Share your ideas. Also you are a visionary so you can include elements from Zelda games released after NGC if necessary

A horse race betting simulator where you bet on stags from Ingo's farm. All of the jockeys are kokiri kids. You can choose to play as Link, Talon, Mido, or generic castle town market Soldier and guide characters through their various debt-ridden crises, such as Mido deciding to use all of the rupees in his house to cope with the fact he has a smaller penis thank Link, or Talon drunkenly spending his family's milk business savings because he was molested as a child.

makes it its own little sub universe like the musou games did

>>11828013 (OP)
I think MM already provides a good basis to work off of.
>four modes of transport - horseback, Goron mask, Zora mask and Rito mask
>can change between them mid race
>horseback is the default, Goron can break through terrain and obstacles unharmed, Zora can take water routes and Rito can take sky routes
>all the routes constantly interconnect
>if you want to keep transformations up you have to manage a magic meter which only recharges while you're on horseback mode
>you also get a choice of three items which you always have on you but are one use per lap - these items can only be used in horseback mode
>items could include a hookshot which either yanks you towards other players or brings them to you, bombs to throw at other players, bubbles that drain their magic, Like-Likes that you can leave out on the field and take away ammo of the currently equipped item once it hits, etc

>>11828013 (OP)
I think racing is very disinteresting, but I appreciate creative posting. We start with Sonic R, that's the baseline. Race maps with little secrets and collectibles, that's emphatic of Zelda game design. Not just shortcuts, but unlockables and such first and foremost, but I have an idea for opening up shortcuts in singleplayer campaign, and the final challenge being a huge continuous race through every map unstopping, and yeah the shortcuts you opened need to be utilized to win.

I think the racers are probably like; Zelda on horseback, Link wearing bunnyhood, Darunia the goron, unlockable characters are probably; Shadow Link with devil horns, Toon Link in a locomotive go-kart, Monkeys on a barrel, King Bulbin on a boar, Adult Link on the master cycle zero.

I think the campaign should have a straightforward story, the triforce has split into shards across race tracks, they are like silver coins in Diddy Kong Racing, you have to grab them all and cross the finishline in first place to win. Racing itself is subject to the triforce wish probably, maybe it was Tingle who had the wish granted, and maybe he oversees the races and keeps them clean using inherented triforce powers for the duration of the tournament. There's a hub world to explore, not too grand or extravagant, and winning races to unlock the next tracks, and a boss battle after every three tracks, where they are inspired by Goht from Majora's Mask requiring a traditional Zelda routine while racing for first place to defeat. Final boss is a race against Vaati wearing Majora's Mask, across every track seamlessly connected.

Goron racing was kino

>>11828632
Except for when the other Gorons (without any spikes) would rubberband directly into you and knock you out of your rolling, forcing a loss.

>>11828639
Literal skill issue.

>>11828013 (OP)
Add absolutely nothing from botw and were golden.

>>11828013 (OP)
well first things first, I kill myself.

Majora's Mask invented open world racing with MM