[collapse="stuff"]Since apparently, people want to move on with the topic of the unbeatable boss, I'll just throw this in a collapse tag.
So we want the monster to be an ever constant threat, something that we don't want to/cannot fight, and something that's extremely frightening. We also have the idea that we don't want it to be attached to the antagonist, and that we want to show that humans aren't the strongest race.
Although the idea was originally for the rail station, I'm going to flesh this idea out as if it is going to hang around in Hyrule Field.
The idea would be to incorporate a lot of stealth into this encounter. We had the idea that this thing was going to simply mind it's own business, until it sees you and decides, "I want to eat you", so this is exactly what we should be going for. This type of encounter also matches our redesigned Link, since he's sort of a ninja. Imagine just walking around Hyrule Field, then all of a sudden the beast spots you from a distance, or some other creature spots you and makes a noise, and because of that, the beast goes raging at you full force, attacking relentlessly because it's hungry Link would naturally want to run away, which is what we wanted, but the fact that you have to sneak past it adds that adrenaline rush to the encounter, similar to the guards in any Metal Gear Solid game. They're a constant threat, you fear getting caught because they'll put an army up against you, and the act of sneaking past them is nail-biting.
I showed concerns earlier because of how I didn't like the aspect of never being able to defeat the monster. I think that instead of the boss being impossible to defeat, or only defeated during a game+ mode, the boss should simply be optional to beat (with the trade-off that it's so difficult and time consuming, it might as well be impossible). I remember in level 3 of Lost Planet 1, you had to run across this long snowy field, but hanging around that snowy field was a huge snake monster that was really difficult to kill. There were a lot weakpoints that were at awkward angles, and killing the whole thing took like 30+ minutes. Perhaps something like that could be recreated in Zelda form.
The monster in the rail station doesn't have to be fought, but if our redesigned Link is feeling extra courageous, he could opt to engage the monster in a stupidly long battle. Put in the optional 30+ minutes into actually slaying the thing, and perhaps a new area can open up, filled with rupees and power-ups and all those Zelda goodies. Maybe even an achievement, I dunno, something. [/collapse]
