/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6140458]

Old school Zelda art is so comfy, they look like screen caps from an animated movie that was never released.

[Anonymous No.6140482]

>>6140458

[Anonymous No.6140493]

>>6140482

[Anonymous No.6140495]

echoes of miyazaki everywhere

[Anonymous No.6140569]

>>6140458
>Old school Zelda art
its glorious, please post more art

[Anonymous No.6140651]

>>6140458
>>6140482
>>6140493

I wonder if there's any studio capable of doing a 3-d Zelda game that looks just like these.

>>6140458
>>6140482
>>6140493

[Anonymous No.6140653]

Zelda has a brother

[Anonymous No.6140685]

>>6140569
Ask and ye shall receive

[Anonymous No.6140687]

My personal favorite

[Anonymous No.6140696]

>>6140569

[Anonymous No.6140812]

Link and Zelda by Haruhiko Mikimoto (character designer of Macross, Gunbuster, etc)

[Anonymous No.6140923]

This one looks to be from Zelda 2, Link ages between both games and he looks noticeably taller here compared to his hobbit like appearance in the first games concept art.

[Anonymous No.6140964]

I think I got my first heterosexual feelings from those drawings, and it probably was my gateway to hentai. Thanks, Nintenders.

[Anonymous No.6140982]

[Anonymous No.6140984]

This one looks like an animated still.
It's weird.

[Anonymous No.6140986]

[Anonymous No.6140990]

this picture always stood out to me when I looked at ALttP's manual. it's so alien a landscape.

[Anonymous No.6140992]

>>6140990
This one too. The goddesses looked very unnerving to me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.6140994]

>

[Anonymous No.6140996]

>>6140964
so what gave you homosexual feelings, you deviant?

[Anonymous No.6141000]

>>6140986
based

[Anonymous No.6141004]

>>6141000
Are you religious anon, got any proof bud?

[Anonymous No.6141029]

>>6140986
Checkmate atheists!

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[Anonymous No.6141051]

>>6140996
Nothing. Just saying that seeing women in art and animation was an awakening of sorts, fag.

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[Anonymous No.6141062]

>>6141049
Though that was Zelda for a sec then I seen the egg on the mountain behind her.

[Anonymous No.6141061]

sort of counts

[Anonymous No.6141071]

>>6141062
Nope, just Marin

[Anonymous No.6141089]

>>6140458
Japanese Kid Icarus art from the same era has the same comfy feel.

[Anonymous No.6141121]

>>6140458
There's an actual SNES-CD version of Marvelous by Nintendo EAD that would have had animated cutscenes by TMS Animation. It never got a proper release.

[Anonymous No.6141160]

>>6141062
>Though that was Zelda for a sec
So did Link

[Anonymous No.6141163]

>>6141121
Isn't that the shitty Aonuma game?

[Anonymous No.6141165]

[Anonymous No.6141178]

>>6141163
It's not shitty.
And yeah, its original concept. The final game was scaled down, and divided to 3 different releases that already max the available HiRom carts (not counting special ExHiRom carts like Tales of Phantasia or Star Ocean)
They said they'd love to revisit the original concept if newer hardware than SNES can handle videos, and ... lol

[Anonymous No.6141182]

[Anonymous No.6141189]

>>6141035
Thought he was smoking a cig for a sec.

[Anonymous No.6141191]

>>6141035
>>6141037
>>6141038
>>6141039
>>6141047
>>6141048
These are my fav. Unbelievably cool.

[Anonymous No.6141210]

>>6140495
Ghibli Zelda movie never ever, it would be so good. Also here's an interesting fact: the guy who has designed characters for some of Takahata's anime (Heidi, for example) is also the designer of Mario, Princess Peach and OG Princess Zelda. Don't know about Link though

[Anonymous No.6141224]

yeah it's sad, the modern aesthetic for these games just isn't there. all they do is try to emulate bestselling ps2 games

[Anonymous No.6141227]

Why does Link's Awakening art look so bad? I mean it's comfy but everyone is so fucking ugly, jesus fuck. I mean look at Link, he looks like a retard and then there's fucking Mario collecting mushrooms next to him who also looks braindead

[Anonymous No.6141238]

>>6141227
people look fucked up in dreams.

