Someone thought this was a good design for Link back in the 80s

>someone thought this was a good design for Link back in the 80s

What were they fucking thinking?

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80s art is oozing soul like you wouldn't believe.

At least that's the real Link with Brown Hair instead of making him a stupid blonde.

Link used to be an elf, they didn't turn him full twink until OoT.

Fuck off inflation fetishist

better than the anime bullshit they have going on now

>Don't worry Link, the Triforce promises the King will return safely

Blonde link gets all the girls though.

this

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Same for 80s and 90s Mario art. There was something warm and special about NES and SNES era Mario.

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Is it just me or has the last couple of years felt soulless in general?

I always had a suspicion that the people using the term "twink" are just jealous of otter-mode pretty boys.

SNES Link had pink hair.

I will forever be salty we never got a Zelda with the Terada artstyle.

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Link looks so defeated and stern.

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Painted art > digital art

Same artist does work just as good digitally though, soul can be transferred into digital art you just have to be really good.

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it is a good design and I want to see it in 3D

the original youtuber

That they didn't want to get a bunch of children horny

Vidya was barely even considered an industry in the 80s.
There was almost no attempt to unify/control design across mediums. "Here's 10 pixels, hire 5 different artists to put out different materials based on the pixels." Box art, instruction books, magazines, mech, etc would all have different designs. Even sequels didn't have their shit together at first.

He says, watching digital art

>OAH SHIP

This is good. What are you on about?

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Does this count

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>ENOUGH! We'll sail tomorrow. Mhh, i wonder what's for dinner...

I can tell he's a boy and he isn't wearing pajamas, so he's definitely better than BOTW Link.

"Peter Pan knockoff"