More good news for Zelda in America

[Nintendarse]

So... you don't like artists to flex their creative muscles and are more in favor of sales? I feel the exact opposite. As I've said in the past, I'd rather see Nintendo die trying to breathe life into the industry by making original, innovative, and artistic games than see them continue forever without innovating as much and pushing their limits of creativity.

Then we must agree that we have different ideals for Nintendo...one being no better than the other. Your ideal is for Nintendo to be the undying artist. Mine is for Nintendo to be the artist that uses all of his creativity to entertain.

Because you put down the artistic integrity of people like Shigeru Miyamoto and Steven Spielberg because they made art and entertainment.

That statement assumes that I think entertainment is lower than art.

Rather, I like to think of video games like movies. In movies, there is an artistic element. For example, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon would score high on my subjective art scale. Something like Die Hard would have a low score. Entertainment is a completely different scale. While Die Hard may have received a poor art score, it would receive a high entertainment score. But, for me, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon succeeds on both scales. It is great in both enertainment and art. My argument is that Nintendo can and should try to succeed on both of these scales, for as many people as possible. I hope that Nintendo will not sacrifice art for entertainment's sake, nor entertainment for art's sake.

However, I understand that we disagree on the last sentence. And I'm okay with that.

Yeah... key words being "realistic movements". He would look silly using WW Link's animations.

I thought my metaphor was pretty good...oh well. What I'm saying is that Link's animations in Wind Waker are not a key element in the Zelda experience. I think you could change the animations, the art style, the presentation, and it would still be Legend of Zelda:Wind Waker. But if you honestly think that the animations are one of the elements that are intrinsic to Zelda, I can't convince you of anything, because even the slightest change would ruin the game for you.