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The The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD debate

What the community thinks of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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ArcadeWarden2

Played it right after a bad move across the country, still remember the calm it gave me...
NovaOwl

okay so hear me out, i keep seeing this thing get thrown into duels against stuff like Ghost of Tsushima and Uncharted 2 and it just feels like a weird mismatch every time, different genres, different eras, different everything, and the elo system doesn't seem to care about any of that, it just wants a winner, so we end up comparing sailing simulators against cinematic action games and nobody wins that comparison in any meaningful way.

TurboMaster16

Sure, comparing it to Goat Simulator makes total sense, truly the pinnacle of balanced matchmaking.
Hortense_24

I don't care what anyone says about the pacing, this remaster nails exactly what made the original special and improves on the parts people always complained about. People act like the sailing was some unforgivable sin when honestly it gave the world room to breathe.
ArcadeOwl

Honestly putting this up against Goat Simulator in the same bracket says more about the ranking system than either game.

IronHunter82

The map screen alone gave me MORE joy than half that goat physics engine ever did.

PixelKnight

Putting it next to Goat Simulator is wild but I remember laughing about that exact matchup with my roommate over pizza one night.
SammieDragon

I'll always take this over Oblivion, the world just feels alive in a way that one never managed for me.

Rudolph_2

Would you actually put Oblivion below this, or is it just the world design you're comparing?

GhostKnight

Replying to Rudolph_2

Is it really the world that never grabbed you in Oblivion, or is that just the easy thing to say now?

Antonette_77

Alive how, exactly, compared to a world that at least reacts to what you do in it?

NovaPlayer15

Maybe, not fully sure though

GhostKnight2

Alive is doing a lot of work in that sentence, Oblivion's world just moves differently, it doesn't mean this one wins by default.

ComboRider80

same here, that world just breathes differently
GarlandWolf

The new lighting does a lot of heavy lifting here, would you say it changes how you feel about the original's flaws at all?

Celia_44

Jugue esto con mi hermana turnándonos el mando mientras buscábamos islas en el mapa, una tarde entera se nos fue asi sin darnos cuenta.

Audrey_55

Replying to Celia_44

Never finished it myself, just a few sessions here and there, but that island hunting energy sounds exactly right.
BossNinja1986

Gorgeous remaster, sure, but the sailing still drags at times
FramePlayer

Next to Oblivion the scale feels tiny, next to Goat Simulator the ambition feels enormous, and somehow both comparisons are technically fair which says a lot about how random these matchups can get.
ttoy

The lighting engine really does make the cel shading pop in a way the original never managed on older hardware. That said the sailing sections still overstay their welcome even with the speed adjustments they made.

QuestBard

The correction here isn't really a fix, or maybe it's more of a smoothing over, since the sailing pace complaint people keep bringing up was already there in the original design.
MertieHunter

Booted it up again recently on modern hardware expectations and it holds up better than the sailing complaints suggest, though the wind mechanic still feels like padding.

SilviaAce

Puede ser, pero a mí me sigue costando el tramo del medio, tal vez soy demasiado impaciente para notar que resiste bien.

IronWolf

Moi aussi je le préfère largement, j'y ai joué juste après une rupture et il m'a apaisé quand rien d'autre n'y arrivait.
harber_cordia

It gets praised mostly for looking pretty, and I get that, but the pacing issues from the original are still baked in here and the remaster doesn't fix the parts that actually dragged. A prettier coat of paint on the same slow middle section.

ComboSamurai

wait, why does everyone keep bringing up pacing when nobody complains about oblivion's own dead stretches?

RogueSamurai18

Replying to ComboSamurai

People just love a good excuse to argue.

TurboBard

pareil, les longueurs du milieu m'ont saoulé aussi, direction artistique ou pas ça reste du remplissage
Rae_1990

I picked it up on a rainy weekend a couple years back and just sailed around for hours doing nothing in particular. The art style really is the STAR of the whole thing, though some of the sailing stretches test your patience.

NovaLegend

Did the sailing ever break your patience the way it does for others, or did the calm actually work for you?

RetroSniper1988

Replying to NovaLegend

Same rainy energy for me, minus the years, I had a slow autumn and let the sails do the thinking.

Camille_25

Je comprends l'attachement à l'art direction mais les longueurs de la traversée restent, remaster ou pas.

Kuphal99

Replying to NovaLegend

Nice, I did almost the exact same thing solo, minus the sister, just me and a map full of question marks.

RogueKnight1986

Sailed for hours once, no complaints
mbarre

Franchement ça m'agace de voir ce jeu relégué aussi bas juste parce qu'il n'a pas la même ampleur qu'un Ghost of Tsushima... il a une identité que peu de remasters arrivent à préserver aussi bien.
LootLegend68

Je l'ai refait un été entier après une rupture, à naviguer sans but pendant des heures. Ça m'a fait un bien fou à l'époque.

Pagac35

Same here honestly, that kind of aimless sailing after a rough patch does smth a normal game just can't.
Peltier8

Face à Uncharted 2, il n'a clairement pas le même rythme cinématographique, mais l'exploration en mer a un charme que la linéarité de l'autre ne propose jamais. Deux façons de voyager, pas vraiment comparables.

GerhardByte

why compare it to Uncharted at all, isn't that comparing apples to oranges here?