The Floor Is Lava.

when Aonuma’s talking and it’s just an image on the wall behind him it’s not a still image

every blade of grass and every tree branch is shaking in a gentle breeze. tiny butterflies flit in and out of the flowers. early morning mist rises from behind the edge of the hill. the huge shadows of fucking clouds roll across the land and change its color

do you even fucking realize what that means, how big a deal it is that the clouds are moving like that

the clouds are fucking independent entities from the actual skybox or at the very least the skybox is animated with dozens of frames and the shading on the ground changes to match

just. the ambition of that. the ambition of this fucking gameworld is astronomical

i have never, ever, in all my years of being downright obsessed with video games, not once come across a gameworld as luxuriant and lively as the one hinted at in the E3 teaser for Zelda U