Aonuma specifically said at the live demo today that Lorule is not the Dark World from ALttP.
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Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds NYCC Trailer
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Aonuma specifically said at the live demo today that Lorule is not the Dark World from ALttP.
I just realized. Princess Zelda, Princess Hilda.
Aunt Zelda, Aunt Hilda....
Auonuma been watching too much Sabrina the Teenage Witch during development.
Oh my god :lol
Vire
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What did you expect stereoscopic 3D games in your pocket?...
Incitemaybe
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Had to watch it.......I hope this is good! Looks great so far...
Edit:Ooooh, that Kotaku footage was interesting......and that audience is so pumped haha
Edit:Ooooh, that Kotaku footage was interesting......and that audience is so pumped haha
The game is purposely going for that look. I think it embodies the spirit of the original LTTP and the new artwork very, very well. You can tell this game oozes ambience in some parts. I just wish the overworld did not look as bland since that's where most of the game will be.
tali'zorah84
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What if Majora has some form of innocent role in ALBW and doesn't really become Majora until well... later?
Wouldn't be surprised if it's just a little thing, like how in OoT3D you could see the little Skyward Sword pics in some places.
Edit from Kotaku vid: There's a guy in a Tingle-esque hat just named "Treasure Hunter"
Wouldn't be surprised if it's just a little thing, like how in OoT3D you could see the little Skyward Sword pics in some places.
Edit from Kotaku vid: There's a guy in a Tingle-esque hat just named "Treasure Hunter"
Christopher
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I'd like to be excited for this sequel, but its art style puts me off.
bingo
Phife Dawg
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My feelings exactly. And I actually like the art style, I don't even know why. Maybe nostalgia? PS1 CG describes it perfectly.
Hours Left
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"Your Link is superb."
Hilda seems thirsty.
Hilda seems thirsty.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Its Zelda alright, Thank you Nintendo
Let's seal the people who tried to take the Triforce into the holy realm of the Triforce.
Twilight Realm's gotta be entirely separate.
Edit: Link closeups aside (His face is the worst thing) this looks amazing. The did a great job capturing how the original looked.
MrGreencastle
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Gonna finish a playthrough of alttp just before this comes out (while also doing playthroughs of windwaker hd hero mode and ocarina of time 3d master quest).
Oni Link 666
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I like the look of Link in the game. He reminds me of olschool Link from the Zelda 1 manual and stuff. I also really like the way everything in the game animates like a cartoon. It's like LttP x 20. I can't wait for this! I hope they put LttP on Wiii U VC soon. I want to play it again before this comes out.
Earthpainting
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I don't even have a ton of love for aLttP but the music did a precision strike on my nostalgia-centre. I'm really impressed with what little I've seen of this so far. Core mechanics seem strong and hold a lot of potential. The game seems fast and fluid. Lots of cute and clever little touches that inject character in its predecessor which I thought it was missing. And that music...
I was going to wait on getting it until the end of the year, but it looks like I'll be making time for it already in November.
I was going to wait on getting it until the end of the year, but it looks like I'll be making time for it already in November.
Herbspiceguy
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Watched the Kotaku gameplay vid. Gameplay, animation and artstyle look great. I don't get much of the negativity on the graphics, to me it looks like a near perfect translation of the original LTTP to 3D.
Watching it in 60fps 3D should definitely make a difference in terms of visual appeal.
What The Forest Taught Me
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I'd like to be excited for this sequel, but its art style puts me off.
If it was done in beautiful hand-drawn 2D art, this would be a must-buy for me.
The artstyle is great. The actual models are very rough.
Stratostar
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Why are ALBW Link's eyebrows connected to his hair?
I just realized. Princess Zelda, Princess Hilda.
Aunt Zelda, Aunt Hilda....
Auonuma been watching too much Sabrina the Teenage Witch during development.
...How did I miss this.
Loving what I'm seeing of this game.
All of them. One might say, an infinite amount.
There's always a man, there's always a
What if Majora has some form of innocent role in ALBW and doesn't really become Majora until well... later?
Wouldn't be surprised if it's just a little thing, like how in OoT3D you could see the little Skyward Sword pics in some places.
Edit from Kotaku vid: There's a guy in a Tingle-esque hat just named "Treasure Hunter"
He's just wearing a green cap. His remaining attire is yellow-ish. There's nothing really Tingle-esque about him other than the cap.
