action to Northern Hyrule, with Link on a quest to recover the Triforce (not just the Triforce of Courage, but all three). I think bring back too large of an empty ocean would be a bad idea, though. But may having a few large islands wouldn't be terrible.

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Great video. I agree with all of your points.

Great Video! Very interesting!

where you get the artwork for that thumbnail? that monkey looks adorable

Didn't know link was a titan shifter!

Is the thumbnail credit in the description an error or did this one have a previous one before link holding a monkey?

Come on Nintendo, get this guy on as a Zelda consultant, loved all of these points!!!

I want to see what's beyond Hyrule. What kingdom neighbors it? What species live there? Who's their great evil?

This! I really love the exploration aspect of Zelda, combined with the architecture, puzzles, and dungeons in Zelda. The Zelda team need to take notice of these things in your video. I really really want a Zelda like this happen, preferably soon. I was 10 when Zelda was first released. In 2026, I'll be 50! Please, let there be a really decent Zelda like this, before I get too old to play and appreciate it. 😢 My whole life, I've played Zelda games, they are the only franchise games that I love to play! ❤

That is what we need.

Also maybe return the emphasis on music in the story like the other zelda games had!!!

It would be cool to time travel between the same maps and have to take quests and clues where and when to go. Then you can see the same locations with different events and buildings in them.

It needs Ai art?

Maybe they’ll go towards whatever the movie ends up being 🤔

My biggest hope for TOTK was time shift stones, where you could have visited areas from both the present and the distant past. I would even say that they could even make another sequel with that feature and I'd be more excited than I was for TOTK.

This may never happen, but me and a friend of mine always talked about how we wanted a Zelda game where all of the timelines ended up into one timelines and the main story could be about our main characters discovering the eternal curse from Demise and try to end it for good. We also talked about how even Ganondorf could be aware of the curse, but every time he tries to end it himself, Demise's evil takes over him and tries to stop him. I personally think if it does happen, it could lead to a lot more creative future concepts

I agree with the idea of quality over quantity. Koroks are cute at first and the shrines are okay and all, but I would take 50 koroks where each has an interesting and challenging task over 900 with a "nothing much" task. And I think dungeons should be the bread and butter of the game. The very first one had 8. I see no reason why we cannot have 8+ per game. Instead of 120 shrines and 4 main dungeons. I would gladly take 8-10 dynamic and difficult long dungeons and just 30 shrines. Just my take.

I’d like to see more of hyrule’s government like representatives of each of the races having a seat on a council alongside the royal family that makes decisions for the country with each group having local rule over there home territory or something. I honestly am frustrated that they didn’t have Ordon province from twilight princess in the wilds era games and I think there should be a game set after twilight princess in a similar hyrule just in general and no crossbow training does not count because it’s not story driven

Idc what anyone says but I hope the next game is a sequel to TOTK where we can go beyond hyrule to 4 other kingdoms

1:50 Link in the Witcher 3? I could not imagine him being in a brothel.

If I could have just two things form the next game i'd be satisfied. Give us a new mainline villain, Ganon has been getting WAY to much focus in the last decade. and also a new art style. i'd love to see somthing a little more gritty, like ocarina or twilight.

Konrad Zelda desperately need underwear exploration to come back 🌊

I think if Hyrule were like Marseille, it would have a coast, it would have Mediterranean and French medieval architecture aswell as Greek and Roman influences and would make sense

Less Npc’s the worlds are too full in BotW and TotK, there are like only 10 memorable ones, while in past games you know everyone

Hopefully we get new open world Zelda by 2028

No more open world! Botw and totk fulfilled all the hopes around experimentation and world progression. It's time for something more traditional

All your wishes depends on how both powerful the next console & game engine will be for these ideas!

I would love to see a sort of "magic punk" Zelda.

Havent watched IT but i guess He will repeat the Same Things He Said the Last 8 years. Dungeon items which are so useful that you use IT in that specific Dungeon and then another 6 Times in the entire Game. Wow man. How fun.

