Nuclear Detergent
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And here's the American version
I'm sure they'll change more than that.
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Wind Waker HD Japanese Boxart
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What an awful trace job.
Though I think they forgot to touch up those characters in the background, who still look like they were rendered in the original's style (at least it kind-of-sort-of made sense in the original artwork). What a mess! That out-of-place glossy HD bubble just completes the messy look.
But I guess all those shitty gradients are more representative of the remake's look than the original's artwork ever was, so... hooray for that?
The real thing:
Though I think they forgot to touch up those characters in the background, who still look like they were rendered in the original's style (at least it kind-of-sort-of made sense in the original artwork). What a mess! That out-of-place glossy HD bubble just completes the messy look.
But I guess all those shitty gradients are more representative of the remake's look than the original's artwork ever was, so... hooray for that?
The real thing:
runnin_blue
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I feel sorry for you Mr Troll.
Dictator93
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NA cover leaked!
Triggerhappytel
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I normally really like Zelda's minimalist box arts, but that looks lovely. It seems busy and informative without being too crowded.
Gianni Merryman
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Starts out alright with the background, but then the shadowing on the main characters is just too damn disgusting.
It is also very well representative of how the characters are lit in-game in this remake, which is also why this remake is a massacre.
Urg.
Thank you. That's more like it.
Also, yes.
It is also very well representative of how the characters are lit in-game in this remake, which is also why this remake is a massacre.
Urg.
Thank you. That's more like it.
Also, yes.
ZAMtendo
Obliterating everything that's not your friend
This.
Hi5.
Wind Waker had some of the strongest art direction in the history of video games and this shit is NOT the way to preserve it.
Makes one wonder what those Nintendo morons would do to Okami...
Hot Coldman
Banned
where's Tingle
mrmickfran
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snoopeasystreet
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There's a sever lack of tingle on the box art.
Triggerhappytel
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You may notice a few parts of the picture have very subtley changed.
D.Lo
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Video anywhere?
dark_prinny
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sixteen-bit
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not bad, but not great either
You post in a GAF thread where most people love the artstyle. Makes your post even more out of place than it already is.
Yeah i'd love to see that. In the E3 trailer, in most environment the lighting was still borked. I still secretly hope they can prove me wrong in the end though.
If not, I'll just use Dolphin to emulate and hold my GameCube Wind Waker box in my hands to pretend ;_;
Jaded Alyx
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evilromero
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That HD shit just looks so out of place and ugly.
Gianni Merryman
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Yeah, I see that's slightly diferent, still I can't read anywhere Wind waker written in Western letters so I doubt that is the definitive cover.
D.Lo
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Still heaps of bloom in that.
I need to see this non-bloom version or I'll consider this the inferior version by far.
digoutyoursoul
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I love it!
Very nice I must say
DecoyOctopus
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Beautiful.
Yeah, that or the fact that everyone has big brown MS Paint eyebrows and that Link has an MS Paint gun in his hand
Yeah that bloom is way too overpowering.
Triggerhappytel
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You're still not seeing it! Look at the gun in Link's hand and everyone's angry eyebrows.
CoolZombie
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Is the Japanese release before the western one?
Lol
Jaded Alyx
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...........
evilromero
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Damn. The angry eyebrows are so ingrained in our American psyche some don't even see them. :/
HeroInGreen
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Yes! Any cover with Medli is a beautiful cover.
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was the thread about a badly traced box art, not the official Nintendo circle jerk convention.
People who "update" classic art direction by mindlessly adding any currently popular filter deserve no respect, and it's not exclusive to video games. Someone also thought Ghost in the Shell would be better if it had been orange with random 3D CGI bits. That person's also pretty darn dumb.
He's playing with the Gamepad. Are Wiimote + Nunchuck also supported? I loved them both in Skyward Sword.
finalboss2
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wait they're selling this shit for 60?
The Wind Waker art style is incredible, which is why it's so disheartening to see what they've done to it. It looks like they added tons of bloom and rim lighting, both of which don't suit the game at all.
Megidolaon
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Well, I love it. All it's missing is Komali, my fave WW character. Don't remember who that Rito is on the cover.
Yeah. They just retraced the original art with the lame new one. I wish they would have used the Wii U's power to recreate the original art style as seen in the manuals and art for WW instead of changing it to what they have now.
Yeah....look up recent footage, it's no longer bloom city.
And here's the American version
I'm sure they'll change more than that.
Make the globe sepia tone and you'll probably be right on the money.