by Mitch - 07.13.06

If you haven’t heard by now, Twilight Princess is supposed to be a darker, more mature Zelda game! No, really! If you don’t believe me, IGN just released a venerable treasure chest of neat concept art, straight from the big N themselves. Everything’s looking great - especially that bitchin’ fusion between a Goron and a Collossus. Oh, take me away, Goron!
Twilight Princess Concept Art
Submitter: Fireblend, NEEKS











This new goron scares me
NintendoFreak - 07.13.06 2:34 pm
OH MY GLORIOUS GOD!!!!!
AHHH! AHHHH!!! *Starts drooling uncontrollably*
Get outta my dreams, and into my car!!!
Note: Soon after Yani died and went to heaven. They didn’t want him there and sent him back to life.
yanipheonu - 07.13.06 3:01 pm
Ugh, double post…
This raises the question, what did happen to the Gorons between OoT and WW?
They’re still around after cause they were the trader people in Windwaker.
yanipheonu - 07.13.06 3:03 pm
http://tinyurl.com/ot5gf
Double you tee eff.
Duncan - 07.13.06 3:04 pm
I think that Goron is probably a baddie.
amanaplan - 07.13.06 3:12 pm
Bitchin’?
Jake - 07.13.06 3:18 pm
In regards to the Goron, the new trailer they released at E3 showed a very brief clip of Link fighting some sort of rolling metal-and-stone menace, which I suspected might have been a Goron of some kind. This new artwork seems to confirm that. The clip also showed at least one friendlier-looking Goron in a marketplace-type area, so I don’t think they’ve *all* been twisted like this guy
sphrog - 07.13.06 3:31 pm
Sphrog, that thing Link was fighting isn’t a Goron. It’s this thing:
http://tinyurl.com/ps6dh
Thought that was pretty obvious from the pictures…
Pikachelsea - 07.13.06 3:45 pm
Let’s not forget that the very first TP trailer featured Link fighting a Goron…
yanipheonu - 07.13.06 4:01 pm
I wish they’d release the artist’s name. JEEZ.
Momus - 07.13.06 6:59 pm
I was referring to a different clip, Pika, but thank you. The one I’m talking about is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djt-w7LrDJg&search=twilight%2 0princess%20e3%202006%20trailer
The apparent goron boss drops in at around 00:16 and then again at 00:37. He even makes a characteristic Goron grunt noice when Link picks him up and heaves him across the platform.
Hope that cleared things up a bit.
sphrog - 07.13.06 7:19 pm
sweet
N Rumas - 07.13.06 7:42 pm
Duncan, I’m with you - WTF are those circus-freaks transvestites doing in a Zelda game? I’m all about equal opportunity but that’s a big step in a weird direction for the Zelda franchise.
One thing to note about the one on the right - Bullet Bill!
(http://media.wii.ign.com/media/748/748589/img_3739330.html)
Dean - 07.13.06 8:45 pm
can someone link where ther original scans are from?
evldereckx - 07.13.06 8:53 pm
in response to the “circus freak transvestite comment”
Those guys are pretty goofy looking, and the fact that they’ve been singled out in their own concept art worries me that they might be featured more prominantly than we might like. We’ve finally rid ourselves of tingle (supposedly), we certainly don’t need two more scary man-children to replace him.
However, the zelda series has always had its share of quirkiness, at least since OOT. All the construction workers in Kakariko, besides being giant chicken-people, were huge flamers. Also, wackiness spawned the greatest character in the entire franchise: that guy in the Windfall Island minigame parlor who said SPLOOOOSH in a silly french accent when you missed a battleship. If these guys are more of that kind of hilarity, I welcome them with open arms…although I think I’ll avoid any actual physical contact. Eesh.
sphrog - 07.13.06 9:33 pm
Yep, if this game is going to be darker than it needs some kind of comic releif. I mean look at most of the characters themselves. While they are not cell shaded a la Wind Waker, they are still somewhat deformed and manga-ish. Nintendo want to keep this a fantasy, no matter how dark it gets.
neozero - 07.13.06 10:04 pm
GORONOSSUS!
phantom_cameron - 07.13.06 11:14 pm
What’s with the homophobia?
amanaplan - 07.13.06 11:19 pm
Those two clownish guys look awesomely creepy, in a good way, especially the sad one on the right. Nothing darker than a pathologically depressed clowner. Seriously, I dig that sort of variety in a Zelda game.
Grant - 07.14.06 12:37 am
clowner = clown
Grant - 07.14.06 12:38 am
I’m hoping for a circus. otherwise those guys would not make much sense.
anyone else notice the white wolf. could be my new favourite character model for the game as the great fairy was from WW.
Stephen Crowley - 07.14.06 6:34 am
clowner = downer clown
amanaplan - 07.14.06 3:04 pm
What’s deeper and darker about this?
BreakfastPills - 07.15.06 10:00 am
“I wish they’d release the artist’s name. JEEZ.”
Yeah, someone find out whos drawing all this twilight princess concept art. its amazing. I wish nintendo would release an art book.
matt - 07.15.06 11:55 am
It looks to be the same style as the guy who worked on Majora’s Mask, if that’s any help.
Momus - 07.16.06 1:44 am
Breakfastpills, I’d say this one at least qualifies: http://media.wii.ign.com/media/748/748589/img_3739326.html
I don’t recall having seen anything that interesting and bizarre in a Zelda game. I find it pretty creepy.
Grant - 07.16.06 2:38 pm
Gorons are jolly. he don’t look too jolly.
jooh - 07.19.06 2:15 pm