I don't mind button attacks, but I personally don't feel like any Zelda game has better combat mechanics than Wind Waker. TP was close, but the advanced sword techniques weren't entegrated into enemy design.

I hope they expand combat, but not like in SS. I hated it.

Yeah, I'd love a Zelda game where all you have is the opening prologue, and then you start the game.

The first game didn't have puzzles. Pushing a random blocks to open staircases doesn't count as a puzzle. That's all you did in Zelda 1. Zelda 2 didn't have any either.

Without puzzles, dungeons can be more labrynthine. Instead of a linear progression of puzzles, they can be about what the rest of the game is about; exploration. They'd be about avoiding traps, finding short cuts, and actually finding your way to the end. Expremely clever dungeon design can be geared towards intricate level design that way instead of on puzzles.

And I actually think the Water Temple (in OoT3D, to be clear) is one of the few instances where I liked a puzzle in a Zelda game, but I'd want those resticted to like three in one game, and I'd want it to be saparate from the main dungeons. Maybe actually call them temples and make them have some important mcguffin in them. They'd have a different feel to them. While dungeons are meant to keep you out, temples can be meant to test your worthiness.

That's not exactly what I mean, since it was a plot twist there.

I have very rarely been challenged intellectually challenged by a Zelda puzzle.

Better animations, Link was stiff as a door in Twilight and Skyward. I want a link with smooth moves.

That looks to be solved in Zelda U. Even his pacing animation is noticably improved.

Why are people finding it so hard to believe that puzzles could be taken out of Zelda games? Aonuma pretty much confirmed as much in an interview. I was just giving suggestions of what could replace them.

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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.

Aonuma was very clear when he said the first zelda was the main inspiration.

And GoW has mythology as its main inspiration, but it's nothing like real mythology. I doubt this game will be anything like Zelda 1, otherwise his game will be a massive bomb that sells even worse than Skyward Sword.