Wish the Zelda movie had been cartoonish 🇸🇪

Just before Lucia last year, we published a news story about Youtube user Rwanlink's cartoon Zelda video, which reminded us of what it could look like if Studio Ghibli had made a Zelda movie.

As you probably know, there is actually a Zelda reel on the way, but this is a feature film and thus neither cartoon nor animated. Yesterday, some of my best friends and I had a discussion about the upcoming Zelda movie, and it turned out pretty quickly that everyone was a little skeptical about the idea of turning Zelda into a feature film. 

Everyone would have preferred a Japanese 80s-style cartoon (like the cartoon Zelda images that were produced for Zelda II in particular), or a CG-animated reel. Of course, we all want to be wrong and get something hugely surprised by a real great movie - but I have such a hard time seeing that happening.

That Hollywood (Maze Runner creator Wes Ball is directing with a script from Pokémon: Detective Pikachu author Derek Connolly) could recreate Zelda in a way that feels genuine is simply too unlikely. A talking actor like Link with a green hood on his head just screams with cheesiness.

Again, I hope I'm completely wrong, but it would probably have felt much safer to get an animated movie instead. Either cartoon or CG animated? Immediately, Link could look the right way and Hyrule is portrayed convincingly - or what do you say?

This is what a cartoon Link would look like if I had to decide, the picture is from the Zelda II marketing with period Japanese design.