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Concept art from Zelda BotW Masterworks Book - scrapped Divine Beasts Guardian designs and more

Phendrift

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Courtesy of NintendoEverything

Some of these are pretty fucking rad

Early Divine Beasts:
EarlyDivineBeasts.jpg


Pre-Calamity Castle Town:
PreCalamityCastleTown.jpg


Early Guardians:
MoreEarlyGuardians.jpg


Hope some of these can make it into the next game!
 

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Those titans in the last picture are some H. P. Lovecraft shit.
Would love to see Nintendo do something in that style
 
SpottieO

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A coastal crab guardian would have been amazing. There is that really cool tropical town (can't remember name) on the southern coast that would have been an interesting place for a beast.
 
kami_sama

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The War of the Worlds-like guardian is too damn good. IT HAS A FUCKING CITY!
I'd like Nintendo to make something with these designs.
 
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Phendrift

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SpottieO said:
A coastal crab guardian would have been amazing. There is that really cool tropical town (can't remember name) on the southern coast that would have been an interesting place for a beast.
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Yeah, now that I think about it a Crab DB could've been originally planned for an area near Lurelin and Eventide
 
Cronogear

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Literally Bloodborne.

Edit: that War of the Worlds style divine beast with the city in it makes me wish that the divine beasts were much bigger, with their own mini overworld and dungeon. That would have been dope.
 

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Yeah those War of the Worlds inspired ones somehow work really well with Zelda, for how much it clashes, very eerie. Could also be cool for a Majoras Mask style follow up.
 
Cess007

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Oh man, those looks so much better. But I guess, one thing is to make concepts of them, and another is actually make them work in-game.
 
rhandino

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The Guardian that seems to have a city on top could have been AMAZING

Like, imagine a settlement that doesn't have a fixed location but travel all around the map.

WHEW

EDIT: I wish they could make a prequel or a sequel in which the towns are restored tbh, would love a Zelda game but with more NPCs and even more towns to explore.
 
ASaiyan

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Ok but WHY DIDN'T WE GET THE DINOSAUR?!

Castle Town also would've been really cool to see through a flashback/time warp or something.
 
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Phendrift

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rhandino said:
The Guardian that seems to have a city on top could have been AMAZING

Like, imagine a settlement that doesn't have a fixed location but travel all around the map.

WHEW
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The next Zelda will be fucking insane. It's really clear that they had so many ideas that they weren't able to use in BotW.
 
InASnowBoundLand

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That's awesome. I would have loved to see more of Pre-Ganon BOTW Hyrule. Those divine beasts are way better than what we got in the actual game, too, which were way too megazordy. I like the guardian designs shown there but I think we ended up with something more memorable. However, those could have been good enemy ideas. Ganon's army is a little too cute sometimes in BOTW.
 
Shayla

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*Sees UFO Devine beast and all Guardian concept arts*

Ok seriously it's time to make the next game a open world Majora's Mask like game. We need another horror Zelda game.
 
VeePs

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Really hope with the next Zelda game they expand. Some of these designs look amazing, and that town, DAMN. Hopefully the next games have proper large towns and sidequests.
 
Nanashrew

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I love the War of the Worlds guardian, the super tall one with the dome city. I would love for Zelda team to do a War of the Worlds inspired game.
 
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Those are interesting. I wonder if they originally planned to make us go underwater. One of the things I miss in breath of the wild. I would love to explore underwater. Hopefully we will get that for the next game.
 
A_Jazzy_Book

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HOLY SHIT the ideas on display here! That dome city and dinosaur Beast would've been badass, and I would've loved to see those haunting early Guardians as overworld enemies! The treachery of the world would increase ten-fold.

Good material for future installments!
 
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I love the war of the worlds looking guardian, that would be awesome to explore. But the early guardians are so creepy and cool looking, I would really prefer that to what they went with. But would definitely have clashed with Zelda's look and the artstyle they went with.
 

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Shayla said:
*Sees UFO Devine beast and all Guardian concept arts*

Ok seriously it's time to make the next game a open world Majora's Mask like game. We need another horror Zelda game.
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Yes, please.

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Really hope with the next Zelda game they expand. Some of these designs look amazing, and that town, DAMN. Hopefully the next games have proper large towns and sidequests.
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Yes, please.
 
Vire

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I actually like what they ended up with more, but this is neat to see anyway.
 
Derpot

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The Early Guardian on the top left corner is too fucking weird, just what is it lmao
The Divine Beasts look so cool too.
 

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Those early guardians are something else. Imagine fighting the top left one in a desert storm.
 

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I really hope some of these ideas are going to be in the next Zelda. They are way too cool to throw them overboard. I especially like the howls moving castle Divine Beasts and those scary guardians. A art style similar to that will help to keep Zelda fresh and new!
 
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Imagine you're playing a Zelda game and that fucked up spider monstrosity skitters up over the hill, huge enough to completely fill your screen.

Christ almightly.
 
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