In short, Wind Waker HD is better than you remember, because - if you played the original - you almost certainly remember the game's nagging flaws. The maddening Triforce quest that bogged down the end game has been greatly streamlined to keep things running at a steady pace. The expansive ocean that comprises the overworld no longer feels so empty and dull thanks to a fast-forward feature. The opening mission, with its too-touchy stealth sequence? Now you're given warning before Link is discovered, meaning you won't be forced to constantly start anew due to a minor error. Without materially changing the game, Nintendo has also taken conspicuous steps to refine all the elements that people found so jarring in the original Wind Waker.
In short, it incorporates the usual minor revisions and hardware-specific updates you'd expect from such a venture. The neglected Tingle Tuner has been swapped out for a far more practical Miiverse-based feature. The Wii U Game Pad plays a front-and-center role in the interface. The graphics have been retooled with higher-resolution textures and new shading. Instead, Wind Waker HD holds true to its GameCube source material in every meaningful way while folding in minor revisions. It's not a comprehensive overhaul along the lines of Bionic Commando Rearmed or Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, a new take so radically changed as to resemble the original only in broad strokes. This new Zelda goes a step beyond simple tweaks. Whether it's as simple a matter as improving the graphical frame rate or as subtle as refining the camera or fine-tuning the difficulty, these reworkings poke around beneath the hood just enough to make sure the new rendition is as good as our memory says the original was, rather than as good as it actually was. The best remakes therefore tend to be the ones whose creators take the time to evaluate them and recognize the parts that could frustrate or disappoint an older, more experienced audience. In some cases, we don't remember the flaws of old games because those games did something so new and different at the time that we didn't have enough context to even understand how they failed.įree-roaming exploration is Wind Waker's bread and butter, and now it's tastier than ever. When we have a great time playing a video game, we tend to remember the good parts and let our primal instinct to forget unhappiness sand over the bumpy patches. really this hard?" "Gosh, I don't remember Soulcalibur looking quite this rough." "Myst was. The harsh reality of remakes is that very often in their attempt to canonize a classic they actually manage to reveal the flaws of the original work, the failings that human memory tends to smooth over.
The holy grail of video game remakes is to provide an experience as good as you remember the original being Wind Waker HD goes the extra step and is better than you remember.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD overachieves.
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