That new Zelda seems to be very inspired by Ghibli's aesthetics. It's definitely a void in the video game world that was begging to be filled. A few elements that pop out:
- Flying islands and robots remind Laputa's castle in the Sky
- Villains with lots of tentacles look like demons in Mononoke
- Small villages have a Nausicaa feel
- The music borrows a lot from joe hisaishi.
I wish I had the kind of time I had when I was a kid... That stuff looks amazing.
I don't feel this is specifically Ghibli. A lot of it seems common to a wider range of Japanese media, of which Zelda is a prominent instance.
- Flying islands: also featured in several previous Zelda games including Minish Cap, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword. It's become a fairly common anime trope, though Laputa is definitely the oldest instance I can come up with.
- Villains with lots of tentacles: That's a very common thing in Japanese media and seems to go back much further than modern anime.
- I haven't watched Nausicaa yet (though I do have it in a Ghibli collection box that I've been slowly working my way through with my family). However, I feel the Zelda villages are basically just picturuesque Japanese countryside.
- I am really looking forward to hearing more of it than I did through the trailers. So far, though, it sounds very much like a riff off of the soundtracks of earlier Zelda games. It makes sense that they're similar. After all, Koji Kondo (who wrote the music for many of the earlier Zelda games) is also Japanese and started his career shortly after Joe Hisaishi. They likely had similar influences.
I can't remember where I read it, but someone at Nintendo admitted that Breath of the Wild (the previous Zelda game) was directly inspired by Ghibli movies - and Skyrim.
- Flying islands and robots remind Laputa's castle in the Sky
- Villains with lots of tentacles look like demons in Mononoke
- Small villages have a Nausicaa feel
- The music borrows a lot from joe hisaishi.
I wish I had the kind of time I had when I was a kid... That stuff looks amazing.