Someone on here said that wind waker was "blatantly unfinished." is that true?

>Ghost ship was just one room
I am forever mad at this

also
>underwater boots
>mini dungeons were supposed to be fully complete dungeons
>link was supposed to age throughout the game
>shit ton of unused maps left on the disc
Half of the stuff from Phantom Hourglass and Twilight Princess were concepts originally intended for Wind Waker as well.

He didn't work on Wind Waker outside of being a consultant. It's all Aonuma's mess.
>it wasn't even a unique room

if it had all that content it would have been obnoxiously long, but still cool

>mfw their delayed games are almost always bad and their rushed games are often the best in their series

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>nothing at all
They made lots of changes that improved the gameplay (sail, shortening the triforce bullshit at the end) and visuals, the visuals look far superior except for certain times when the bloom goes overboard.

Every game has cut content. I still got enough hours in WW to say I got my money's worth so it doesn't bother me

No, but it does have cut content.

The Triforce quest is unironically great though. It's when the game truly opens up and becomes completely nonlinear.

Yes, but its still pretty good regardless

I'm pretty sure the earth and wind temples were supposed to have 2 entrances, above and below water.
The dungeons that didn't make it into WW were instead added to TP, thats why it had so many

>it becomes completely nonlinear when it's already over.

I wouldn't say blantantly unfinished. As people have already said, there is a lot of cut content. Much of it appearing in twilight princess so that's why TP had a shit load of dungeons. I know it's just a rumor, but apparently wind waker was a massive headache on the dev team. Nintendo wanted to try to push a new console zelda every 2 years but pumped the brakes because of wind waker. It's not that the game was bad or even incomplete, the devs had bigger plans with it.

no it isn't but the Wii U version patched things up to make it more cohesive

Can you give some examples? Because I can only think of the reverse: OoT was delayed and still holds up as if it was released yesterday, while Wind Waker was a rushed mess and the worst Zelda game I ever endured.

Not "blatantly unfinished", just two axed dungeons, they were going to add them for the Wii U release but didn't

Majoras mask was badly rushed and it holds up well.

>Greatfish Isle not having its own dungeon
>Fire/ice islands each being like 10 minutes long instead of their own dungeons
>Let's make the player do some arbitrary, barebones revisit to Forsaken Fortress because of reasons
>Let's keep the player from doing Wind Temple before Earth Temple because of reasons
>Let's design the most mediocre dungeons in the series, almost as if they received maybe half the attention they usually do
>Underwater Hyrule has all the potential in the world but is just a short hallway
>Triforce quest feels like a last minute filler quest, doing what the game should've done from the start in the most obnoxiously inorganic way due to fucking wallet/chart gating thanks to Tingle

I dunno, you tell me.

No they weren't, the axed dungeons were used in Twilight Princess.

majoras mask, melee

delayed garbage:
twilight princess, brawl

TP is good, though. Much better than WW. Also, they didn't delay development, that shit was done in 2005 but they held it back for Wii's launch

>what should the final dungeon be
>the same one room repeating and refighting the bosses you already fought already

>Majora's Mask
>rushed
>when 90% of the game was already done before they even started the project

I mean it sucks that it takes that long, but the Triforce quest comprises a decent stretch of the game and encourages the player to explore every corner of the map. I enjoyed it.

TP was a good game, it was just too long. Brawl did suck dick though

>finally add all the material they didn't before
apparently a lot of the missing stuff was repurposed in future zeldas

Majora Mask wasn't rushed. It reuses a lot of assets and material from Ocarina and is re-purposed, and only a little of new material was created. That's why it took only one year to develop.

TP is a barren slog with fuck-all to do in the overworld outside of dungeons, so you just get a bunch of mandatory filler shit instead. It paved the way for linear garbage like Squidward Sword.

At least Wind Waker had some small degree of freedom.

That's the eternal dichotomy with Zelda - exploration or dungeons. Problem with WW is that its exploration is largely illusory, it's far more exciting to chart an island than actually explore it. It mostly plays out like OoT but with a more tedious means of overworld travel. TP has its issues but at least the dungeons were gotten down to a science on it, it was actually good at what it wanted to be good at. WW doesn't even pull that off.