I felt like bloom lighting actually worked in Twilight Princess' favor, but yeah it really doesn't do Wind Waker any favors here compared to the original. That seems to be pretty much the only complaint people have about the port anyway.
It’s so weird too, because it lessens the cartoony aesthetic Wind Waker was going for in the first place.
I try really hard to not succumb to knee-jerk “it’s different so I don’t like it” instincts and evaluate whether or not a change was actually positive but man, I love this game and I love the Swift Sail and the tingle bottles and stuff but the colours on the remake are vile.
Everything’s just this hazy washed out neon, the night scenes are all this weird fuzzy green
Wind Waker was one of the first games that made me really appreciate good colour choices and simple design, everything was so crisp and clear and vibrant, the elements were distinct and read clearly
This hazy vaseline-on-the-camera everything-is-the-colour-of-90′s-day-glo-pants look doesn’t inspire the same reverence from me.
That said, I do like the cyan colour for the ocean because it looks more tropical that way but you don’t need neon ocean plus neon grass plus neon buildings plus neon sidewalks. It’s not as bad inside dungeons because they aren’t full of sunlight, but I was playing this game for ten hours the other day trying to fill in the sea chart and do as many sidequests as I could find, and I got a wicked headache from squinting at all that bloomy neon.
Steam’s hottest game has no built-in way to stop jerks from ruining your fun...which means that players have to get creative if they want to maintain the peace.
I'm gonna have to remember to watch the rest of these.
Imagine we lived in a galaxy far, far away and the battle of Endor from Return of the Jedi just happened. What would the eventual documentary look like? That’s the question posed and answered by the team behind Real Fake History, a new web series from Machinima.
We missed this earlier in the month, but the talented team behind the Dolphin emulator have done something very cool: they’ve got N64 games working on the GC/Wii emulator
by running their virtual console versions.
Disney fans might disagree which Disney Resort reigns supreme. Everyone has their favorite. But there is one thing we can all agree on: None can surpass Tokyo Disney for handwashing.
Yikes. I didn't see that coming. I've only seen two eps with her in them, but that alone wasn't enough to make me hate the character. That stuff that follows later though... we'll see how that plays out. Eww.
Normally, I love America’s cute Southern drawl. Normally, sweet old ladies who generously bake apple pies for their friends are entirely inoffensive to me. But Tree Trunks can die alone in a forest somewhere in the Land of Ooo and it’d be her best appearance in an episode of Adventure Time.
Marvel’s current mega-crossover has put one of its biggest villains in charge of everything. And the law enforcement officers making sure that Doctor Doom’s will gets obeyed are all Thor. All of them Thor; all of them cops.
It’s a damn shame this dream collaboration had to go down for a simple marketing stunt. Something more substantial between these two companies would have been the best.
The man who plays Nathan Drake says that eight months of story/performance work on Uncharted 4 was thrown out when Naughty Dog changed the creative leads on the game. In a video from a panel discussion at this past weekend’s MetroCon, North said that the scrapped work came from the script and ideas of former
Naughty Dog creative director Amy Hennig.
Just sharing this to add that I still hold the main map theme from Final Fantasy Adventure (that original GameBoy one) as one of my favorite RPG themes of all time. Unfortunately, it's received a criminally low amount of covers/remixes, so I haven't found a more definitive version than the original yet.
Square Enix are working on a new game related to Final Fantasy Adventure/Seiken Densetsu.
Konami, a Japanese company that operates slot machines and fitness clubs, released a video game yesterday on the PlayStation Network. It’s called Suikoden III. You should play it.
Today, publisher Activision announced plans for a brand new exclusive quest in Destiny, a video game in which players travel space learning the true definition of corporate greed.
by Katharine Trendacosta on io9, shared by Gergo Vas to Kotaku
James Horner, who has been scoring movies since 1978, died in a plane crash on June 22nd, 2015. His most famous score was likely the megahit Titanic, but he will also be remembered for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, An American Tail, Apollo 13, Avatar and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Today, the latest trailer for the live-action Attack on Titan movie premiered on Japanese TV. Sure, we get a peek at the Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear and Eren Yeager’s Titan form. But then, things get bad, dumb, and out of character.
by James Whitbrook on io9, shared by Tina Amini to Kotaku
Mad Max: Fury Road is a brilliant, miraculous
action movie—and part of that is because it’s not really about Max, instead spotlighting Charlize Theron’s excellent Imperator Furiosa. So a brand new comic
exploring the origins of this fascinating female character should be great, right? WRONG.
For about the last seven years, Grant Kirkhope has been trying to convince people in the gaming industry that it’s time to make a game similar to 1998’s Banjo-Kazooie, one of the great 3D platformers of the Nintendo 64 era. Says Kirkhope: “I was told: ‘Grant, you’re talking nonsense. No one wants this game. Platformers are dead.’”
"But if your male MC hooks up with a male partner (or female MC hooks up with a female partner), they’ll unlock special combat ratings."
Arguably a better benefit to marriage than a child, AMIRITE?
This will definitely be happening at least once, although we still have to see who the respective man and woman are. I've heard that the guy is voiced by Dio's voice actor. Not kidding.
Some Fire Emblem Fates (Fire Emblem If in Japan)news! Some of it good, some of it not so good.
Get a bunch of your friends together. Eat some food. Poop out a new buddy. Then, blow them all up in a giant explosion. Yep, sounds like a Keita Takahashi game.
