13th March 2003, 10:01 PM
I'll say this, I can see his fear there. If they had gone too far, we would be right back in the early/mid 90's, when EVERY SINGLE PC GAME had pretty much solid live action, and the games were usually like 7 CDs in size (and lasted 5 hours :D). I was SO SICK of games like Mortal Kombat and Phantasmagoria going for this WAY TOO REALISTIC look. It just wasn't fantastical enough... I think Miyamoto may have been afraid of limiting the series by thinking too much about using a realistic look. This is the same reason Final Fantasy 9 used super deformed characters instead of the taller more realistic characters in Final Fantasy 8. I still think Japan's delightfully yet entirely ignorant of any reason a cartoony look doesn't look serious.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)