The New Look

Well, I've seen the new videos, and I've heard all the complaints. Recently, at Spaceworld, Nintendo showed a clip of their newest Zelda for the Gamecube. Link looks somewhat cartoony and, many say, too childish. You can imagine the uproar this caused. People are sending e-mails, even large petitions in an attempt to persuade Nintendo to do something to stop this. I personally have been approached more than once to voice my own hatred for the new look. I have promptly refused. Who would ask me to do such a thing! For cryin' out loud! I come here and I write. I write thousands and thousands of words on what makes a great game! GAMEPLAY AND DIFFICULTY! That is all! What have I said about graphics? They don't matter! At all! Graphics mean nothing to a game. I hardly notice them when I play a game now. Y'know what I've been playing for the last few weeks? I've been playing DOS games. These are games from the 80's and before! I've been playing with tiny stick figures on a black and white screen! And I've been loving it! I keep telling you people that graphics don't matter, and I keep hearing about how right I am. If so many of you agree with me that graphics are meaningless, why do you get so enraged when the game has cartoony graphics? I'm not joking when I get up here and tell thousands of people every day that I don't give one iota for the look of a game. I'm not lying. I mean it to the fullest. I for one, eagerly await this new Zelda. I, for one, am thoroughly disgusted by the actions of the Zelda community.

~Daniel Rendleman