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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening remake announced for Nintendo Switch
- Thread starter Mr. RPG
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Personally I'm so glad to get this remake of one of my favorite Zeldas. It looks so cute, Link is adorable! I think the art style is very appropriate to what's probably the most lighthearted Zelda game, with all the Mario stuff and silly humor in there. I can't wait to play and feel like a kid again!
but why does this game have to be compared to rdr2 of all games? there are plenty of garbage, under 10 hour games that launch at 60. the solution is really simple, if this isn't looking like a 60 dollar game to you, don't buy it.
Remake 2 has cutting edge graphics for its genre, artstyle, performance target and hardware it performs on, and so does Link's Awakening.
Yeah, people in almost every major gaming site, Ign, Kotaku, Polygon, Easy allies, Kinda funny, etc, loved the announcement and the Art. Also the general opinion for the game is not divisive at all, the majority loved the artstyle.
Whoever thinks that there is gonna be pushback for the art or the price is gonna be very surprised.
The concept of "demand and supply" is clearly something that some will never learn.
Price is not based on "value", almost nothing in the world is.
Price is not based on "value", almost nothing in the world is.
yeah people are in for a surprise if they don't think this will be a big hit
RE2 sure looks nice but it's 2 hours long breh, you really going to pay $60 that?
See? I can spew uninformed bullshit too.
You don't deserve a Zelda game.
I hope nintendo remakes more 2D Zeldas just like this.
I agree that Rdr 2 was an over the top example. It's just that all pubs must be really dumb to sell little remakes and remastered at anything but fullprice.
i'll buy it day one. i've not played the original so this is a great opportunity! part of me was hoping for a port of A Link Between Worlds. i guess i better go pick up a 2DS so i can play it again.
Thread is full super bad opinions lol. At least outside of ERA, the reaction of the art style has been very positive. ERA lost a lot of taste points with this reveal lol.
Given the Switch market, this Zelda game will be $60. Whether it (or others) should be AAA full price MSRP is up for debate.
DKC: Tropical Freeze - $60
NSMB U Deluxe - $60
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - $60
Bayonetta 2 - $60
Hyrule Warriors - $60
Pokken Tournament DX - $60
Nintendo will not charge less for a total remake vs these ports.
DKC: Tropical Freeze - $60
NSMB U Deluxe - $60
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - $60
Bayonetta 2 - $60
Hyrule Warriors - $60
Pokken Tournament DX - $60
Nintendo will not charge less for a total remake vs these ports.
question: when going to watch a movie or buying a bluray, do people expect to pay less if it's a remake of an older film?
It's all about how they perceive their value. Zelda is an established prestigious IP. So is Resident Evil, and why Capcom is pricing RE2 at 60bucks.
Considering people were upset at Octopath Traveller, a completely original title, being full price I somehow doubt it's really about it being a remake. They would be complaining if a brand new 2D Zelda was full price.
Honestly at this point, posts criticizing the art style would be a welcome break from the incessant weeping and moaning about the price tag. Get a job people.
let's be honest unless it's a generic third person adventure game on "big boy platforms", some people will find a way to argue why a game isn't worth the asking price
- turn based? nope
- not open world? nope
- non realistic art style? nope
- pixel art? nope
- 2d platformer? nope
- only 20 hours long? nope
- etc
yeah i wish we could go back to that. at least that one gave us this gem:
In terms of technical and artistic quality, here's one that's not too far off imo. Eternium: Mages and Minions.
Chalk me up as another one who doesn't really feel the new art style. No, rather, I'd prefer this style, but celshaded. We have the intro movie sequence with Link being all hand-drawn Anime like, so why does the game then turn around and go into 'plastic mini figurine in diorama" mode. That's a jarring cut.
I'm not really mad though. Whatever they will serve up I'll devour in earnest. I think they could simply bump the colour palette from GBC to SNES and I'd still throw my money at them for the mere privilege of replaying that game in a new and exciting way. They could 1:1 recreate the slow prompts for the Triforce shard/defense boost/etc events and I'd still enjoy it. I'm that hopeless when it comes to one of my favourite games.
I do hope they have a proper transition cutscene to the main screen (the one where Marin finds the unconscious Link at the beach). Just having him drift around near the island and then panning up to the egg isn't good enough. Might just have been for the trailer, obviously, but I am a concerned citizen in that regard. Don't rob Marin of her cutscene.
(I always found it funny how the devs managed to express the transition from shock to cautious curiosity with just a bunch of wobbles of a sprite. Sure, if Link starts out drifting at sea instead of getting dragged away by a girl the ending will work better, but still. I demand slavish dedication to the source material. Well not really and I realize it's a weird niggle but they must keep the atmosphere intact and I'm worried they won't...)
I'm not really mad though. Whatever they will serve up I'll devour in earnest. I think they could simply bump the colour palette from GBC to SNES and I'd still throw my money at them for the mere privilege of replaying that game in a new and exciting way. They could 1:1 recreate the slow prompts for the Triforce shard/defense boost/etc events and I'd still enjoy it. I'm that hopeless when it comes to one of my favourite games.