[Anonymous No.6141256]

This is... SOUL!!

[Anonymous No.6141261]

>>6141210

[Anonymous No.6141272]

>>6141227
>hating on koizumi's designs.
He is what made link's awakening, ocarina of time and majora's mask memorable. And certainly better than the abominations from twilight princess, skyward sword and breath of the wild.

[Anonymous No.6141279]

>>6141272
Koizumi isn't an artist, though.

[Anonymous No.6141280]

>>6141272
Those aren't by Koizumi if I remember correctly

[Anonymous No.6141296]

I like the ones from Nintendo Power

[Anonymous No.6141298]

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[Anonymous No.6141307]

>>6141298
Might as well dump the comic

[Anonymous No.6141309]

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[Anonymous No.6141342]

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[Anonymous No.6141346]

>>6141342
And this is just Chapter 1. There are 12 chapters and you can find them by searching shotaro ishinomori zelda comics in Google.

[Anonymous No.6141365]

>>6141280
>>6141279
You're right, koizumi made a few models for oot and directed la and mm, so I got confused.

[Anonymous No.6141391]

>>6140651
>I wonder if there's any studio capable of doing a 3-d Zelda game that looks just like these
This is what they tried to do with WW.

[Anonymous No.6141527]

>>6141182
So that's where the design for those boomerang knives in BoTW came from

[Anonymous No.6141551]

>>6141391
Don't insult Zelda 1 like that please.

[Anonymous No.6141565]

>>6141391
Wind waker is a very different look from these older illustrations.
Wind waker is cel-shaded, these all look like actual older animation frames, with the painted background and characters drawn with bolder lines and less shading.
In essence, wind waker is a more modern animation style.

[Anonymous No.6141572]

>>6141527
Nigga I immediately thought the same thing

[Anonymous No.6141604]

>>6141261

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[Anonymous No.6141691]

>>6141391
>This is what they tried to do with WW

Probably, yes, but in this case they took shortcuts. These illustrations are way more sophisticated and striking in style.

[Anonymous No.6141695]

[Anonymous No.6141718]

>>6141679
looks like he's a flasher

[Anonymous No.6141724]

>>6141718
he's actually just guarding himself from light and/or triforce of courgage. Ganon in TLoZ and ALttP worked on vampire rules

[Anonymous No.6141741]

>>6140651
I'm sure there is. Look at all the modern Dragonball and Dragon Quest games with Toriyama's artstyle in them.

I wish Links Awakening Switch had this artstyle instead of whatever the fuck we actually got.

[Anonymous No.6141756]

>>6141391
Not really they tried to make them look like medieval paintings like: >>6140992

[Anonymous No.6141795]

should I play Adventure of Link?

[Anonymous No.6141801]

>>6141795
Sure. It's a fun game.

[Anonymous No.6141830]

>>6141795
Yes, but dont be stupid and take whatever levelups the game offers you, magic's worthless early. Wait until you have 200exp when you start and then go for Attack for example

[Anonymous No.6141831]

>>6141830
you can opt out of level-ups?

[Anonymous No.6141836]

>>6141831
>he doesn't know
All you have to do is hit down and hit Cancel when it tries to give you an HP/Magic levelup. I dont think you can do it when all 3 can be leveled up, but why would you not want to?
Also helping is the bubbles in the palaces. Sure they take a trillion hits to kill but they give you 50exp a kill, a shitload early on.

[Anonymous No.6141837]

>>6141831
Yeah, the option to cancel is always there, and the game will allow you to choose the next thing to level up. This way you can prioritize certain stats over others, and exploit that beating a Temple will give you a guaranteed level up.

