You are absolutely right. If he's really the friend he has been all these years, he shouldn't take it as any kind of a slight against him. It's not like I'm trying to make him not get the job.
It looks great...I just have never gotten around to playing it. Twilight Princess was my first intro into 3D Zelda and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If I could a afford a N64, OoT would be one of the first games I'd buy.