

While the visuals may not have carried the gravitas that many associated with the Zelda franchise, they nevertheless had a unique charm of their own, and some would claim that the cartoony style has aged remarkably well as technology has progressed. The game was mockingly referred to as “Cel-da”, a play on its cel shaded art style.īy the time the game was brought to the Wii U ten years later in 2013 in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, feelings about the original game had warmed somewhat. Fans of the franchise were horrified to find the series’ legendary hero replaced with a silly, cartoony character, and the game’s serious look and tone similarly replaced with a bright and colorful cartoony look. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was originally released on The GameCube in 2003, and at the time it was somewhat controversial.
