Ninetndo, I am so dissapointed.

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Zelda: Skyward Sword.

All my expections about most amazing and finally true, real, powerfull Wii Zelda got ruinded down deeply. Nintendo teased us and kept in secred with new Zelda for a WHOLE year. They posted most amazing new Zelda illustration year ago and this teased us with greatness of mystery. For. Whole. Year.
So many news were said that'd be completely new and different Zelda.
A perfect Zelda.

I must say, I'm not super happy with Twilight Princes but I'll admit that was well made and beautiful Zelda but too short game and storyline was lacking (save princess and kill ganon). TP style is speechless, amazing concepts of twilight, Link wolf and that'sprobably ultimate traditional Zelda story. Majora's Mask is my number one most favourite game, with most original and craziest Zelda concept. Thats the ony game which does not involves stupid resquing princess, amazing creepy and dark style with intense colors, sad story, crazy masks and three-day concept (very KH esque :D).

When I saw this artwork: I immediately sensed that would be most amazing game.. and it totally reminded me of Majora's Mask. Finally I thought Im going to reach my dreams to finally see MM-like Zelda.
wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/art…

Chaotic, and what caught my eye were very intense and dark colors. Crazy reds, unmatching color palette, and very dark shading. It's like Twilight Princess mixed with Majora's Mask- epic realism of TP mixed with craziness of MM sounded so epic. Link. Looked most mature and we everyone guessed that would be most mature Link in Zelda ever. And logo, steel-cold letters instead red traditional letters. That sounded like something new than just Zelda. Notice, most Zelda games do have red letters but MM had purple. Maybe it expresses somethin *new* than what usually?

And there wwere a lot of informations (BESIDES rumours) from interview that team wanted to do completely truly NEW Zelda. With something "alternated" game play system than usually. They were referencing a lot to MM, as something "new" and kind of Zelda Gaiden. And that was about to be the most perfect ZElda game...


Now E3 came and I knew thats finally a day where new Zelda is going to be revealed.

God. I wish that I am dreaming.

Itself name really sucks... is weird. Sounds little way too amateur. Yet, I wont judge too much because we dont know whole concept of it but the first impression- is important because title tells a lot of main plot or source in Zelda. Sword is boring word, it happens all the time in Zelda, and yet again we have to hear stories with sword..
And the most sucky thing is.. logo. Ugliest ZElda logo EVER. I thought that was joke. It looks like fan-made logo.
wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/art…
Mostly I point on Skyward Sword letters, that baby-shiny blue font in childlish style absolutely doesnt suit with whole logo. Background is extremaly boring, but maybe it tells about ZElda Origins stories? I hope that logo is still beta. The best impression made Twilight Princess logo.

Next, about style in game- that's the thing which I am so so so so dissapointed.  CELL SHADED! Half cell shaded. Omg. Seriously, another Zelda for kids?
I'll admit I dearly hated Wind Waker style. It had no atmosphere of feeling, so fake world, it didnt plunge me into game because of epic fake world and so damn childlish. WW was acceptable, but later when Ninny decided to make lots of sub-zelda's in WW style... enough. Enough. I hated more. It destroys characteristic creepy atmosphere in Zelda games.
Whole new Zelda looks half cell shaded and half TP styled. It sucks dearky, and DESIGNS. Monsters are totally WW styled, childlish. Totally. And WORLDS.
You can see gallery above: uk.media.wii.ign.com/media/872…
Look at that Winney-the-Pooh styled fucking tree, wow. I do not approve winney-the-pooh style in this.

"This style of quasi-realism does not look great on the aging Wii hardware."

I saw all gameplay trailers and style looks extremaly low as foe Wii enginee. Amazing realistic TP style is only on GameCube enginee, so on Wii we expected for something more epic!.. but, fail. Looks even worse.
Trailer: kotaku.com/5564326/zelda-skywa…

And at the end.. Link looks damn fucking the worst.. sorry I have no words how again Im disa. Looks like totally 14 year old girl. Why kids again? Artwork itself is awesome, new style is impressive and thats watercolor(!) but fucking dammit why they made him into girly gay?



