Just want to put it out there that I’m a big fan of Pols Voice in design and concept. Would you just look at this thing??
Nintendo please bring back Pols Voice and implement creative noise-based means of battling them. I swear I’ll consider buying one of your new consoles if you do!
ah man, i'd forgotten all about this adorable bastard! i love obscure characters getting some fan-art love =')
do you have a copy of the LoZ instruction manual? it had such beautiful (paintings? drawings? i can't remember) pictures of the baddies. maybe my favorite over-all instruction manual, now that i think about it...when i was 8 or 9 i'd read that thing like a favorite story book and totally get lost in Hyrule =')
i love the old-style Link too. nice nice doodle, dood!
I do miss the old instruction manuals which felt like an extension of the product rather than a formality; Manuals adorned with concept art and flavor text and lore~ I swear if I ever get involved in making a game project from my concepts I would want to make a manual like that, even if it's just a .pdf. The Zelda illustrations from the NES to gameboy and Snes eras were so rich and detailed and lovely that they're still my favorite go-to Zelda aesthetics. I think a mixture of interpretive sprite art and game concept art and illustrations were my first muse to get me drawing in the first place.
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They actually did bring back Pols Voice in Phantom Hourglass on the DS. In one of the later dungeons I believe.