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sc94597 on 12 January 2015
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Pavolink said:
sc94597 said:
Pavolink said:

Even more when you take in count that Ganonforf from Twilight Princess did nothing to you. In  OoT, he is the evil man behind the good guy disguise that use you to enter to the Sacred Realm and obtain the Triforce. Also, he is the main villian all the game, not just the last five minutes. On the other hand, Ganondorf from Oot was a threat to Hyrule, in the same vein Zant was in TP. Not Ganondorf.

TP used the same convention that ALTTP, and FSA used: have a puppet villian. At least Zant is more fleshed out than either Agahnim or Vatii. And both Twilight Princess and Windwaker were games meant to show the reprucussions of actions in OoT in diverging timelines. It makes sense to explain what happened to Ganondorf in Twilight Princess for that reason. Actually I think Twilight Princess set a lot up for Skyward Sword with the ancestors in the sky stuff, and its portrayal of Ganondorf's strength feeding off hatred (Zant's.) That's the first time Nintendo has been foresightful in their story telling in LoZ rather than piecing it together retroactively, in a while. 

The point is, that ALTTP needs of Ganon to succesfully ends. TP don't. Zant could have been a better final boss if they kept the serious look, never looking at his face behind the helmet, and being a powerful enemy. He should have transformed into Ganon at the end.

I would have do this: At the end of the Palace of Twilight you face Zant, and while you defeat him, he is not dead. He dissappear and then appears into Hyrule Castle. Then, in Hyrule Castle you face him with his true power. Ganondorf can't leave Zant's body and he returns to the Twilight Realm. Or at least something around that.

How exactly would Zant get his power to overthrow Midna and why would he come to Hyrule if it weren't for Ganon's (a separate entities) motivations? Zant didn't come to want to conquer Hyrule for himself, he did it for Ganon.  Zant as a character needs a motive, and I'd rather it be Ganon directing him to do so than, "oh he just wants more power." Also Zant and Ganon's relationship was interesting. Zant being so jealous and resentful against Midna fueled Ganon and Ganon promised him power in return. For that reason I prefer them to be separate entities from one another. Zant then was loyal to Ganon until his betrayal. And I viewed Zant help with killing Ganondorf as a changing role in his character, that he realized how wrong he was to blindly follow and worhship Ganon as a god. It would've taken away from that changing and developing characterization to have him remain the big evil or change into Ganon (that is essentially what ALTTP did.) I prefer round, developing characters to flat, static ones, to be honest. Also I like how Ganon dies rather than being sealed away in TP. It has a sort of symmetry with the adult timeline where Ganon dies in Windwaker and A Link to the Past, where he also dies in the failed hero timeline.