Given the response I've seen to this game lately I feel like I'm almost taking up for this game by comparison, which is strange since I think it's overrated (but it's not as bad as people seem to say it is on /v/ either).It's not as special as The Wind Waker and seems to be trying too hard to be traditional but it's still a worthwhile adventure.
>>722071605Personally it's my favorite Zelda game, but I can see why people might prefer the other games
>>722071605here's an objective look at the franchise viewed through a critical lens
>>722072224Why is it upside down?
>>722072293It's not, you're supposed to start at the top and read them downward. That's when descending order means.
I wish they did better with the animation.I know the game was built on top of the work done for Wind Waker but they didn't really change the animation style from that game and it shows. It works for stocky characters with short legs like The Wind Waker's but with more proportionally sized humans everything Link does looks stiff and stilted.
>>722071605It's fine, it's got good dungeons and characters but the wolf form is boring, and despite its Hyrule basically being a copy of Ocarina of Time's there's so much less going on all over it.
>>722072224I try so hard to replay WW but its so fucking childish and basic. I will never not be convinced it was meant exclusively for small children.
TP is slow to start, has non existent difficulty, and the world is big for the sake of being big.That said I really enjoy it and the dungeons in particular are excellent.
>>722073112I notice fans tend to lean heavily on the artstyle for a reason why it still resonates so strongly with them. What then am I to do when I never liked it when it released.
>>722073676It's more than that. It was the first Zelda game where traversing the world itself is part of the setting (since ultimately crossing Hyrule Field is still reminiscent of the top-down games' overworld exploration and the addition of Epona is optional). Wind Waker intertwines sailing for new lands and setting out over the horizon into the quest.Some people didn't take to this part of the experience but I definitely did and why I absolutely adore the pacing of the first part of the game (since after that sailing and going from place to place becomes the ENTIRE gameplay loop, rather than just the aspect that takes you to your next big challenge, which takes away a considerable amount of the game's strong start).I still say the front part of Wind Waker (so...like everything up to completing the Wind Temple) is the best Zelda there's ever been. The game's greatest shortcoming is it can't keep up that momentum due to so much being stripped away on the back end. It finishes strong but it doesn't take away from the fact there's nothing to really sink your teeth into during the third quarter of the game.
>>722074218>traversing the world itself is part of the settingsee this is superfluous nonsense, I might as well cite the mailman running across hyrule field
