Cel Shaded Link

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tarheel91 said:

blunty51 said:
It's just the description it's gotten over the years to distinguish the two different art styles.
Notice they're calling the realistic Zelda the 'mature' look, but not calling the cellshaded version an 'immature' one.

Also, the 'realistic style' Link is a very serious person. Cell shaded link has more cartoony facial expressions and jokes etc.

A description given to it by detractors of the style.  Calling it less mature is poisoning the well, no two ways around it.*  There is nothing more mature about realism vs. cel shading.  It's the same shit people pull with Mario, calling it kiddy.  Why is Mario kiddy?  Uh, uh, no guns or boobs!  Right, so there's no real reason.  It's the same thing with cell shading.  The humor in both WW and TP is the same, and while Link can be more expressive in WW thanks to the style, that's not just limited to funny expressions, but also those of anger, frustration, etc.  It's like the names used in political debates (e.g. people in favor of abortion call themselves pro choice, but their opposers call them anti-life).  There's no real substance behind such names, they are simply used because of their connotation and how they change people's view of something before a discussion can even begin.

 

 

*For those of you who've never heard of poisoning the well: Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say.

You know, I never really thought about it before, but hardcore gamers' closest parallel is probably the teabaggers in the US--denial of reality to fit their world view, rabid, insane, absolutely sure they're right even though 98% of the rest of the world goes "what are you retards doing?"