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>>7333069
>>7333535
It's still possible the OoT devs took influence from both earlier Stalfos but realized the Japanese name for Stalfos Knight (スタルフォン) was too easily confused with regular Stalfos (スタルフォス) for the same game. They just decided to throw that name away (like they eventually did in Cadence of Hyrule by reusing the English name, スタルフォスナイト). So the knight guys are analogous to Stalfos Knight but went by "Stalfos" while the baby ones are based on basic Stalfos but go by "Stalchild" (スタルベビー). That's just a wild guess though, if true it'd have had to be decided very early on going by the filenames.
>>7329695
>>7329743
Just guessimg, but when the Forest Temple looked more like a Zelda II palace, was Dark Link supposed to be encountered there? It was always odd that he was randomly found in the Water Temple, but if he's a Zelda II reference, it makes sense for him to be in the giant Zelda II reference. Plus it being the first dungeon Link tackles as an adult and being close to his childhood home makes sense. They were gonna have child Link face (smaller?) Moblins before his first dungeon so clearly they hadn't rebalanced yet.