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4010304 No.4010304 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone misses the day when old video games were inconsistent in their character designs. Like how Mario and Luigi's shirts and overalls colors would switch from Mario 1 to 2, the hair colors of the Lee brothers switching between the arcade and console versions, or the entire design of Simon Belmont? I thought it was kinda cool how there was no definite take on a character and the designers could revamp the characters to their liking between games.

>> No.4010318

>>4010304
you know I never noticed the mario colour swap until someone brought it up

>> No.4010362

>>4010304
If it happened today, /vr/ would complain that they ruined the formerly perfect design.

>> No.4010598
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4010598

How about how Link had pink hair in A Link to The Past and no one gave a fuck.

>> No.4010608

>>4010304
nah, seems lazy/uncaring

>> No.4010609

>>4010598
I remember someone uploaded an image of the original clay models they used for reference during development of Zelda III.

>> No.4010639

>>4010598
>pink hair
I thought it's purple

>> No.4011907

>>4010304
I do, it was kind of fun seeing the varius interpretations.

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>>4010609
Found it. I'm guessing this was sculpted before they worked on the promo art by Yoichi Kotabe and they never bother to change the hair color for the final game.

>> No.4012240

>>4012189

>we tried to make it as easy as possible
>if mainstream gamers could handle less linear games we would have made it harder.

Literally CoD.