Posted by Bob Mackey
Over the years, we've seen many interesting fan projects come and go--though they seem to do more of the latter. The Chrono Trigger 3D remake? Killed by Square-Enix. That 2D Ocarina of Time thingy? The dude behind it either bought the farm or faked his own death to escape responsibility--it's never been clear what actually happened there. Now, we can add yet another ambitious projects to the list of "neat things that will befall some sort of tragic fate" with MithosK-Games' 3D reimagining of the Game Boy classic, Link's Awakening.
Hey, I'm not being negative. I'm being realistic.
To be fair, there's already quite a bit done on this project; so far, the entirety of the game's overworld has been rendered in glorious 3D. And, given the original game's simple, tile-based makeup, it seems like reworking the graphical elements of Link's Awakening should make for a somewhat easy task. But with MithosK-Games showing their hand so early, it seems very unlikely that the actual game part of this remake will be finished anytime soon. After all, Nintendo has a vested interest in quashing anything remotely threatening to their IP, and MithosK's project fits this description to a T. I'll definitely be all over this if the project gets finished, so if Nintendo catches word of it before then, they certainly didn't hear it from me.
Thanks to the Retronauts Twitter for the news.
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About Bob Mackey
For a brief period of time I was Bull from TV's
Night Court, but some of you may know me from the humor column I wrote for Youngstown State University's The Jambar, Kent State University's The Stater, and Youngstown's alternative newspaper, The Walruss. I'm perhaps most well-known for my bi-weekly pieces on Something Awful. I've also blogged for Valley24.com and have written articles for EGM, 1UP, GameSpite and Cracked. For all of my writing over the years, I have made a total of twenty American dollars. It's also said that I draw cartoons, which people have described with words such as "legible." I kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby and am looking to do so again in the future.
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