In Breath of the Wild, when King Rhoam is directing Link toward Hyrule castle while atop the Temple of Time, the language he uses is conditional.
"I believe it would be quite reckless for you to head directly to the castle at this point. I suggest...that you make your way east, out to one of the villages in the wilderness."
This is an interesting choice in script writing because it reflects the free roaming, open world nature of the game. But even more interestingly, it's similar to the (Mister Owl free will and determinism|language used #citation) by Kaepora Gaebora in Majora's Mask.
In Majora, this conditional language is used as an element in an argument that there is a new Link at the start of each three day cycle. I wonder the implications here in this situation, where Link is (The Hero Who Never Was|suspected to be an automaton #citation).
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