Why there Needs to be Another Realistic Zelda Game

Today we are diving into the different art styles of Zelda games. Starting from Ocarina of time and going up all the way to the Link's awakening remake. We've been seeing a lot of stylized Zelda games recently so I want to get to the bottom of this.

Outro Music: Sappheiros - Aurora

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[samitamimi]

You're honestly one of the few YouTubers that I genuinely get excited when I see a new upload from them

[l.i.a.m.b]

I get where you're coming from, but I don't think that whether or not a game is stylized is so black and white. To me, it's more of a spectrum, with Wind Waker at the Very Stylized end and Hyrule Warriors or Twilight Princess at the Very Realistic end.

The term "stylized" doesn't really have much meaning to me, and the way I see it, Twilight Princess' "realism" is in itself a style and is stylized. I also don't really think any of the games are all that realistic, but just varying styles and some happen to look more similar to real life than others.

[thepenguinboi]

One reason I like BOTW's artstyle is because it mixed realism and the stylistic artstyle. While I like Wind Waker's Artstyle more than the others, that's just a reason I like BOTW's artstyle

[magicjohnson]

Stylised art ages better. Plus it’s probably easier to develop with and better for game performance.

[davidduncanjr.]

I didn’t see the poll when you posted it but my favorite style is stylized. But I honestly didn’t even know there were different art styles because they all looked pretty similar to me. Now that I know this, I would like to see another realistic style game. Thanks for the great video!

[potomax]

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[Logan]

My favourite zelda game is Wind Waker, but I also love Twilight Princess. As much as I like the toon art style, I would like to see a more realistic Zelda game on the newer hardware. Another great vid btw, you 100% deserve more subs

[NintendoBoy]

After I first watched ur Mario Party games ranking back in December, I went on a huge binge fest watching your videos. Ever since, I am always excited to see uploads from you.

[chungus]

100% agree. While stylized tended to age better, realistic games are now realistic enough to where even 10 years down the line, it would still look fine. Twilight Princess' art style is probably my favorite in the whole series and its a shame that every Zelda game from then on seems to be more stylized.

[monstar]

The realistic look in twilight princess just fits the series much more than that of wind waker, that's why I prefer TP's artstyle over WW's.

[josegeizzelez]

One of the best videos I’ve seen so far covering this topic, and it really managed to get your point across in such a meaningful and entertaining way. Keep up the great job man! :)

[seth]

Wind Waker might be one of my favorite games on the art direction department, but I agree so much with this video. It's been long enough and we have yet to see a proper HD Zelda game with a realistic style.

[bigkmoviesandgames]

I love the fact that back in the day each Zelda game was getting more and more realistic. And while I didn't like the stylized look of Wind Waker at first it has grown on me and I actually do like that there are stylized games as well as realistic ones. Still I really wish that they kept going in that realistic Direction and occasionally dipped their toes in the more stylized look. I think that Twilight Princess was a step in the right direction but with the exception of the 3D re-releases of Ocarina and Majora on the 3DS ans twilight princess HD it's been just stylized games. my favorite art direction of any of the games was Ocarina of Time. I'd love to see that done as realistic as it could possibly get while maintaining that look essentially taking the artwork and and transforming that into gameplay as close as possible. We kind of got that with a 3DS port bug what I really want and the whole point to this rant was to say that I want a third game in the hero of time series that's realistic as it could possibly be just with that link. Complete the hero of time trilogy baby.

[andreimcallister]

Bro every time you make a video, it always makes everyone’s day. Thanks dude

[TruthGuyOfficial]

Twilight princess = best looking

They need to do a realistic awesome graphics game asap

[Mer.Saloon]

I disagree about the styles being oversaturated, but I can respect the opinion. Twilight Princess isn't my favorite style, but I could respect another one coming out. Perhaps if it was stylized maybe it could have a focus on darker color palettes as well as more hardened cel-shading, ala Majora's mask.

I don't know if I'd like for Zelda to completely drop stylization though for something more AAA, because then I'd feel like Zelda would lose a lot of it's own identity in that sense.

[cameron]

Honestly really cool to see you were not a big fan of the Breath of the Wild art style and aren't afraid to admit it. I felt like I was a lunatic for preferring the Wii U tech demo look because nobody agreed with me. BOTW look is fine but seeing the Zelda world in realistic HD would be really cool too!

[theepicjamez]

Forever loving your videos bro! :D keep up the great work!!

[Crystallized._.withsomesauce]

I don’t get why Nintendo wouldn’t have the time to balance out the style and realism.

[shibememes]

I prefer stylized but I personally want to see a realistic Zelda with modern graphics. TPHD is pretty close but IMO it’s held back by the GameCube-era geometry/polygon count.

I hope they have at least some kind of small graphic theme to go with this hypothetical realistic zelda though. The whole twilight thing made TP visually interesting to me.

Also, as much as I like it, I think Nintendo has kinda done cartoony Zelda to death for now.