Guessed by @drbunnig
I've disrespected The Wind Waker for too long on these.
Sure, I think it's kinda silly how it keeps getting Top 5 on the overall results every year - and maybe having hosted the event for so many years, there was a sense of me trying to "manipulate" the results with my own list, like trying to make things look less biased, heh. And yeah, it's a little silly to say I "disrespected" it given it's not even that much higher this year compared to previous years, but this is the highest I've ranked it since 2017. And why did I rank it so high this time? Well, it's because... this game is amazing.
Well, I did watch a youtuber play through it earlier this year, and just like every time I ever see anything from this game, it kinda opens my eyes again to how incredible it is. I've long criticized it for having bad dungeons, and I still stand by that, the dungeons are crap, but this has an extremely strong art style, one of the most awe-inspiring soundtracks ever, and one of the best stories in the Zelda series, complete with an extremely iconic opening and ending. Despite how much I love this series, it's rare that they both start and end well, but Wind Waker does that. Sure, it flounders a bit in the middle, but who cares. I do take some issue with how Zelda is portrayed in this, but it's not a dealbreaker.
Maybe this ranks high on the overall results for a reason, yeah?
