quote Spaf289
Personally, It would have been nice if the Zora people were some were in game. Come on, they got Goron people so why not the Zora. Maybe if they included the sword and arrow bomb combos that they had in Twilight Princess accept new ones. That would have been neat as well.
Some people believe the Parella eventually become the Zora, which is fair enough. The Gorons are a lot more primitive in nature, so it makes sense they'd exist from the beginning. 
As for the hidden skills I think they're cool, but I don't think it's a big deal they weren't brought back. Although TP on the Wii introduced motion controls, the special moves helped to combat the monotony of simply swinging the remote back and forth. Whereas in SS we are given fantastic 1:1 control thanks to MotionPlus so you can do a lot of things without the need to press buttons, and doing so would take away from that feeling of realistic combat the game strives to create.