The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening remake announced for Nintendo Switch
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I've already said people can like what they want, that doesn't mean I can't comment on it. I mean this is a visual medium it's fair to compare this game to it's peers and question why a certain group can't understand why some folks may not like how this game looks. Particularly when the discussion is being muddied by folks throwing around Wind Waker as a gotcha comparison, as if that is the height of objective discussion.
Stop trolling. Seriously. You guys are trying too hard.
You should watch the trailer.
Also you'll never see Nintendo make a decent budget 3DS game ever again.
Eh what? 2D Zelda was AAA back in the day before the transition to 3D.
It's grown on me quite soon. It'll happen to everybody else soon enough too I think
Who the fuck is saying this is claymation? lol
This looks nothing like Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
My biggest complaint is that this is a 1:1 remake, down to the rooms in dungeons having the exact same layout. Kinda disappointing considering I just replayed LA DX last year.
This looks nothing like Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
My biggest complaint is that this is a 1:1 remake, down to the rooms in dungeons having the exact same layout. Kinda disappointing considering I just replayed LA DX last year.
It makes sense considering the story of Link's Awakening, now that you mention it.
im feeling massive amounts of deja vu with zelda art style complaints
just let it in booooooooiiis
because trolling
just let it in booooooooiiis
because trolling
There is one thing I like about this remake though, and that's that with more than two action buttons the game will surely have significantly less menuing.
Saying the artstyle looks like shit, or like a 3DS game (lol) is having meltdowns. A.k.a. overreacting. I don't have time to point them out to you, read the thread.
I'm glad those who never got to experience Link's Awakening will get to experience it in a whole new way, but I'm waiting for the next original game.
I'm must be getting too picky or old or something but just not excited about this Direct or any of the announcements.
I'm must be getting too picky or old or something but just not excited about this Direct or any of the announcements.
I home there are some areas without the sun beating down on everything. Some darker or moodier atmospherics would be nice. The scene with the owl hints at that a little bit.
AAA didn't become a designation till well into 3D systems lifestyles. That's because their budget for video games didn't start rivaling movies till PS3 era.
Debateable. Do we have the costs for Zelda 3? Those 16bit projects were not expensive like stuff today. The teams were much smaller and the games were developed in a few years, not 4 plus years. OoT was the biggest budget Zelda game when it was released and was when the series went AAA, but only for the 3D games.
We got the Link's Awakening, the Oracle games, and Mimish Cap later. Those were not AAA games.
It doesn't IMO... This plasticky art style screams "toys" not dream. The dreamer isn't even a kid or anything.
I wasn't imagining it, Link's Awakening was largely A Link to the Past's artstyle shrunk down for the Game Boy. It was never this chibi style.
My problem with the art is that it looks like a bunch of toys, rather than a living world with characters in it. It doesn't have the same feel at all. It feels filmsy and fake, and not in a way that plays toward the 'it was all a dream motif.' Also the defense of "people always hate Zelda art at first" is an unfair dismissal of legit reactions to the art.
That anime intro for Link's Awakening was so on the money with how the Gameboy Zelda's portray their art style in cutscenes. For years I dreamt of getting a Zelda game in this style...
That anime intro for Link's Awakening was so on the money with how the Gameboy Zelda's portray their art style in cutscenes. For years I dreamt of getting a Zelda game in this style...
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I'm so glad they didn't forget the small touches like the butterflies and the dog. I hope the dog still attacks you if you hurt it. Because you're a monster if you do.Still not entire sure how I feel about the artstyle. I kinda like it, it's just completely different from how I would've envisioned a complete remake of this game (which also has its charm, I suppose).
But man, that cartoon intro tho.... GIVE ME A SERIES! Go Pokémon Generations on that shit PLEASE !
Also: hi again Chain Chomp!
Oh I can't wait to see how they change the controls and UI.
I'm hoping for a second island epilogue. If this is 1:1 the whole game it will be such a waste. I might not even buy it.
Just saw the trailer (I need to catch up with the direct still) but I'm all in. I adore the 3D Dot Heroes-esque art style and am so hyped that they kept the goombas in the platforming portion of the game.
Link to the Past & Link's Awakening were such a huge part of my childhood and they still hold up incredibly well to this day.
Link to the Past & Link's Awakening were such a huge part of my childhood and they still hold up incredibly well to this day.
No, I want you specifically to quote them. I have zero problem with people who like the art style or people who dislike it, but I can't stand people making fallacious arguments just so they can act superior about their opinion.
AAA has only become a common thing recently. There was no such thing as AAA before 3D games.
i did too. watched it like 14 times so far. the trailer was done RIGHT
The original is the best Zelda game, so if this manages to be as good or better Link's Awakening will be the the top 2 Zelda games.
I'm asking you whether you're pointing to trailer like ratios as evidence that there is not much hate globally (not this thread specifically) and therefore people should not be getting defensive over the art style, or whether you're pointing to that ratio as evidence that people here who dislike it are a minority and therefore should not have those opinions??
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Yeah that's why its so weird. They put so much work into the environment and then added in Miis
I think it looks alright; I just don't like how crafty it looks. Link moves like a puppet
After the ending you return to ALTTP Hyrule and can visit all of it a year after the events of the original game, Pokémon Gold/Silver style. Make it happen, Nintendo!
This is my favorite Zelda game of them all. I just let out an audible, "holy shit, what?!" when this trailer started. This looks so cool. Can't wait.