This is coming from someone who was taken aback in 2011 by SS's more cartoony style after TP's "gritty realism" and early posters of SS showing a TP-like Link, of course. If I wanted a more rounded, polished, diorama-y version of the game, I want them to replace the characters with versions that look more like Link's Awakening HD - it's a very different cartoon style, so to speak, and the merging between the two is a bit uncanny for me. I just think there's purpose in WW's cel shaded, cartoony art style. It feels a bit more like when the HD version of the game bugs when you get a treasure item and suddenly the cel shading is stripped away (you can get this effect somehow in Breath of the Wild, too, and it's a bit disturbing). There's something about stripping away that "realism" and the contours and leaning into just what is necessary to deliver emotions. It's quite cute, but it also doesn't feel like Wind Waker to me. That is, everything has a plastic or wooden or toylike sheen as if it's a diorama or something. Feels a bit more like Link's Awakening HD on Switch if the character designs were in the "toon" style.
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