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>Zelda games are still cutesy
OOT literally has you fight zombies and one of the temples is a fucking fish stomach

>while Fire Emblem and Xenoblade have anime aesthetics. Meanwhile Metroid is mostly inspired by oldschool sci fi horror shit.
You say that like "anime aesthetics" negates the dark moments those games have, or that Metroid somehow isn't anime inspired. These are all still Japanese games anon, and Metroid is as much inspired by Gundam and Macross as it is Alien and Dune