Now THIS is what Zelda should've looked and sounded like in Smash Ultimate! I don't know what Sakurai was thinking when he chose the Link to the Past Zelda.
I'd argue a Link to the Past zelda kind of fits better... While Zelda's smash bros moveset has never really been "character accurate" it especially doesn't fit BOTW Zelda. Her whole character is that her latent goddess powers don't activate so she spends most of the memories desprately trying to awaken them while finding other ways to help with the inevitable return of calamity ganon via her intelligence (it's almost like she represents the Triforce of Wisdom or something...) She only gets her magical powers when she truely needs them most and when all hope seems lost so I think it'd be better if she had a moveset based around using shiekah slate runes and gaurdians with any sort of magic reserved for her final smash... But that'd be, like... Actually giving Zelda an almost faithful moveset, and we all know Sakurai's incapable of accurately updating Zelda characters! Noooo, updates to Zelda characters need to be small and incrimental at best to show this itteration of Link/Zelda/Ganondorf COULD be a cool character but since they aren't a news article worthy 3rd party newcomer the development team can't be bothered to properly update them (or any over a decade old returning character, really...) So because of that Zelda's moveset is just a generic mage moveset with one or two half-refrences to some incarnations of Zelda... Because of that I think A Link to The Past Zelda works because she's a classic incarnation of Zelda that's recognizable but not TOO recognizable that you're stepping on toes by misrepresenting her. She's not related to Shiek in any way so the dev team isn't expected to recombine Zelda and Shiek and actually try to make that character work. She shows vauge magical powers in her game of origin like being used to undo Ganon's seal or calling out to Link in his dreams so she COULD be a mage I guess. And most importantly, she's a classic incarnation from a super classic Zelda game! This is more of a 'me' thing but I hate that the Zelda triforce trio have such generalized movesets that sort of pussy-foot around properly adapting their chosen variation of Link/Zelda/Ganondorf if they even try at all (in Zelda's case they never have or will try). I feel like if they're going to use these generalized movesets they should either make Smash original versions of these three that take design cues from iconic/recent versions of Link/Zelda/Ganondorf or do what they did with Hero and choose two - four versions of each character the generalized moveset could vaugely work with and make them costumes of each other.
Now THIS is what Zelda should've looked and sounded like in Smash Ultimate! I don't know what Sakurai was thinking when he chose the Link to the Past Zelda.
Yep da dumb man
I'd argue a Link to the Past zelda kind of fits better... While Zelda's smash bros moveset has never really been "character accurate" it especially doesn't fit BOTW Zelda. Her whole character is that her latent goddess powers don't activate so she spends most of the memories desprately trying to awaken them while finding other ways to help with the inevitable return of calamity ganon via her intelligence (it's almost like she represents the Triforce of Wisdom or something...)
She only gets her magical powers when she truely needs them most and when all hope seems lost so I think it'd be better if she had a moveset based around using shiekah slate runes and gaurdians with any sort of magic reserved for her final smash... But that'd be, like... Actually giving Zelda an almost faithful moveset, and we all know Sakurai's incapable of accurately updating Zelda characters! Noooo, updates to Zelda characters need to be small and incrimental at best to show this itteration of Link/Zelda/Ganondorf COULD be a cool character but since they aren't a news article worthy 3rd party newcomer the development team can't be bothered to properly update them (or any over a decade old returning character, really...) So because of that Zelda's moveset is just a generic mage moveset with one or two half-refrences to some incarnations of Zelda... Because of that I think A Link to The Past Zelda works because she's a classic incarnation of Zelda that's recognizable but not TOO recognizable that you're stepping on toes by misrepresenting her.
She's not related to Shiek in any way so the dev team isn't expected to recombine Zelda and Shiek and actually try to make that character work.
She shows vauge magical powers in her game of origin like being used to undo Ganon's seal or calling out to Link in his dreams so she COULD be a mage I guess.
And most importantly, she's a classic incarnation from a super classic Zelda game! This is more of a 'me' thing but I hate that the Zelda triforce trio have such generalized movesets that sort of pussy-foot around properly adapting their chosen variation of Link/Zelda/Ganondorf if they even try at all (in Zelda's case they never have or will try). I feel like if they're going to use these generalized movesets they should either make Smash original versions of these three that take design cues from iconic/recent versions of Link/Zelda/Ganondorf or do what they did with Hero and choose two - four versions of each character the generalized moveset could vaugely work with and make them costumes of each other.
He thought botw Zelda wouldn’t fit because she was a researcher.
Nice, using Zeldas voice clips from Age of Calamity.
Man what we could have had.
Looks amazing. This is the Zelda I wanted for smash from BOTW!!!
I always imagine this incarnation of Zelda will be in the next Smash game as Ganondorf now has an appearance in TOTK.
But I've never playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate. 😮
When Smash Bros 6 happens with a new director to take Sakurai's place, they better add BotW Zelda version.
I like albw zelda but i wanted botw Zelda