THE GOOD: The storyline What you get for your money The unique graphics The battles The sidequests
THE BAD: The easiness of the dungeons The time it takes to travel to another location
SUMMARY: The game has many good points, and only a few bad points. It is one of the better RPG games out there on the GameCube, and had received a number of Gold awards from Games magazines.
The storyline
Like the other Zelda games, the default name for the main character is Link.
The game starts with an old legend of a time when a great evil threatened to rule the world. Just at the right moment a hero came, who is very resembling to Link, and used the Master Sword to drive the evil away.
The game starts with Link being awoken by his younger sister Aryll, and he is reminded it is his birthday, and that their Aunt has been waiting for him for quite some time now.
THE BAD: - Too short - Bosses, once again, are too easy - The first load of temples are too easy - Sailing to far away lands can get boring - The opening
SUMMARY: Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is far from beating Ocarina of Time but it is a good Zelda game with a nice story, cool puzzles and superb visuals. The Gamecube is now in possesion of a truly amazing Zelda game, but this game is also far from perfect, but lets face it. No game is perfect. So can Wind Waker come close to OoT? Lets check it out:
GRAPHICS These cel-shaded visuals are very pretty.
LoZ: TWW uses a new graphical style known as cel-shaded graphics. These are basically 3D...
THE GOOD: Great new fighting system Nice storyline Awesome OOT references (You can tell I'm a storyline fan) Great way of traveling Nice Mapping Side Quests superb I actually LIKED the unique graphics The talking boat
THE BAD: Being ripped off to find out where triforce shards are The fact that the Triforce of Courage is an actual thing rather than a spiritual thing Ganondorf disappointed me Story could have been longer and better The ending sucked balls The fact that a certain main character was just using the boat to be able to be in the surface world.
SUMMARY: So, I heard about Wind Waker just after my thirteenth birthday, and heard about the stupid graphics, and the fact that you spend your time sailing on a freaking talking boat. Yes, a TALKING BOAT. So I thought, "I don't want to get that shit", especially after being mesmerized by Ocarina of Time. Well, two years later and my...
THE GOOD: The gameplay was good, I loved the idea of all of the side quests you could do. The graphics were weird but it was a good kind of weird. The bosses were enjoyable to fight, I liked that you could control the wind while in the boat. The game was very easy to understand.
THE BAD: No cheats, I didn't like that you really couldn't do anything special except play the game in your pajamas after beating the game once. I didn't like the fact that you could only use one sword.
SUMMARY: Overall I loved this game. It was very easy to understand and you didn't even have to know anything about the Legend of Zelda to know what was going on. The graphics looked kind of ridgity which I liked. The battles were good. There were limited sword attacks that you could use. I loved the idea that the secrets of Zelda and the King of Hyrule was kept throughout most of the game. The little fairy guy Tinkle was very helpful in the game, with the gameboy...
The new game for the GC, that adds to the Zelda games. The game had new lights with the new cel-shaded graphics, which had a lot of people ohhhing and ahhing. Some people were a little angry because Link had a new look, but that wasn't a big problem. The game begins with Link waking up on his birthday and you go to Link's Grandma's house to get Link's green tunic. Grandma tells you about Link becoming of age of the hero, long ago. Later in the game (not much) Link's sister gets kidnapped by a giant bird (me and my friends say it looks like Ho-oh, from pokemon). Now you go on a ship and infiltrate the Forsaken Fortress. Then later in the game you get a talking boat that is named The King of Red Lions. You sail to diffrent islands, figuring out dungouns. Now you can sail for a long time not knowing where you are going, but that adds up to the games difficulty. You also get a baton called the Wind Waker (ring a bell) where you use it like the ocarina in the past games for the N64. You...
THE GOOD: The cel-shading idea rocks, I'm hooked on the game and if you start this game, keep a lot of time on your hands at all times. The finished game bonuses make the game funner every time you play it.
THE BAD: You can't explore Hyrule, the second major flaw in Zelda games.
SUMMARY: This game is a connection point that gives completion to all Zelda games except Twighlight Princess, making it a must-play for all zelda fans, it tells where Link got his boat in Links Awakening and tells where all of the Zelda games fit in. I have to admit that leaving out Hyrule was almost as bad as Zelda II, that game stunk. This game gives you all the old weapons and even some new ones like the new enemy weapon feature, the boat rocks, though enemies on the sea and the Forsaken fortress(first run) were a little too tough to handle, the bosses will rock your world and if you're looking for something to do in your spare time, try the mini-games, the main...
THE GOOD: Wonderfully expressive graphics, plenty of sidequests, easy to control characters.
THE BAD: Although the sidequests can keep this game from being called "short", there weren't very many dungeons, and the game was overall, much easier than Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask.
SUMMARY: This is by far, the best game on GC, and probably will remain so until Twilight Princess comes out. I have just one thing to say to those who refuse to play this because of the "childlike" graphics: Drop DEAD. The Cel-shading graphics allowed for easy control and added more expression to the characters than all previous Zelda games. Besides, think how terrible that whole big ocean would look if they used realistic graphics. No, this game needed Cel-shading. As for the rest of the game, the story was more than satisfying; a typical Zelda plot. As I said before, there weren't many dungeons, but there were many more monsters, sidequests, items, and weapons...
With a great variety of weapons you will be unstoppable
A new cartoon look to the games style
Great puzzles
Day and night time
Use a magical Wind Waker to control wind and more
Constallations and real looking moon
Ghost boat and treasure to hunt for
Huge castles
Huge bosses
Carry around camera and take rare pictures
Then have those pictures made into clay models
THE BAD: The following is the bad:
Puzzles can get confusing
That is really all. Only the puzzles irritate me. Other wise there is nothing really bad about this game.
SUMMARY: Plot: This is such a great adventure game. You and your magical boat try to save your sister. As the adventure goes on Link gets mixed in with saving the world. As your adventure...
THE GOOD: Cel Shading fits this game perfectly, cool characters, nice weapons as always, not too easy and not too hard, fit for any age group.
THE BAD: A few parts can get a bit too easy, is also a little bit short for a Zelda game, no real character voices, sailing at the beginning is extremely boring.
SUMMARY: My first thought at this game was "wow!". When I first started playing it, it was hard for me to put down the controller because the gameplay hooked me in. Now im not saying that gameplay is the strongest point in the game or anything, but it certainly doesnt lack in any areas. If so, then not by much. As the game progressed, The Wind Waker never ceased to amaze me. It was the second Zelda game that I actually had the nerve to beat and because of it, I was encouraged to try out the others. If you really are looking for a fun game thats somewhat lenghty and a classic, then this is your choice. Major price drop has occured as well, so...
THE GOOD: I think the cel-shaded is really good and gives emotion to the characters.
THE BAD: Links head is a little to big. It's pretty short.
SUMMARY: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is the first Zelda game to have been released on the Gamecube and it wasn't a dissapointment although it certainly was different. The new cel-shaded feature gives more emotion to the face of Link and all of the people you see through out the game. The controls are pretty symple and you have R-targeting instead of Z which is ok. The sound is pretty good and matches the scenery around you which is also good. There are a few secrets you can get in the game for doing various things. I think the game is a little on the short side as it only take a few days to finish.
Overall itis one of my all time favourite games and i still play it through every so often.
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