/vr/ - Retro Games

The original Legend of Zelda. I love the game, it is one of the games I played a lot as a child. A game I played to completion more than any other, yet looking back on it, it was ugly as shit. I mean, who would want to save Hyrule if it is all brown and shit? Why are the colors the way they are? It seems so arbitrary, like they just didn't have any colors to work with. Yet, it still has a charm to it. The tiles in the game, especially rocks and bushes take on new forms that the developers probably didn't see us seeing them as.

We know the NES is capable of much better visuals, so why is it that a game, especially a first party game looks so poor on the system?

Not that I am saying it is a bad game, it is just one ugly bitch.