I do like TP Link's design as well, I think they should alternate between the two. (on the consoles as well)

Toon Link does look like "just a boy", but that's one of the reasons I like it. He doesn't look like someone who was magically destined to be a hero. (see OoT Link, TP Link)

FSA Art and the Link in TWW...what are the differences?

Seems LESS like Link to me, if anything.

Also, I'd argue the gameplay is very similar.

Sailing takes place of walking around Hyrule Field, or Epona. The game has tons of exploration, which is very true to the Zelda feel. The dungeons of course as you said. The islands take the form of the towns in OoT or TP, and there are tons of sidequests. I don't see how it doesn't play as Zelda.

I'm a newer fan indeed, but I still like the older games as well. (I prefer 3D to 2D however)

The story makes perfect sense, really. The story in the game itself is wonderful, and it makes sense in the "timeline" as well. (it is confusing at first, but search up "zelda split timeline" on google)

I've never liked the "Link is you" thing. I am not a young kid, living on an island, with no parents and a sister. I am playing as Link, a character in itself. It's not like when I play Mario I want to name myself and say "I'm playing as me!" yay. And since that's how I think of Link, as a character of the game, and that's why I like The Wind Waker Link's personality.

I am not the main character, Link is. However, I am playing as Link, so in a sense I am the main character.

I think you have a different interpation of Link and the series, which is fine, but mine is totally different...I am not Link, Link is Link.

Anyway, no more point in arguing, your opinion is yours and mine is mine.

so the problem here is that it fails...you wanan play AS Link? go play any other fantasy game..LoZ was different from the start....

A lot of Zelda fans think they are playing "as Link". I am one of them, I like Link's personality.

anyone who wants voices in LoZ is weird...especially if they complain about Link not talking..there's a reason behind it...if you don't get that you're not a Zelda fan..

I don't want voice acting either, so that's an agreement. (although I didn't mind Link talking in TWW)

Mario is a different game entirely...but started with the same premise: Mario is the allaround middle aged carpenter (then plumber)...who magically gets lost in another world

That's been retconned it seems. Anyway, Link is a young boy (or teen) living in Hyrule, destined to save the world. He's not me, he's Link.

and about the art you chose >_> only red and green look off..go check the others...

these are the ones I meant though ^_^'' I get what you're saying..but seeing as how Nintendo is going back to it's roots..you might not be liking the next few Zelda games..as PH fixed the gay Toon Link thing

PH fixed the Gay Toon Link thing? What?

I don't *hate* toon link....he's just not Link ....WW Link sounds too sissy..and looks like one too

You have to appreciate the different Link's, TWW Link's character is indeed quite different from TP Link's character.

while Young Link..or any other Link for that matter...just check it..

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besides that: WW story doesn't fit..the split timeline itself is screwed up..MM shows that Link has to return to Hyrule..why?

song of storms..: Link teaches that dude the song of storms in OoT...the old mean teaches it to old link...that's how you do it in OoT

MM explain how young Link learned it in the first place (since it's the same, young Link and only 3 days pass anyway)

he learns the actual song of Storms in MM...this is something you can only know form PLAYING the games..and not from main plot summaries..

MM Link can still return to Hyrule, since it's in the Child Timeline. Regardless, the whole time travel thing is confusing.

that's what tells the true Zelda tales..what you find in the background..not just the foreground..and WW missed alot:

Gorons died? wth? Zoras died? wth? Kokiri's turned into wood?!?!?

Gorons didn't die, but population decreased naturally, considering how watery the world is. Zora's evolved into Ritos, possibly because the Gods did not want them to find Hyrule. Kokiri's turned into plants possibly because they were living around so many and in such a foresty enviroment, they eventually transformed.

it screwed it up...with not reason...it felt like a stupid kid story

It's 500 years after OoT, you expect it to be the same?

A brief explaination of the split timeline:

Ocarina of Time takes place

One timeline = the world where Zelda sent Link back. Link does not exist in this universe anymore. The Wind Waker takes place on this timeline, and as explained in the intro of TWW, Ganondorf took over since OoT Link was gone and thus Hyrule was flooded by the Gods.

Other timeline = OoT Link tells Zelda and the King about Ganondorf before he can take control (unsure what time he went back to, possibly the time where he would normally go see Zelda for the first time), the events shown in TP where Ganondorf is sent to the Twilight Realm happen. OoT Link embarks on MM adventure. TP takes place afterwards 100 years later.

Confusing, but it makes sense eventually.