What changes would you like to see in Zelda?

Some of the points brought up about Twilight Princess made me think of starting this topic.

http://www.egameaddiction.com/forums/index.php?topic=6187.0

http://www.egameaddiction.com/forums/index.php?topic=7308.0

http://www.egameaddiction.com/forums/index.php?topic=6830.0

http://www.egameaddiction.com/forums/index.php?topic=6624.0

Some of the most common complaints about Twilight Princess:
-too easy
-too boring
-takes too long to get into
-not enough to do
-generic story
-did nothing to raise the bar

And I'm sure there's others that I've missed.

What do you think Nintendo could do to improve the Zelda series? What would you like to see them do?


I, for one, think they might want to go more of an rpg route. I think Link should be able to level up. It occurred to me yesterday while playing that I was killing enemies for no reason other than they were in my way. There's really no reward for killing most enemies (unless they are bosses, mini-bosses, or otherwise important to the plot). In that case, why should I even bother? I can just run past them.

And I think this is part of the reason why Zelda has become too easy. The enemies in every area are the same difficulty. It doesn't scale in difficulty because Link doesn't change.

I guess I think that Zelda should adopt somewhat of an Oblivion type leveling/scaling system.

Or, if not that, change up the combat system. Maybe have Link be able to learn a bunch of sword techniques, like Sword Rain or Demon Fang (from the Tales series).

Well I meant rpg in the leveling, not necessarily the story line. Especially modeling after Oblivion, which has a very generic, bland storyline.

If they went the way of stealth toilet's suggestion and made the game about Ganon, they could even make it an action game similar to God of War and have a level up system like that one had, where the weapons themselves become better.

-takes too long to get into - That translates to 'Zomg, two hours and no first dungeon!?'

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I don't think it's that. The first dungeon comes along pretty early into the game.

I think it's more that they don't feed you much of the story until after the third dungeon.

Wind Waker for example, got a lot more interesting after you discovered Hyrule under water, but that wasn't until further into the game.

Wind Waker's dungeons are forgettable. Literally. I don't even remember them. All I remember from Wind Waker is key parts of the story.

At least with Twilight Princess, I know I'll remember the Arbiter's Ground temple, since the boss fight in that was awesome.

I still have trouble with the bobber fishing. But that's just my own problem, not an issue with the game design. :lol But that's why it took me longer to get out of the town. Having to catch that stupid fish for the cat so you can get the um...slingshot.