It's no different from ALttP. Dark World enemies took a lot of hits, especially without an upgraded Master Sword.
i thought the minish and the place the lokomo are from are the same world hyrule is in. the minish are just creatures part of the early zelda timeline, after the events of skyward sword. the lokomo probably existed separately elsewhere on the surface as an offshoot of the hylian race given their similarities and powers.
koholint was probably not a real place (if it is or isn't doesn't matter- that ending is fantastic).
so i think you can split it into these:
world where hyrule takes place
dark realm (spirit tracks)/demon realm (skyward sword)
sacred realm (oot/alttp)
twilight realm (twilight princess)
termina (majora's mask)
labrynna (oracle of ages)
holodrum (oracle of seasons)
the dark realm and the demon realm might even be the same thing, given that's where malladus comes from. if that's the case, then there's only the world where hyrule takes places, the demon realm, the twilight realm (which was created separately by the gods to punish the twili), and the places that just seem to be like labyrnna, holodrum, and termina.
labyrnna and holodrum could be the individual places that two of the three goddesses come from, or were created as a side effect of creating hyrule when they all came together. that leaves termina as the only place where its existence is never explained.
termina might have turned into lorule though. if skull kid never entered the place (because ganondorf took over, and probably indirectly prevented skull kid from taking the mask), then the moon never threatened to destroy the world. it continues existing as a mirror world of hyrule for a long time. would put a nice bow on things if termina was the land farore came from/belongs to where labrynna and holodrum belong to nayru and din.
it's all bullshit, but it's fun to try and piece things together.
MoogleWizard
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The music is so good and nostalgic. I love everything about this, except the character models. My brain cannot comprehend the ugliness of those character models.
I mean, wtf is this, what were they smoking when they thought they could put this abomination in the final game:
Compare that to OOT 3D, a remaster of a 14 year old game:
They could have tried to make it look half as good as that at least.
I mean, wtf is this, what were they smoking when they thought they could put this abomination in the final game:
Compare that to OOT 3D, a remaster of a 14 year old game:
They could have tried to make it look half as good as that at least.
I was under the impression that, unlike Termina, Holodrum and Labrynna are just two different countries in the same world.
Yes. In fact Wind Waker HD as well as the Zelda HD experience came out of experimenting with artstyles for Wii U Zelda.
Loved the trailer and actually sold the game to me.
It is a real pitty that they chose this dull artstyle and mediocre graphics. Are they trying to make the "new" Legend of Zelda, as they did with the "new" Super Mario Bros.? It looks like that.
But it looks so depressing the state of Lorule, and the difference between a promising land and a ruined one. The music is also great. As the ideas of popping out stuff from the walls when you come out of them. Now I'm hyped and I was not interested in this game at all!
It is a real pitty that they chose this dull artstyle and mediocre graphics. Are they trying to make the "new" Legend of Zelda, as they did with the "new" Super Mario Bros.? It looks like that.
But it looks so depressing the state of Lorule, and the difference between a promising land and a ruined one. The music is also great. As the ideas of popping out stuff from the walls when you come out of them. Now I'm hyped and I was not interested in this game at all!
Edwards_Omatic
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I share the exact same opinion, Link does look daft, and nowhere near as good as from OOT.
Think it might largely be due to how it's a top down game, and they wanted to get Link looking as good as possible from above... In OOT you saw much more of Link from all angles.
Regardless, this is the only game I have pre-ordered for this year, goddamn just gimme it.
peanutbutterlatte
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"Wtfs up with the art style it just looks like LttP's sprites in 3D!".
Ta daaaa
Ta daaaa
SuperAngelo64
Banned
I need a poster/wallscroll of this, like...right now:
God damnit. I would've taken this over Toon Link for Smash 4 any day.
The music is so good and nostalgic. I love everything about this, except the character models. My brain cannot comprehend the ugliness of those character models.
I mean, wtf is this, what were they smoking when they thought they could put this abomination in the final game:
Compare that to OOT 3D, a remaster of a 14 year old game:
They could have tried to make it look half as good as that at least.
maybe the lower model lets them but more stuff on screen and they did not want to use a high detailed model which for 95% of the game you would not see from the top down view.
I think this is a day one for me
Surely they could have used a set of high-detail models for the cutscenes?