Is Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker REALLY That Good?! 

My favorite Zelda by a long shot. What's funny is when it was announced I hated it, thought the art style was awful. Mom preordered it for me because it was a Zelda GameCube game anyway and got me the guide and the OoT disc for my birthday. Damn I'm glad she did. Still just one of the best adventure game's I've ever played.

That's been my opinion since release, it's my favorite in the series and personally hasn't been topped. I'm hopeful for Totk

WW is the best. OoT and LttP are pretty high up too.

It's time for a remake that includes and fully realises all the cut content. It won't retcon anything or affect Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks if they do.

I never hated it for its artstyle, I just find it boring and that it doesn't explore its full potential. I mean first off, from a lore perspective I get the whole sailing because Hyrule is flooded gimmick... but sailing quickly gets boring. When you ride around on Epona in fx Twilight Princess you have nature to look at. In Wind Waker... an island may pop up in the horizon every once in a while, and if you wanna change direction you gotta whip out the titular Wind Waker (I know they changed that in the HD port but I'm going off of the game as originally intended). It also feels short. Four dungeons including the big one that I don't remember the name of. And then afterwards when you have to treasure hunt for the Triforce I was completely flabergasted when I first played, because I was like "You are telling me... that the hunt for the almighty legendary TRIFORCE... is religated.... to a fking fishing minigame??? Why not have dungeons for that?!?" I mean in the first Zelda you went to 8 dungeons in order to collect the 8 pieces of the Triforce of Wisom, so it would have been a GENIOUS callback to that game to have you go to 8 additional dungeons (after the first 4) to collect the Triforce. Also, thoughout the game you hear so much about "the world below" making you curious to actually GO there... and you do... to Hyrule Castle. How cool would it have been, similiar to A Link to the Past's light world and dark world, to first explore the sea in Wind Waker, and then halfway through gain the ability to explore the seafloor? So then you would have the "surface world" and the "seafloor world". I am furiously tapping away at my keyboard right now with all of the missed potential this game has, and it infuriates me that Nintendo didn't do all this. One might then argue that the game would be borrowing too much from older titles, but I genuinely don't think it would. On the contrary, the game would be taking elements FROM the older titles, to create its own unique adventure. But no, we didn't get that. We got boring sailing -> go to four dungeons -> go to Hyrule Castle -> fish for pieces of the Triforce -> go back to the castle and fight Ganondorf....... yay? ...and yes, I ended up writing an essay again. I can't help it. I'm not a novelist for nothing.

I was 9 when I first played it and it was incredibly difficult and I don’t think I ever beat it. But it was one of the most memorable games I’ve ever played. I still remember how cool I found the fast travel aspect and the water integration. Just a great game. I want to go back and beat it now that I’m older.

@@bennettwilliams7817 Born in 97 I get super sad when I realize I never beat Windwaker although I had my friend who was a year older than me help me beat some bosses

I pre-ordered it way back when. I trusted, even though i wasn't sold. Immediately feel in love. The only people who hated it back then, and there were plenty... Hadn't played it yet, but were mighty vocal. Some things never change.

I think it looks good but i actually prefer the art direction of breath of the wild the mix of cel shading and watercolors with some darker and more realistic things.

Na man you trippin lol

i actually agree with this, but care more for botw or even twilight princess

@@elijahyoung4355 BotW looks weird, just not quite right. And it sucks as a Zelda game, no dungeons and brittle weapons.

@@Vulpas I like the brittle weapons. It gives an opportunity for more weapon variety, as well as making you use the environment and your sheika slate to defeat enmities, instead of spamming the attack button. I’ve had some pretty intense encounters where I ran out of weapons.

No the game is boring trash

@@bb3k761 Ok. 👍

I just did this for the same exact resons 😂

Nowadays it's different because you aren't a kid anymore, you're an adult with responsibilities.

Those are a little different, because your movement isn't inhibited to the same degree. You can still run and jump, you don't need to sneak through those levels without Fludd or Cappy, you can still do running triple jumps. In Forsaken Fortress your stuff is taken away AND your freedom of movement. Even if you want to try to speedrun past all of the enemies without your gear, the game forces a cutscene where you're spotted, grabbed, and thrown back into a cell.

@@dylangaletti395 You're entitled to your opinion but I disagree. I love how quirky it is :)

What I wouldn’t give to have this on the switch my fave Zelda game of all time

@@medievilassassin me too, I hope we get it eventually. Not sure why Nintendo is dragging their feet on it

​@@medievilassassin right like wtf why haven't they done that it's legit free money

I was one of the folks who disliked the art style when it was originally revealed. It was a bit of a shocker since they had showed off a tech demo for Gamecube with Link looking more like he does in Twilight Princess so we thought we were getting something like that instead of the cel shaded style of Wind Waker... That being said, I'm not sure I've seen a game age better than Wind Waker, even before the HD upgade (from a graphical standpoint) and I absolutely love it now. It was the right move.

Its funny that its almost a throwback to a link to the past

Aight we good