LoZ: Ocarina in 2D.

[whoisKeel]

I just beat ocarina for the first time tonight, so naturally i hit the faqs to see everything i had missed (alot) and i stumbled upon this:

http://www.oot2d.com/

some guy is remaking ocarina in 2D snes-style. looks interesting.

i start windwaker tommorrow.

[Ed Oscuro]

Well, while I've seen this topic posted everywhere (and once here before), that's not what I'm gonna post about (you'd hear about it sooner or later ;P so that's not really helpful)

What I'm gonna post about is...

...what's so great about the Zelda 3 (Link to the Past) graphics, anyways? They do the job for that game, but I really don't think they fit in Ocarina of Time very well. You lose the great sense of atmosphere going to 2D. Yeah, LttP was a moody game at times...but that mood was tailored to fit the format. You can't smell colors, and you can't effectively transfer a sense of wonder/anxiety from being in a large dungeon with 2D graphics. Scale isn't a factor like it is in the real Ocarina, and that was a big part of the game for me. I suppose I should wait and see, but there seems to be a style clash here.

There's other things I think are worth mentioning, like that the ghost-chasing-sequence in the Great Desert will be hard to pull off convincingly. Or the cukoo clock on top of the Hyrule City gates...heh heh.

That, and the new sprites aren't anything to write home about.

Still an interesting project, and if you want to know I would indeed be excited if Nintendo made this thing for real. In fact, I think I just convinced myself to download this when it comes out (hoping the file size won't be obscene, of course).

Still waiting for that GBA Kid Icarus to materialize :/

[Jasoco]

I'm curious how he's gonna handle that dungeon where the hallway twists and the room turns on its side.

And I wish I could play it.

FUCKING PC ONLY SON OF A BITCH CLUELESS ASSHOLE WITH TOO MUCH TIME ON HIS HANDS AND DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE LITTLE GUY!!!!

*cough*

Anyway, I like this concept.

[youruglyclone]

I'm pretty sure it won't require a top of the line machine to run, so I'm pretty sure a P2 can handle it

[Lady Jaye]

You don't understand. Jasoco, like me, is a Mac user. Which means, if the guy's remake is PC-based, forget about running it on a Mac OS.

[Queen Of The Felines]

You don't understand. Jasoco, like me, is a Mac user. Which means, if the guy's remake is PC-based, forget about running it on a Mac OS.

Unless you have Virtual PC? :P

Gonna lock this since it's already been covered here...

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26194

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Kristine