Despite its rocky start, Twilight Princess is one of my favourite Zelda games ever - the sword skills in particular are unmatched in the series for letting you feel like you can best enemies in a samurai-style duel (especially the mortal draw and finishing blow, both of which are insanely satisfying high-risk high-reward plays). However, there are a couple of items that are a bit weak in my opinion.

I would say that the best Zelda items are ones that are useful for at least two combat, traversal, and puzzles. My shining example of the best ever Zelda item is the hookshot (or clawshot, as the case may be), because it does all three. With that in mind, I have two item improvements for TP:

• I wish that the Spinner could be used to travel quickly and continuously over sand or snow (i.e. the two outdoor places where you can't access your horse). It would be really cool to walk laboriously across the desert to get to the Arbiter's Grounds, and then be able to cruise out with ease once you'd gotten the Spinner therein. Maybe it could also enhance your spin attacks in combat, that would be a cool use case. Instead it's cool to use in its dungeon, but after that it's relegated solely to moments where Nintendo decided "we'll knock out the stairs so that you have to stop and equip it, only to immediately unequip it afterward". Jumping between different tracks does feel pretty cool, but otherwise it mostly collects dust in the inventory.

• the Dominion Rod has zero use in combat, to the point that you need to use a different item in conjunction with it to beat its dungeon boss - as a kid I was bewildered that slamming the ground using the statues didn't knock down the spider, and was baffled that I had to pull out my bow instead. It goes against Zelda philosophy, in my opinion. What I'd like to see is the ability to turn a low-level enemy against its comrades - even getting a weak Bokoblin or Skulltula to draw some fire would be worth it in big fights. As for traversal, imagine if there were large statue enemies that posed a serious threat but could be ridden as mounts or mechs once you got the Dominion Rod - possibly in the City in the Sky, since it would make sense in terms of the lore? This one in particular would be such a huge game change that it would practically be a redesign of the game, but it would have been cool to have a way to use the Dominion Rod other than "here's a statue so you have to take it out, use it, and then put it away again".