[Anonymous No.6141863]

>>6141837
>time my levelup so that i kill the 3rd palace boss right before it
>ignore the 2k exp or whatever it wants for a Magic levelup
>pour the 6k exp from beating the palace into my final Attack level

[Anonymous No.6141948]

>>6140651
I've been waiting years for them to make an old school zelda with exactly this artstyle (and I mean EXACTLY not cell-shaded like WW or even BOTW)

[Anonymous No.6141973]

>>6141227
It's because it's 80's/90's Japanese animated cartoon character aesthetic, which was inspired by Western animation and cartooning and earlier Japanese work, before Japanese Anime characters all looked like this.

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[Anonymous No.6142094]

>In 1986, a Japanese magazine named Shonen Captain included several artworks that depicted Link as a female. This is most likely a mistake from the magazine artists, who probably mistook Link's original NES sprites for a female character.
I would

[Anonymous No.6142101]

>>6140458
I would kill to see a modern Zelda use this look.

[Anonymous No.6142115]

>>6140653
Zelda has a fat fuckin ass

[Anonymous No.6142148]

>>6140458
They were probably drawn on cels and just photographed for whatever they needed it for, hence the reason it looks like an animated still is because it might as well be one.

[Anonymous No.6142165]

>>6142115
6 layers of undergarments will do that to ya

[Anonymous No.6142241]

>>6140994
>>6142165
>zelda wears long dress and 6 layers of undergarments
>link walks around with his bare ass and legs
Fuck this gay earth. Why can't >>6142094 be the real link instead? Is nintendies gay or something?

[Anonymous No.6142272]

>>6140687
Admittedly, this and the pic before always got me hyped as fuck playing it as a kid. The mystery and build-up of just what the fuck Ganon was.

[Anonymous No.6142285]

I wish the cast from the link to the past commercial did a movie. I want Zelda and Link to be lesbifriends.

[Anonymous No.6142297]

>>6142272
The artwork to that manual really was ingrained in my head and helped me picture a Hyrule that the screen could only hint at. When they put out that Art book recently, I bought it immediately to have images that weren't just postage stamp size.

[Anonymous No.6142841]

>>6140984
It's because these actually appear to be cels with backgrounds. They did it up to LttP

[Anonymous No.6142891]

Does sheik have a vagina?

[Anonymous No.6142893]

>>6140982
The lttp manual is a goldmine of comfy art

[Anonymous No.6142957]

>>6141391
Some people believe BotW is that game.

[Anonymous No.6143019]

>>6142957
But there's dungeons in these pictures

[Anonymous No.6143021]

I'd like to have this one in big good quality and framed

[Anonymous No.6143025]

Katsuya terada did a drawing of the wind fish tablet in eastern face shrine that I really like

[Anonymous No.6143027]

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[Anonymous No.6143070]

>>6141261
>>6141604
TLoZ is the best vidya series to get a Ghibli treat because the main hero doesn't fuck the girl. It's something Tomino has always critisized Miyazaki anime for

[Anonymous No.6143342]

>>6143070
>Tomino
Not exactly the golden standard for good writing, even if some of his stuff is pretty interesting.
Also while Porco Rosso didn't fuck his girl on-screen, it was implied they've been lovers for a while before he got the curse. So technically that counts.
The other heroes I remember from Miyazaki films are kids.

[Anonymous No.6143435]

>>6143070
>>6143342
I like it far better in the games where link and zelda can have a complex relationship without being lovers, something more like Oot than skyward sword or spirit tracks.

[Anonymous No.6143474]

>>6143435
I liked Spirit Track's Link and Zelda relationship because it was like an episode of the Zelda cartoon, where Zelda turned into a ghost and followed Link around. Kind of a crazy coincidence, unless someone at Nintendo in Japan is actually a fan of the cartoon.

[Anonymous No.6143519]

>>6143474
I mean, it was fun. But not like super complex.

