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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to play the Wind Waker. It's so amazing that only one generation after OoT they released a Zelda that not only is arguably as good or even better than OoT, but it holds up over 20 years later. You can play Wind Waker today and not realize it's not a new game, the graphics and the gameplay are just perfect.

I was really disappointed at the time due to the "childish" graphics. But now I think it is interesting that they made such a daring design choice. Like Super Mario 2 hardly being anything like SM1. It would be fun to play Windwaker someday with my kids. I never played it.

Nintendo released that teaser trailer of a realistic Zelda in an epic fight with Ganon and the world was anticipating that for years. But Nintendo realised competing with PlayStation was going to be a race to the bottom so they built the GameCube as budget hardware that could have never rendered that Ganon fight scene. And thus disappointing all the children who had become teenagers since the release of OoT.

Without that context however, the game is indisputably great. And the fact that they used vector graphics is a lucky win as it means the game renders crisply on modern TV's and monitors.

Re: Ocarina of Time Randomizer

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One of my favorite things to watch on Twitch are the Dark Souls randomizer runs. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8R0JWQdeo

Wow! I never expected to see Barb talked about on hacker News.

He's always on in the background when I work. Love him to bits, and I've been a paying customer for almost six years already. He's the only subscription I pay for rather than Netflix et.al.

Like the variety of games and of course mawio! The only thing I don't like is barb insisting on doing those fake sneezes all the time...

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