SuperLink said:
No I mean new items unlocking new areas. If you can go almost everywhere from the start that doesn't leave much space for new areas you can get to with your sparkly new hookshot!
Create areas within the open world that the player physically cannot get to until they've gained a certain skill or item, and then Bob might be your uncle. They're called "ideas". Nintendo employ a whole bunch of incredibly talented folk. If they'd loosen the leash on Zelda even just a tiny bit and let their devs go nuts on it, they might really have something again. In all honesty, there was nothing 'wrong' with any Zelda I played. I just felt as it went on it became so formulaic of a product to ingest, if you like. Even down to nearly the same storyline, setting and everything most times.
What I'd like to see is Nintendo let go of the corporate politics for at least one zelda game and let a team really create an oddball entry into the series. I'd give my left nut to see a Hyrule set 2,000 years afterwards, and Hyrule town has grown into a huge neon city. Zelda lives in a techno-palace, and spends all day smoking and looking really cool, and Link is a bounty-hunter, and spends all day smoking and looking really cool.
Although it's the future (even from our perspective), all the televisions and computer monitors are pathetically low-res and crappy. There's a big neon Coca-Cola bulletin board on the side of Hyrule castle, and cars fly everywhere. Link has a specially customised car called "Epona", even has the Ferrari horse on it (tons of product-placement in this fucker).
Okay, maybe not. But I'd certainly shave an eyebrow off and replace it with glued-on pubic hairs if Nintendo would commit to making such a game.
SuperLink said:
But you listed under half of the 2D Zeldas there. There's also:Games..
Yeah, I know. I'm probably not as versed in Zelda as you. I have heard of all those games, and played them all a bit on emulators. I do just mean "a bit", though.
SuperLink said:
You say that as if every Zelda released in the last decade hasn't been met with critical acclaim.
Zelda isn't like Sonic y'know.
Yeah, haha. It does kind of sound like that. I don't mean it like that, though.