I do hope they have a proper transition cutscene to the main screen (the one where Marin finds the unconscious Link at the beach). Just having him drift around near the island and then panning up to the egg isn't good enough. Might just have been for the trailer, obviously, but I am a concerned citizen in that regard. Don't rob Marin of her cutscene.
(I always found it funny how the devs managed to express the transition from shock to cautious curiosity with just a bunch of wobbles of a sprite. Sure, if Link starts out drifting at sea instead of getting dragged away by a girl the ending will work better, but still. I demand slavish dedication to the source material. Well not really and I realize it's a weird niggle but they must keep the atmosphere intact and I'm worried they won't...)
Reading this thread is weird. The art style is far better than I anticipated from the news, and considering it's a complete rebuild of a game that's going to take hours to complete, the price seems reasonable.
This is the first game that really makes me seriously consider buying a Switch.
This is the first game that really makes me seriously consider buying a Switch.
I find it funny that people think that games developed completely from scratch should magically be cheaper just because there was another version of it made like 20 years ago and at a millionth of the cost. The only argument is that maybe some of the design work is already done, but even then that's like saying a sequel should be cheaper because its inheriting design from a predecessor.
On topic, I wouldn't be surprised if the game was using UE4. It wasn't shown in the video though.
I agree completely with your point, it's highly opinion based but it's still true.
I'm fine with people just thinking it costs too much but I just don't get people who expected to cost less for some reason.
has there been anyone suggesting that it is? sometimes we see people familiar with unreal guessing if a game is UE4 before it is confirmed. i wouldn't be surprised either, i just hope that doesn't mean it won't be 60fps.
The original game goes from this to small 8 bit sprites.
Because of technical limitations at the time
Honestly the use of DoF in the trailer makes me think a looooot of UE4.
I'm hoping we get a redesigned dungeon inside the Wind Fish's Egg. The maze was easily the worst part of the original game, and really disappointing.
I think the dungeons all stand to get beefed up a bit, but that last one is a great big nothing and should be replaced wholesale.
i share your obsession with the game and wanting the remake to be a full, shot for shot remake of the original. i demand ridiculous amounts of respect for the source material.
i don't think they showed the whole intro, so i think the game will come with a longer one covering the whole scene before the title screen comes up.
if it is, i really hope it's done better than yoshi. that one looks great in docked mode but the game's resolution in handheld mode is pretty rough.
It is broadly known this gane was to be released in 3DS. But yeah, I do not know anything about VG developmemt, so lets assume you really do.
This is not a matter about how much you supposely know but a matter of seeing the trailer with your eyes opened.
People saying the models of characters are not the same that in 3DS. Wow, i never imagined. Just to be totally fair regarding the incredible work of this product, let's remember that Nintendo created a CG movie for the intro. And they changed the Game's logo as well.
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Sure, but that was definitely because the GB/GBC had nowhere near the specs to continue in this style.The original game goes from this to small 8 bit sprites.
And anyway, my issue is that the cutscene in the upcoming rerelease is a full-blown Anime and the gameplay is diorama/plastic-styled. That's a clear break in presentation. The old game couldn't really NOT be a 4-shades-of-green sprite based game, and the cutscene is very much tied by the same restrictions.
The new one can easily either start out with the plastic diorama style (plus some pizzaz and camera angle tweaks and whatnot because cutscene) and continue on as such, or start out with cels and continue accordingly.
And given a choice I'd rather have mini diorama with celshading, personally. My main point remains that I don't like the break in style. That I kinda dislike the shiny plastic figurine art style is rather low priority in comparison.
I feel like I should refer back to one of my previous posts in this thread on the choice in art style and why they chose something cute and something not representative of the anime cutscene.
Cute is what I expect of Link's Awakening. It's intro sequence wasn't representative of what I felt the game to be when I played it, in fact, the intro sequence is what I feel represents the real world he inhabits to be which is why that specific anime look are book ends to the game. When actually playing the game it has a strange and cute vibe to it and photos taken within the game are all cute and chibi.
Had this been something like the Oracle games, maybe i'd find some issue with it because that game had cutscenes throughout the game showing characters in non-chibi proportions. But I honestly think the style they chose for Link's Awakening fits very well since it's all set in a dreamscape.
If you spend 3 hours bitching online about the price being $20 too high, you're working for less than minimum wage.
Those photos weren't even in the original game. Link's Awakening DX came out 5 years after the original and appears to have had a completely different team for the new stuff. The people designing the DX photos decided to take the in-game sprites and scale them up as a basis for the proportions, likely for some combination of practical and artistic reasons, but it has nothing to do with the art direction of the original game.
For whatever reasons the English localization decided to make it less obvious.
Thread got awful lol. I'm also sick of the price versus time argument
I knew it was a dream as soon as I started playing as a wee lad. It becomes rather obvious with a few chats with the mysterious owl.
Also was this the first Zelda game with that owl?