Charoncaori
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I'm digging the 3d retro Link design.
Zelda game set in Link to the Past world coming to the 3DS, holiday 2013
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Some people took my post too literally. Of course the first image is artwork, what i mean is that i expected more in terms of art direction-visual impact, given how many great looking games we've got from Nintendo so far.
This looks like a NSMB approach to the Zelda franchise, which i don't think is so good...
This looks like a NSMB approach to the Zelda franchise, which i don't think is so good...
Future PhaZe
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god the games announced but dat art direction
gravitybear
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LTTP is also one of my all time favorites. Respect, Reggie.
Smelly Tramp
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Having recently completed LTTP...
This looks horrendous. Graphics look terrible, and not tech wise either, just an awful over saturated, way too bright kiddy style. Become a drawing really? The hero of hyrule becomes a drawing on the wall?
Ugh.
This looks horrendous. Graphics look terrible, and not tech wise either, just an awful over saturated, way too bright kiddy style. Become a drawing really? The hero of hyrule becomes a drawing on the wall?
Ugh.
shadyspace
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Why don't people consider PH and ST top down?
Regulus Tera
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The art style looks a bit bland to me. It's like they tried to copy the style of the 2D games, but it just doesn't translate well. Whatever qualms I had with the DS games, at least those had a distinct look.
Retro Link is cool, though.
Retro Link is cool, though.
peanutbutterlatte
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Taking a "NSMB approach" is a loaded phrase for a game nobody's played yet. NSMB is the combination of a safe art style, but also the typical 2D Mario gameplay. Whilst the game looks quite simplistic I'll grant you, that hieroglyphic mechanic along with the level traversing hammer thing we saw means that NSMB this aint.
"We'll make it in 2D. Yes, how daring and bold!"
The breath of fresh air the series needed.
He becomes a mural painting, not a "drawing"
Charoncaori
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The hero of hyrule also transforms into a pink bunny rabbit in the same game.
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I don't "see" the dungeon, as the camera is too close. Maybe that's why I am not pleased with it. It seems difficult to conceptualize the entire floor.
Unfortunately not every one can see 3D, while other people hate the eye strain that it causes, and because of that there will never be a main line Nintendo game that is going to be designed for the 3D effect. Sure, some games will benefit from the 3D but even then it mostly ends up being an extra feature that usually adds nothing to the gameplay.
I really can't imagine a game being completely designed around 3D, unless it a smaller downloadable game, or 3D becomes the only way to play in the future. Which I don't see happening.
Aquamarine
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Phantom Hourglass:
Link to the Past 2:
Yep. The perspective is COMPLETELY different, and the art is more impressionist.
This is why Zelda can't ever win their fanbase entirely.
peanutbutterlatte
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The hero of hyrule becomes a miniature version of himself/older/a Deku/a Zora/a Goron/a wolf/a train driver?
eugh.
Yeah, but it's a super serious bunny.
MasterSheen
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All of my "YES" and "WUT" and "HOLY SHIT".
I would have preferred a 3D game, but I'm okay with the top down angle.
I would have preferred a 3D game, but I'm okay with the top down angle.
It's almost as if people don't care about gameplay.
The artstyle is part of the gameplay, at least in Zelda games it is.
I wouldn't know about a breath of fresh air. I don't really care about changing things just to say you've changed them. I know that I think 3D zeldas have all been very boring and fail to keep my attention past the first few hours. I know that I've finished every top down zelda save Link's Awakening (playing it now), and that those are my favorite. I'm glad that this looks more like what I love. I really don't care what other people like. I'm selfish that way.
Yeah, graphics aren't all that. It looks pretty bland. But I don't play screenshots. If the gameplay is great, I can get over the graphics.
Don't forget a Pink Bunny
Silent_Ocarina
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I feel pretty bad for the Zelda series. It seems very divisive no matter what is done.
I think it looks a little strange (maybe a tad too bright or soft) but I think I like it. The gameplay mechanics seem really interesting, and it's definitely a day one purchase for me.
I think it looks a little strange (maybe a tad too bright or soft) but I think I like it. The gameplay mechanics seem really interesting, and it's definitely a day one purchase for me.
KeeSomething
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Is this sarcasm? They look very, very similar to me. ALttP 2 looks better, as a 3DS game should, but it looks more like the DS games than the SNES ALttP or Minish Cap.Phantom Hourglass:
Link to the Past 2:
Yep. The perspective is COMPLETELY different, and the art is more impressionist.
Phantom Hourglass:
Link to the Past 2:
Yep. The perspective is COMPLETELY different, and the art is more impressionist.
That official screenshot seems oversaturated
has it been brought up how the game is called "New Zelda" on the eShop? sounds like it's going to carry that branding to me. New Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past 2 sounds bloated though.
it'd take a miracle for the Zelda fanbase to be reunited. zelda wii u maybe?
it'd take a miracle for the Zelda fanbase to be reunited. zelda wii u maybe?
bitoriginal
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Very, very similar? As in they're both Zelda games? The art is completely different.
Hero of Legend
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eShop trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozkuBM27EY
Nintendomination deserves recognition, he gets media good and fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozkuBM27EY
Nintendomination deserves recognition, he gets media good and fast.
Am I the only one who reads his name for kicks as Nintendamnation?
Phantom Hourglass:
Link to the Past 2:
Yep. The perspective is COMPLETELY different, and the art is more impressionist.
I also won't be surprised if the leaves on the bushes and trees are being blown by wind.
Silent_Ocarina
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Mine says "The New Zelda Game Trailer" or something to that effect. I don't think it's any more than a plain adjective.
KeeSomething
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It looks like it plays a lot closer to the DS games, which I did not like. The physics look the same. Link sword speed and general movement, and the enemy reactions to attacks are identical to PH/ST.It's almost as if people don't care about gameplay.
By the way, I'm not looking for reasons to hate this game. I want to love it, but the trailer reminds me way to much of the DS games. It's a legit critique since those games get a lot of flake. I'd really love to be wrong! Here's to hoping that it brings in all the magic from ALttP/TMC/LA/OoX!
Oooooooor it's the newest zelda game.
Green Wiggly
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Plus a baby and a fairy as well.
I mean i was expecting something like this:
Never expect anything.
Bound to happen in a series with a legacy 30 years in the making.
Joeshabadoo
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Why is this title suddenly not going to be ambitious? There are new mechanics and massive dungeons from what we can tell. Link gets launched from FL12 to 13 in that one gif
also people seem to be forgetting what ALTTP looked like. This style is a nicely fitting evolution that plays to the early LoZ series concept art and general toon fantasy vibe. I like it
I guarantee you a lot of people are going to complain about that one too.
But it uses buttons. Buttons!
Zoramon089
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So what you're saying is 3D games look more like 3D games than they do 2D games? Well yes, if that's what you were arguing, I guess I can agree with that....
KeeSomething
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No. Ocarina of Time 3D is also a Zelda game (and it's on the 3DS), and it looks nothing like this.
You're just trying to be difficult. You know that ALttP2 looks way more like the DS games than any of the 2D games. Obviously, the perspective plays a big part, and the simplified look (the art style). These comparisons should not be made if ALttP 2 was using 2D sprites or had a non-chibi artstyle.
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