I just want a linear story that isn't filled with plot holes, and unexplained lore, and that doesn't retcon all previous lore the way TOTK does. Other open world games have linear stories! I would also love to get some of the classic items back. Like the hook shot and the Hover boots. And everyone wants them to make some actually decent dungeons rather than the garbage they had in BOTW and TOTK.

This is exactly what Botw and Totk were missing, great ideas.

I want something that respects the greater lore. Something that ties some loose ends a little better instead of creating more. Also (and idk if this is controversial or not) but I’d like the overall story to take more of a front seat than a back seat compared to new gameplay mechanics like it did in TOTK. That doesn’t mean that I don’t expect great gameplay mechanics but it should never be at the expense of subtracting from the story. If anything I’d take subtracting the world size over anything. Still make it decent size but that can be reeled back over anything imo and could make the world itself feel more full and active. Keep the wide armor and weapon choices. Bring back some cool classic items that have been missing like the hookshot and please bring us some more Zelda music.

I want to go back to Twilight Princess era open world LOZ.

i want a OoT remake or another one like it.

Saying that only lighting temple is close to a classic dungeon is kinda crazy. Only the water temple felt lacking. Soul temple is kinda hard to compare, since it is scattered in many different places. Also, instead of making new races, why not go more indepth with the zonai? Nothing is holding them from using a time before they left hyrule (or whatever name the kingdom had, since Rauru was the one to estabilish that particular hyrule). On the storytelling, i disagree that the story itself is bad/lacking, its just that most of it happens in the past and we have to discover it. Many may not like it, but if Nintendo kept doing the same thing (especially after ss), things would probably turn out horrible.

How about weapons not breaking.

I don't think they introduced the Zonai to just cease to exist. They probably will bring them back somehow. With the positive feedback to the Zonais design and aesthetic in general. Nintendo has to. They'd be stupid to do otherwise.

Why is no one mentioning open world fishing

The traditional dungeons in totk were a very pleasant surprise! I hated botw with its dungeons and empty world. Didn't feel anything like the zelda games i grew up with

All great choices... and a new and original main antagonist like a Zant or Ghirahim, no Ganondorf..

Ya know what the next Zelda game needs? To not be open world again and to go back to the original 3D Zelda format

The next Zelda game needs to be as good as good as the last two people talk about so much “10/10” like no it’s not

you want the legend of Zelda: Odyssey 😂

Do we really need another open world zelda?

Land and Sea...sounds kind of like a Xenoblade map.

Ahkk no, i dont want anymore shrines. Not 120, not 100, not 50. They start to feel like such a chore. I would rather they combine those puzzles into a dungeon

Ai art in thumbnail >:(

The next Zelda open World comes in two months

All I want is mm remake

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Ai ahhh thumbnail

hi there hello...i was early : )

just let hyrule be a country and a small one... it shrinks, and grows over time not the whole world

dear lord i hope its not another open world.. just make it action adventure like god of war or something or like the old games

Legacy dungeons or bust

Is the thumbnail made with Ai Art?

The Next Zelda game needs the power to save Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever .

Please good dungeons, good characters and masterpiece story? At the very least? All I ask *Edit: Also let's please move on from the Zonai. I refuse to acknowledge those timeline/continuity messing furry f$^%s any further*

Why are you guys using AI for the thumbnail image? I thought this was a respected Zelda yt channel. Shame.

Oh god that ai thumbnail

Is that AI in the thumbnail? Gross if it is

thumbnail looks like ai..

gross AI art thumbnail

That's a beautiful thumbnail. Where'd you get the image? I tried following the link in the description and I can't find it.

Echoes of Wisdom is gonna be open world, it should be bigger than TOTK considering its not as graphic demanding

use a thumbnail that’s not AI next time

Gimmie that continuity and heavy dialog. 🤡

monki !!!!!

im kinda sick of Open world Zelda

Zelda II did everything right

>ai thumbnail Yikes, unsub

Ugh another creator using AI for content (thumbnail). Really disappointing tbh