Despite the significant strides the Legend of Zelda franchise has made over the years in terms of sheer graphical fidelity and scope, there's something infinitely charming about the earlier Game Boy titles.
Whether it be Link's Awakening or Oracle of Seasons/Ages, the original portable entries to the series introduced unique storylines and characters that you simply don't see elsewhere. They also just looked awesome, despite the limited hardware.
Animators Channy and Kimberly clearly share the same affinity for the Game Boy Zelda games, as demonstrated by a wonderful animation on YouTube that depicts the upoming Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as if it were a Game Boy Color game.
The video starts off with a beautiful animation of some of the core characters before showcasing hypothetical gameplay, including vehicles created with the new Fuse ability. To cap it all off, the video ends not only with box art for the game, but also a custom created Game Boy Color console. Man, we wish this were real...
You can check out Channy and Kimberly's other videos for some more incredible animation, including several Pokémon clips, a Breath of the Wild piece, and an anime intro for comedian Uncle Roger (fuiyooooh!).
What do you make of this hypothetical Game Boy Color version of Tears of the Kingdom? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source youtube.com]
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If this existed I would buy it so freaking fast!
@Snatcher before the scalpers?? Haha
@Patendo Of course before th-HOW! It was only up for 0.2 seconds ):
You know, I think I'd almost rather play this version.
So many modern cartoons made for YouTube, animated with digital ink-and-paint, are replicating the classic style of using cel animation.
When are we getting a full TV/streaming cartoon with this style?
Honestly, Nintendo could just buy the rights to use the trailer up to 0:41 and use it as an ad
Not gonna happen but nobody can stop me from dreaming
A game like this should be in the preorder special edition. Gold physical on an SD card.
The box art design they chose is actually pretty cool. Good stuff.
Right. In. The. Feels. Excellent work. Where do people find the time to do this?
@victordamazio When companies stop penny-pinching to get the product out for as little money as possible. So, never.
The GB style like this makes me very excited for games like Mina the Hollower. I hope we get the 2D BOTW prototype as a playable game one day! I wonder if Nintendo made a similar prototype for TOTK?
Also,
@Snatcher Just wanted to say, I love your profile picture!!
Why can’t this be real 😩
@Axecon Thank you so much! I appreciate you telling me that! Really!
Wow that is really impressive. Not to mention i'd buy this in a heatbeat.
Looks too western.
The art style works so well with pixellation. As someone who still believes Minish Cap may be the most attractive Zelda game of all time, I'd love to see this game made.
Hopefully, we get a port.
I need it. Might have to build that version of the gameboy colour as well. Dang
A 30-hour game like this would be perfection. Wonderful job these creators have made. I'd love to know how many hours they put in to make this trailer
Absolutely love it, how I wish it were real!
@Snatcher @abnormalpirate Would buy it immediately, too!
@victordamazio Would love a full cartoon in this style!
@Dpullam Also quite appreciate the boxart for this among all the rest in this video.
@Axecon Yep, I'm also really looking forward to Mina the Hollower, in fact I backed it up on Kickstarter!
@Chlocean I have a soft spot also for the GB(C) games, one more reason why I loved this video so much but yeah, Minish Cap looks even better and most importantly is just as fun if not even more so!
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