People were mad when this came out due to the more cartoony visual style, but then when they quieted down long enough to play it, everyone realized it's an amazing Zelda game and a worthy successor to OoT/MM. Builds on the 3D groundwork set by those games in many good ways. Two gripes are that the ocean feels pretty empty - despite every sector of the map having an island, the vast majority can be explored in minutes, aside from the dozen or so plot relevant islands. The other is that the late-game Triforce hunt is painfully slow.