Scrapped content/designs you wished were used.

[thePlinko]

Zelda is no stranger to cut content. Heck, the story of Windwakers development process can be mostly summed up with “so we had to scrap that idea.” Sometimes it’s for the best, but sometimes it legitimately pains you to know that a feature or idea that could’ve made the game so much better was dropped because they ran out of time. What was that feature for you?

I think the obvious answer for me would be the expanded underwater segments of Windwaker, but I wanna go smaller and say Ganondorfs inclusion in the Oracle games if only because of his design.
I’ve been thinking about this design a lot recently. They really scrapped the coolest design for Ganondorf in the entire series..

 

[Saint Ravenboo]

I would say the DD expansion for Ocarina of Time, but in all honesty, we actually got all the promises of that with Twilight Princess. From actually seeing Zora's Domain unfreeze, to there be a actual Dungeon inside the Temple of Time. But another piece of cut content, more recent in fact, is a lot of the cut content for Breath of the Wild, a lot of the concept art for the things that could have been are really cool in my opinion. Shame we couldn't get to see them come to fruition.

 

[twilitfalchion]

I think the idea of a gradually-aging Link from the WW concepts was a really neat one. It's one thing to see Link go from kid to adult in Ocarina, but a slow aging over the course of the adventure (however it'd be implemented) would be really cool.