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Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are both fantastic games - and Tears of the Kingdom really does feel (to me) like they just took Breath of the Wild, and added a few more years of dev time to it.

Where do you think Nintendo will take Zelda from here though? Can they keep with the same new formula? Should they? Will a more traditional game feel disappointing after this?

I don't really know what I want myself. I think they should try something different though. At the same time, I can't help but think I'd be disappointed if the next game was more similar to something like Twilight Princess. Have they boxed themselves in?

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[–] SojournerWeaver 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Assuming we get a third game in the botw run, I would love to see link travel back to early Hyrule like Zelda did. Nintendo could use the blueprint of the depths ruins as the backbone for a thriving Zonai civilization. Aboveground would be a truly wild Hyrule similar to what the depths are now. No sky islands as this would predate their creation. Instead we could have a 'dive' feature that lets us visit an ancient Zora, spread out in the waters in and around Hyrule. All new characters (except maybe Raru and friends), but many characters could be ancestors of current characters so they would be familiar in some ways. I would love to see the ability to tame monsters, more complex Zonai devices, and yes, perhaps real dungeons.

Also I could even see a fourth game in this series that totally turns all of the formula on its head. It would actually star Zelda, and she would travel through time to different eras of Hyrule. We'd get to see areas and dungeons from ocarina of time, twilight princess, skyward sword and even many of the 2d titles, redesigned with botw graphics and controls. The focus of the game would be for Zelda to help Link. She must stay out of sight, navigate dungeons to place keys, compasses, maps and/or key weapons that the link of that era will need to defeat whatever evil he faces. I think this would be super cool.

[–] BillyZane 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re hired. I’d play this for sure.

[–] SojournerWeaver 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

At first I was like I don't wanna play as Zelda but as you went into more detail I was like hell yeah that sounds amazing!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instead we could have a ‘dive’ feature that lets us visit an ancient Zora, spread out in the waters in and around Hyrule.

The Legend of Zelda: The Way of Water

In all seriousness though, this sounds amazing. There are so many unanswered questions from the BotW universe. It would be interesting to see another addition to the series.

[–] SojournerWeaver 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What questions would you like to see answered?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it possible to post spoilers on Lemmy?

[–] SojournerWeaver 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think so. I'm going to try now with reddit code.

!testing testing one, two ummm 12!<

Edit: looks like no :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agh that’s too bad! In that case I’ll just say I want to know more details about the reward you get when completing all 152 shrines. So many questions!

[–] SojournerWeaver 2 points 1 year ago
[–] zkfcfbzr 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know I'm 10 days late, but you can post spoilers on Lemmy

Like thisSpoilery text goes here

And here

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Which you do like this: