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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
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Planet Gamecube
The Legend of Zelda: Kaze no Takuto embodies all of those qualities, while refreshing and often revamping the actual mechanics of the series. In one sense, this game is an oddball for the Zelda series, not unlike Majora’s Mask before it. Kaze no Takuto
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N-Europe
Mwa ha ha ha ha! Foolish fools who mocked this game long ago after seeing screenshots! I laugh at you and your foolish faces!!! Not only is this easily the best GameCube game to date, it is arguably the best Zelda game ever. I guess I can understand why
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Science Fiction Weekly
In a gorgeous, cel-brushed, fully 3-D world, the hero is manipulated by the same control scheme that was introduced to critical acclaim in The Ocarina of Time. The joystick is used for walking or running, and the gamepad's color-coded buttons execute
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Just Adventure
No, no, don’t panic. I’m not giving The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker a bad review. But I do have a few things I need to get off my chest.
When The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker hit the store shelves in April, it became the fastest-selling title
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ESC Magazine
When The Wind Waker was first shown at Nintendo's semi-annual Spaceworld in 2000, the game was greeted with cheers from the crowd as a nearly photorealistic Link did battle with his arch-nemesis Ganon in a castle hall. But things were about to change for
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Total Video Games
DreamStation.cc
Once upon a time many a fanboy cried and complained at the look of this latest title in a much loved franchise. Now that it has arrived there will be no more complaints. The game looks simply beautiful. It’s like playing an animated cartoon. It’s so
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Four Fat Chicks
Of the 300-plus games I have played, Zelda: Wind Waker ranks in my top three of all time. It's elegant, enchanting, engrossing, beautifully stylized, perfectly polished—a gaming work of art—a masterpiece.
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GamersMark
A new benchmark for Videogames & entertainment is here. It took some time and a lot of criticism from gamers (including me) but it's finally here. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, the 13th (10th, officially) installment in Nintendo’s ultra popular
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Into Liquid Sky
Probably the biggest strength of the game is the dungeons and your ability just to explore the immense world at hand. The dungeons are magnificently laid out and require a good bit of thought to successfully complete.
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Play Magazine
Nothing can prepare you for the greatness that is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker... Mark my words: there will be no finer gaming experience this year.
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The Video Game Critic
As a long-time Zelda fan, I've watched the series evolve since the very first edition was released on the NES way back in 1986. Most gamers (including myself) regard the third Zelda, A Link to the Past (Super Nintendo), as the best. I wasn't a big fan of
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Gamecritics
Because of the game's subtle tributes to the deeper complexities in life, the game is no less compelling than if I were playing it as a child. The difference is that as an adult, I can herald it as a true work of beauty.
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UnderGroundOnline
But this ain't no yacht simulator, is it? Of course not! This is an adventure game, pure and simple. The moment you hit land, you'll feel the classic Zelda action rush up to you like a Labrador in heat. Fans of the previous games (specifically the N64
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The Laser
The land-based areas of Wind Waker should immediately feel familiar to players who played Ocarina of Time because its controls are strikingly similar. The camera system works almost exactly the same but is still effective and easy to use. The game's
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Silicon Fusion
The game's world is one huge ocean, with many different islands and outcrops for Link to explore. So a horse is not much good for this adventure, and as such, Link will soon have access to a boat, albeit a talking one. His name is King of Red Lions, and
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Deeko
As close to perfection as one can get. Wind Waker features some of the greatest graphics to date, an easy and intuitive control scheme, a truly epic storyline and a brilliant score to top it off.
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Game Revolution
While the game has some minor pacing and audio problems, the brave new art style, tightly evolved gameplay and humorous story takes the famous series in a bright, new direction.
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Game Chronicles
For an adventure game with only one story to tell, the amount of replay value the designers squeezed into this game is astonishing, and the time it will take players to unlock all of the delicious secrets it has to offer should add up to more than the
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Plain Games
Prior to the release of Zelda, I had seen a few screen shots, which to me, seemed rather unimpressive compared to other new games which have stunningly impressive screen shots that could instantly be noticed from their screen shots. Zelda’s
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Gaming Age
One aspect that has been improved upon greatly in Wind Waker is its story.
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Gaming Target
Just as the very forces of nature tirelessly cause the winds to gust, expire, and restore themselves, thus is the legend renewed. In the five years since Ocarina of Time (OoT) was released for the Nintendo 64, considered the closest to a perfect game
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GamerDad
The game is visually arresting. There is not enough to be said about its cel-shaded graphics. But it's not just the wonderfully stylized characters and locations that catch the eye; it's also the fluid animation that prevents you from looking at the game
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NintendoWorldReport
Eurogamer
Simply a stunning, magical game.
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Computer & Video Games UK
At a point where we're getting used to so much freedom, you'd think it would be impossible to enjoy restraint all over again. However, when restraint is treated as guidance or direction, this can lead to some huge moments in a game.
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GamePro
Review: The Legend of Zelda: The
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DarkStation
The navigation, the combat, the dungeons, the characters, and the peril you must face as that young elf boy in green are all fantastic.
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GameZone
Have you ever been so overwhelmed with things to say that your brain thinks much faster than your mouth can speak? Play The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and you too will have more to say than can possibly be fit into one review.
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RPGFan
Among all of the video games ever created, a select few titles have managed to attain such popularity that they are instantly recognizable to almost anyone, even those who have never held a controller. One of these games is The Legend of Zelda. Ever
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Videogame City
The game plays wonderfully. There are so many things to do in the game, it isn't even funny. You can go around doing quests for characters, you can try to find sunken treasure, you can complete dungeons, and a whole lot of other things. Brought over from
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Next Level Gaming
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is without a doubt the best Legend of Zelda title game ever made, and quite possibly the best video game ever.
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N-Insanity
The best part of Zelda games is having an entire world to explore however and whenever you want to. The latest incarnation completely delivers in this
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Just RPG
It is quite clear that cel-shading has given this game a charm and grace lacking in other games. You would do yourself a grave injustice if you dismissed this game because of the use of cel-shading.
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