ok, i'm sure this has all been brought up before but i would like to mention it anyway.

I only hope they will be smart about adding in the jumping and swimming, keep it with the realistic feel. Perhaps have a stamina bar so you can only jump a certain amount of times, maybe have it like ffxiii where you only jump at certain points where it's needed or auto hop over rocks in your path. and think of this, when was the last time you jumped in real life?

for swimming, again please make it realistic. Can you swim in full plate mail? how about even just in normal clothes, how long could you tread water? they should make it part of the game where you will need to change equipment to swim through water or maybe a requirement to fight a creature at the bottom of the sea that you should wear heave clothes. on top of that they will need to have a spell or some kind of item to help you breath underwater if you want to have underwater battles. (think Final Fantasy I, how you got to go underwater to fight Kracken.)

I'm all for swimming and jumping as long as they do it properly. and if you are adding in jumping and swimming, how about climbing? (shadow of the colossus) My initial reaction to these concepts was to push back, i really didnt like them. after thinking about it for a while i have come to realize it may not be terrible just as long as they do it properly. Please Yoshi-P, if you want to add these features, be smart about it and keep with the ambiance of the game.