Could you stop with this condescending "nostalgia glasses" argument?
Because now that we have great graphics, desolate/muddy areas that evoke emptiness can't exist. All games must have detailed areas with lots of colors and visual effects. Because who cares about art direction. We just want shiny graphics.
Well, what can you do, with such a small screen.
You need a new sarcasm meter. I'm making fun of the original comparison comparing 2 different times
That's a valid interpretation as well. From the first day, the threat of the moon is definitely suggested, and there's already some tension among the residents of Termina, between those who genuinely feel it coming, and those who remain aloof or even just laugh it off as ludicrous. The general mood of the town on the first day though, I feel is cheerful, or at least is meant to be comparatively, given the music that accompanies it. It's a gradual process with the music and the way everyone comes to terms with the threat of the moon and what it means for their mortality. Though personally my own feeling wasn't necessarily a sense of desolation and/or depression, but rather more an increasing sense of doom and urgency which I feel can only be enhanced with the new take on the visuals.
See the post above yours talking about "artistic intention" that shows the concept art with a purple sky. It's a quagmire trying to debate original intent.
You talk about original intentions with the assumption that the artistic vision could be fully realised on limited hardware like the N64. Majora's Mask was quite an ambitious game for the hardware, requiring the expansion pak to run at all. Look at the art asset Tathanen posted for example: it looks to me the 3DS game conveys that art better than both the N64 version and your touched up ones.
Alright, i see the purple sky but at the same time a see the moon looking exactly like the original N64 MM. So, they wanted to go closer to the official art but decided to change how the moon looks anyway? Seems like an inconsistent argument to me.
Not in all cases.
Is that your opinion, a statement from a Nintendo developer or an undisputed fact?
Thing is that the "game is closer to the concept art" argument isn't valid because it's obviously further away in some instances where the original game is spot on. So, they basically cherry-picked thus, in the end, its just a matter of agreeing with the artistic changes or not. Personally, i don't even have a problem with most changes except the moon's face that looks terrible in the remake and i can't understand how they greenlighted such a change.
The NTSC version.
In your previous post you posted a picture to show how the game is closer to the original art. That was the post i was referring. Your next post was after i showed that this was wrong as the moon was the same as the N64 version in that picture. After that, i think we can agree that its just a matter of opinion and not based on any original, pre-determined design that "forces" the developers vision.
