MegaDrive08 on 12 March 2017
Again as someone previously mentioned, Nintendo always wanted Zelda to be a big open world experiance they just never had the hardware that could pull it off, so in games like Windwaker they gave you the illusion of playing in a big world, all be it, it was mainly an ocean with islands dotted about the map.
This will be the formula going forward, we can expect different art styles and maybe out of the ordinary worlds, who knows.
