Hopes and Dreams: The next Zelda title

I'm still yet to play Breath of the Wild. I hope to get a copy at some point this year.

Actually, you know what I really want? A Zelda set in a futuristic urban sprawl. Everything looking a bit Blade Runner. Link with his archaic armoury fighting his way through Moblins armed with high-energy weapons, or Xenoblade X-level giant robots.

That doesn't mean I want Link leaping in with an Uzi, I love the series' swordplay; but I'd love to see him take on a bit more of a steampunk or sci-fi aesthetic. Since that's not going to happen, however, BotW TP please.

I'm really craving a new 2D Zelda, with a new world to explore.

A psuedo-sequel to Minish Cap could be wonderful, bring back the Minish and Vaati.

Going along with that sci-fi angle, maybe Link could start with the old Master Sword, but then gets introduced to a new one that can transform itself into an energy pistol - but only at full health and only while z-targeting.

What if King of Red Lions but a motorbike

Knoyleo wrote:I thought this thread was about the the next game being called The Legend Of Zelda: Hopes And Dreams.

Yep. And now we need to kill the thread starter for crushing our hopes and dreams :evil:

I've no idea where Zelda goes from BotW...I don't think you can go back to the old style. But doing BotW "again" wouldn't be as magical as the first time

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Another thing I was thinking - though I'm not sure it would fit the spirit of the Zelda series - is have the rebuilt Hyrule but for each area have a story of something that needs to be solved. These stories would be like a mini adventure with a beginning and end, starting at Hyrule Castle as a tutorial world, with the final story being up on the Great Plateau.

OrangeRKN wrote:I'm really craving a new 2D Zelda, with a new world to explore.

A psuedo-sequel to Minish Cap could be wonderful, bring back the Minish and Vaati.

they had considered revisiting that mechanic during the early stages of botw development

Yeah I saw that linked before, if they revisit that in a sequel I will also be happy!

Something I would love but I’m not sure how popular it would be with others, is if they did a BOTW sized world on the sea. Basically Wind Waker in BOTW’s scope, but with more islands and places to explore.

Tomous wrote:Something I would love but I’m not sure how popular it would be with others, is if they did a BOTW sized world on the sea. Basically Wind Waker in BOTW’s scope, but with more islands and places to explore.

Not very.

shy guy 64 wrote:
OrangeRKN wrote:I'm really craving a new 2D Zelda, with a new world to explore.

A psuedo-sequel to Minish Cap could be wonderful, bring back the Minish and Vaati.

they had considered revisiting that mechanic during the early stages of botw development

I would have loved the finish to be involved, Minish cap is my favourite Zelda game so far.

I'd like to see Weapon Durability scrapped as well as the stamina meter.
Keep the way you explore the games world but I'd like better more traditional dungeons similar to Link between worlds you can choose which order you do them in.

Tomous wrote:Something I would love but I’m not sure how popular it would be with others, is if they did a BOTW sized world on the sea. Basically Wind Waker in BOTW’s scope, but with more islands and places to explore.

now that would be incredible

Tsunade wrote:I would have loved the finish to be involved, Minish cap is my favourite Zelda game so far.

yeah itd be great to see them back

Hexx wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:I thought this thread was about the the next game being called The Legend Of Zelda: Hopes And Dreams.

Yep. And now we need to kill the thread starter for crushing our hopes and dreams

I've no idea where Zelda goes from BotW...I don't think you can go back to the old style. But doing BotW "again" wouldn't be as magical as the first time

What do you mean BOTW again? Aonuma has basically confirmed it’s the template for Zelda going forward. Though how far that template extends is an interesting question.

People go on about a return to dungeons but I don’t think we’re getting traditional ones back and after BOTW I don’t think I really want them back. I really liked the puzzle box style Shrines and though on the whole I thought the Divine Beasts were a bit weak as the main challenge set pieces I’d like them to remain in some form. There were maybe half a dozen Shrines a little longer in length that I think would be a perfect template for a way forward if they’re to be reused in a sequel, I’ll try and find videos later.

The perfect blend for me would be around 30 of these longer style Shrines coupled with a handful of Hyrule Castle style ‘dungeons’. Akkala Citadel is basically another ready made ‘open air’ dungeon and I’d love to get in there and explore it. The Zonai ruins could be another one if you built it up more, there’s the option for an expanded Yiga hideout and Hebra is ripe for some kind of underground cave system.

I like DarkRula’s idea of helping rebuild and resettle Hyrule, if the next game was to be set on the same map that’s basically what I’d want. There’s so many ruined settlement on the map that there’s loads of potential extra use you could get out of it.

I completely disagree with the Shrines being... any good at all to be honest. I thought that they were the worst part of BotW. Most of them were too small to be satisfying, and the identikit aesthetic and music made them boring to be in. Also the combat ones were repetitive and dull after the first three. They weren't enough to spoil BotW for me, because it really was about above ground and the Beasts; but give me proper dungeons any day.

I’d like a few things to be improved,

Firstly, better dungeons. Whether this will take over completely from the shrines (personally I’d prefer it, could keep the health/stamina upgrade system in place whereby you get the games version of spirit orbs from doing side quests) or not is another question but I felt BoTW massively missed the dungeons of previous games. Not really fussed how many dungeons they’d include but as long as they were better than the divine beasts I’d probably be happier.

Secondly, scrap the weapon durability and have previous items return. You could then have an upgrade path like in Skyward Sword where you can upgrade the items to increase their power in battle to compensate for not finding higher powered weapons in the wild. I didn’t mind the durability system overall but it seemed to swing massively from early game items having shocking durability to mid-late game weapons having enough durability but by that point you’re getting so many high powered weapons thrown in your direction I just found myself switching them out all the time anyway so I rarely actually broke many weapons in the latter parts of the game.

Thirdly, better and more in depth side quests. As I said in point one, you could get spirit orbs (or whatever they call them in the new game, if they keep them in the game) for completing side quests so you can upgrade Link’s health/stamina to your preference. Ideally there’d be a lot more to them than collecting items, some of the side quests in BoTW were good though, I liked Kass’s shrine quests and there was a few others I enjoyed but I felt they could have been a lot better for the most part though.

Lastly, more music. While I enjoyed the soundtrack there really wasn’t many memorable tracks in there, probably none that I’ll still be humming years after hearing them for the first time like with Gerudo Valley, Dragon Roost Island, Stone Tower (heck a lot of the music from Majora’s Mask is amazing) and so on. Edit, just dawned on me I have done a massive disservice to one of the best tracks in the game that I might actually still be humming in years to come, Kass’ Theme :wub:

Some things I don’t want to see changed too much (but a slight improvement would be welcome) is the combat, physics engine (having more traditional items at Link’s disposal would give people a lot more ways to mess with it as well) and the graphics, personally I loved the look of the game.

The music is one of the most under rated aspects of BotW. There’s plenty of great tracks you just don’t hear them all that often throughout the game. All 4 Champions tracks are brilliant and Lurelin / Hateno / Tarrey Town music is all up there with the best in the series.

Put it in a really dystopian setting. In the timeline where Ganon won and everything is strawberry floated.

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