Zelda: Breath of the Wild Guardians Trailer

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[pokefreak13]

[Morphile]

They seem to be going full anime artstyle, for this game...

[monsterlord18]

4418432 you mean Cel-Shading?

[Morphile]

Not just that,4418480, but the facial features are more anime than Skyward Sword. Not by much, but it's there. And they are a lot more anime-like than Twilight Princess, although part of the point of the design choices there was to be a much more realistic looking Zelda.

[monsterlord18]

4418572 well, Twilight Princess was their attempt at a realistic Zelda, and... to be quite frank, i didn't like it. i think Nintendo caught that as well and moved back to Cel-Shading. as for the faces,they're always changing things up. and if it can work for Fire Emblem, why not here?

[Morphile]

IMHO,4418578, the main reason why Twilight Princess looked wrong is that they changed the look too much. They changed Zelda from blond to brown-haired, for one, made Link look very different, made everything fall into the uncanny valley with being realistic, yet off and had to make everything work for Gamecube hardware and disk space, which likely caused the issue with the uncanny valley.

Seriously, they had nothing from Wind Waker or Ocarina of Time possibly usable other than the game engine, and they had enough on their plate with making the high res models once, let alone twice for a higher res Wii version.