[Anonymous No.6143531]

>>6143519
It was cartoony and lighthearted, I don't think it was meant to be complex.
I wouldn't say OOT's relationship is complex, since they barely knew each other, but it is subtle and mysterious. OOT had a different artistic approach than Spirit Tracks. Haven't played SS.

[Anonymous No.6143547]

>>6143531
>I don't think it was meant to be complex.
You're right. I used a bad example. Spirit Track was intentionally not complex, but it does have the romantic implications at the end, which is why I (erroneously) mentioned it.

But I just really can't help but like Link and Zelda's relationship in OoT. At the beginning it feels like two kids playing hero together, trying to catch that mean ol' Ganondorf in the act, punctuated by small dialogue bits like the Guard at the Kakariko gate laughing at you for giving him that note from her. Of course, as the game goes on, Ganondorf as a threat becomes real, Zelda has to run away from the castle, Link gets trapped in the Sacred Realm for seven years until he's an adult. The whole thing gets turned on its head.
Zelda's speech at the end has a lot of regret in it, she knows she screwed up in how she ended up using Link and sends him back in time.

Plus there's that whole dynamic Link has with Sheik, which is sort of interesting by itself.

[Anonymous No.6143548]

>>6141037
>Your magesty

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[Anonymous No.6143679]

>>6142957
It's like 60-75% of the way there. If the sequel puts enough time between the two to have some significant rebuilding to HCT, actual dungeons activated by whatever the hell kicks off the plot, and enemy variety they'd pretty much have it. The only new gameplay angle I could think of was a Link-portable version of the shrine batteries to power what I'd hope to be new Sheikah runes/tech of some sort. I also hope they expand the anti-aging rune to give us prime-years Purah, Robbie, Jerrin and Impa.

[Anonymous No.6143728]

>>6140458
>>6140495
Wasn't the guy that did this stuff a former acquaintance of miyazaki like an actual former animator? Thinking of the guy that did the doki doki magic carpet anim and redesigned peach and bowser into their more modern incarnation.

[Anonymous No.6143730]

>>6143070
It'd never work. Miyazaki prefers his female characters to be far more proactive and involved than Zelda games do.

[Anonymous No.6143734]

>>6140923
link is 16 in 2

[Anonymous No.6143737]

>>6140986
last form of christianity to appear in the series

[Anonymous No.6143748]

anyone else ever notice adult zelda and sheik have the same eye shape?

[Anonymous No.6143749]

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[Anonymous No.6143750]

>>6143730
Zelda in OOT is pretty strong and proactive, as Sheik.
I could see Link and Zelda having a sort of chemistry like the characters from Mononoke Hime.

[Anonymous No.6143752]

>>6142094
>probably mistook Link's original NES sprites for a female character
Hard doubt on being a mistake. The rumor mill also suggested the girl is a mascot for the magazine simply cosplaying as Link but I can't find any confirm for that either however I can believe that more.

[Anonymous No.6143758]

>>6143749
yes

[Anonymous No.6143759]

katsuya terada's interpretation of link aging

[Anonymous No.6143764]

>>6143750
>Zelda in OOT is pretty strong and proactive, as Sheik.
...as a boy.

[Anonymous No.6143773]

>>6143764
Was it ever implied that Sheik was a boy? The clothes seem similar to the kind of spandex Impa wears.

[Anonymous No.6143781]

>>6143773
Ruto calls Sheik a man. And that's technically the only case in-game. Though obviously, Sheik's design is (intentionally) masculine or ambiguous.

Sheik's gender is an argument older than 4chan's average user at this point.

[Anonymous No.6143785]

>>6143781
masked as a boy but aint got any junk down there was always my interpretation

[Anonymous No.6143789]

>>6143781
Yeah, I know some people theorize Zelda uses magic to transform into a boy, but the bandage around Sheik's chest I think imply it's actually a disguise.

[Anonymous No.6143795]

>>6143789
You can blame the manga for that.
I swear, I have seen so much retarded shit come out of Ocarina of Time's manga version, it's bizarre.

