Aether
Tingle
Overall im really mixed on TotK (on its own i would say its a 9/10 game, wholeheartedly recommend), but if its DLC, i ONLY want it if its its own map.
Having a huge landmass above the current layer, and its own sidestory? sure.
Having it be on an Island? in the sea? yeah.
Having it be a straight challenge run für a special skill or a weapon? im mean, thats fine i guess.
Having it be story expansion and explanation for stuff the game missed? NO! HELL NO!
Im done with this wirld, lore, hyrule. They managed to have the original, the DLC for that AND a whole new game set in this world,
and kinda managed with every addition to expand the world...while showing how small minded they can be in how they handle so much of it.
At the start i was "there is so much Potential with this worlds lore, where they can expand, they left so many aspect untouched or not explored satisfyingly.".
Then we got the DLC. It was just a tacked on bad joke lore wise (the new shrines did not make sense, the return to the boss battles made even less sense, the secret dungeon location and what it was made no sense, why the sword would have this convoluted new way of unlocking its full potential suddenly did not make sense. Then we got TotK and it retconned a ton, ignored a lot of other stuff, had lore and story chasms, and im still not sure if either Link is an asshole, knowing where zelda is and not mentioning it to anyone, or if everybody is just DENSE.
So if we get DLC, especially with a game thats so padded (looking at you, essentially reused sky islands and almost generated Feeling Depths...that uses the Surface bosses and DLC gear from the first as its main incentives) i hope its own thing, ideally you could just launch it from the title screen like Future Connected was seemingly. (I dont think they will do that)
So if we get DLC: make it its own thing, a side story, maybe slightly connected to the main game (the lore of the dragons would by this point feel wrong,
especially since going by the lore established in the first one they are connected to the springs that represent the 3 virtues of the triforce, meaning that either they would expand on the triforce in an DLC (no chance), or they would move away from that, and that means we will again get retcons that makes the worldbuilding in this iteration even worse.
Having a huge landmass above the current layer, and its own sidestory? sure.
Having it be on an Island? in the sea? yeah.
Having it be a straight challenge run für a special skill or a weapon? im mean, thats fine i guess.
Having it be story expansion and explanation for stuff the game missed? NO! HELL NO!
Im done with this wirld, lore, hyrule. They managed to have the original, the DLC for that AND a whole new game set in this world,
and kinda managed with every addition to expand the world...while showing how small minded they can be in how they handle so much of it.
At the start i was "there is so much Potential with this worlds lore, where they can expand, they left so many aspect untouched or not explored satisfyingly.".
Then we got the DLC. It was just a tacked on bad joke lore wise (the new shrines did not make sense, the return to the boss battles made even less sense, the secret dungeon location and what it was made no sense, why the sword would have this convoluted new way of unlocking its full potential suddenly did not make sense. Then we got TotK and it retconned a ton, ignored a lot of other stuff, had lore and story chasms, and im still not sure if either Link is an asshole, knowing where zelda is and not mentioning it to anyone, or if everybody is just DENSE.
So if we get DLC, especially with a game thats so padded (looking at you, essentially reused sky islands and almost generated Feeling Depths...that uses the Surface bosses and DLC gear from the first as its main incentives) i hope its own thing, ideally you could just launch it from the title screen like Future Connected was seemingly. (I dont think they will do that)
So if we get DLC: make it its own thing, a side story, maybe slightly connected to the main game (the lore of the dragons would by this point feel wrong,
especially since going by the lore established in the first one they are connected to the springs that represent the 3 virtues of the triforce, meaning that either they would expand on the triforce in an DLC (no chance), or they would move away from that, and that means we will again get retcons that makes the worldbuilding in this iteration even worse.