[magus113]

While I can say that I've completed both games (even if there was that really annoying quest to get the Triforce pieces in the middle of Wind Waker) both games really hit me and touched me with their endings and story all around. Each of the games had outstanding visuals in their own right, because Wind Waker was definitely a milestone in cel shading, and Twilight was just...good. Very very good.

Both had the Zelda gameplay we both know and love, each with their own different gameplay hitches, Wind Waker being the sailing across sunken Hyrule on the King of Red Lions, and Twilight Princess with Link's transformation to a wolf.

The plots? Each is great, although Wind Waker strays from the norm by not being a true ancestor of Link as I guess you could call it, but it does lead to some interesting plot twists regarding his sister Aryll, and Tetra. Midna's involvement in the plot for Twilight Princess was also interesting and I guess you could say humorous due to her..interesting personality.

Wind Waker kept it simpler with the gadgets, staying with the tried and true grappling hook, then later on hookshot, bows and arrows, etc. Twilight Princess upped the ante just a tad especially with the double hookshot (and although it isn't fair to compare the two because there was a version of Twilight Princess made for the Wii) the Wii controls made it a lot more interactive and precise. This I feel made puzzles more difficult (at points) and more complex to complete.

So what do I think? Wind Waker and Twilight Princess both have good plots, but the Wind Waker's gameplay hitch became much more annoying, especially in the middle of the game with the aforementioned fetch quest, and gameplay segments as the wolf added a more interesting aspect to the gameplay in my opinion. Newer, more useful weapons, in Twilight Princess, and a riveting ending + boss battle really just makes Twilight Princess take the cake for me. I've always said that it's pretty much on par with OoT, despite the place in my heart that the game holds after playing it when I was much younger, but Twilight Princess was a much more darker, and enjoyable gameplay experience that showed me that Zelda is ready to keep going as the years progress.