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The character animation is clearly the star of the show. I agree that the animal theme is a little flat. I see that they understand some sense of color theory but the environments are pretty uninspired.

For world exploration/retraversal games you really want a richness in the environments' story telling.

She looks like Eda from Owl House had a Baby with Blanka.

That is a hilarious back story to explain her stomach. To be honest, I liked her design, until I just learned that is Marian from DD. Not sure I like it so much being the same character.

As a lifetime artist and art director in the games industry, it bums me out a little TBH but I think it is an inevitable future. It will get better and more impressive. There will be great benefits that will come from this though. Old media amd photos could be restored for example. I hope it will be more like a calculator, another tool of democratization. All at the same time, it is very similar to digital art, we use Photoshop and now Procreate to get around more traditional approaches. The principles will remain the same. I felt a similar way when Pixar came out with Toy Story 1. It was a step away from more traditional hand drawn animation. On the other side now, I think the world is more robust in its expression of the human experience, not less for the switch to computer animation. I imagine there could come a day where someone that draws with a pencil and paper would be viewed in the same way as a wood working violin maker.

@Kisame83 1000%

I will play the games and I will see the movie and I'm at peace with that.

Forgone, looks sweet!!

@Andy_Witmyer 1000%

Looks really great but without the combat, it's not a fit for me. I hope it does well, I'm sure there are a lot of fans that will love it.

Honestly I would love to see the Symphony/Rondo combo on Switch. But honestly I've played so many times on so many systems, I feel like Konami is jerkng us around. It's kind of at a point where I wish they would make a DS collection, if they could figure out how they would work mechanically. Or, they should make a sequel.

Snagging this for sure.

Original Zelda on NES. Still my favorite game. I also love Chasm the procedural Metroidvania game.

You could also do an article about really great games you hate.

Looks like great art, too bad I couldn't see it.

I would love an action RPG like if Rumble and Spectrobes had a baby.... but fun... in an Arceus open world.

That is friggin' bad "A"!!! Now go make Capcom vs SNK 3 in this style!!

@NeonPizza I am admittedly not a Contra fan but your game list of favorite games overlaps a lot with my favorites. Makes me want to rethink Blazing Chrome. I might go purchase that. Thanks for the recommendation (from a silent observer of the chat stream.)

The only ones on your list I didn't get into as much were Ninja Saviors and Cuphead but the rest were some of my all time favorites.

Hopefully they make use of it. Maybe the Nintendo Direct will clarify.

@BriskSunrise From the other comments, it seems like my sentiment is shared. I think they are cool designs, just different, not bad.

Historically, bipedal pokemon have had some anthropomorphic component to their look. Some one said it earlier, these feel a little more like Megaman designs. That matches with my first impression as well.

It's weird seeing (basically humans) as pokemon.

For some reason it still doesn't seem as satisfying or customizable as the Mii Creator.

It does look like the game could be fun though.

@ecco6t9 I tend to agree. NOW, if they hired Arc Systems to do it, it could look incredible. I've always wanted. Them to do a Alpha 3 looking 3D game.

You got me thinking. Super Mario Kart in a Paper Mario aesthetic would be a curiosity. Not sure how much value it would be.

I always thought that the original Zelda redone with the manual's art style and some modern gameplay updates would be sweet.

@FoxMcMuffin I've heard it called "cutout animation".

@tdub154420 I wholehearted agree. I played Turtles in Time in the arcades back in the day, as well as recently. It was novel for it's time but is relatively shallow as far as beat em ups go. Shredders revenge is a phenomenal upgrade in every aspect. Although I'm not sure SR has the best mechanics of any beat em up ever made, but it is really sweet.

Haak looks friggin' amazing!!!

Agreed. I felt the same about the main protagonist. It's kind of getting tired at this point.

I'll wait for the reviews.

@JeanPaul it depends on what camp of beat em ups you like. If you like the RPG feel of River City Ransom/Castle Crashers/Scott Pilgrim, then this a great fit. Very progression based, as a result enemies are a little more damage spongey and the gameplay feels a little backend weighted. If you are more of the side of Shredders Revenge, SOR, or Fight N' Rage where most of the moveset is there from go, and it feels more arcadey; this game is not those.

