Hits you like a ton o' bricks
User Rating: 9.8 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Limited Edition) GC
The trailer depicted this game as a game catering more to the younger audiences with little to offer original Zelda fans. I was Misled. This game is the best Zelda title to date. I loved the setting of the ocean world with the islands as the places of battle and the ultimate free roam aspect with the ocean as huge as it is fun to sail across. The fighting mechanics are perfect and at time comedic in order to not get to serious. On a few of the levels there was a surprising opportunity to utilize stealth techniques that would rival such METAL GEAR SOLID games but instead of using a box to hide in it was a barrel. The only criticism i have is that the second half of the game was extremely hard to beat because you have to find each of the 8 triforce charts with no assistance to do so over the entire ocean, pay a fortune to have them decifered and then fight your way through multitudes of enemies to assemble the pieces of the Trifoce of Courage. I loved this game and now i prefer this style of presentation over the more common, more realistic version we say in ocarina of time and now twilight princess. 
