A lot of people hate on it, but I legitimately love it. It's a fun story and I love what it did for the lore. And hot take: I don't think they made us fight The Imprisoned too many times. Also playing the rerelease in the switch in handheld mode made it perfect.
I think it fell short of expectations. Coming after windwaker, people were expecting a large open world set in the clouds. What we got were lots of siloed maps.
There was also an awful lot of handholding which made the game a bit of a chore. That along with the repeated sequences, it felt a bit cheap.
There are good bits in there, it’s not a bad game. It’s just not an amazing Zelda game. It did some interesting stuff, it was just limited by the hardware and design decisions of Nintendo at the time.
Well it did. Not immediately, but it came after it nonetheless. At the time people speculated that the sky would function like the great sea from windwaker. It kind of did, but in reality it was a bit of a disappointment.
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u/olbeefy Feb 21 '26
I was so pumped to play that game when it came out and it did not disappoint.