[Anonymous No.6143797]

pink haired link figures

[Anonymous No.6143806]

>>6143797
have we ever gotten an explanation on pink link?

[Anonymous No.6143812]

>>6143806
Can't confirm, too lazy to test but I think it's Link's overworld frames sharing the same palette as the bunny ones. There's only so much colors that can be used for an object sprite and ran out of any additional color for blonde.

[Anonymous No.6143814]

>>6143789
I never knew it was even a debate. Sheik is obviously disguised Zelda.

[Anonymous No.6143816]

link cosplay in nintendo power

[Anonymous No.6143823]

>>6143814
You have missed a lot of years of shit-flinging. I mean, even Smash Bros flip-flops on this a bit.

>>6143812
I thought palette limitations as the reason were debunked?

[Anonymous No.6143854]

>>6143823
You're right. Just tested.

[Anonymous No.6143858]

>>6141210
Honestly Castle is in the Sky is good enough

[Anonymous No.6143906]

>>6143728
Yoichi Kotabe worked in animation prior to Nintendo and did work under Isao Takahata, so he is at least Miyazaki-adjacent if nothing else. He's basically responsible for all "modern" Mario characters' looks, as early as their SMB2.

There's a significant desire to make a 2D Mario game using his art as the base now that they have the storage for it

[Anonymous No.6143936]

>>6143906
All the concept art mario gets is utterly gorgeous and vibrant.
I got the mario odyssey art book, and all of it is so bright, whimsical and striking. And a lot of it is still done in the SMB2/3/World art style. It really shows both how great that style as, as well as how timeless and perfect Mario's design is. He is legitimately one of the best designed characters in history.

[Anonymous No.6143993]

>>6143797
>ran out of any additional color for blonde
>>6143806
Is it maybe supposed to be red? He's depicted as having kind of orangish hair in some of the earlier incarnations. Perhaps they were going for this and picked a hue too close to pink?

[Anonymous No.6144021]

>>6140990
This picture always reminded me of the cartoon of Phantom Tollbooth for some reason.

[Anonymous No.6144094]

>>6143993
The Zelda trophy figures from the late 80s are kind of an example

[Anonymous No.6144113]

>>6144021
Both are very surreal

[Anonymous No.6144115]

It seems like all the swordspeople ITT are left-handed. Is that 'normal' in this universe?

[Anonymous No.6144185]

>>6143816
Is he not wearing pants?

[Anonymous No.6144195]

>>6144185
neither did actual alttp link

[Anonymous No.6144197]

>>6144094
Irish link

[Anonymous No.6144203]

>>6144195
So all the Kakariko villagers have seen Link's dick?

[Anonymous No.6144216]

>>6144203
plenty of times

[Anonymous No.6144218]

>>6143752
The absolute chunk of bottom link's legs

[Anonymous No.6144301]

>>6143752
IS THAT LINKS PUSSY

[Anonymous No.6144318]

>>6143752
Something endearing about old game art. Not professional but has some heart. Not saying game art these days don't have heart, but there seems to be a lot more skill compared to certain drawing of yore.

Though the environments look great in the art.

[Anonymous No.6145098]

>>6140651
It certainly could be done. Shaders are fucking magic.

[Anonymous No.6145123]

>>6143906
>as early as their SMB2
He actually did illustrations for the original SMB so basically Kotabe is the designer of fucking Mario himself

[Anonymous No.6145127]

>>6141037
Aghanim was cool as fuck, I'd love him to return in some form.

[Anonymous No.6145135]

>>6145123
>so basically Kotabe is the designer of fucking Mario himself
this is art done by shigeru miyamoto himself. he is the designer of what's in here. kotabe just modernized everything.

[Anonymous No.6145136]

>>6145127
Aghanim is basically Ganondorf's precursor. Same role, just that in-game people thought they were different people.

