The enemies/races you missed

[DW]

there are the two zoras, the nice ones and he ones that shoot balls of fire at you. you would have to play the earlier zelda games to see the violent zoras.

[LadyNintendo]

River Zoras were featured in: TLOZ, ALTTP, LA (a nice one!), OOA (only game ever that featured both) and FSA.

This is a quote from OOA:
Don't think us noble sea Zoras the same as those savage,
vulgar river Zoras!

[Commodore Axilon]

Octorocks. They were the only enemy to appear in all of the Zelda games (right?), and Nintendo blew it. I wonder why?

[DW]

maybe...they forgot...

[Knil]

This is not an enemies, but how come no one has said COWS!  There are no cows in the game.  Sure the goats are cool, but cows should be in there two.

[Kingsley]

1. Deku Scrubs/Dekus in general. Mainly the scrubs were my favourite part.
2. Gerudo. It might have been nice to see them, seeing as there is a Gerudo Desert.
3. Wolfos? There were snow wolfs, but they were just agitating.
4. The bigger moblins that were in WW.

I was impressed with the Darknuts.

[DW]

i think the bigger Moblins were Bokoblins...

[LadyNintendo]

If it doesn't have the same name, it may be related, but it's not the same thing.

Moblins: been there from the start. They were huge in OOT, quite big in TWW (identical to TMC btw) and absent in TP. (all other games, not relevant right now) Ganon's soldiers and piglike in appearance (though doglike at one time). Does not appear in TP.

Bokoblins: Introduced in TWW as a smaller "Goblin" race with pig characteristics as well. It is unknown why they are called bokoblin. Though they bear some resemblence to Moblins, they most definetely are not the same race. In TP, they were redesigned to look more like a human (still less than Bulblins).

[Paul]

they were called bokoblin, because most of them wielded bokobaba sticks.

[LadyNintendo]

And why wouldn't it be the other way around? Boko, unlike Hebi (snake) and Deku (wooden figurine), doesn't mean anything. If it would refer to the Bokoblins, then at least their name would make some sense.

[Paul]

deku doesn't mean anything as far as I know... closest to what you said is dekupa-ju which means cutting up/carving. from that it's possible deku means wooden figurine, but why call a lot of items in OoT that, if there are no figurines there?

[Commodore Axilon]

What on earth are you two talking about? If deku means anything it's certainly not gonna be in Japanese. It'd be in Hylian or something.

[Paul]

Good point ;) then the same is going to count for boko, which still doesn't tell us if it comes from bokoblin or bokobaba....
I am sticking with my theory though since the sticks were also boko sticks (only deku in tWW was Deku Tree and Deku Leaf.)

[Commodore Axilon]

Maybe boko means "vicious" or "monstrous" or something like that. So a Boko Stick would be called that because it comes from a Boko Baba, not because it's inherently vicious or anything. :)

Though your theory could work too.

[johnny139]

Octoroks: No real reasons outside of breaking tradition. That's one of my major tiffs about TP - breaking tradition. From the Teen rating to the lack of Octopi, it just didn't feel like Zelda.

Gerudo: I wanted to see them in fancy new graphics! With new, fancy clothing and such... *sigh* If only...