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Frogger on 24 May 2014
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padib said:
spemanig said:

...Yes. Yes it absolutely does. If you where seven and you went to sleep as a seven year old and woke up ten years later, you're not gonna suddenly start acting like a seventeen year old.

It doesn't matter if it wasn't the design intent for Skyward Sword. The influences of the previous design still resonate. That's like if Aonuma made a new Zelda game, and it was the Wind Waker model of Link, but with realistic textures in the style of the Zelda tech demo. No matter how much Aonuma altered the aesthetic of Links design, he's always gonna keep the doofy runt with a big head-design from WW, no matter how much darker the story of that game turns out. I absolutely am right on that.

Not sure about that. If I sleep for 7 years, my mind matures as I sleep, physiologically my mind ages. The physiology of my mind will change after 7 years. If one part of the body ages, the whole body ages.

@intent. Your initial point was that TP link was made to look badass, that was the intent. The result, if I understood you correctly, also reflects that intent. However, once SS comes in, and is blended with WW, even though parts of the previous design resonate in the final design of SS, it is likely not enough to justify judging the game's design as trying to look badass. After having played the game, I highly doubt the colors and themes match your argument.


No. It doesn't. That's not how the mind works at all. Maturity doesn't come from the biologocal passage of time; it's comes from experience. That's not an opinion. That's psysically how the mind works.

My initial point was that TP Link was made to be fanservice. Part of that fanservice came from fans wanting Link to be as "badass" as he looked in the GCN tech demo; a tech demo that Aonuma has gone on record as saying he didn't like because when he looked at it, the thought "this isn't Zelda." His SS design was a comprimise. He was trying to give fans the Link they wanted while still keeping creative control. I've played the game too. The colors and themes don't matter when his final physical design ooses the fanservice that ruined TP Link.