You guys know Poke Floats is completely cel-shaded right?
And that looked great.
Theyre not cel shaded,they're just bright... theres a difference you know...
Young Link is my favorite character in Melee, no contest. But if anyone's leaving (i.e. The Doc, Roy and Pichu) his head is on the block.
There's a tiny chance that we'll see a vintage Young Link, with some Majora's Mask flair and a Fierce Deity final smash, updated with more realism. But despite giving me eternal happiness, the chances are not great.
I'll admit that WW Link has appeared more recently (Phantom Hourglass).
As for the the problem of art style... Sakurai is original enough and imaginative enough to do it, we could have cel shaded beside the general style of smash, but it's not because of G&W, because G&W wasn't of a different style, he was too simple to
have a style, he was a monochrome two dimensional shape. Cel shading is a
different way of doing animation, coloring and lighting, whereas Game&Watch is the
absence of those things. Sakurai has managed to put all types of characters in Brawl in styles that mesh together rather well, and while I'm hardly saying that WW Link would ruin the game, (It will be the best game ever irregardless) but if he was going to put in a completely different art style now, it would be somewhat silly.
I personally don't think WW Link will be included not because of his appearance (though it does complicate him), but because TP Link represents all the generations of Link. Twilight Princess Link is "Link", without the "Twilight Princess" moniker in front, he is the symbol of all Link's past and present. "Hero of Winds", or "Windwaker Link"
could still be in, it's not awkward
enough to
outrightly exclude him, but Link changes in appearance often, TP has the latest, most detailed and most fitting style for Link, and WW link isn't
Young Link, he's just
Link, his big head and tiny body make him look rather young in comparison, but if you recall back, most characters in WW had comprable proportions, they chose a cartoony caricatured-like style. To put it frankly I don't feel that he'll be in because I feel he's already represented.
I have one interesting bit of information though, it proves nothing, but it stirs up ideas. If you recall the sticker update, the stickers were all artwork from previous games: Strikers mario, Baloon fighter's cover art, the wrestling bird this from thousand year door ( could go on, but I think you get the point). They were all artwork released for previous games, nothing new, except for one thing that caught my eye on the third screen:
That bottle is better quality then the melee trophy, I'd never that pic before, as I thought further upon it. Granted it might be from some artwork I hadn't seen, but a thourough search turned up fruitless (
OOT,
Melee, note the corners). If anyone's seen it from it's original context, I'd like to see it; it's quality though almost seems as if it's from a Brawl character, and WW Link didn't get any Lon Lon milk
.
