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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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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. ArcadeWarden2

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

  4. 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.

  5. BossNinja1986

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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?

    TurboBard

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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?

  15. rossi_celina

    Vous trouvez ça juste, vous, de le voir aussi loin derrière des jeux beaucoup plus récents ?