Sorry if this is a double post, but for some reason, whenever I try to imagine a 3D original Zelda, all I can think of is Shadow of the Colossus. Besides the fact that the game forces you to fight the colossi in order, the rest of the game, consisting of a huge over world devoid of people, with practically no guidance besides a vague beam of light, felt very "old-school" Zelda in nature.

And to top it off, a lot of the Zelda theorists say that LOZ takes place in a destroyed or secret land (hence no towns, and all the people hiding in caves), which sounds a lot like the forbidden land in Shadow of the Colossus.