The true ending to BOTW has Zelda and Link heading off to investigate a malfunctioning Divine Beast Vah Ruta. This suggests a sequel: an engineering game in which the heroes (A woman in engineering! Working with a man who isn't sexually harassing her! Zelda would be the lead engineer as she has studied Ancient technology, much to the dismay of her father.) study, disassemble, repair, and reassemble a very complicated contraption. Probably many iterations of this as real engineering really does.
Also crafting replacement parts. Before that, crafting the tools needed to craft the replacement parts. Crafting tools needed to craft tools. Maybe some world-trotting adventures to acquire materials.
Nintendo will probably never make such a sequel; engineering is too boring. However, an independent developer can easily do it and avoid any intellectual property issue: just change the names. Or keep the names and defend the work as parody.
The hard part of the game design would be inventing an internally consistent complicated fictional technology. Or maybe the characters come to understand the technology without the player doing so, though that would be lame.
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