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I have a long, LONG love story with Zelda : Link's Awakening.Not only is it my first Zelda game on the first game system I owned (because you know, stealing your big brother's systems from time to time isn't the same as having yours), but the more I play it the more I love it.
I love how different it is from the other ones, I love its inherent pessimism punctuated by breaking-the4th-wall jokes, I love its epicness and its musical poetry...And I simply adore the love story.
I have a problem with it, though : the artworks.
See, I grew up with just the cartridge ; no box nor instruction booklet. I had only the sprites, my imagination and my pencil (I'm sure if I search, I'll find some old drawn horrors of Link & Marin) so when I discovered the internet, you can imagine my surprise and my disappointment when I saw the official artworks.
Of course I knew the Link from the cinematics, but I just puked on my shoes when I saw Marin.
It can seem extreme, but for me, these characters are supposed to be bland-colored, simple-shaped like the no-color GameBoy sprites.
The dark-haired Link (from the sprite) is a new interpretation of me trying to give this Link some character, maybe for a future development in comic or fiction...
TL;DR : I'm a GameBoy nerd fangirl and this game is a blast.
Full scene illustrations coming soon !
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Oh god, I love your versions of Link and Marin. *A* And in a sense...I think I prefer them to the original artwork <3<3 Great job!
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That's a great compliment !
Thanks a lot !
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No problem. You deserve it!
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I love these drawings you made for Link's Awakening ! I also think that the official artworks for ALTTP and LsA are very bad and don't reflect correctly the game's magic and characters. I love this little "Wind Waker" touch you gave Link and Marine
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I wouldn't go as far as to call LsA inherently pessimist (surely not for those jokes), but it's a unique experience both in the context of the franchise and as a stand-alone game. I have played it way after its original release(s) so I'm less attached to it than others LoZ, but when I played it some four-to-six (I don't remeber exactly) years ago I loved it.
Great designs, by the way.
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Thanks !
Well, the ending is pessimistic ! And so are these owl-shaped statues saying "If you don't leave, you will DIE"...xD
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The ending is surely sad! :')
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Clair que ta Marin est ultra plus mignonne que celle des artwork officiels... elle fait tout douce et timide et pleine de bonne volontΓ©!:3
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Haha, exactement ce qu'elle est ^^
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Aww it was also my first zelda game <3 Also don't think I've seen the official sprites... I won't go looking now D:
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Ahah well it's all over on fanarts, as people often use the artworks as reference it seems ^^
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Aha glad you like it !
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Marin looks so sweet, I love the shape of her hair. All your Zelda illustrations are gorgeous
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Sadly I never actually got to play Awakening. :c
But I must say I love your version of the characters. Especially with keeping the tones of the original gameboy.
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Aha yeah, gameboy dullness FTW
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they look so awesome! :3
good luck with with whatever you be working on! ^__^
*excuse me cause I'm not a Zelda fan, I'm sure things will get more clear to me with your future posts*
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Aha thanks !
You should play it though !!
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I'm planing to for long time but no time! TT w TT
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I understand your nostalgia, this was my very first game in general
Great work
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Now I think about it we're lucky to have started on such a masterpiece ^^
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My brother would love this. And he's always imagined Link with dark hair
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Well his hair is brown in the cartoon, dark on gameboy (sprites, not "cutscenes"), and pink in the SuperNes
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Yes, I know. I remember the first time I saw the artworks I was like "the helll?? He had brown hair in the cartoon!!!" XD
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Well I remember the first time I saw the cartoon and I was like "THE HELL ?? HE'S TURNING INTO A NINJA TURTLE ?!!"
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OH YEAH!
I really dig the textures and the color sceme makes me think of the gameboy in the back of my head ^^
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Aha thanks that was my goal !
Render the dullness of the gameboy is not easy
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i bet, but a gameboy game has at least an unique look. no one would mistake a gameboy screenshot with something else ^^
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