Sunday, August 7, 2011

30 Days of Video Games Day 23

Game I think had the best graphics or art style:

Zelda: Wind Waker.

The most-posted picture from this game gets another post.

Firstly, this game is very underplayed.  The graphics were a turn-off for most of the people who chose not to play this game, which is a huge disappointment.  This is a definite stand-out game in the Zelda franchise, and I love every minute of it.    It does a great job of continuing the universe of Ocarina of Time, something that a lot of Zelda fans drool over.

And you even got to chase pigs around and catch them!

I really liked the art style, though.  The cartoon art gave the characters a great range of emotion, which was pretty awesome compared to the basically-still faces of OoT and Majora's Mask.  It also gave the game its own identity; it wasn't trying to be OoT.  This new world was not Hyrule.  No Hyrule Field.  No Death Mountain.  The overworld was a massive ocean.  All of that made the King of Red Lions's (the talking ship) secret even more of a surprise.

Wind Waker still, I think, sets the standard for cel-shading.  Part of the reason I'm a fan of the art style is that it's a cure for what I once read as "BROWNANBLOOM," like you see in Gears of War and Call of Duty.  I'm not saying it works for every game, but I really liked it in Wind Waker.

Also Killer 7.
Any excuse to post another picture from this game.



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