Would you have prefered a darker storyline?, For Twilight Princess?

Judging from the original trailers, I think it was pretty obvious the game was going to be alot darker than it is now. The graphics were more realistic and darker (As opposed to the brighter colored overworld we have now, the colors were a combination of green and brown), the ghosts in the well were ALOT freakier, there were some areas not seen in the game that seemed to have a darker mood than most areas in the game, etc. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the game's original intentions were for it to be darker, but Iwata didn't like it and changed it, this was around the time where this game was supposed to be Wind Waker's prequel and was "supposed" to end with Hyrule flooding. Personally I'm a little dissapointed, I expected a MUCH darker game, no senseless blood or gore or anything like that, just for the story to be a bit more dark and moodier. I hope the next Zelda does this, but I really doubt this with Nintendo's new focus on making the gameplay perfect rather than making the storyline and such great too. I hope to be proven wrong though.

Yea, but this game did go pretty deep for a Zelda game judging from past games

I wanted something more dark, even though the trailers didnt seem dark to me at all.

I say you kids should stop being emo darkies and play those pretty colorful games.

The game actually is pretty dark, one cutscene in particular is terrifying, once again I think you should actually play the game before you discuss the storyline.

The atmosphere was dark enough.

I wish it had more story in between some of the dungeons.

Just off the top of my head this is the dark stuff in the game

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-The atmosphere of the Twilight Realm in general is almost Silent Hill-ish -Horrendous cutscene with disturbing music where Ilia literally backstabs Link and then develops pupil-less, glossed over eyes, Link does this too and screams his head off, loudly, then it goes into some really bizarre scene where hundreds of Illias float upside down in the background -Spirits in Twilight Realm -****ing INVISIBLE RATS. -The Poes look horrible -ReDead Knights -Ganon gets stabbed in the stomach -Ganon dies on his feet at the end, screaming -Wolf Link violently rips the poe's soul out of its body when defeated -A lot of the bosses have pretty disturbing designs -Gohma was extremely creepy in this game

Honestly, I don't think it could have gotten any darker than it already is without being Resident Evil Zelda Edition. The game not being dark enough was never a complaint for me.

Let me guess, the one with Ilia "stabbing" Link with him running towards the Triforce?

Yeah, that was just one big "what the Christ"

Saw it in IGN's review ;_;

There's a lot more to it than that, but it was a very VERY good cutscene in the game.

That whole scene was "WTF Awesome".

it's pretty dark already but i want it darker but then playing it in the dark i'd probally have to have like 6 lights on :laughs: yah maybe it should just stay the way it is

Stabbing the giant boss' eye in the water temple was funny.

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Holy, hell. When Midna EXPLODES Zant from like the inside.

This post has been edited by Medaforcer on Dec 17 2006, 02:21 AM

No. The game would lose the Zelda feel if it got any darker. Period.

Also
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the second part of gohma is the funniest thing ever

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After I "beat" her and the victory music played, I was really disappointed. Then I noticed her still crawling around... I giggled and rushed over with sword swinging.

It seemed to have enough in the trailer so i think it is fine. I just saw it.

Does it matter.

Stuff from the older trailers were cut out from the actual game due to time constraints/too dark/Nintendo felt like it/etc arn't actually in the game.

And yes, it does matter. Half of the reason I loved Majora's Mask so much is because of the dark and mysterious atmosphere, while Wind Waker and (From what I've heard) Twilight Princess have better gameplay, the plot and mysteriousness of Majora's Mask stole the show for me.