A Zelda RPG Like the Mario & Luigi Series is Long Overdue
The Legend of Zelda is an iconic Nintendo IP, but oddly enough, it has only produced a few notable spinoffs. In recent years, the Hyrule Warriors series has performed admirably by offering fans a more action-heavy take on the franchise, while other side games like Tingle's various spinoffs dabble in further different genres. To date, however, The Legend of Zelda has yet to get its own turn-based RPG. Nintendo doesn't produce a lot of RPGs itself, but it has a long history of collaborating with other developers on RPGs, so it's surprising that it has yet to reach out to another studio for help adapting Zelda into a new format.
Nintendo may not have tapped into this potential yet, but the time is now right. There's a major void in Nintendo RPGs right now due to the apparent end of the Mario & Luigi series of RPGs, which were developed by AlphaDream until the studio's closure in 2019. For years, Mario & Luigi showed that RPG adaptations of Nintendo IPs could be great fun, but Nintendo has yet to fill the void. The Legend of Zelda ought to step up to the plate in this case, since it already has tons of characters, enemies, and story threads that could inspire a solid RPG.
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A Zelda RPG wouldn't have to dig deep for an interesting plot; instead, it could take inspiration from the first Hyrule Warriors game. In the non-canonical Hyrule Warriors, Link meets friends and enemies from various periods in the Zelda timeline and teams up with them to stop a threat to the entire Zelda universe. An RPG could do exactly the same thing, starring new incarnations of Link and Zelda while bringing Midna, Fi, and other familiar faces of Zelda into the story as party members. Link could be a standard damage
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