More mechanics that carry from the child timeline to the adult would be really cool.
Beat me to it. I like that Hyrule Field gives you a moment to relax and "wind the watch". One thing I didn't like about ALttP the one time I beat it was how it felt like I was being constantly harried from screen to screen. It didn't ruin the game for me or anything, but I distinctly remember thinking "God, give me a second."
Why? Link is already told than an evil man from the desert cursed the Deku Tree and learns about Ganondorf early on. It would mess with the pacing of the game.
It's not really that hard, and I would certainly hope they keep the core identities of the dungeons the same.
Kind of reminds me of how the original FF7 has a few checks and will scale Jenova and Sephiroth's HP values at the end based on your levels, owning Knights of the Round, and some other factors.
Mite b cool.
They should do more during the "Gerudo arc" / Spirit Temple segment. I think trying to shoehorn them into the game earlier would mess up how they're presented.
I don't know how you'd make the 3DS incarnation easier except maybe to make it impossible to raise the water to the top without collecting both the key from the central pillar and the key behind the cracked wall.
Remakes exists in a spectrum, you need to ask what and how much they change things, as well as if the change makes the experience better or worse than the original.
You see Ganondorf in the castle, interacting with the king and stuff, we don't see him acting as the ruler of the Gerudo that much, and I think it would be nice to get a little more of that, especially if Link and Zelda knows he mean trouble, but they have no voice in chapter because the Hyrule and Gerudo are trying to reconciliate and there's no evidence of what Ganondorf did, even though the intent is present, I dunno you but I just like this kind of political intrigue.
That's fair.
When it comes to puzzles and navigation alone, the hardest dungeon in Zelda history is Jabu jabu's belly from Oracle of Ages:
I played through this again recently and it's not just Ganon, the whole game is too bright and it ruins the atmosphere. I still think it's a great port, but I'd love if there was a hack to restore the original color/lighting. It'd be nice if it brought back the little crescent moon on the Mirror Shield/Blocks, and the original Fire Temple music too. I find the replacement textures & music really goofy and out of place.
People loves to criticize bluepoint for raping the enviromental storytelling Semon douls but I find it more impressive how little it really takes to fuck the visuals of a remake, really all you need is to change brightness a little to ruin everything.
The original design/song will not come back because they are associated to a cult made by of literal sandniggers who worship a pedophile and somehow made africa a shittier place than it was before.
The new Gerudo symbol is just weird, I don't understand what it's supposed to represent. The Kokiri, Gorons, Zora - they all have symbols that mean something. I'm pretty sure the replaced Fire Temple music are the same chants from the Shadow Temple, just changed pitch and modified. Sounds really bad. I had one of the early OoT carts with red blood, the original symbol, and the music and that shit was kino.
A king cobra's back, apparently.
The game could use a lot of the QoL options the PC port introduced; vanilla OoT is a game with an insane amount of menuing, and reducing that would go a long way. It'd probably be pretty straightforward to use the BotW method of holding a button to switch quickly between your item categories (shootables, shields, boots, throwables, etc).
BGS (and other weapons) actually do less to him than the Master Sword. A flat 1 damage, as a matter of fact. I think thematically it's supposed to be because MS is the only thing that can really oppose him.
Honestly? Just lift TP's combat system, that was the best that Zelda combat ever got.
If you could refine BoTW's systems for exploration to include an actual Zelda toolkit like what you get in OoT, WW, or TP, to the point where it resembles Elden Ring you'd have a serious winner on your hands I think.
Wouldn't that sort of iconography be more appropriate for the Garo?
The Gerudo were originally festooned with lots of Muslim symbols. It leaned into the crusader knight inspiration for Link.
I honestly can't really pin down who they're supposed to be inspired by, though I guess they do bomb themselves when you beat them which is as Muslim as it gets. That said the guys they're blood fueding with are Aztec-chic.
I'd want to see more travel between times and dungeons rather than just always finding the thing I need in the dungeon I need it. Bouncing around the world and chipping away at chunks of it at a time would be a good shakeup. You get a ways through some dungeon, hit a roadblock and back out, find some item in another dungeon, get stuck again there, go back to the first and finish it up. Something like that.
That would be amazing but there's one problem with it that would make it impossible to implement in the modern day, particularly for Nintendo: The average gamer these days is a bona fide retard and will not interact with the system and insist that it is "broken" and a million four hour long video essays will be written on the subject.
"DSP Tries It: OoT Remake"
I think this might be doable, but it might take a bit of thought to implement it without detracting from the spirit of the games design. I think one of the biggest aspects of BoTW's design is the ability to basically do whatever you want as soon as your past the tutorial. Want to go straight to the final boss? Go for it.
I've thought about this before, but I feel like it get tedious while the games are designed the way they are. It would make more sense if the game world had a more Metroidvania or Soulslike design where it's basically a giant interconnected dungeon, so no massive fields would need to keep crossing to get from one part of the map to another. Traversal would have to be more about routing than about feeling expansive.