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Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Mar 20 [Switch 2 Direct] | Apr 02 Metroid Prime 4 | 2025
I really don't like this idea. The series has always been "pseudo mature", by which I mean it portrays itself as being for older audiences, but doesn't have any real meat on them bones. It's all fluff and aesthetics around good gameplay.
They should just stick to the games imo
What? Like maybe the open world ones were light on story, but there's plenty of lore in the Zelda universe to do all sorts of interesting things.
The games just might not be cinematic enough in their telling but a proper screenplay can tell the story better.
I love Zelda but a movie would be too weird. I like the "voiceless" Link. It puts the players thoughts as the response instead of a script.
Would be cool if they made the movie where Link doesn't talk at all. I can't think of any movies with a dumb protagonist, it wouid be a first. They'd also need to find an actor who is really good with acting with their face and body language.
Probably won't happen, though. We're going to get Link who talks and a reference to "Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUssse me, princess!"
"They’d also need to find an actor who is really good with acting with their face and body language."
I immediately thought of Mr. Bean lol
This summer…
BEAN
IS
LINK
what if it's like botw/totk where everyone is fully voice acted, except for link who just waves his hands around every time has to explains something and everyone just repeats what he says.
I mean, that's been the standard since at least ocarina of time. I remember rolling my eyes at the other characters reading your responses back to you.
I was assuming it would be animated, but I lost hope when they said it would be live action.
I'm not sure what the point of an animated version would be... it would be like watching someone else play the game.
Don't think any move would be a good idea, Link doesn't really have a defined character because in the game you're Link. In any movie they'll need to define his character and it'll probably not match most people's expectations because everyone imagines Link's character to be different.
Well excuse me, Mr. poster, but he does have defined personality. It was (poorly) defined every Friday on the Super Mario Super Show.
Obviously said in the “well excuuuuuuuse me princess …”
Is Zelda going to say anything? Unless I’m mistaken, if he does you’ll get nerd fans just as upset as Dredd or Master Chief taking off their helmets.
He'll speak.
WELL EXCUUUUUUUSE ME! PRINCESS!
But... You just... You know that... You know that Zelda is the princess and Link is the guy right? Or was this on purpose since you mentioned upset nerds?
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You cheeky cunt. 😘
GOTTEM
Considering how Spielberg butchered Ready Player One, I hope they find someone more respectful.
The source material wasn't good in the first place.
I finished it as a hate read, hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Just a packet of clichés wrapped around nerd nostalgia. I absolutely lost it when a chapter was literally just reciting an 80s movie word for word. 🤣
That's a fine opinion to have, but it doesn't justify leaving out the coolest parts of the book, or ruining Art3mis's character, or changing Shoto's name.
I just hope that when "Kakariko" is inevitably said in the movie, it gets pronounced right
Is this bait? Like "gif" vs "jif", or is there really a non obvioua way to pronounce it?
The first good videogame movie was Wreck It Ralph.
It's nice that the recent Sonic and Mario movies didn't suck, although there's always a good chance they'll return to form.
I think Wreck It Ralph was a success because it explicitly wasn't based on a real video game, more just the idea of video games, with cute little references to real games. Starting off with original IP means you don't have an incredibly dedicated fanbase that can pick apart all the inaccuracies in your lore and character portrayals, which lowers the stakes a ton.
Making a Zelda game is risky because there are a ton of people out there with preconceived notions of how Zelda and Link are supposed to be portrayed, how the world is supposed to be portrayed, and the history of that world. If they get any of that wrong, those people are gonna be big mad. The stakes are much higher there.
Plus it's always been a game with a much more serious tone. Not sure they can really rely on a Jack Black/Jim Carrey vibe to save what might otherwise be a very bland movie.
Their best bet might be a Link's Awakening type thing, both in tone and style. If it's live action then gods help them because I can't see anything working there.
There is at least plenty of Zelda styles to go for.
It might have worked around the era of Twilight Princess; there was enough continuity in the series that it had consistent lore, the games were trending toward cinematic, lots of cut scenes and character arcs and such. Not sure a movie is going to play well in the "We physically cannot care about this story" era represented by BotW and TotK.
Honestly, I don't think there was ever a time when Zelda had lore that spanned outside the borders of the individual games. Or at least, where lore like that was considered important or taken seriously. The whole timelines thing always seemed to me like a kind of after-thought.
The Legend of Zelda has a lot more in common with Final Fantasy. There'll be a lot of similar things in between each game, but each game is self-contained.
The Legend of Zelda: The Monkey's Paw
The quote could have been, "Spielberg would want to do it, and no."
Sigh. Just don’t. Please. It’s gonna be slop like the Mario movie, or Minecraft or doom or resident evil or alone in the dark… etc
Nothing but greed and profit fuelling this project.
Wasn't the Mario movie pretty well-received among fans, though? The Resident Evil films were also very successful, despite not being popular with the game's original audience.
You thought the Mario movie was slop?? The target audience (kids) really liked it and it was faithful to the games…
What? The movie NEVER got close to the source material! I mean since when is Toad a street musician, and just one guy? Since when does Big Bertha have massive tits? Why did they treat Spike as one of the koopa kids? Where were the other 6 koopa kids? You just took Iggy, and paired him with Spike (for some reason) and said fuck off to the other 6? And why is King Koopa clearly a parody of donald trump? And why did he destroy the world trade center towers???
I would certainly hope if you've read this far that you get what I'm doing here....
My kid and I watched it when it first released.
He barely remembers it, except Rainbow Road and "Mario characters". And he loves Nintendo stuff.
It wasn't "slop", but it was not very memorable. The worst thing a film can be is forgettable.