Well, I don't have a post for you all, so I thought I'd just go through some of my bookmarks for some sweet video game art. Fan art, on a whole, is an incredible thing. Some amazing stuff bubbles to the surface on the internet. Like that sweet Ganon picture up there. Isn't it totally awesome? That image is part of a series of of Legend of Zelda images I found over at this place called the Zelda Dungeon.
I really appreciate the art style, and I also appreciate that it is all images from the original Legend of Zelda game on NES. We've waxed about nostalgia for this series before, and about the potential it may have lost over the years. Images like this remind me of that potential, of how these simplistic critters could look totally sweet and how there could be a rich mythology behind the happenings in the Zelda games.Also, it reminds me of all the cool names the baddies in Zelda have: Gleok, Dodongo, Keese.
The artist is called Deimos-Remus at deviantart.com.
Also at Zelda Dungeon, I found an interesting article about Skyward Sword that used terms like 'skill scaling' 'sub optimal dominant strategy' and the like. I love this game theory stuff, and I harbor dreams of being that kind of a smarty pants and getting to talk about video game design all day.
The writer for this article GaroXIcon, and I like him so far. In addition to the above article, he pitches a direct sequel to A Link To The Past, and says that Majora's Mask is his favorite game of all time. How do you like that? GaroXicon is my new video game critic crush. and Deimos-Remus is my new video game art crush.
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I *really* like the Pig Ganon, especially as it's not the now almost expected nearly-obese pig and slightly more svelte. I would be afraid of this Ganon if he were to crop up in a Zelda game.
ReplyDeleteAlso the Octoroks with their beady little eyes (not pictured here) are also pretty terrifying.