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If there actually is a level of discussion going on around this somewhere, I guarantee 90% of the people discussing it are doing so thinking that Nintendo or some independent group could possibly make and release a complete game that looks like this.

That would be the bedrock of the conversation for many, and then the discussion would be whether or not they should.

When your opening sentence is:

A fan-created teaser for a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess using Unreal Engine 5 has recently debuted in celebration of the game’s 18th anniversarry.

Then later you qualify that these are often 'unfinished'...

This is grossly misrepresenting the situation.

This is not a teaser for a remake of a game.

A teaser for a remake of a game would be something like Skywind, Morrowind remade in Skyrim, an actually playable game that took a team of probably 40+ modders a decade to do.

Or the recent Final Fantasy 7 remake... official team of probably hundreds or thousands of people working for around a decade.

Presenting this as 'unfinished' implies to a lot of fanboys/girls that it could be 'finished' with a reasonable amount of time and effort, a ludicrous overstatement of what this actually is.

This is a teaser for some cutscenes and a pre pre alpha tech demo.

This is a teaser for a 20 minute video made in Source Film Maker. Not a game.

Framing it as if there is any possibility that Nintendo or anyone could make an actual game that looks like this is preposterous.

As with most 'discussions' around video games, the only people that would be discussing this as if it could be an actual game are either 100% ignorant of how games are actually made, or just delusional.

And anyway, most people just read headlines.

What do you think, would you play a fan remaster in an unfinished state?

Its not a game. Its a well rendered static environment with static characters, and you control a character that has a basic cycle of movement anims, which don't even support basic inverse kinematics.

There is no game.

There are no weapons, there are no enemies, there is no dialogue, there are no quests, there is no combat.

If you released this as a 'game' people would call it an asset flip.

Which also is not accurate as it looks like this guy did a whole lot of work to make the assets himself... but ... theres no 'game'.