Umm...Zelda to me was the first sand-box game I ever played in a time where 95% of the games were side scrollers and in many of them the screen was moving.
Zelda is fine in my opinion. Sure they have experimented with the series, which I take as good because the poorer sales from differing from the tried and true formula squashes any urge to repeat the ridiculous train in the game experiment again. Then again, I may be wrong and Nintendo may still take liberties with the gameplay.
As for Malstrom, his whole philosophy and key to video games becoming mainstream is a revival of video game arcades in malls and arcade games.
If video games could be compared to politics, then Malstrom's view would be a right-wing reactionary who is eagerly active in getting the world back to the "good ole' days."
Malstrom ain't bleeding edge or progressive in his view of video games.
