I'm so sick of fan bases like this. Stop comparing and just enjoy a game for the crap it is. Yes, Zelda has been growing onto more and more babying since the old days, but that is because our fan base stays young, and youth these days would be on walkthroughs everyday and complain for it when it has the difficulty of the original Zelda.
The storyline is an advancement for old fans to actually get a touch of what Zelda had been lacking. Get rid of story? Go back to the NES and play every game there and stay there if you still want no story. Storylines are what make new age games. If they lack characters that aren't just Mary Sues or in Zelda's case ERROR, it's not a this-generation game. Look at even the most pathetic of those, Call of Duty. Even if it's all just redone combat and all the same, you look at the storyline and they show character development. Look at every game in this generation and tell me one game that actually has people in it, but no development of those characters.
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Official Pidgeot of the B/W Boards Clan
Quite frankly my Deerling, I don't give a Wormadam- GenesisSaga