AlphaBenson

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@IVY70052475 It was stated by Miyamoto that he didn't want Link in OoT to be "too cool", which is probably why he's given some full body tighty whiteys and a nose second to only Ganondorf's. And I do think the graphical limitations is what plays into OoT Link still feeling like he belongs.

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@IVY70052475 And that creates a disconnect that, imo, doesn't exist anywhere near to the same extent in Wind Waker, Skyward Sword, or the N64 games. Wind Waker has the same stubby arms, long torso, and orangutan arms as any other character, so he fits pretty well in his own world.

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@joachimA328754 @KloverClub07 It's why I don't really think the 3DS remaster looked all that great either, since they prettied up Link and some other major characters, but for the most part every side character still looks the same, so they end up not feeling like they belong in the same world as Link.

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@joachimA328754 @KloverClub07 Because going for something realistic but not quite runs the risk of diving headfirst into the uncanny valley. Twilight Princess to me, visually, has aged worse than perhaps any other mainline 3D zelda. Link is a very beautiful man, in a world full of deformed homunculi.

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@matheusssilv4 @MikelRid You can play Ocarina of Time on every Nintendo home console released after the N64. It's hardly a difficult game to get ahold of.

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@joachimA328754 @KloverClub07 It honestly shoulda stopped Twilight Princess because sometimes the humans are more or less normal anime characters and others feel like pot-bellied wind waker designs with realistic flesh tones applied to their model like it's Jump Force.

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@GnySgtKabar That being said, CE is also so readily available that I don't think it's a problem for a remake to change things. This isn't like what happened with the original Resident Evil games where Capcom wanted you to forget they existed entirely until fan demand made them rerelease them.

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@GnySgtKabar I think Campaign Evolved looks good but I also don't think anybody is specifically wrong for preferring CE's original aesthetic even if the people who made it don't share that opinion.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic You can, but it shouldn't really be treated as anything but trivia, and not a true reflection of a character's abilities. That being said, an author is free to claim their character is FTL, and have the story ignore all the implications that would carry.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic There's some guidebook out there that doubles down on this being a "laser", though I generally do agree that for most children series, you could call any depiction of a"laser" a "plasma beam" or some nebulous fictional energy and nothing really meaningful changes in the story.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic I mean it does in the sense that the story is not operating under the assumption that the characters are FTL. This is why Goku can dodge a laser in one panel, but then get grabbed by the robot that fired said laser, which itself is piloted by a mere human character.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic You can't hide behind "realism" when it comes to all the myriad of ways that would suggest the character is not moving at light speed, but then argue a laser's speed can not be altered in fiction. Either physics applies, or it doesn't.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic I know what laser means. What I question is the idea that the author cares enough about that to solidify the idea that their characters can react and move at FTL speeds.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic It's also being somewhat ignorant of why, say, an action series, especially one with scifi or fantasy elements, aimed at children may have an overabundance of laser weaponry and characters avoiding being hit by said lasers.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic This is why it's silly to very specifically focus on lasers as proof of a character's speed. Aside from the fact that there's always the plausible explanation of them simply predicting the trigger pull right before they dodge,

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic Like people use this page to "prove" that Goku was FTL back in early Dragon Ball, but since this was before he learned to fly properly, this little leap he took to avoid the laser would have propelled him helplessly into the horizon if his enemy hadn't caught him first.

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@Excalibur2343 @gojichronic The issue with this is that even if you did a little sidehop at FTL speeds to avoid a laser, you'd fling yourself into another zipcode before gravity could pull your feet back down to the ground.

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@Infinite_Ejzme @joovito53074377 @Le_Healer @GenjuuKohaku If you do a little side hop at the speed of light, as a person with no special flight powers that could conceivably help you control your positioning in 3D space, you would probably fling yourself into another zipcode before gravity could pull you back down to the ground.

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@Gasthabib This is partly because Dragon Ball itself has fairly shallow world-building, and the alien races largely only exist because all these wacky non-human characters have to have come from SOMEWHERE, and Toriyama decided for that somewhere to be space. Or "demon realms".

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@Gasthabib I'm talking specifically about an entire fantasy race, not one character from such a race. You can make a Namekian character and write as much depth as you want, but that wouldn't really change the fact that in official material, Namekians as a people are fairly one note.