Ink’s awakening.
The latest Ask the Developer interviews are positively packed with interesting tidbits about the making of Ocarina of Time on Switch 2. One such story is all about the game’s reimagined visuals, which Nintendo was even kind enough to share some initial sketches of.
According to Art Director Aya Shida, the team was consciously fighting a battle between making the game more realistic with the improved power of the Switch 2, and retaining the spirit of the original — a somewhat dark world, filled with weird characters. She therefore relied on phrases like “a puppet-show feel” and “the analogue feel of practical effects films” during development to reflect the goal: “both create a convincing sense that the characters truly exist within their respective fantasy worlds”.
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