Zero Punctuation: The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker HD

[Guffe]

I loved nan after I found out about the soup
Then again I decided for some strange reason to go "Hero Mode" from the begining and apparently enemies do double damage and drop no hearts in that mode, so the start was insanely hard.
Halfway through though, after collected so I had maybe 10 pieces of life it wasn't that bad anymore.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

Wind Waker was an amazing game and also the last Zelda game I enjoyed playing on consoles. Generally speaking, Minish Cap was the last Zelda game I played all the way through and enjoyed myself the entire time. I tried to bust out Minish Cap last month, though, because I have it for free on my 3DS thanks to being an early adopter of the system, but I got bored. I was worried I was bored with Zelda as a series - then I picked up the HD edition of Wind Waker and diverted all of my free time towards it.

I think Zelda is at it's best when there are lots of towns and side-quests to focus on. It just feels more like an adventure. That's why Majora's Mask and Wind Waker compete for the coveted position of being my favorite Zelda ever. It's also why Oracle of Season/Ages and Link's Awakening are still superior to Twilight Princess, despite not having a 'dark' story.

Shame I never got into Phantom Hourglass though... not sure why but that one just rubbed me the wrong way. At least I can look at Skyward Sword and blame the motion controls for everything.

 

[C117]

I recently played through this game, and found that it was good. Yeah, the sailing became little more than a chore after a while. Yeah, the overall story was kind of "eh". Yeah, the final boss consists of you getting sliced to pieces by Ganondorf, while you're being shot at by Zelda (who is supposed to HELP you, mind you). But I liked the openess of the world, I liked the puzzles, and most importantly, it shows that good aesthetics do NOT equal good graphics. Wind Waker came out 11 years ago (in Japan), and it still looks good. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault came out 11 years ago, and it looks absolutely laughable.

Think about that for a while...

 

[empirialtank]

So after a quick google search I learned that mingegurgle is not a real word at all. I did however learn that menegur, a word quite similar to mingegurgle, is Indonesian for reprimand. How about that.

 

[Hero of Lime]

He should've played on Hero mode to make things harder. Though once you have enough hearts and bottles to hold soup, fairies, and potions, even hero mode loses its edge.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"Mingegurgle"? I don't think I'll be using that word the next time I call Mom....

 

[Enlong]

On potions: Forget the blob monster route.

Just use your Grappling Hook to grab magic seeds from the plant monsters in the forest island. Trade four of them for a magic/health potion from the plant guy there. And guess what? There's more than four of he plant monsters on the walk-up to the forest island!

So now we need to add the plant-man potion maker to the list of people who need defending from the potion-sellers' union.

 

[crazygameguy4ever]

And so we add another Wii U game to the list of Wii U games that Yahtzee liked and has reviewed. So two. And there were no complaints about the Wii U itself amazingly.

That mingegurgle joke reminded me of the Remember Me video except mingegurgle was a much better ending.

Can't truly call it a Wii U game though.. it's on the WII u, but it's virtually the same as the original Gamecube game, only with loads of more sunlight and glare to blind you. The original release of the game on GC was fine as is.. unlike real HD re-releases, this is pretty much the same game only put out to make money from people who don't have gamecube copy of the game and like using a oversized unwieldy tablet to try and control the game. nintendo: the master of giving you games you want with unnecessarily added crap on top of it.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

What's this? Yahtzee praising a remake? I'd better check outside to see if the sky's falling.

 

[Enlong]

[whoops]

 

[LittleBlackDragon]

Well, it's nice to see Yahtzee actually enjoying himself. I don't always agree with his reviews but he always has something to say that makes me think more critically about the games I play.

 

[Phuctifyno]

Well, that was... surprising, but you were mostly right.

But why would you use ANY potions? Fairies, man. Fairies.

Yeah, this. For all Zelda games.

I suppose it's a play-style thing, and that maybe somewhere out there are Zelda players who prefer the potion system to fairy chasing or who ignore enemy-consumable-drops to keep things moving faster... but damned if I've ever met one.

 

[rasputin0009]

Anyone else feel weirdly smug and happy inside whenever you find out semi-famous people have the same opinion as you?

Cuz I really really like how he likes Wind Waker and thinks Twilight Princess is derivative garbage.

There's some memorable things in TP! Like, um...

That weird little baby with his store that had such amazing marketing!

So ya...

I actually liked TP. It was nice. It wasn't as good as WW, but WW was all kinds of fun so it had a lot to live up to.

 

[IrisNetwork]

So, its good because WW on the GC was good? Then, I'll just stick to the GC and skip the Wii U.
I'm waiting for Yahtzee to do Batman Arkham Origins, its received quite an amount of lashing for being too iterate and lack of innovation, a lashing I find funny as these come from the guys who praise Modern Warfare 3 and sports games.
And maybe Assassin's Creed 4. I heard it was actually better than the 3rd.

 

[PunkRex]

I finally buy Pokemon after days of course work, sit down, slip it into my 3DS, click on the new ZP vid and just as the Pokemon Y symbol comes up I hear Yatzee call me a psychotic...

I love Wind Waker, I havn't completed the other Zeldas but Wind Waker is bloody magic. I thought there were less Tri-force maps but I had no clue about that new sail though... and I love the sailing... YAY, BACK INTO THE DEEP BLUE I GO!

Wind Waker also has Medli, Makar and Tetra who are some of my favorite cute characters /)^3^(\

Yahtzee, come on small fry, gotta love the map fish!

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

I for one really liked Majora's Mask. I'd like to see what yahtzee thinks of that.

I just didn't get into it like I did OoT.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I'm sorry but I don't care what anyone says. I was NEVER a fan of kid Link (can't connect with him at all and his appearance looks stupid) and was never a fan of cartoony, cell-shaded graphics (really feel it doesn't go with LoZ) and Wind Waker has all this in SPADES. I kid you not, from the FIRST moment I saw this game, I didn't like it. Even further, it started the whole tradition of cell-shaded, kid Link LoZ's and I hate it for that. So yeah, worst Zelda game for me.

Now I'm ready for your rage. Come at me, bros!

As far as Twilight Princess goes, let me be the first to say that this game has problems. Serious problems that cause it to trail somewhat distantly after OoT. It's like the developers were too scared to completely let go of some of the kiddiness inherent in the LoZ series. So they just half-assed it. And when you're making these kinds of games, (mature games) you can't half-ass it. You gotta go all the way or the maturity that you're working so hard to build is lost.

Besides that, there are other rather small problems as well like some of the items being useless outside of their respective dungeons, a couple of the visual designs on different objects looked a little dumb, the whole world feeling rather empty and a little small compared to Ocarina of Time and Zant, when you face him in the end, is such a letdown.

HOWEVER, besides all that nonsense, the game in every other aspect is something truly ambitious and worthy of praise. A lot of the dungeons were actually better than OoT's even. It's a game that I feel deserves a revisit in some way. A LoZ game that had SERIOUS potential.

 

[Sean951]

I like the Wii-U version more than the GC. Main reason? The Wii-U is hooked up to my TV in the living room, so I just hit a button on the gamepad and play in my bed before going to sleep. That one realization made me absurdly happy to discover.

 

[major_chaos]

Did they get rid of the godawful, tedious, pointless, contrived forced stealth section that completely killed any desire I had to play the original? no? Then no purchase. Whoever thought that was a good idea needs to take their meds more consistently and stop getting game ideas from "the voices".

 

[RJ Dalton]

I am highly suspicious that "mingegurgle" isn't a real word.

Also, I never played Wind-Waker. I kinda skipped that generation of game consoles.