When Nintendo first announced it would be remaking the GameBoy classic, The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening for Nintendo Switch, fans instantly fell in love with the games unique and cutesy art style. Keeping the same gameplay and top-down camera as the original Links Awakening on GameBoy, the Nintendo Switch remake made a complete transition from 2D to 3D graphics and adopted a new retro toy-like aesthetic, using bright and vibrant colors, and diorama world design to faithfully recreate the beloved game for a new generation.
One fan was so fond of the cartoonish new art style for The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening that he recreated a number of key screenshots from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2's reveal trailer, redesigning several characters including Zelda, Link, and Ganon. Followed by the tagline 'is not in development,' Plant's goal was to give the next The Legend of Zelda game the same art style as the previous game in a new sequel he calls 'The Legend of Zelda: Ganon's Awakening.'
Artist Stephen J. Plant uploaded several images to his Twitter account, recreating three prominent moments from the E3 reveal trailer, including the first glimpse of Zelda and Link exploring a dark chamber below Hyrule, the moment the pair discovered what appears to be the corpse of Ganon, and a close-up shot of Ganon himself. Plant's art is the perfect blend of the cute cartoony art style of Link's Awakening's with the dark and mysterious tone that made the trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 so exciting.
First revealed as the final trailer in Nintendo's E3 2019 presentation, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2's reveal trailer shows Link and Zelda making their way through a dark underground chamber underneath Hyrule. Sporting their blue Breath of the Wild tunics, a fancy new haircut for Zelda, and torches, the pair come across a series of runes and paintings all over the walls, before discovering a mysterious and mummified Gerudo corpse, believed to be Ganondorf.
Similarly, last year another fan recreated the full reveal trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 in the art style of the Nintendo 64. As more rumors and leaks continue to come out, the hype for the sequel continues to grow in new and exciting ways. Let's hope the Breath of the Wild 2 remake treatment continues to the SNES and GameBoy next!
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is currently available for the Nintendo Switch.