Hey Malstrom,I love your articles,your website inspired me to get out of the time-consuming activity that is lurking stupid gaming message forums and get working in a video game(I have been working on the concept art!even!) and it also opened my view on many other things.Anyway,I just wanted to comment this
Did you see the artwork for the new Link?the Link in this artworks captured me since(besides the beautiful look of it,I mean,just look at those watercolors!) you can spot a bit of a “young hero”air in him.If you look at the oldest artworks,link always seemed to have a bit of a cartoonist look in him,and this new link looks like a mix between that and the twilight Link.
Oh,and there was a part in the DS3 trailer(the one in with Miyamoto,Reggie and company are sucked in the 3DS)were it looked like a 2d-3d mario(A la wii sports plus marathon).I think Miyamoto and Iwata were being chased by a Bowser in a typical Bowser castle…Could we see a new Mario 3d type of game in the 3ds?
Despite 3DS, the market will respond stronger to a 2d Mario game on the 3DS than a 3d Mario. There is too much overwhelming sales data to support this from the DS and Wii.
Nintendo is at a N64 fork in the road. With the N64, Nintendo felt they had to make every game 3d because their hardware could do 3d. Sony went so far as to not allow 2d games because they wanted the hardware to be utilized. If Nintendo decides to make every 3DS game as ‘3d’ just because the system is about 3d display, the 3DS will be missing out on many consumers especially for a handheld. NSMB games were 3d anyway but in 2d form so a new 2d Mario would still work very nicely on the 3DS. If Nintendo decides to stop making 2d Mario at this point, they are stupider than rocks.
I think 3DS will be very important for obtaining games like Monster Hunter. Nintendo wants that series badly onto their handheld.
As for the artstyle of Zelda, I don’t have any issue with it except for Link’s cargo pants. Those need to go.
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