YMMV / The Hero of Time

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Link's journey out of the Lost Woods. He gets briefly lost, then finds a...random guard who tries to steal his sword while Link sleeps. Link ties him up, implies in their conversation that the guard is one of a few who swore to protect the forest, and forces the guard to tell him how to get out of the woods. This scene, including the fact that Link left someone tied up in a dangerous forest, is completely forgotten after Link leaves.
  • The guard who tries to rob him was the same one from earlier, who informed him that the Deku Tree wished to see him, which explains the protecting the forest part. It also explains why Link would think he'd know the way out, since if the guy serves the Deku Tree, it would make sense that he'd know the forest better than most. Still, pretty much everything else with the Lost Woods segment remains pointless and irrelevant.
• Complete Monster: Ganondorf, lacking his usual redeeming qualities, is the king of the Gerudo clan who wanted to take over Hyrule and gain the full Triforce for himself. In the past, Ganondorf was searching for the prophesied hero of time and ended up murdering Link's mother. Ganondorf manipulated the king of Hyrule into making him think he was friendly, then murdered the king, along with a few guards protecting him. Ganondorf used the Triforce of Power to take over Hyrule and would tax the Hylians so severely that many of them would fall into starvation. Ganondorf also had his soldiers routinely murder dissidents and anyone who tried to resist, among those being Malon and a large number of the Gorons. Ganondorf would also seal away the sages, placing monsters in their place, the most notable being a dragon monster that leaked lava from Death Mountain that threatened multiple villages.
• Dawson Casting: While the actors for Link and Zelda are perfectly fine after five years passed, the fact that several characters describe them as "children" indicates that they were meant to be considerably younger at the start of the film than Blane and Fischer were.
• It Was His Sled: Zelda is Sheik. The film doesn't even bother with some of the game's ways of hiding it. For example, no one ever wonders about Sheik's sex (Link calls her "Lady Sheik" from the start).