Link's Awakening Switch Link's Awakening Remake's artstyle origins?

[Spirit]

After following a curious rabbit hole in the comment section of LAR's reveal video, it was brought to my attention that LAR's artstyle may not be as random as we first suspected.

Some people believe the artstyle to be a reference to a Japanese commercial for LA's original GameBoy release.



I can certainly see where they're coming from but I don't really believe that the artstyle is a reference to this commercial.

The photographs in the original game are more likely the true origins.

But what do you think, could LAR's artsyle have origins within this commercial?

(LAR for reference)

 

[RobaFett]

The art style for the animated cut scene at the beginning looked more like the style they used for the Oracle games to me.

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

straight up, I was reminded of that commercial when I first saw the gameplay, I saw that commercial years ago when I was into links awakening

 

[RobaFett]

The art style during the game play portions remind me a little of 3D Dot Game Heroes.

 

[A Link In Time]

Interesting. I had never seen this commercial before. It makes more sense now. I also read a pretty insightful YouTube comment that posited the toy look makes sense to represent the dreams of a child.

 

[DeactivatedUser1]

The commercial looks like puppets. (I can’t really tell what they’re made of) Since the game looks like clay and Nintendo has a history of ‘craft’ games (Paper Mario, Kirby wool, Kirby clay, Yoshi wool, etc) it’s not surprising they used something like that. Although it’s possible, I think they look a bit different in the game than the add.

 

[Spirit]

I also read a pretty insightful YouTube comment that posited the toy look makes sense to represent the dreams of a child.

Hmmm... I dunno. This Link has just saved Hyrule and undergone a lot of hardships and had to kill monsters... that kind of thing changes a person, I don't think once he's unconscious he's gonna imagine himself as a plastic garden gnome.

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

A friend of mine made an entire article about the art style of the remake, and he drew the same conclusion as you, that the character designs orginate from the appearence of the photographs in the game. Unfortunately the article was took down from the website when the owner decided to kill it off... The website is still there but what you see is a backup version of it from before my friend's article was even published.