Aonuma implies open world Zelda may be standard from now on

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ninjapirate42 said:
It's bittersweet to me. I absolutely adore BotW and I definitely want other titles like this. I wish they could find a happy medium with it, as I still love the traditional Zelda of finding new awesome items to use all game.
Perhaps they'll find a happy medium for this, and honestly I would prefer it being more like 80/20 open world/traditional, but I would like to see a way for them to do some of the old stuff as well. Might be hard to find uses for hookeshots/clawshots if Link can climb anything :(

They may tweak the formula. The hookshoot was already an item in every 3D Zelda and some 2D ones. It is time to move on from those traditional items, or at least, in the traditional usage.

 

I think they are going to expand on the idea of runes or maybe create new items. At the worst, some traditional items are going to get new interesting ways to use them.