Generally, that new Zelda is far and far away from what we expected from Poster. On poster was supposed to be creepy and darkish Zelda, with mature looking link and "something new", but we see childlish link and colorful a la Disney esque world? Please tell me, that was a joke on E3.

I'm extremaly sad. It was MOST antipacting game EVER for me. Extreme disappointed.  But still on good news, thats still a tester BUT I doubt that they would change whole style :/
I love E3 so much, so many news - both happy and unhappy. But this time it striked me strongly..

EDIT:

I'm not completely bashing and judging OMG THAT WILL BE BAD ZELDA- there is no time to judge that game until we'll finish playing it. The first impressions are important. Yes I do expect that's beta, demo and tester BUT many and many demos are showing the most of *outcome* of new game. Some years ago, the first major announcement for TP on E3 was splendid. Zelda always announced splendid testers, demos and trailers and out of most of demo trailers style most likey shall stay as is shown. I'm worried that cell-shade style will stick and I'm worried about this. I'm judging as the first impressions and visually- impressions are bad as far and Im comparing to great expections from the Poster- how game and poster looks far and far different each. I'm Zelda gamer since I was very little child and I have high expections of this game... especially when Ninny says that is going to be the most perfect Zelda? Impressions are not cool. I didn't judge whole gameplay and story, we know NOTHING about story- I'm looking so forward!

CONCLUSIONS:

Also, seriously they shouldn't really do cell shaded anymore, or even realistic- I was looking for a new style. Judging by artwork and main poster, it has very paintery, artistic and unique style. What artwork represents, maybe that would be a soltuion for new style? Like shading would be based on Color Theory rules, instead typical using black as shadow. I havent seen any Color Theory based shading in game yet.
Notice previous Zelda games: TP had artwork based on more dark style which suited well in game, WW toony style same goes in game, MM with intense and dark colors suited in game etc. so in demo style does not suits with artwork.
I'm guessing and really hoping that game which is shown is really hard beta tester and demo- where majority style could change. I noticed on E3 they represented Motion Plus movements and effects of Wiilot in Zelda as major point, not game itself. So maybe it's just hardcore beta? Also Zelda show on E3 did fail, Wiimote did not work as they expected etc. So maybe staff was in hurry and did quickly cell cover to show game and later will be changed? And date of game release is moved on later and I expect it will be moved many times.
I dont strike out completely that game, I still believe something will be out of it... just that sounds too fishy at all.

EDIT2: I noticed in SS both Master Sword and Hylian's Shield is based on classic OoT designs. Does it means something? I saw this extremaly ugly small artwork of this: www.zeldauniverse.net/wp-conte… and I noticed itself Link has brough classic looking from 2D zelda (dark pants). Itself sucky logo's back is a typical sign of Hyrule... so I seems to expect nothing new and unique with zelda but probably a presequel of Zelda origins. That's my guess.

EDIT3: Onto good news, we found that game will not be *actually* stupidly cell-shaded. They said the newest Zelda will have a new style, referred to Impressionism- that would be rather a 'living painting' and they still have to work on this for quite time. That now explains a LOT. Referring to poster which has very artistic and oil paintery style, and then official link artworks are watercolor-y. Impressionism is a style which mainly focus of crazy brush strokes and color palette.

Bear in mind- there is NO war between "New Zelda Sucks" and "New Zelda FTW". Here we respect everyone's opinions.

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Did you write this at 3 in the morning and never review it? The spelling and grammar errors are killing me
No need to curse so much as well, if you think about it, nintendo is a great company, they brought us so many games we all know and love, and I think they know what they're doing. It's not just because I enjoyed Wind Waker's graphics, but these graphics I found very smooth and enjoyably colorful.