Ocean's Heart is out, uses this one extremely common key art composition I can't resist

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Key art for the game Ocean's Heart, showing the protagonist overlooking a landscape.An image from a Hyper Light Drifter cutscene, showing the protagonist looking over a landscape.An image from a Ni no Kuni cutscene, showing the protagonist looking over a landscape.An image from Genshin Impact, showing one of the protagonists looking over a landscape.

Ocean’s Heart is a Zelda-like, in the sense that it’s a 2D, top-down sword swinger in the vein of Link To The Past. That means you’ll never see the kind of vista that’s in its key art (top left, above). You’ll never see that beautiful blue sky. And yet, and yet, I cannot resist the promise of a piece of art like that. I click on every game that uses it.

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Author
Graham Smith