@coriander gd you are absolutely right. This sucks
@MmeLibertine I hate it. A buddy of mine said young Link looks like a pug and I would agree except I like pugs
@MmeLibertine and I want to be clear: I'm not saying Nintendo used AI to make this game
I'm just saying it LOOKS like AI and that I hate it
@Lady @MmeLibertine you always have such good takes
@coriander @MmeLibertine look i fully believe that the Zelda team poured their heart and soul into the new Ocarina of Time because it was the first Zelda game that Aonuma ever worked on. it has been studied back and forth by that development team and every time they talk about it you get the sense they all love it to bits. Aonuma desperately wants it to connect to today’s gamers even tho he is terrified that they will not understand the design sensibilities and hate it for not being Breath of the Wild 3.
that said. that all said. you can love something and still have bad taste
@coriander @MmeLibertine i am personally withholding judgment both because Zelda game aesthetics are always controversial when they first drop and because it could be that this one just doesn't compress well to Youtube or whatever, or they could improve it by launch, or it could come from a regrettable technical limitation of Switch 2 hardware and in the future we all look back on it the same way we look back on the bad graphics of the original OoT with a certain level of fondness. whatever. i withhold judgement
but my first impression was yikes. i am trying to push back on that a bit and appraise it critically because a·i art looking like your art is unfair and demoralizing to experience as an artist when you actually are trying to do something interesting. but my first impression was yikes
@coriander @MmeLibertine idk, i am pretty sure ganondorf wanted to punt Link, maybe they are going for a postcolonial reading
@coriander @MmeLibertine (also for the sake of honesty i will admit to being a little bit thirsty for sheik and impa)
@Lady @MmeLibertine We are all but human
@coriander @Lady @MmeLibertine however: the concept of a hero whose looks makes everybody want to punt them is, to me at least, very funny
@coriander @Lady @MmeLibertine a kid with the most puntable looking face you’ve ever seen enters your house without warning and breaks all your pots. what do?
@coriander @MmeLibertine mostly right now i am just salty at all the gamers calling it hyperrealistic as though the real world were a hypersaturated Skyrim wallpaper
@Lady @MmeLibertine Man I WISH the world were a hypersaturated Skyrim wallpaper
@Lady @MmeLibertine My main issue is young Link's fuckass face tbh
I hate that kid, I want to punt him
I should not want to punt Link