The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

I like a top-down 3D, like a layered effect, like the Zelda games, like a game like this.

And I think with the 3D, even on the 3DS, like I thought the Zelda, like A Link Between Worlds, played really well, just...

It's not in your face.

It's just like, it's almost like you're playing like a board game in front of you.

Um, okay, Skyward Sword, uh, cool impressionistic, uh, watercolor-y kind of game.

Moving on to Link Between Worlds, and w- let- do let's put Tri Force Heroes in the same, uh, art style.

Link Between Worlds, uh, you know, meant to evoke the look of, uh, Link's Awakening, and I just wanna, I just wanna bring it up.

Is it a...

It is, uh...

And the- and, again, maybe it's a- an issue of, um, processing power and what the technology can actually accomplish.

Um, but yeah, the Link Between Worlds and Tri Force Heroes, like, definitely land in, uh, their, their own unique place that, then, these two games share.

Mm-hmm.

How do you feel generally about the move to full 3D animation in the top-down games? Do you think it's worked better in some instances than others? And if that's the case, when has it looked best and when have you kind of responded more negatively to it?

I think it certainly worked best in A Link Between Worlds.

I do not particularly like it in Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks.

I'm going to join the animosity towards those games.

Um, and so, you know, that they could at least kind of get, get there with it if they had wanted to.

Um, so I, I do wonder how much of this was kind of technical constraint and how much of it just was an unconfident art style, right? Um, it's hard to know, um, but I just don't think there's any way to spin Phantom Hourglass and spirit tracks as, as being anything other than just unremarkable looking games.

Um, unfortunately, um, and, and so I, I think that that's kind of the clear low point, you know, and it's going from there into a link between worlds, right? It's, it's easy to look at that and say like, man, all right, here we go.

Like we're, we're, we're cooking with gas now.

And, you know, it's funny talking about Link.

I mean, this really extends to the Zelda series as a whole, because not just Link, but we've seen both Zelda and Ganondorf get redesigned multiple times over the course of Smash, with Ganondorf vacillating between his Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess designs and Zelda kind of being based on Ocarina of Time at one point and then now more based on A Link Between Worlds.

And I'm curious where they take both of those characters.

Like personally, I'd love to see Samurai Ganondorf from Tears of the Kingdom be playable in the next match.

It's the second level in...

the ruins area and triforce heroes another game that probably not a lot of zelda fans have played i mean so triforce heroes came out on in 2015 i believe this was a wii u exclusive This came out after A Link Between Worlds, but before Breath of the Wild.

And it seems like a dungeon crawler almost.

It seems non-canon, but it is canon.

Okay.

Since then, we had A Link Between Worlds, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom.

Obviously, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

I'm talking about mainline Damiani.

Oh, like a Twilight Princess or something?

Like, whether it's, like, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess is coming to Switch 2 in 2027 or, like, a, like, A Link Between Worlds is coming to-

Oh-

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It's, it's, uh, it's too close to that for Nintendo.

Right.

What I could have seen them doing is announce that, like, "Oh, in early 2027 you can buy A Link Between Worlds," which was a 3DS exclusive and, you know, a top-down Zelda game maybe would've given them-

Mm