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Zelda Tech Demo (Wii U) - Will we ever see a Zelda with a similar visual style?

MilesQ

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To be clear, I love BOTW and I also loved Wind Waker and Skyward Sword, but I happened across this tech demo and holy shit I'd love see a fully fleshed out Zelda title with this visual style.

Everything looks so crisp and detailed. The reflections are pretty wild too.

 

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Tbh, I hope not. It's pretty, but it looks exactly like what it is to me - a tech demo. There's nothing really "inspired" about it, it just looks like "yeah that's a Zelda game, alright."

I feel like this is basically just the Ocarina and Twilight Princess art styles (yes I know they're a bit different, but you know what I mean) with a higher pixel count or something. We've already seen that Zelda, if you know what I mean.
 
FHIZ

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I mean it looks like a higher res Twilight Princess with more advanced lighting.
 
Platy

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It looks like someone used twilight princes assets in a generic unreal 4 demo.

in other words, I hope not
 
Doskoi Panda

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XandBosch said:
Tbh, I hope not. It's pretty, but it looks exactly like what it is to me - a tech demo. There's nothing really "inspired" about it, it just looks like "yeah that's a Zelda game, alright."
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Yeah, today watching this vid has the same effect to me as watching the old GC Zelda tech demo does
 
Kingpin Rogers

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After Botw 2 I would imagine. We'll need a change in style by that point. It's been lighthearted after lighthearted style for a while now.
 
LinkStrikesBack

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Probably not. It's clearly based on Twilight princess, and Nintendo doesn't generally revisit art styles outside of direct sequels, and it's likely too late for that to happen.

Plus it probably wouldn't work as well for the open air design as a more abstracted style like BOTW has.
 
WestEgg

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The Zelda series shakes up the art style pretty often, I imagine they'll take another shot at realism eventually.
 

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I want to have a real TP HD remaster in that style.

Kingpin Rogers said:
After Botw 2 I would imagine. We'll need a change in style by that point. It's been lighthearted after lighthearted style for a while now.
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To be fair, mummy ganondorf looks way more realistic and creepy than anything TP had to offer (and that was quite a lot). I think that style suits Zelda more than Twilight Princess' style (and I love that style and TP to death, mind you)
 

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I hope not. The BotW style is absolutely perfect, a more realistic Zelda will just never look as good.
 
Enduin

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Can't say I'd care too much. BotW's style is way more my speed and I'd rather they stick to less realistic and more abstract styles. But as long as its interesting looking I'm fine either way.
 
Tibarn

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I hope not, it looks like a big downgrade (artistically speaking) from what they did with BotW, obviously a tech demo it's about tech so it makes sense, but for a full game I'd expect something more unique.
 
P-Bo

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I hope not. I liked TP when I was younger, but Zelda really shines when the artstyle isn't realistic, and colors aren't all drab/dark.
 
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MilesQ said:
To be clear, I love BOTW and I also loved Wind Waker and Skyward Sword, but I happened across this tech demo and holy shit I'd love see a fully fleshed out Zelda title with this visual style.

Everything looks so crisp and detailed. The reflections are pretty wild too.

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Last I remember, This demo wasn't done by the zelda team. This was done in the states. It was a tech demo, way too overdone.
 
ByWatterson

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Not this, but I'd kill for a Zelda game with the Shadow of the Colossus remake style.
 
Capra

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I'd rather see a style resembling the official art for Majora's Mask. You know, the more comic-inspired artstyle with heavy, black shading over colorful, cartoony characters. It really fit the darker, more surreal vibe that game had and I hated to see the 3DS remake throw it away in favor of a style more consistent with Ocarina of Time.
 
Lant_War

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Hopefully Nintendo runs away as fast as they can from that artstyle. Never liked it, something stylized like BOTW or Link's Awakening is much better.
 

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Maybe if Nintendo goes bankrupts and some generic western 3rd party makes a Zelda using the Unreal engine.

(I would actually dig this art style if it was done with the top-down view)
 
Voltt

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I'm fairly certain that both Aonuma and Miyamoto have gone on record saying that they really don't like realistic art styles for Zelda. Twilight Princess only looked the way it did because of the backlash to Wind Waker's art style, and besides, TP is pretty much universally agreed to be incredibly ugly today.
 
Het_Nkik

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I find Twilight Princess to be the most drab Zelda game artistically so definitely not for me. (I mean I'd still buy it, I'd just prefer almost anything else.)
 
lightchris

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Art artstyle doesn't really look fleshed out. BotW looks better and I love what they did with it.

That said, I'd absolutely be up for a Zelda game with a darker artstyle. Diversity is great. I'm sure they can do better than this demo.
 
MidnightCowboy

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I'd love to see them tackle the impressionistic style of Skyward Sword again, but with hardware that can do it justice. Those swirly backgrounds were great.
 
Idontwantit

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I think they nailed the art with botw. So they should keep that. Hopefully we get the original demo as actual visuals with Switch 2.

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metalslimer

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Nah I kind of dont ever want to see that style come back. I think some variation of BotW should be the template going forward although I'm sure Nintendo will change things up like they always do.
 
Kneefoil

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I don't think it'll happen on the Switch, but I hope we'll get a game with a less cartoony style again eventually. Zelda has a history of changing its visual style between games, and the last time we got anything new resembling this was back in 2006 with Twilight Princess. Maybe 2026 would be a good time to try again.
 

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Platy said:
It looks like someone used twilight princes assets in a generic unreal 4 demo.

in other words, I hope not
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It does indeed use Twilight Princess assets. It was the Zelda teams first experience of HD development.

I think it's very pretty but ultimately think they nailed the art of Zelda with BotW. I hope they stick with that.
 

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Maybe but I think the Zelda team really like the more cartoonish/anime styles they have doing over the past several years. They really liked what they did with Wind Waker and back then they even expressed their desire to continue with that style. Even with Twilight Princess, you can see that they were trying to put in stylized elements in, even within a more "realistic" Zelda game. Ultimately, the sales of Breath of the Wild and even something like Fortnite that the market is completely comfortable with the cartoon style so I think they will keep with it.
 

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Nah

What i want to see however, is BOTW style in a console as powerful as the ps4 pro

If they milked BOTW from a wii u, i cannot imagine what that would look like
 
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