[Broco]

It was awesome, but it seems to have fallen off the net.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

You might want to be more specific?
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[Eudaimon]

I think he means that really neat watercolor stuff. Someone around here had it as an av/sig for a while.

[Six]

i doubt i have all of them, unfortunately, but there you go.

[Broco]

Yeah, anyone who's seen it will know what I'm talking about. Really stylishly composed drawings of marin, link facing off against ganon, that giant bird, etc. I regret not having saved them, and now I can't find them anymore.

Hmm, it strikes me now that I should've remembered there is a quick questions thread for this, seeing as this thread is lame until somebody posts the artwork. Sorry about that.

EDIT: thanks a bunch Six~~ !

[Daphaknee]

oh thats where haze's shit comes from
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[diplo]

found this on insert credit archives

http://gallery.zeldalegends.net/thumbnails.php?album=56

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

Man, that stuff is beautiful and also completely separated from what my actual view of the game was.

It's odd that I bought into the vision of Metroid II as a haunting, claustrophobic nightmare but I never saw Link's Awakening as anything more than a fun little action/puzzle dungeon crawler with some bizarre sidequests.

Maybe the difference was the map.

That Marin looks a lot more interesting than any of the other females in the Zelda series :|
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[diplo]

also, that art beats the hell out of the modern zelda art. i still have the official a link to the past strategy guide with this guy's art scattered about in it. for me, that style captures near-perfectly the strangeness i felt when i first played alttp. a lot of it, i think, has to do with the colors (very dark world-ish), but also the spatial qualities of environments.

[Broco]

Thanks diplo, that's exactly what I was looking for. Funny it turns up nowhere in Google.

Yeah it has happened that I have felt a frisson while playing the early nineties zeldas... but it was mostly in certain specific places, like the first visit to the dark world in LTTP and the ending of LA. For the most part Zelda has never come across as marvelously strange to me.

[Broco]

And here is that fantastic Ganon artwork, which was since moved to the LTTP section of the site (but was in the LA book, illustrating backstory):

[Broco]

Avatar material:

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Six]

thanks for the link, diplo.

[vision]

a favorite from the Zelda II gallery:

[shnozlak]

ma I wish someone would make a limited color sketchy looking game like this.
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[monaco]

The guy is Katsuya Terada.

One could describe his style as impetuous.

[The Blueberry Hill]

Oh wow, I'd never seen any of this. There's another peice of Zelda art I love that I don't have: it's Link sitting inn a forest with his legs dangling in a pond, head towards the sky, light peaking through the trees. It's what the Zelda series is, to me.

I have it in a background of an old magazine Zelda review, but I don't know where my magazines are. If anyone has it a post would be greatly appreciated.
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So much magic!

[The Blueberry Hill]

Okay. The image I remembered is actualy a combination of two from the A Link to the Past stuff. Interesting.



and



Neither one is that great one it's own.
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[winkerwatson]

marin marin marrrrrrrrrrrrin ;_______________________;
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[DonMarco]

Marin was better for Link. Zelda's a fucking tease.
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[CubaLibre]

The LTTP strategy guide was filled with fantastic, mostly-realistic looking art in this vein. Bizarrely detached from the art style of the game itself, I always thought. Especially since I wished the game looked like the art instead of what it actually did look like.
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[Mr. Toups]

Man I am moving this thread to KoP because this is worth keeping around.
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[Broco]

Somehow most of these don't really work as desktop backgrounds though. They seem much less striking then. It's mainly the aspect ratios. Regrettable.

[Talbain]

It's unfortunate that with all the technology we have for making games today, we still don't have characters who have facial expressions that are as striking as these stills (or at least I don't recall any).
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[tacotaskforce]

[Talbain]

[diplo]

[haze]

I must've spent more time reading those old strategy guides than playing the games themselves.

[CubaLibre]

To be sure, I read the LTTP guide far more than I played the game. It was just more... wondrous.

Not to say I didn't beat LTTP like three times. Because I did.
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[Lick Meth]

I love this picture so much. It's like the Lake District (UK) looks today, and I would be so happy to have a Zelda game with areas like that.

[Mikey]

The interesting thing about L.A. to me is that (at least as far as I know) it's the only game where Link is primarily motivated by selfish reasons for the duration of the game. Majora's Mask starts out that way but quickly becomes another "Save the World" plot.

But it's immediately assumed that getting off the island is the most desirable outcome for Link. I mean, why? He's coming off the big battle with Ganon in LttP, and obviously things aren't going so hot with Zelda or whatever if he's decided to go sail the world. Being stuck on a tropical island with a pretty girl who likes you can't be so bad, can it? Sure, it's supposedly all the dream of the windfish, but it's a pretty sweet dream if you ask me.

What I'm saying is I've never looked at a sea gull the same way since that game, ok.
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[Broco]

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[Daphaknee]

broco you are a fucking bad ass motherfucker sometimes
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[CubaLibre]

[Mr. Toups]

[Broco]

Thanks guys. I did think that was one of my better posts. It's something that's been at the back of my mind while I was playing but I hadn't verbalized it until now.

[tacotaskforce]

I wouldn't say it's totally morally ambiguous. The Wind Fish does want to wake up, and his agent in the game, the owl, guides you towards that goal.
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