[Anonymous No.6145145]

>>6145136
They even look pretty similar, both are wizards with 'desert dweller' motifs.

[Anonymous No.6145249]

>>6145098
>Goku wearing Link's clothes
gross.

[Anonymous No.6145272]

>>6145135
>Artwork used for the Japanese and sometimes European box, depicting most characters, originally drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto
Holy shit I thought Kotabe was the artist, thanks for the info. Do you happen to know who drew pic related?

[Anonymous No.6145296]

>>6140964
I played some zelda eroge on funnybizgames when I was 10 or 11

[Anonymous No.6145329]

>>6145272
can't confirm but i like to think kotabe. in hyrule historia even yusuke nakano and other artists established later for the series has no clue who did anything from tloz to awakening.

[Anonymous No.6145342]

>>6145098

I'm impressed. It just needs some more effort to look exactly like OP's artwork.

[Anonymous No.6145353]

>>6144318
I feel the same way. The original water color art of SMTI looks ancient now but there's acharm there, knowing Kaneko literally painted just about every enemy in the game himself feeks special.

[Anonymous No.6145452]

>>6143797
Any idea if these figure were ever released, and what they might be called? I'm a /vr/ toy collector and those call to me something fierce.

[Anonymous No.6145510]

>>6145452
It was probably a very limited run in Japanese or a private commission from nintendo to get them made

[Anonymous No.6145574]

>>6140458
>from an animated movie that never released
The official art from the first Zelda did technically did have animation, as seen in this ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqQ3h3pisKY&t=1m

Too bad the quality is utter shite, but bear with it.

[Anonymous No.6146460]

>>6145135
The original Bowser design is awesome,the darker green of the shell and the blueish skin suits his design more I think.

[Anonymous No.6146482]

>>6143806
Old CRT TVs were pretty shit and the pink displayed much more contrast next to the other colors, the bleed made it look less like pink whereas using actual brown or blonde would have been too muddled. Zoomers don't know because they play on LCD monitors and can see everything pixel-perfect.

[Anonymous No.6146483]

>>6144203
They're a small communal village, even though Link lives on the outskirts they probably have a public bath.

[Anonymous No.6146712]

>>6146482
>bleed made it look less like pink whereas using actual brown or blonde would have been too muddled
everyone saw it as pink, though.

[Anonymous No.6146796]

>>6146482
>zoomers pretending to know what everything was like 30 years ago because they desperately want to LARP as boomers
Never gets old.

[Anonymous No.6146858]

>>6143752
I'm willing to bet money that she's just a mascot in cosplay. Hell, she may not even be a set mascot; tons of magazines and doujinshi fanzines would just draw characters as cute girls. Not to mention that japanese video game mags tended to not be the same wildass tabloids thatbamerican ones are, so they'd have know that Link wasn't a girl.

[Anonymous No.6146895]

>>6145574
there has to be better quality of this! i can't tell if all the official art is taken directly from this.

[Anonymous No.6147024]

>>6142115
you fucking said it brother

[Anonymous No.6147035]

>>6140458
Look at him. Link is going to get so much ass after this adventure.

[Anonymous No.6147042]

>>6146895
It's pretty obvious it is. The official art looks like cels on top of backgrounds because that's exactly what they are

[Anonymous No.6147561]

>>6145574
>Remember seeing this video ages ago
>Peop,le still act like the Zelda animation cels are a mystery.

More proof that Westerners love to talk out of their asses. Even Megaman fans are too stupid to understand that that Megaman "animation reel" was literally Capcom shopping around the concept of a Megaman cartoon to different studios and not that Ruby-Spears somehow made an anime quality prototype show and just scrapped the art style last minute.

[Anonymous No.6147993]

>>6146712
id have to dust off the cartridge and boot it up when i get home to check, but i dont remember seeing it as pink.

