Link from The Legend of Zelda Wii U fanart

Story from Kotaku:

Schreier: I just have to slip in one question that a lot of people are wondering—Mr. Aonuma, you've talked a lot about changing traditions and shifting away from the series formulas. Can you give me one example of a tradition that people are familiar with in Zelda that you've changed in a big way for the new Zelda that you're working on for next year?

Aonuma: So you know we've talked a little bit today about the puzzle-solving element in Zelda, and how that's kinda taken a different shape in Hyrule Warriors. But I think people have come to just assume that puzzle-solving will exist in a Zelda game, and I kinda wanna change that, maybe turn it on its ear.

As a player progresses through any game, they're making choices. They're making hopefully logical choices to progress them in the game. And when I hear 'puzzle solving' I think of like moving blocks so that a door opens or something like that. But I feel like making those logical choices and taking information that you received previously and making decisions based on that can also be a sort of puzzle-solving. So I wanna kinda rethink or maybe reconstruct the idea of puzzle-solving within the Zelda universe.

 

Source: http://kotaku.com/the-new-zelda-might-not-have-the-puzzles-you-expect-1590544423

Dat fanart tho

OT: Good. The puzzles in SS were a bit disappointing. I wouldn't mind another OoT Water Temple

I think the progress and puzzle solving won't be the same as Skyward Sword but more like a natural world. For example, you can reach Death Mountain from the west but to get access to the crater you need the hookshoot.

Or maybe you can reach Lake Hylia from the east, but to cross to the other side you need bombs.

But that could mean you will get lost in the open world.

Damn that picture of link is fabulous.

Puzzle-solving is exactly the one thing that has to dissapear from Zelda.

Pavolink said: VanceIX said: Dat fanart tho OT: Good. The puzzles in SS were a bit disappointing. I wouldn't mind another OoT Water Temple

Rediculously photogenic Link. I ain't even mad.

Why do you want that?

Because it's not what Zelda is meant to be. More combat would be nice instead of puzzles.