| Runa216 said: Saying one game is better than another is not a double standard. A double standard is refusing to apply the same rules of criticism to two separate things based solely on bias. Saying Wind Waker is bad is wrong because Wind Waker is amazing. Saying Skyward Sword is bad is a reasonable thing to say because that game is a broken tech demo for babies. One of these games are good and has already gone down as a timeless classic (Wind Waker), and the other has been mostly forgotten to time with video essays describing where it went wrong all over the place. Wind Waker got better review scores and sold better, Wind Waker has timeless art direction and animation, and isn't plagued with horribly sad and pathetic, broken motion controls. So you can dislike Wind Waker for its art style or whatever all you want. That doesn't make it a bad game. Me hating Skyward Sword for having core gameplay mechanics that are fundamentally broken and conveyance so detailed and spelled out for you that babies can play it is an actual critique of the game's quality. One is a bad game, the other is a game that has something you don't like. So no, it's not a double standard at all when the critiques for one are subjective and the critiques for the other are objective. |
Wow.
With all due respect, but I'm not even going to bother replying properly to that, but hopefully someone more patient than me will.
Also, I don't even hate Wind Waker, I thoroughly enjoyed my playthrough of it on the Wii U.