Not feeling this one. The gameplay looks really bad.

Interesting... I'm getting some Samurai Jack vibes from some of the art direction. Could be good. Time will tell.

There is a shocking amount of variety between the Zeldas. Its fun that they all elicit unique responses and opinions from Zelda's fanbase. I really enjoyed PH because of the controls. Not too many action adventure games that work that well with almost completely being touch controls. Additionally, I found that I could do a couple crazy things that could only be done in PH. There were moments when I felt like a telekinetic demigod.

It's funny so many comments are arguing someone's preferences as if there is empirical objective truth to liking something. It's kind of like arguing that there is a best flavor of ice cream. But I guess the proof is in the pudding; this article has over a hundred opinionated comments and counting.

For the record, I really connected with Galaxy 1. Not sure why, I just did. Odyssey I played all the way, it was brilliant from design standpoint, it just felt "lonely" to me for some reason. Never connected with 64, I tried so many times. Sunshine was fine, I just didn't enjoy the feeling of being a janitor...

@Mauzuri he also brought us the "scan every stupid thing" in Metroid Prime. I respect him a lot and he has birthed some of my favorite series, but he isn't perfect by any stretch.

Very polarizing. I can tell right away how I'm going to get along with someone based on how they respond to the art style.

This is Nintendo's most revered games franchise, I respect them for being so willing to take artistic risks and change it up so drastically between games.

Looks like it plays great, but the art looks like absolute butt. Why did they go with the one credit? Weird....

Spoiler alert: The game is going to do well and they'll make DLC.... if I can throw in my request to make Shredder a playable character that would be sweet.

My 7 year old and I are going to have a fun time playing through this together..

All joking aside, when you guys said brutal I was thinking more about difficulty. I wasn't thinking "brutal". That said this looks incredible. The animation is superb!

It's overwhelming how amazing this looks. I hope it plays really well. This is exciting!

I just hope all of the bad guys are brutally tough, and then 12 year old Maria comes along, doing flips and obliterates them all whilst throwing pidgeons at them.

I've puchased and played all of these a million ways to Tuesday. So not sure I will bite. Great games though.

Slam Masters and Mega Man are hard to get so those are a big win.

Baladins has BONKERS background art!! Too bad the gameplay isn't my thing...

This is eye opening. I always thought that generation was kind of ugly. I wasn't sure devs would lean into it as much on the indie side. I always understood the charm in pixel art and could appreciate what pixel art has been doing in the indie scene for the last ten years or so. Now that I see this, I could definitely see a resurgence of low poly throwbacks that could be stunning. We are just a few years away from games like this supporting real-time global illumination as the average. Pretty exciting.

It's dumbfounding that they won't release 4 on Switch. They have it on literally everything else.

Great buy Little Samson and re-release it.

Wasn't sure what to expect but this looks amazing. Now do this but with cool characters.

@Moistnado @WaveBoy Totally agree. Looks stiff and uninspiring. It makes me want to redraw the characters....Maybe the gameplay will be good???

@yandman why do I get the feeling you worked on the game?

Combat and combos looks solid. I hate the art. It feels more like early SNK than Capcom.

Probably will pick this up depending on reviews.

@StarPoint Now I can't unsee it. They would be a lot better off with some frame pauses on hit and then a shake at the end of a combo.

It seems like they are trying to get the combo feel of 3D Zeldas, but it doesn't seem very responsive. No hit response from enemies will make it feel really bad.

Final fight with a visual style of Overwatch, or an Arc System fighter; with the supermoves/cameras of SF4.

Those illustrations are friggin' rad!

Theoretically, whether they were involved or not, it shouldn't change much of anything since fans that like sonic to this day, mostly like it because of the first 4 mainline games. It sounds like they are giving them the royal treatment. Sonic isn't my cup of tea anymore, but I'm glad the fans are excited.

Hmmm.... I think the Links Awakening remake was a revelation from an art direction standpoint. This team is clearly talented from a rendering standpoint, too bad they couldn't come up with a different graphical style. If they hadn't outright ripped the style, and managed to be first to market in a different time continuum, they would have been lauded as an indie darling. Now they just seem weak, inexperienced, and unimaginative.