Plain good game. Once or twice
First is the difficulty. Because Zelda produced so many games, there is a species walking this earth known as the 'Zelda veteran', which I consider myself as well. These people know exactly how to think to get trough the game. Something stuck on the wall? Bash it with a roll! Why do I speak of teh veterans? because at the moment, I lend 'the Wind Waker' to a friend of mine, who never finished a Zelda game before. He got stuck a a part pretty early on, which make me think: 'Is he stupid, or am I just good?' I concluded that the puzzles in Zelda always looked different, but never really changed. If you only keep basic skills Ocarina-of-time skills mind, you know just the way the creators think, and how to get past it.
Off course, this is NO excuse for the enemies, who are more like buzzing flies which you hit with a newspaper to get rid of them, then a serious threat. Off course, there ARE some of them who are pretty hard to take down, when they come in numbers, but most fit the other description pretty good. Such a shame, since you never feel like fighting the forces of evil, but more like some street gang consisting of 12 year olds.
Also, the music and sound never really impressed me, and the speaker in your Wiimote is not the place to put the classic 'puzzle solved' tune. Such a shame, I always the Zelda tunes, no matter which game. These were just not special.
And the last negative thing I can say about this game: hardly any replay value. Side quests are not interesting to do, hardly get rewarded, and are more likely to be non-excistend but two or three. So the only reason to replay the game, is to get trough the story another time.
But I am far to negative now. The graphics are pretty good for a Gamecube port, for example. Off course, gamers are spoiled, and wont be impressed ny this. But if you take a moment, you get to realize that playing this game is like watching a Disney/Pixar movie There is nothing wrong with it, we just got used to it.
And who needs replay? The main quest took me exactly 40 hours, which is long, longer then it looks. And after a month or two, you do feel the urge to get trough the story again, as if it was a good book.
This review sounded pretty negative, but I like this game. I just wanted to pinpoint some things other players seem to forget in their reviews. If you still didn't get it, I do think you should. The game is long and entertaing, and that's what games are for. But I won't give a 10 for a sequel, until we get the awesome music as we used to know, enemies with a reason of excistence, many side quests just for goofing of a bit, and a real challenge.