It took me a while to get into finishing it too. I’ve started it a decent number of times and it took it being like the only game I had access to for me to finally sit down and play it
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catalyst@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve started this game twice. Once recently and once back when it came out. Still have not managed to finish. I always lose interest about half way.
When I think about why that is, I think it’s what you pointed out - the sailing gets monotonous fast.
Which is too bad cause I do think the game is otherwise very charming and fun.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 3 days ago
Huge Zelda fan here, I’ve beaten every mainline game at least once. Wind Waker is by far my least favorite, so I don’t blame you
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
In the bloom-ified remaster OP is playing, there is a double speed sail you can get, and once you get the bow you can fight an optional mini-boss to get the abilty to warp.
Sailing is still monotonous though, if you aren’t in the mood to just vibe to the music.
They also streamlined the section of the game where you have to search high and low for triforce pieces. It was a hell of a slog in the original GC version.
catalyst@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even with the warp ability it feels like you still have to do a fair amount of sailing because the warp locations are fairly spread out. I can see double speed helping considerably, though.
Thinking on in some more and I guess another problem with the sailing for me is how often I had to stop and play the wind requiem. It really makes navigation a chore. I could see a mod that lets you change the wind direction much more quickly would help tremendously (maybe there is one, I have not looked).
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The faster sail and having the wind automatically change to be the direction you’re sailing are both features I’ve seen people use with randomizer mods for the GC version, but I don’t know if they’re available without randomizing treasures.