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5 Reasons You Should Go Play The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Right Now

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD has landed, and it comes just as its host system the Wii U is starting to heat up and look halfway compelling. If you don’t know the controversy surrounding Wind Waker’s original release, there are a dozen places to read about it online or elsewhere. All I can say is that if you loved the old game, the HD revamp is a gorgeous love letter crafted just for you. If you never played, didn’t want to play, or were too embarrassed to play the old game, well, this is your second chance. Don’t let it pass you by!

It’s getting fantastic reviews

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Whether you live and die by what critics think or not, it’s hard to ignore the kind of success Wind Waker HD is having on the review circuit. The original game has an aggregate score of 94.43% on GameRankings. The new game? An impressive 91.02%

Keep in mind – Wind Waker is now a ten-year-old game. And ten years later, with some fresh paint and streamlined gameplay, critics are collectively saying that it is only three or so percentage points less fantastic that it was all those years ago. This may sound like backhanded praise, but it’s actually far from it – the gaming landscape evolves dramatically in ten years. There are dozens of games the same age whose gameplay, combat, and general presentation have became laughable in half that span, yet Wind Waker’s design has proven to be about as close to timeless as a game can get. If you hadn’t played the original and decided to pick this up, unaware of what it was, you could easily mistake it for a brand new Zelda. It’s that solid.

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