Zelda is easy enough, whats wrong with learning something new? And the game goes by fast enough, I don't mind playing the game longer, do you? Why don't you just have fun learning it? it makes the game fresh and new, makes the puzzles something we've never seen before, gameplay less predictible, and harder. God I'd be so bored if they kept the same items, every single game. The whip really isn't that weird. And the beetle is a really great idea I think. Why do you want the same all the time? Ocarina of time even had different new items. EVERY zleda game has new items. If you just want the old items, go play the old games... oh wait, the first game had the raft and the blue candle, and then there was all the magic, and the hammer, and the magic powder, and the masks, and so forth. No zelda game has had JUST those items.