My friend and I were talking about this one just a few days ago and I said that in a 3D type of setting, something like this would be useless. Think about it: Link can now move quickly around him self to get all of the enemies around him self, in this 3D setting the enemies move a lot quicker...
Okay, I'm sticking to that answer then, its the one that makes the most sense if we don't combine the story lines and such but then....wait....okay, I went back and watched the ending film to OoT and it shows several placed in Hyrule. The one that I was looking for was there, too, Zora's Domain...
Okay, I'd say that's a little stretch because TP happens how many years after OoT, there is just no way that ice could take THAT long to melt. Specially because again, the place where Zora's Domain is, is not naturally cold. =/
That would still bug me because the place that Zora's Domain was located wasn't a naturally cold place. It was mild and one can even saw warm due to its partial proximity to Death Mountain (Ya know the volcano...hot, hot? :3)
And if I recall, it said that the ice wasn't normal, that it self up...
Yes, this bothered me! I went through all that trouble to save the Zora and what not and then in the end, nothing, the ice didn't melt, and it said that the evil creature in the Water Temple was the cause of it, so naturally one would think that after its gone that the ice would melt. We come...