Remembering the context of this moment and honestly it would own if Zelda brought that kind of energy to the table again

the main story is made up of you remembering a more interesting story from a different time, in which you are standing around in the background for the most part

Its even more inexcusable in the sequel. Imagine if sonic generations made all of modern sonic's stages cutscenes, then tried to do the above for the second time because "time travel nonsense."

This coupled with the cowards at Nintendo

All those pretenses of innovation being why they can't make any more F-Zero games (and Star Fox, and more), and they're more than fine with constant resets to zero in Hyrule and the same three people doing the same damn things over and over again.

I remember being really hopeful, even excited, for how different Wind Waker seemed to be going... until the cool new pirate girl character was Zelda all along because no one else is allowed to have that much importance in that story role and then she was whisked off to be imperiled and in need of saving, AGAIN.

"Possessing the princess whenever she needs a man to show her how to use a sword"

That's a fine Nintendo writer excuse...

Wait, you're not serious, right? Please say you're not serious.

I said nigh. But in the past 14 years we have gotten 1 new game and 1 remake. And the game before that was Other M.

I liked Shining Force overall, so I was curious about Fire Emblem but the games I played kept straying into royal essentialism shit and a lot of mandatory breeding as gameplay subtext which is just... ech. It's like the setting wanted to be (contextually) fanservice first and then built up a fiction and game around that.

I know that isn't a deal breaker for some people, but that fanservice pandering is mandatory for optimal gameplay (and in some key moments, to progress at all) and I put it down and never came back.

Yeah, I remember that from early botw videos and I was kinda hyped to see a female Link

I really kinda get their point about F-Zero though? What new thing would you do with it?

Fully flight sections, perhaps, like soaring between fully divided tracks or even going into space or doing atmospheric re-entries during a race. How about on-track power allocation like a 90s X-Wing game? Maybe even some combat elements, like Rock and Roll Racing, like laser blasts and mines and countermeasures to both? That's just off the top of my head.

Mario Kart's been redone many times with less "innovation" than that between some titles.

I think they had enough people and enough budget to come up with that and more and they just don't want to because Zeldarinos go brrrr and I still stand by that.

What new thing would you do with it?

There are lots of people young enough to have never seen a new F-Zero game be put out on a console they have access to, so imo that's all they'd have to do to make big bucks, even if it's just pretty much the same game with shinier graphics