The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening remake announced for Nintendo Switch
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If being "too kiddie" is the complaint some have of this art style, I guess it wont be a problem for you.
I literally don't. It looked like you were using it to shit on the game.
That's good trivia!
Man.. the original Link's Awakening is the perfect handheld game to me. It is an astonishing achievement.
Not that fond of the DX version, I thought it looked perfect originally.
Then you didn't read my earlier posts or the post I was qouting. It was about the art style not the overall game.
I already did, and so I have defined my tastes. I don't like kiddie looking stuff and I'm not gonna buy this game.
For shame, there was a chance to make it closer to The Wind Waker which would have been fantastic.
It looks like some show that could have been featured on Disney Jr. The channel you put to entertain infants. If you people like it it's ok, I don't.
Seems like the screenshots did wonders lol. Maybe it's trying to be reminiscent of the old sprites where you basically had a single pixel for eyes? Not the biggest fan of it either, but everything else looks beautiful.
I think I'd like a Mother series remake in this style. Link def looks like the clay models they used to market the games way back.
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The term 'AAA' was used in video game magazines in the 16-bit era. It did refer more to a company's best/biggest efforts (like Sonic) than budget, though. The two things often overlapped.
You're in a thread about a game with a cartoony art style, not Sesame Street.
Being so insecure you can't enjoy something you perceive as being for kids is not having defined tastes. It's literally not having grown up.
Bye then.
The graphics and art style looks amazing. This is coming from someone who played the original as a kid. It looks true to the original even with the extra awesome details.
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Wasn't he also heavily responsible for Majora's Mask? Or am I wrong on that?
That would make him responsible for my two favorite Zelda games if so. LA is my favorite 2D and Majora's Mask is my favorite 3D.
Were there goombas and chain chomp's in the first link's awakening? I got startled when I saw Mario enemies didnt make sense.
I think the art looks nice. I hope it's not a straight up remake though. I've played it too many times already really. Would be good if there's at least something new
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Yes. It even has one of the best 2D Zelda dungeons of all time, Eagle's Tower.
It's not insecurity, I could play it, i don't want to, because the artstyle stimulates nothing inside me. This Disney marketed idea that you should keep your kid spirit for literally everything does not apply to me.
Only for link. Windaker artstyle made link move fluidly. He moves very clumsy in this
Yes, classic 2D dungeons in the style of A Link to the Past. At least thats what the original LA had.
To be honest the art style looks kinda terrible and definitely doesn't suit TLOZ. Why didn't they go for a full on cell shaded style? This one feels like animal crossing with weird shadows.
Yep and Mario too. The dec team had a lot of fun being whimsical with LA.
I was so, so excited when I saw that little intro, but then they had to smash my hype with that boring, generic ass looking graphics and art-style.
Link looks like a little funko pop toy and everything in the game, the rocks, sand, trees, clothes, everything look like it's made out of plastic. What was wrong with the graphic style of ALbW or Triforce Heroes? I know it may not be the most beautiful style but it's miles better than this.
Link's Awakening is an amazing game and I know I may be able to overlook the IMO horrible graphics but sadly I won't be there day one.
Link looks like a little funko pop toy and everything in the game, the rocks, sand, trees, clothes, everything look like it's made out of plastic. What was wrong with the graphic style of ALbW or Triforce Heroes? I know it may not be the most beautiful style but it's miles better than this.
Link's Awakening is an amazing game and I know I may be able to overlook the IMO horrible graphics but sadly I won't be there day one.
Yep, he was deeply involved in MM too, and also concieved of the 3 day mechanic and core story. Also I'm pretty sure he came up with Z targeting for OOT. And also directed Mario Galaxy. And led production on the Switch hardware. And much more. He is a Nintendo legend!
The best Zelda game of all time. Great to see it back in the spotlight after all these years.
The artstyle has really grown on me after briefly throwing me. It's a very clean aesthetic and it looks distinctive in its own right.
I'm less sold on the music. The old Game Boy chiptunes are so ingrained in my head - so beautiful, melodic and nostalgic despite the limitations. The woodwinds in the trailer sound a little thin.
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The artstyle has really grown on me after briefly throwing me. It's a very clean aesthetic and it looks distinctive in its own right.
I'm less sold on the music. The old Game Boy chiptunes are so ingrained in my head - so beautiful, melodic and nostalgic despite the limitations. The woodwinds in the trailer sound a little thin.
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I can't get over how good this looks. I'm probably happier with this than I am with any game announcement in a long, long time. I wish I had it right now.
the people saying LA had a gloomy atmosphere are crazy but that doesn't mean the characters needed to look like they're in one of those 3DS street pass games.
To be honest the art style looks kinda terrible and definetly doesn't suit TLOZ. Why didn't they go for a full realistic style? This one feels like a cartoon morning show with weird characters. (Literally the argument made against Windwaker back then).
This is very tame in comparison. We will never reach that level of outcry again.
????? This is leagues ahead of Link Between Worlds visually
I actually really like the art style for this.
I would say it's closer to something Yoshi would do than AC.
Fantastic! I tried playing some of the Gameboy Zeldas for the first time and I just couldn't adjust to their lack of buttons.
I was really hoping we'd get a remake of one of these eventually.
Having only two buttons to equip the sword, shield, and every other item to was really tedious to me when I tried playing Oracle of Seasons on the 3DS VC.
I was really hoping we'd get a remake of one of these eventually.
Having only two buttons to equip the sword, shield, and every other item to was really tedious to me when I tried playing Oracle of Seasons on the 3DS VC.
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
C.S Lewis
Fluidity has more to do with character animation and input lag. If Link was clumsy in the original, I can't think of a good reason why this would be impossible to replicate in the Wind Waker art style.