[Anonymous No.6148007]

>>6146482
>>6146712
that's because it is literally pink see >>6143797

[Anonymous No.6148675]

>>6140458
> tfw there was never a 90s LOZ OVA

[Anonymous No.6148692]

>>6140458
I prefer the kino Zelda II art, it's like a 5th gen RPG that never existed

[Anonymous No.6148748]

>>6141227
>it's comfy
this was all you needed to post

[Anonymous No.6148750]

>>6141604
looks soulless desu

[Anonymous No.6148763]

>>6143806
I remember an interview from someone who worked on the game and even he was unsure how the pink hair came about.

Despite limitations it’ safe to say they had enough of a handle on their hardware that it wasn’t a mistake.

It’s a secret to everybody.

[Anonymous No.6148803]

>>6145329
Never realized what a classic anime look Peach has til seeing this linework. Her face has the kinda proportions you’d see out of something from the 60s. Big eyes and a certain rounded shape to the forehead.

>>6144318
Most of these were drawn by professionals. Game art back then just had a style that seems less polished than what we get today. Also keep in mind a lot of this art was intended to stimulate the player’s imagination, while today game art is all concept stuff used during the design process. Both can be nice and interesting but there’s a difference in the feeling the end result gives off.

The loss of booklets is the number 1 thing I blame for this shift. Increased graphical fidelity may also make a lot of people think this sort of art is less important, as a game’s visuals are taken a lot more literally than they used to be.

[Anonymous No.6148824]

>>6148803
valuable perspective

[Anonymous No.6149182]

>>6146482
Isn't that just NTSC fuckery?

[Anonymous No.6149209]

>>6142115
she sure does

[Anonymous No.6149840]

>>6145145
why can't you just admit that zelda is about a righteous christian slaughtering an invading muslim prince to save his sister

[Anonymous No.6149851]

>>6145574
Zelda is already kind of a ripoff of an animated movie that actually was released

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkl7RAd8IDI

[Anonymous No.6149857]

>>6149209
princess got back

[Anonymous No.6150076]

>>6149851
That's a pretty serious stretch. Cute looking movie though

[Anonymous No.6150098]

>>6149851
This looks pretty awesome, thanks for sharing anon.
The one movie Zelda actually ripped off (or rather, got its main visual inspo from) is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvL-75lziBI
People were mocking Wind Waker for looking like the Powerpuff Girls back when it was announced, but it was actually this movie that inspired that weird toon look. Great movie btw, based on japanese folklore about the god Amaterasu (same as Okami, and many other japanese media). Good film.

[Anonymous No.6150304]

>>6149851
Appreciate you sharing the nice movie even if I disagree. Zelda 1 development was underway in 83, and this film wasn’t released til 87 despite being complete in 84. So a rip off, it is not.

[Anonymous No.6150379]

>>6149851
Tbh, if you want to call zelda a rip off of anything, at least call it a rip off of something like Tolkien or The Dark Crystal.

[Anonymous No.6150956]

>>6145136
I liked his whole Middle-Eastern look. Not that 'dorf isn't an Arab too, but Aghanim had more of a fantasy Arabian Knights kind of thing going on. I think it'd work well with WW-Ganondorf's dual scimitars.

[Anonymous No.6150972]

>>6149851
You're thinking of how Wind Waker was a ripoff of an anime from the 60s.

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[Anonymous No.6151198]

>>6141037
>>6145127
>>6145136
>>6145145
Agahnim is Ganon. We see in the battle atop Ganon's Tower that Ganon's spirit can materialize physical forms (turning into the bat), so that was probably how Agahnim was made. Add in that Aghanim has statues on the Pyramid of Power and it's likely that Agahnim is literally just Ganon's human form in fancy robes.

[Anonymous No.6151207]

>>6151198
Presumably done as a whole "I can only send a fraction of my power through the rift across dimensions" thing and thus why Aggy can't do half the shit the big porkchop can.

[Anonymous No.6151371]

>>6141039
>>6141038
>>6141037
>>6141035
Dark Souls is the only game that's captured the feeling of these pictures for me.