I'm not really into zelda myself, so if that's what fans ask, or if you get what you want, good for you ! And I mean, even if that's the guy in charge that likes the style, it's better that he does what he likes. What I'm saying is that I think doing a tech demo with a realistic style based on Zelda, because it create some expectations about graphics. Myself I was kind of impressed, and curious about it, even if I know it's just a tech demo. It's not really about the game style, or what game is better (and that's something I don't know much about).

As I said realistic games don't just have fifty shades of grey in them, they also have a variety of colours. It seems you have only played a few ones which happened to be greyish.

Also I disagree. Colour is not as important in creating a setting as the level design and scale of the world.

Technical demo based on a more realistic approach are easier to do. You don't have to create a real art-style. It would have been a massive work just to show what they have shown in the E3 trailer as a technical demo.

I stand on the fact that colour is important. What I dislike the most about the PS3/PS4/XBO era, is that virtually all their games are made with a deep grey filter over the screen. All colours are looking bland on almost every game. There is no life in it. It's technically advanced and complex, but not artistic.

Cartoon is not about weird proportions. Old disney are quite realistic in term of proportion. So explain again how it doesn't look cartoonish.

I do believe cel shading, and such color, are used for the very purpose to make it looks like cartoonish. I'm not the only one to think so, because, the cel-shading is also called "toon shading". And you can check wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading) , and see that indeed it's often used on that purpose. In fact, I'm not aware of any other purpose.

Basically, you are telling that if you remove what the professional artist and designers from Nintendo used on purpose (cel-shading and colors), you will get a realistic game. Yeah, probably, and that's why they used it there. Because they wanted this cartoonish style. And they do whatever they want, and you like whatever you want, and that's perhaps the best choice. What I'm telling from the beginning is that a tech demo with realistic graphics (including colors, 3D effects, etc.) based on Zelda is not wise, if you deliver again a cartoonish game. I'm talking about the tech demo, mostly.

Why are you all responding to trolls. Some trolls even go as far as to have Nintendo-related avatars. No Zelda game ever created has ever looked realistic. They all look like cartoons.

I'm again repeating the fact that many realistic games have variety of colours. I'll show you some pics from PS3/PS4/XBO games.

I think everyone here who isn't in awe of the amount of detail that has been put into the actual Legend Of Zelda Wii U game is crazy. Every blade of grass seems to blow individually in the wind, the embers, plumes of smoke, and kicked up dirt coming off of the grass that have been caught on fire with the monster's laser eye, the entirety of the Epona animation, the fog and the clouds rolling in (and actually changing shape and density), to just how many things between the butterflies, and villagers, and goats were on screen. I'm blown away by it, cell shaded or not.

They are victim of what I describe.

First picture has a lot of light, but everything is bland and lacks color. It's basically grey.

Second picture is the most colored one, because of the desert setting, buts it's pretty much a one color level as well with that orange filter. The cloths have no colors and the ruins are grey (which can be understood).

Third one is the worst, everything, from decor to ennemy, including the hero, completely lack any color. The only non grey thing in that screenshot is the fire.

You don't know what grey is. That's all I can say after reading your views on these pics.