In brief, I will highlight a few key differences on the Wii U HD port. Usually, I never bother to delve into how a port marginally alters aspects from a game’s original release, but The Wind Waker HD improves upon every single grievance I had with the game to an incredible degree. Changing directions while sailing is but a mere switch on the gamepad, being hoisted through the water results in moving at twice the speed of the original, and the gruesome Triforce fetch quest at the end only requires the player to find three charts instead of a whopping eight. Link can now even take selfies with the pictobox. Neato! Besides the jarring bloom effect slightly diminishing the effervescent graphics, The Wind Waker HD turns The Wind Waker into my second favorite Zelda title behind Majora’s Mask with its changes. It’s too bad that my Wii U vanished into thin air years ago, so I’ll have to stick with the Gamecube version that I grew up with.

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