Wind Waker 2

Link talking would not have to be I guess, but the Twilight Princess was so outdated with all text and the characters just making goofy sounds. You waste more time reading than is needed when a good video could delever it faster and add more personality to the characters. Yes the online guide helps, but it could be more like open world games that show your goals on a radar. People brag say the game is long well I say a little too long witch could be shortened and made sweeter by changing just a few things.

Dream Zelda game list:

- More like Majora's Mask, I liked the themes, the style and the overall atmosphere that Nintendo approached with the game, which only makes it more special because of how rarely they take that approach.

This. If the atmosphere has to feel like disney, make it feel like the best of what disney has done. Otherwise, make it feel like MM.

- I want it to look gorgeous. Ocarina, Twilight Princess and even the old NES and SNES games were extremely generic in terms of art design, they always nailed the music, but their artist never seemed able to nail what they were going for. Wind Waker was a good showing, but they also changed the whole game along with the art style, which wasn't something I wanted at the time. Something along the lines of a moodier Valkyria Chronicles, Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagaan, Soul Eater or Samurai Champoo would look fantastic. Otherwise they could take the realistic approach and make their games in a similar style to something like Assassins Creed 2 and use amazing environments, camera angles, heaps of detail and free roam to make up for a un-striking art design.

I don't know Tenga TGL but I'm ok with VC or Soul Eater, but not Champloo. not Zelda-ish at all!

- I want it to be completely open. I want to be able to go to the village on my trusty steed, then sail to the far corners of the desert kingdom and just change course and return to the city to talk to every chracter and see what they have to say. Ocarina of Time was special because it made you feel like a child that was given free reign to explore a whole new world, look under every rock, meet interesting new characters, do every single side mission and just collect weapons and rupees.

This^

- No motion control, get rid of that bullshit.

But it has so much potential if used well! I mean look at the Mario Galaxy games or metroid Prime Trilogy!

- Keep the plot simple, they've done well so far, but I just get worried that all these Zelda fanboys that spend hours discussing the 'Zelda timeline' are going to get into Nintendo's head and make them take some stupid risk with an overly detailed plot or just some crazy garbage. Nintendo's strength isn't in their storylines, just make it grand and epic and I'll be happy. Once again, Gurren Lagaan should be an example they look to.

What if they pull off a good story well? I did mention something like the Legend of the Seeker but if they CAN'T do it well, they shouldn't. However, this is a wishful thinking thread so allow me to assume that they can do it well. Afterall, what would be the ultimate zelda for me personally would have a great story.

- Copy the combat from Fable 2, maybe add a jump button, keep making good soundtracks, don't let anyone speak and make sure there are no cameos from other Nintendo games.I could probably go on, but these are the main things I want.

I haven't played Fable 2, but if it means the combat will be better without feeling un-zelda-ish, I agree. From the fable vidoes I've watched, this will probably be a good idea.

Disclaimer: Zelda Spoilers. Please note, this is not a doom thread in any way. This thread follows up on the Zelda problem thread (not that there really is a big problem, just a small one).

I was wondering, if you were to tell Nintendo how you wanted your Zelda game, what would you tell them.

To start, I'll state some things I find absolutely awesome about the series, game by games (the ones I've played, and I'll just do the console versions for now):

Highlights of past zeldas:

Zelda 1: Eerie flute music, people living in small caves, secret caves that are totally inconspicuous (really secret), matte colors, going up mountains on a small path, blue and red medecine, sick last level music, cool level music, those damn hands that bring you back to the begining of the level (very dangerous), rings that changes the color of your clothes, burning bushes with the candle, scary statues with big noses, secret staircases, a raft, north south east west, and too much more to name.

Zelda 2: Funky town music, awesome temple music, downward thrust!!, upward thrust, battling knights, sick last level music, incredibly difficult monsters (graveyard, passage towards the last level), tough bosses, leveling up, potions hidden in knight and other statues, matte colors, death mountain (a good challenge), townsfolk that turn into vampires, hidden towns, hidden paths, broken bridges, I am error.

Zelda LTTP: bottles to hold faries for extra lives, fountains to upgrade items, shovel, capes, staffs, guantlets, eerie sanctuary music, dark world, lost woods, the lumberjacks, smitties who make cooler swords, cool sword colors, cool tunic colors, very dark death mountain in dark world, the hookshot, cymbals quake  thunder etc, super bomp, pegasus boots, tough bosses, flipping ennemies over, icy floors, ocarina and the boy in the woods, finding someone under the bridge.

Zelda OOT: Growing old, destruction of the world and going back and forth in time between the harmony and chaos, reDeads, taming Epona, Lon-Lon ranch, songs for different things, the song of storms, issues spanning time, the skullatula, shotting bomb-flowers from far with arrows, water temple (very challenging), awesome spirit temple music, the gerudo and their sick music, night and day, the reaper in castle town after chaos, the biggoron sword, quivers and bomb bags, diving, the hover boots, guantlets that can lift absolutely humonguous rocks, fishing, the final battle and music, matte colors, the lost woods, growing up in the kokiri forest but being a hyrulean, more Hyrule lore, the ice cavern and blue fire, cool tunics, teleport pads that you don't know are for until you're grown, the temple of time and music, the twist of fates opening up the sacred realm for ganondorf, ganondorf as a gerudo king, the lens of truth.

Zelda MM: New stray faeries (collectible), the water temple, 4 areas of the world: North, South, East and West, each with their own climate. Very wacky field music, totally wacky maps and colors (deku swamp). Alternate and twisted universe, with its own physics and rules: a portal from the real world, a crashing moon, days that can be sped or slowed down. The observatory and its music, the song of healing, masks!!! transforming masks, just fun masks, expanding on that useless mask store in OOT, expanding on the simple forest kid. The fierce deity mask, the faerie sword, new items for young link. Using adult link tools as young link. Ikana Canyon, its castle and 

Zelda WW: Facial expressions and vivid animations, very high rise structures huge depth, dragon roost isle tune,

The Zelda I would have them make:

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I'll complete this when I get back from work, but in the mean time, feel free to post your own ideas. You can follow my lead, 1) highlight elements from past zeldas, 2) What you would have Nintendo make.

What's the point you'll say? To increase awareness on what fans of Zelda want, and what they don't really want or not as much, and to help us enjoy what we have, and accept what they make even if we're so-so on it.