750: The Legacy of Zelda

... Yeah, and, you know, A Link to the Past brings its own kind of thinking into how everything works. The original Zelda, if it really is an open world, you can just kind of go anywhere. ...

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is kind of the most satisfying breadcrumb in video games. Like the thing that I see and I want, but I can't have yet, but eventually I'll be good and powerful enough that I can take it and I can't wait. I sure hope when I'm powerful enough to get it, I can remember where I saw it. And I feel like that's kind of the big challenge with, you know, sort of combining the Link to the Past discrete dungeon, open world Breath of the Wild style, like making that work together so that you have really expansive, complex,…

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announced, you know, right, like the the Zelda omnibus, it's every game in one and you can play them all together at the same time or, you know, something I don't I don't even know. But yeah, like I'm curious to see where Zelda goes from here. I did want to go back to before we kind of wind up here, or wind down, you know, talking about a link to the past design and how all those spaces are sort of self contained. I feel like Zelda, that Zelda does a really great job and kind of sets the template for how this…

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pretty interesting though, you know, in the terms of like, what you just mentioned, Diamond, like, yeah, I think we saw that again in Ocarina of Time where there's almost like a like a junior version of the adventure at the start, where you've got a couple of relatively simple things and the kind of guided process before the game blows open, right? And they did that in Link to the Past, they did it in Ocarina of Time as well. And then Jeremy, what you said, I think is really interesting and important too, in…

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complicated dungeons and things to explore and stuff. But I also very much love that I can go anywhere I want in, you know, the first Zelda, and I like that about Breath of the Wild. I thought Tears of the Kingdom brought those both together, but didn't fully succeed in that there aren't still quite like real proper dungeons, you know, in the sense of like Ocarina of Time or Link to the Past, whatever. But it also still has that exploration. And I think like, as we look forward, you know, to where the series…

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stab, Jeremy. Come on, like I get that. I get that. But but, you know, you had other people step in and say, Well, I like the way Zelda is originally. Yeah. So I'm going to make a game like that. So there were a bunch of games made in the original Zelda style before Zelda 3 came along. Sure. And, you know, three years later, four years later. So everyone was just kind of like saying that was a good thing. Nintendo should have gotten away from that. So let's make ease. Let's make, you know, what are some other…

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