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curl-6 on 06 September 2017
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Nuvendil said:
curl-6 said:

Because the characters are anime and anime = cartoon. 

Sure, not every cartoon looks identical, but come on, sometimes I just want to play something that looks gritty/realistic and I don't think that's too much to ask. No system should be completely lacking games in such an important style.

If you are responding to my XC2 paragraph, the characters in XCX and XC1 were also blatantly anime.  So I take it those are also cartoony games?  Samus and other characters have anime facial designs in Metroid Prime 3, is it cartoony?  Twilight Princess characters ARE anime, blatantly.  Take it that is cartoony?  That standard seems really arbitrary and vague since it means a game can be 95% fitting of the non-cartoony categorization but then because 5% or less fit this standard, BAM it's cartoony.  

I think you're line in the sand approach is just inadequate for evaluating the diversity of a lineup.  It's a sliding scale and no, Nintendo doesn't have any games that go all the way to the Call of Duty/Battlefield end of being fully realistic, but they have games spread across the scale very generously.  

None of those games are full-on anime/toon though. They may have some character proportions reminiscent of the style but they have their own separate identity.

Nintendo doesn't need to go as far as Battlefield, but something in the realm of a Metroid Prime or an XCX would be a godsend. Again, it is not a lot to ask for, for a major platform holder to have at least one first party title that at least semi-realistic in style. Nintendo themselves in past generations have always had at least something to fill this niche.