Next Zelda should be mature.

Link and Zelda have a romantic relationship maybe this could happen. I just think the legend of zelda should be more mature. What do you guys think?
Mario bros is not mature Zelda had the t rating and mario e.

Maybe not in love ways but ya Zelda should aim for at least once a more mature audiance

I hope not after the horrible "mature" experience we got in TP.

Originally Posted by Beautiful Zelda

Link and Zelda have a romantic relationship maybe this could happen.

No they don't.

Mario bros is not mature Zelda had the t rating and mario e.

Only one Zelda game has ever received a Teen rating.

What do you guys think?

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Originally Posted by me

Does it really matter what the game is rated? Playing a Teen or Mature rated games isn't an indication of your maturity, nor is it an indicator of the maturity of the game or the game developers. The game's rating is simply an indicator of what the ESRB have deemed to be the minimum age at which the game would not leave a strong negative impression upon a majority of the population. If you require your games to be mature or teen rated by the ESRB then you shouldn't be playing mature or teen games as you're immature enough to receive a strong impression based simply upon a little black letter in the corner of a game's packaging, a little black letter which in no way reflects the style, feel, or quality of the game.

The ESRB was created because of pressure put on the industry by the US government. It serves no purpose other than to inform parents about the advised age before playing the game, and should be treated as such.

Should it really get much more mature, I mean come on, what do you want sex and drugs?

Anyway only TP had the T rating, all other zelda's had E.

Well stated 8bit. I honestly don't see why people care so much about how "mature" it is. If you love the series,then you should love it for what it is, not what it shouuld be. Part of what makes it The Legend of Zelda is the fact that it's meant for all ages, it's a classic save the princess adventure, it has quite serious moment, follwed by quite obscure charactors, and Link is a non talking, non romantic charactor. Don't forget, Miyamoto made the game to reflect his childhood out in the hills and forests playing in his imagination land where all this was real. The very corse and basis of Zelda is imature, it is a child's fantasy world.

Mattocks is right.
What are you looking for exactly beautiful zelda? Sex, drugs, alcohol, f-bombs?
Do those seem like the zelda we know and love to you?
Zelda: "oh link you've saved me again lets go smoke some weed and bang"

yeah, i didn't think so.
If you looking for more violence, T games can have butt loads of it. Even language. You ever play the Jak and daxter games? Jak 2 and 3 have lots of violence and swear yet they are still T. Personally i think that if Zelda were to go M, it would ruin what it truely is.

The next Zelda should be more whimsical and have a very legendish feel, like TWW but on land. We already got our "mature" Zelda.

Some mature aspects such as darker themes or more realistic emotions could work, but what you want is a little much. A mature relationship with Zelda...it would either be similar to some dumb online sim date flash game or it would be the GTA San Andreas sex minigame that had to be taken out of the game because of ESRB (and thank god too, I'm glad I never saw the narrator say "grid your loins for love").

And where did you see someone say Mario is mature? Because quite frankly Mario is even more kiddy than Zelda, and Zelda isn't even that kiddy of a game in most aspects.

well I wouldnt mind seeing some blood, instgead of an enemy poofing into smoke after its dead...

Originally Posted by Link*HeroOfTime

well I wouldnt mind seeing some blood, instgead of an enemy poofing into smoke after its dead...

Yeah even in a fantasy world a dead body exploding doesn't really make sense, unless of course they're made out of bombs and gunpowder (which I highly doubt).

Originally Posted by Xeves

Yeah even in a fantasy world a dead body exploding doesn't really make sense, unless of course they're made out of bombs and gunpowder (which I highly doubt).

Or magic. Ganon's dark magic. lolwut?

Originally Posted by 8bit

Or magic. Ganon's dark magic. lolwut?

Well I just made a blonde moment, my bad. But still the exploding thing is a bit annoying, perhaps they could just decay away into a dustlike substance.

Or do a DMC3 thing and make sand spill out of them hahaha

Originally Posted by Link*HeroOfTime

well I wouldnt mind seeing some blood, instgead of an enemy poofing into smoke after its dead...

Play the original OoT.
Don't forget, if the game is made more mature, then there will be many people (even some on these forums) who will not be able to play the game. Like I said, Zelda is a gmae targeted at all audiences, and the ESRB are a bunch of.....I won't go there. I'm not saying it's wrong to want to see some blodd, but don't expect it, becuse they barely let the change to green blood fly (which of course beggs the question how did the red blood get by in the first place), and I doubt the ESRB would want to see that throughout the game.

You know some blood would be pretty cool, just when link hits an enemy just little drops of blood would fly out, and when he performs his finishing move just a little red mist wouldn't hurt, same when link gets hit, it would work to keep a teen rating, heck, most teen games have gotten away with having blood and gore in their description.

I would like to see more mature themes. You know--loss of a child or parent, infidelity, betrayl, survival, emotional abuse, blackmail, lost love, disability, etc. And happy ones too: sibling love, leadership, integrity, self-sacrifice, creativity, childbirth, etc. All of these and more themes could be explored in depth in the main plot line or side plots.

I would not like to see (and I think I speak for most people in this forum) a de-evolution of Zelda from an intelligent, rich and whimsical game to a dark, grey, soggy medieval chore (like most other games out there).

I've seen that picture in your sig before (cousin showed me a little Zelda fan-game), so something tells me you want Zelda games to get a little too mature. I don't believe that Zelda should get too much more mature, but they could make a game that is more focused towards older audiences, but it will probably be noncanon to the story since not so many people would be able to play it as they did the rest, leaving many to miss out on elements of the story. Having the story for a series that sticks to a certain rating, such as the Metal Gear series is fine, since the same people will be playing the story, but when a game series that is mainly rated E goes to M, then people would miss out because not everyone has those good parents that allow you to play M rated games (I would know. I have bragging rights over my cousins for this exact reason).

Originally Posted by Klew

I would like to see more mature themes. You know--loss of a child or parent, infidelity, betrayl, survival, emotional abuse, blackmail, lost love, disability, etc. And happy ones too: sibling love, leadership, integrity, self-sacrifice, creativity, childbirth, etc. All of these and more themes could be explored in depth in the main plot line or side plots.

I would not like to see (and I think I speak for most people in this forum) a de-evolution of Zelda from an intelligent, rich and whimsical game to a dark, grey, soggy medieval chore (like most other games out there).

Many of those are already in games. Link looses his uncle in ALttP, Ranil looses his mother in TP, betrayal is seen through Ganondorf in OoT as well as Ingo in the same game, Link seems to survive pretty much everything (thanks to faries) as well as Midna, Zelda, and many others. Lost love is shown in Anju and Kefei in MM. Sibling love is best illustrated in WW with Link and Aryll, and Link continously shows integrity, self sacrifice, and creativity, as well do many other charactors. I completly agree with what you said about deevolving it though.

Originally Posted by warriorccc0

Should it really get much more mature, I mean come on, what do you want sex and drugs?

Anyway only TP had the T rating, all other zelda's had E.

Moar liek guns and 9/11 references.

OoT was supposed to receive a T rating as well because of Ganondorf's fits of blood-coughing at the end (and possibly the concept of being crushed by corpse ass), but Nintendo promised to tone it down. That was bad, Nintendo. *waggles finger*