
by: Kyle Orr
We’re at a point in this generation where several companies are trying to reboot once popular franchises. Most of the time this also means that the main character needs a second look. We have a young Lara Croft and emo Dante coming in the near future but there is one even more recent. In honor of Max Payne 3 releasing this week and, more importantly, the new look Max is rocking, I’ve decided to take a look back at other beloved characters that have seen notable redesigns. Some have been good and some have been bad but it’s hard to criticize developers for trying something different.

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Is the OoT screenshot a comp of hyrule field with the Windows Vista desktop layered over the foreground?

Link should have a voice in The Legend of Zelda Movie. While he mostly stays quiet in the games, he canonically does speak but usually holds back on expressing his thoughts. In a movie format, it is better for the character and the story itself that Link speaks.
I just hope it's not a bunch MCU Snarky McJokeface dialog. Started playing veilguard free on PSN (would not recommend) and it's a perfect example of how dialog in contemporary entertainment is garbage.

Nintendo is hoping to continue working on both top-down 2D and dynamic 3D The Legend of Zelda games in the future.
Oh god. I see Dante fans coming here.
They may just swarm.... even though he isn't even on this list.
Surprised Lara Croft didn't make this.
Call me crazy but I liked Sam Lake's face for Max Payne, it was so freaking unconventional and unique to the character. I wasn't very fond of the "generic handsome white guy" look they went with for the second game.
Why do they assume that when a game gets popular with a white protagonist he has to be "generically handsome"? (well, except for GTA games)