Most of us are likely pretty familiar with the gorgeous art style of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by now; releasing alongside the Switch on launch day, the game took the world by storm, hoovering up more awards than anyone could ever have expected.
What if the game had been released 20 years or so ago, though? The video above, shared by Nintendo Wire, presents a mock up of how the game might have looked if it had been released on the Game Boy Color. It's certainly interesting to imagine what all of our favourite modern-day games would have been like if they had been dreamt up years before, and vice-versa, of course.
Do you think a (smaller scale) version of Breath of the Wild could have worked nicely on Game Boy? Would you like it if Nintendo still published the odd game or two for older systems to give them new bursts of life? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Very cool. It's so strange to see something familiar but also not at the same time. Amazing work to produce this.
Great little project.
I'd rather play this version than the original tbh.
That is brilliant
Breathtaking
Looks great.
Absolutely spectacular. Love the GBC version of the theme especially!
2 minutes wasn't enough. Full gameplay please.
Lovely stuff!
Love it. Let me buy it
Pretty Cool.
And yet, mostly of you people were arguying against the homebrew team as a whole first step un the piracy world. DevkitPro once enabled us fellow coders to make some sillies demakes like this one... this is a lot of hard work, and should be praised and helped by nintendo and not killed by theirs lawers... Big up to the homebrew scene !!
Diddly dang, as much as I love NL, Ninty Wire is a great news site too. I use them both regularly! 😊
I look at the old Zeldas and think that many of them are what designers would have done if they were trying to create BotW with the technology available. There is much more design continuity in the series.
Genious!
This looks really cool. It reminds me of the Oracle of Seasons and Ages games which are some of my favourite Zelda games of all time. I bet this would have been a blast and probably still would be.
Awesome. Would totally buy this!
Amazing. Cool retro art for a very modern game!
Too much music. The BOTW soundtrack is near non-existant.
Oh my god! I want it, now or never! :3
Never knew I wanted to play this until now lol looks amazing.
I want to see more and I would play the hell out of this game!
Hoooooollllyyyyyy crap
Wasn't something like this shown a year ago???
Awesome!
Maybe it's just been a while but I didn't think ganon started swarming the castle until after the plateau tower is activated and Zelda calls out to you.
Ouch, right in the feels! As a fan of the GB Zelda titles (particularly Link's Awakening), I need this game in my life!
I want to guess it's another "low resolution and few colors" demake and not how a GBC would actually look?
Really well done! You have to admire the love put behind projects such as these! If Nintendo ever released a game like this under a nostalgic banner, I'd immediately pick it up.
Respectable
Beautiful! Is there a patch of this one in the Romhacking site?
The proof that an engaging game style and good storytelling are independent to how cutting edge your tech is! Amazing.
At least this one has music.
I'd play that for sure.
I really want to play Links Awakening now.
This reminds me of the same magical feeling I got when I first played Oracle or Seasons. The music and sounds of this video made me very nostalgic
Game Boy Zeldas are the best Zeldas.
If only BotW could have been as good as Link's Awakening.
Reminds me of why Link's Awakening is still one of my top favourite Zelda games. But that game had an awesome dream-world, and even a dream within a dream, and the Wind Fish! And a cardboard box and beautiful manual.
@Francema I totally agree. But then again, they made some technically amazing games on the GBC. I'm thinking of games like Alone in the Dark, Cannon Fodder, Perfect Dark,... (and of course, the Zelda titles were actually very impressive as well).
Link's awakening was the first Zelda-game I ever played. I had not even heard about it (no internet in our house back in the early 2000) until I got to upgrade my gameboy pocket to a color. In the box of the color was some sort of pictures of the game and I just stared at those pics thinking "I NEED that game". I don't know how I figured out what the game was but eventually I got it (not sure if I bought it or had it as a present for b-day or x-mas). It was the deluxe version.
Anyway because it was my first zelda, I still think it's the best one of the series closely followed by the gba-port of link to the past, wich was the second zelda-game I ever played.
Having a new zelda in the style of this would absolutely blow my mind!
Still play my GBA even now. I have a modded backlit console which I love to bits.
Currently playing Sword Of Mana. Cracking game!
I remember seeing photos from when the Nintendo devs released a top-down classic Zelda style demo within the BotW engine. I would've LOVED to have seen it in action, but even though this is fan-made in a GBC style, this still does a great job of putting those ideas into action.
Wow if this was ever made to a full game boy color game I would definitely buy it.
I wonder climbing would work if the game was like this...
Lovely! Maybe they should make this happen.
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