# The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

7 Hacker News commenters recommended The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for its art style, immersive world and sense of wonder, and several rank it above Breath of the Wild. 

## Why people recommend it

- Art style that has aged well (2 comments): "Cell shading aged much better than the competition for sure" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749385)) "I really loved the art style on the water in this game." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546546))
- Immersive worlds that spark imagination (2 comments): "whatever narrative or gameplay experience the games presented was secondary to the worlds themselves that stoked my imagination" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768018)) "Such a fantastic game. That is the first video game where I literally had to stop because I never wanted the experience to end." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045286))
- Favorite game, better than Breath of the Wild (2 comments): "One of my favorite games of all time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746884)) "OOT-WW-TP are all better than BOTW" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267532))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Breath of the Wild](https://hackerapproved.com/p/legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild.md): 27 recommend
- [The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time](https://hackerapproved.com/p/legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time.md): 17 recommend
- [Shadow of the Colossus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/shadow-of-the-colossus.md): 14 recommend
- [God of War](https://hackerapproved.com/p/god-of-war.md): 12 recommend
- [The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom](https://hackerapproved.com/p/legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.md): 12 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker", https://hackerapproved.com/p/legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).