AWESOME! I’ve never found another Zelda fan who liked WW. I actually loved that game. I’ve played every Zelda game, and I must say that, based on plot alone, WW is in my top 3.

The fighting/parry mechanics being easy as hell? Whats wrong with that??? You’re the freakin Hero of Time! Pwning the random guys in a dungeon SHOULD be easy, because a dungeon is NOT the random battles in it, if anything random battles are filler for puzzles and plot. Maybe keep that in mine.

Not to mention, everyone complains about sailing being tedious, but do u not remember duck-rolling across the friggin plains as child-link in OoT as being tedious as hell? And that was on the N64, so the area wasnt even that big, what did u expect when consoles got better and allowed for more open expansiveness? Instant teleportation to zones?

For me, it goes: OoT,WW,TP,PH,aLttP as my top 5 zelda games.

Here’s a suggestion to the Zelda developers, dont listen to the fans other than this single suggestion just as you start making a new Zelda, get a smaller, second team together to use the Twilight Princess engine (or a new on) and remake Wind Waker with the next-gen gfx. I keep getting a visual of TP graphics Link on a boat as its all hella dark and stormy. It looks pretty sweet.

Anyway, I bet that if the cell-shaded graphics were replaced with TP graphics (and maybe one or two childish elements that fit more with cell shading than anything else) that Wind Waker would be the proper successor/equal to OoT. Fans of the old games didnt like WW cause its graphics were ‘childish’ or the game was ‘too easy’ but i bet that you wouldnt complain about it being too easy if the parry-system from WW was on a TP looking game. Seeing link slice and dice like that would be EPIC every time. So, WW pleased some looking for a change, but the old-hats didnt like it. Then, TP pleased the old-hats for being akin to OoT, but it seemed ‘rehashed’ because it was similar. SO! you combine the best parts of WW and TP and I bet you’d have the trump-card game (oh, and if this ever happens, dont sell it at full price because im sure people will complain that its not a whole new game and therefore should be cheaper)

enjoy

Aonuma, you have already done that twice, but for Din’s sake, don’t listen to fans…(maybe this is a little ironic)

Great post. Finally yet another opinion that supports mine.

why do you think TP felt like OoT? because the fans DEMANDED a “next gen” OoT, and they got it. what happened when they got it? OH GOD SAME GAME WHAT IS THIS NO NEW IDEAS!!!! what about wind waker? OH GOD WHY IS THIS SO COLORFUL WHY CANT I JUST WALK TO PLACES THIS IS RETARDED!

fact of the matter is, when you have something considered to be one of the best games of all time, subsequent revisions will almost never live up to the past and feel like the same thing since you need to keep the core mechanics and storyline in check, otherwise you’d have a completely different game on your hands.

OoT was good but the first 3d. MM and WW improved on what was there with all the diversity in gameplay and trippy new plos