Eh, I don't think that's necessarily the case. Thing is, a lot of the items can accomplish the same thing – just how you use them. So for instance, I could use the arrow to stun enemies, hit some switches, etc...or, I could throw some bombs to island platforms where the switch is, and stun enemies that need stunned with the hammer. The dungeons and puzzles are way more like LttP than any of the recent games' dungeons.