General Zelda Potions, Fairies, and Miscellaneous Healing Items for Foes.

[Ventus]

After watching this beautiful video shown below, I realized something: fairies only ever work for Link. Why is this so when enemies exist as well? Why don't enemies get healed during battle, prolonging fights and making things worse for the player?

[video=youtube;X8yqwvYo5PA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8yqwvYo5PA[/video]

Especially for such foes as Dark Link. What are your thoughts for fairies and shiz to work on enemies as well as Link?

 

[Salem]

It's an interesting idea but I think it might be too annoying for the player when the enemies just heal themselves like that.

 

[The Jade Fist]

Lol a boss that comes back to life 4 times after you kill him, and has 2 blue potions as well.

It would be like different phases of boss fight, only with a more, is he dead yet kinda feeling.

 

[balloonofwar4]

That would be cool if they only did that on a harder difficulty level. For casual and younger players, this might get to hard. Veterans like myself, though would love it.

 

[Beauts]

Maybe fairies only work for the more humanoid people, like Hylians, Kokiri and Gerudo. And then, maybe only for those that are good and not evil.

 

[Sydney]

The concept of giving opponents healing items reminds me of Pokémon, about how some trainers are able to carry and use healing items during a battle. I honestly don't know how well this concept would be implemented into the series, but it's certainly possible. They should at least give it a shot.

 

[Wolf Sage]

Not so sure about healing items and the like being used on enemies, but I think that it'd be a neat idea if used on bosses (save for the items bit). What I mean is, I think it'd be neat if certain bosses could heal themselves via some means. Picture a boss nearing 35% health and there's a toxic river nearby. Said river may be toxic to Link; however, its toxicity could have healing properties for the boss. The battle itself could include keeping the boss from reaching said source of health, in conjunction with defeating it by the conventional means.

Regarding the enemies bit, I guess it could work in a similar, yet distinct fashion. Leave them idle for too long and they begin chomping on nearby healing berries (or each other, in the case of cannibalism), applying ointment to their "wounds", or casting healing magic, perhaps? Or better yet, introduce some enemies whose sole purpose is to heal other enemies. Oh, and give them a basic defense gimmick like teleportation or "out-of-reachness" to make up for their lack of offensive capabilities...

 

[ScouseOctorok]

 

[Salem]

Maybe there are evil fairies that work for Ganon.

 

[The Omni Triforcer]

That would be cool if they only did that on a harder difficulty level. For casual and younger players, this might get to hard. Veterans like myself, though would love it.

yeah me being a zelda lover since i was about 2 would love to have that

 

[Vampire Squid]

Gameplay mechanic.

Simple answer.

I'd be interested to see bosses and high level enemies with healing spells though. It could be a nice challenge if implemented well.

 

[Spirit]

(lol dat video, please no one make a Zelda movie)

I think self healing enemies would be great, not bosses because they can take their time enough as it is, (imagine the Imprisoned healing itself, ugh)

But harder enemies like Darknuts etc could be cool if they were to heal, it'd be good if you could stop them from doing it too, interrupt them by attacking them, would give some urgency to the battle, so yeah i'd like some enemies to heal, combat in Zelda is too thin and i think a good way to get around it is by giving enemies more health so they could stand up to more punishment to make things actually feel like a fight and healing is a good way to do it.

 

[Gamer Miki]

I'm not sure how it could work. In RPG's like Phantasy Star, some enemies can self-heal with magic techniques. But how could it happen in Zelda? A pop-up box explaining that an Octorok just drank a red potion, perhaps?

Addendum: If healing spells/techniques are going to be incorporated in Zelda, that might mean Zelda would be on its way to becoming RPG-ish.

 

[Salem]

I'm not sure how it could work. In RPG's like Phantasy Star, some enemies can self-heal with magic techniques. But how could it happen in Zelda? A pop-up box explaining that an Octorok just drank a red potion?

NOO! please no.

 

[Vampire Squid]

I'm not sure how it could work. In RPG's like Phantasy Star, some enemies can self-heal with magic techniques. But how could it happen in Zelda? A pop-up box explaining that an Octorok just drank a red potion, perhaps?

More likely it would be a visual effect. For instance a light surrounding the enemy showing a healing spell was cast. A text box would be unnecessary and jarring during gameptlay.

Addendum: If healing spells/techniques are going to be incorporated in Zelda, that might mean Zelda would be on its way to becoming RPG-ish.

I have no issues with that.