The Legend of Cel-da

yea, the Legend of Zelda.

I called it that because the graphics are made up of cel-shaded polygons.... you know like Cel Damage?

kind of.....

I don't really know what to think of the new look. The few demo videos I've seen make the whole atmosphere of the game seem really cartoony and goofy, in my opinion. I liked the more serious tone that Ocarina set for the series. Nintendo is overloaded with cartoony games, and it was nice to see such a well known series step away from that "kiddie" mold. Now, it just kind of looks like the series is jumping right back into it.

agreed, it looks very kiddie

I guess they kinda have to do it though. Link isn't the Gamecube's mascot. Mario was the big thing on NES (SMB3), Donkey Kong was the big thing on SNES (DKCountry), Link was the big thing on N64 (Ocarina of Time), and Samus will be the big thing on Gamecube. I have hope that Zelda will be good, but it still kinda worries me.

I'm OK with it if it has good gameplay and a good storyline...

but what about graphix?

The graphics are so cool. The game I think is going the game of the year next year when it comes yet. Although it does look like kidie graphics gamecube, the game is going to the best. Don't judge a game by the looks.

the graphix look bad, but i might just rent it to try it.

I have faith in Nintendo that the game will still be a great game. But I'm just not sure the choice they've made to use the Cel-Shading garphics engine is the best marketing idea.

what is a Cel-Shading graphics engine?

The graphics engine is just simply what kind of visual graphics the game uses. For instance, the towns in Final Fantasy 7 are all prerendered backgrounds as opposed to the polygonal graphics used for the characters. Cel Shading is just a more specific type of graphic engine. Cel shading gives the characters that cartoony look.

oh, cool. so that sounds pretty stupid

Well hopefully the next Zelda game for GameCube will have "normal" graphics...

yea, hopefully. it makes it look more serious

Oh E3 is comin up and I heard they changed cel-shaded Link's eyes so that he doesn't look like a girl....

I saw something about that earlier today, but I couldn't load the screenshots. I FUCKING HATE IGN!!!!!

yea me too