Yes, and then you come in and bitch about it.

And now you're complaining about those who complain when you do it.

Who's the hypocrite now? 

The problem is few third parties are really all that familiar with the Gamecube's hardware. You can count the ones that actually delved into the GC's hardware on one hand. Capcom, Sega (Amusement Vision), Namco, Rare (now with MS), and Factor 5 (Now with Sony).

Most other third parties only produced second rate ports on the Gamecube. Ubisoft's Splinter Cell ports were a prime example of this. Instead of basing the GC version off of the X-box game. They had Ubisoft Shangai slap together rushed port based on the PS2 build. Sega disbanded Amusement Vision and they were behind F-Zero GX. Rareware is the property of MS. Factor 5's Rogue Squadron games were the most impressive games of the generation from a technical standpoint, but they are working exclusively on PS3. The talent that made RE4 and Viewtiful Joe for Capcom now works at SEEDs. Monolith which produced the Baten Kaitos games for Namco are now owned by Nintendo. Outside of the team that worked on Tales of Symphonia for Namco, which looked good with the exception of the overworld, I can't think of any third party development team that has done any real work on the GC hardware.

In other words, I view the third party developers "familiarity" with the Wii architecture as suspect. Outside of the ones I listed, I can't think of any third party developer that developed a game engine from the ground up on Gamecube. I certainly could have missed a few but I don't think that I have.

EDIT: I am going to make this into a seperate thread.

naked mermaids!!!

No.

It takes all of 10 seconds to determine that this game is developed by "Arika", which appears to be a smallish development house based from former capcom developers that have produced a horde of Street Fighter and Tetris clones.

The game is published by Nintendo, which I assume makes it second party? I never really got the distinction between first and second party. Anyway, for a small time developer they really made the game look good. Don't use the above sea sections to judge it's clear that the resources went into the under water bits as that's where the main part of the game is.

Tokyo Game Show, that's when we will see Afrika again. Also White Knight Story among lots of other Sony stuff.

I don't get it. While I don't like someone coming into this thread to criticize the graphics (this game is a Wii game and it's not supposed to be a graphical showpiece), I also don't get how the same guy who came into an Uncharted thread and said it looked last gen can complain about someone crapping on the graphics of this game. 

Also, Mario Galaxy looks great and that is exactly the look Nintendo should go for with Zelda too because the more stylized and far from realistic looking the game is, the better it will look compared to games on the other two systems.

Bring back the Wind Waker look for Zelda to the Wii, don't just relegate it to the DS.

I should start one of those sad online petitions.... 

Stylized = "Child friendly" you mean?

Wind Waker was fine and all but I have no problem with Nintendo taking franchises like Zelda in newer more mature directions. I realize gamers like yourself personally want to see the gap between the demographic appeal of Nintendo games and "Hardcore" games remain as wide a margin as possible so you can still enjoy the Nintendo games but not see them as a threat to your prefered hardcore titles, but please don't make it so transparent.

 I still expect more out of this game because it is being published by Nintendo.  2nd party devs usually get much more attention than 3rd parties, so my argument still stands.

Well, I've gotten PMs from certin mods I will not list, about idiots saying I am trolling, when I post a 100% legit post, that wasnt in a single way trolling. I just have a fan club. And dont think I'm the lone ranger, there are posts in here, about people saying you stepped out of bounds as well. You wanna get in a pissing contest, I'll probibally win.

 Speaking of peeing, if you ever wanna take me up on that, I know of a nice creek with fish we could aim for! Since this is a... aquatic related thread.

Wow, now that's some serious word twisting. I'd also like to see Zelda grow even darker, and like the current path the series is taking (OOT, MM, TP), but come on...

Besides, what he said is perfectly logical. Stylised graphics (not necessarily kiddie, by the way - Okami isn't kiddie at all, neither is No More Heroes) will always help a less powerful system. Knowing the graphical capabilities of your hardware, and choosing an adequate style for it, is a great way to get impressive graphics on a less powerful system.

I've watched three gameplay footages along with CMs at the Japanese Wii site. It seemed pretty relaxing. I liked its music and graphics:

http://wii.com/jp/articles/forever-blue/
(at the bottom of the page)

I wonder how big the underwater world is. I hope its total playtime and replayability are decent enough to consider purchase.

I've read that it's coming to America at the end of October. This game theme suits a summer release date but then again it may be fun to play it with your family during thanksgiving.