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An oceanic adventure that's as deep as it is wet

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US
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Other than the cel-shaded graphics, the biggest departure here is Waker's immense ocean that covers all of Hyrule. The overworld is almost nonexistent and most of your time will be spent sailing from place to place on a talking boat. It's cool for the first five hours or so, but even when you can use the element-harnessing Wind Waker baton to teleport anywhere on the map you spend too much time manning the sails. Blech.

Further adding to this sense of "filler" gameplay are the relative lack of major dungeons and astonishingly long fetch quest near the end of the game. Rather than unload a new, creative labyrinth to trek through you have to sail the globe (…again) searching for broken Triforce shards. Um … how about some Zelda sprinkled in with the deep-sea diving game? Cutting through the waves, sea-spray in your hair is nice and all, but we want more swordy, puzzly memories.


 
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gamegirlcolor  - 1 year 3 months ago 
I agree with this. I love this game although it may turn some off people. I do love it as I love many Legend of Zelda games.
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Monkeylink  - 1 year 23 hours ago 
Don't care what people say about the graphics it's awesome in it's own right and more variety in the whole thing rather than twilight princess
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gamefreakl1996  - 11 months 10 days ago 
I've had this game before I could read, I couldnt even save it, I just kept playing the beginning over and over and over, but i can read now and i still love this game!
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Conman93  - 8 months 3 days ago 
Molgera is de best boss ever
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Wizrai  - 6 months 4 days ago 
I absolutely love this game, and I really like the style of the graphics too.
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Sprinkles4365  - 5 months 1 day ago 
i love this game I an sitting here trying to beat it again because it is so great(and I have no life lol)
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Hobbs  - 4 months 8 days ago 
Wind waker is the best Zelda game I think. There's more to do in it than Twilight Princess, and the graphics actually make it look good. Sure it's not highly detailed graphics, but it feels very friendly. I've played this game over like 3 times, and completed all the side-quests, and pretty much beat the game 100%
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Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Genre: Adventure
Release date: Mar 23, 2003
Published by: Nintendo
Developed by: Nintendo
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