I recently played (and beat in a sitting) Viking: Battle for Asgard on the PS3. It was a fun game, but repetitive and to short. The one thing that stood out that you don't usually see were the epic-ly huge battles that you take part in. This is a good example of a small battle. (WARNING: VERY GORY)
Literally thousands of individual allies and enemies with their own AI, duking it out. Even with it's Cell processor, my PS3 had to chug to get it done.

Anyway, I got to thinking that this would be an excellent addition to Zelda.
Think about it. Most kingdoms have an army, so it wouldn't be unrealistic for Hyrule to have one. And since Link is usually the Hero, he could be the one who takes out all the bigger stuff, like Darknuts and such. This isn't to say that temples and such would be removed, just maybe instead of a temple leading to a final boss, Link has to fight his way through hoards of monsters to get him/her.

Also I'd like to see a return to actual magic casted by Link, instead of him using magically imbibed tools.

Anyway, what do you guys think?

EDIT: Sans all the gore, of course. Kids need to be able to play it.

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