The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Reviews

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker review

Posted : 3 years, 3 months ago on 21 March 2010 02:32

Pretty fun. Too much sailing though (boring!).

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Almost Like TLZ:OT...just cartoony

Posted : 4 years, 8 months ago on 17 October 2008 02:49

Gamers must for a moment forget that Wind Waker looks totally different from Ocarina of Time because in actuality these two games are very much alike. The GameCube adventure is clearly inspired by its N64 predecessor where design and play mechanics are concerned. Link once again travels through an immense world except this time not by horse, but by boat. The character is still called upon to solve countless environmental puzzles, to drudge through dungeons, to engage in fierce combat with enemies, to learn spells, to use a variety of weapons and items and more. It all still controls and moves along at a pace that will be d¿j¿ vu for anyone who's swung the Master Sword at Ganon in the past. In fact, everything from the way in which Link is maneuvered to the lock-on battle camera and the very way players can assign individual items like the boomerang and hookshot to specific buttons is all almost identical to Ocarina of Time

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Nice game, lots of fun

Posted : 5 years, 3 months ago on 12 March 2008 06:37

Lol, a cartoony link? who would've thought such an odd concept be so cool. Wind Waker is awesome, with more tactics, problem solving, thinking and coordination, this game takes the cake compared to what i thought it would be.

I didn't set the controller down until the Gamecube finally fried and turn off for 3 days, as soon as it came back on the game was broken, so I didn't get very far, but I still loved it nonetheless, it was challenging in its own way

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Zelda

Posted : 6 years, 4 months ago on 26 January 2007 11:22

I wouldn't say that I've wasted countless hours on this game, but I've sat in bed for long periods of time trying to complete all of the extras in this game.
It's colorful, great Zelda story, lots of extra missions, neat weapons, plenty of gameplay, and most of all, fun, which is really what I'm looking for in a game.

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Wait, wah?!?!?!

Posted : 6 years, 8 months ago on 17 October 2006 07:19

Where did it go wrong, Nintendo?!?!?! We were all expecting a great graphics game, the best Legend of Zelda yet, and you go......CHIBI?!?!
I saw pictures of "previews" for what was going to be instead of Wind Waker, and my jaw dropped. I was excited to play it, and this was after Wind Waker had come out! Anyway, I was greatly dissapointed in the lack of realistic Link, but I suppose WindWaker wasn't so bad.
Some of the downsides: you sail.......and sail and sail.....you can literally get pointed in the right direction and sail for 45 minutes before ariving at your desired destination. (Yes, you can warp later on, but still.) Also, the game is extremely long!
The upsides, Fighting has got to be my favorite in this game than of the others. You can roll behind the enemy, you can dodge, fighting is one of this games main strong points. Also, I LOVE the boomerang. Being able to target multiple enemys and take them out can come in handy. ;)
Another plus would be the fact that you can control other characters in some parts of the game. WEEEEEE!!!!!

My biggest disappointment is that the game isn't exactly....frightening. Now when you look at Ganondorf from the OoT (Ocarina of time), and skull kid/majora's mask in MM (figure it out), personally, I get a little frightened. You can tell that they are pure evil, and the entire game is based on beating the ultimate evil and saving the world. WW (obvious) isn't so much evil, it's wind, and waves, and sunshine.

Overall, Windwaker is a terrific game, but when compared to the previous (and maybe future) Zelda games, it just falls short.

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Absolutely fantastic... and frustrating!

Posted : 6 years, 8 months ago on 4 October 2006 04:56

I've just finished The Wind Waker, the latest installment in Nintendo's famous series The Legend of Zelda, and even though I'm a Zelda fanatic, I can't help but have mixed feelings about this game.

On the one hand, the cute toon-shaded graphics are stunning. The gameplay, with its inven tive battle system where the hero and his enemies can pick up weapons dropped by other enemies, is irreproachable. The sounds, moods and music are captivating, even though there's no voice acting... but who'd want to hear Link talk?

On the other hand, it's not even that the game is too short, because actually the world is huge and the side quests numerous (although some might be a tad repetitive), nor that it lacks the traditional time/space warp (such as Overworld/Underworld, Young Link/Adult Link or Deku/Zora/Goron Link). It's that there are only five and a half dungeons! This can only leave you begging for more.

And this is what is so frustrating! The Wind Waker could have been one the greatest game ever made, but sadly it's not quite it, and I have no choice but to face the fact that it lacks the dimension of an Ocarina of Time, to name but one... So Mr. Miyamoto, when's the next one coming out?

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