| jarrod said: Your fanbase argument seems heavily subjective... personally I remember a LOT more controversy around TWW than with TP. With time things tend to die down, but at launch TP was universally loved, while TWW was pretty split with fierce proponents on both sides. TP is pretty easily the less controversial game (being more traditional tends to inherently do that), even among the diehard fanbase, and with time it'll probably be universally loved in retrospect (it's already getting there). Even still, it's backlash is tame compared to TWW (or MM) in it's day, the worst thing about TP critically was exactly why it sold so well; too samey. Also, TWW being critically split isn't patently untrue, though it still got high scores (which I uh... already said). Again, same applied to Majora's Mask a few years earlier... I don't think the two statements are mutually exclusive. |
Well of course it's subjective, anything based on casual observation is necessarily subjective. Pointing out that subjectivity seems redundant, though it's made weirder when you follow it up with a "personally".
Wind Waker being critically split is patently untrue. It has three reviews that scored it below 90 - of those, two were 89. The only game in the franchise to review better than Wind Waker was the original release of Ocarina of Time - it actually outperformed both versions of Twilight Princess with more reviews than either. This is about a lot more than just the score, it's that the lowest score for it is an 85 and it's the only one more than a point away from 90. If Wind Waker's reviews were split then there is no game without split reviews, which robs the distinction of any meaning. Wind Waker's reviews were not split, they were universally high.
