Aonuma apologizes for Wind Waker

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Lighthearted and deep ? Well, usually lighthearted stuff by definition is meant not to get too serious and so it tends not to dwell on things, where as deep means its there to make you think about stuff and get into the thick of it. You could do it in terms of gameplay, as Nintendo is very good at doing that with games like Mario and all his spin offs, but when it comes to storyline, I think lightheartedness and deepness are mutually exclusive. Darkness to a game tends to allow you more freedom to create deeper storyline and setting, whereas lightheartedness by definition means you're not intent on delving deep into problems that can be tragic, or sinister, etc. As we all know, the classic theme of Bowser kidnapping Princess Toadstool is something Nintendo usually makes a pretty lighthearted game about, but the gameplay of every Mario game has been pretty deep, but for sure, its storyline is skin deep. WW was lighthearted, but unfortunately, both its story and gameplay were pretty shallow.

The statement about graphics is that I had no problem with it, and probably wouldn't have picked at it personally, but when the game itself sucked, then the graphics that kind of turned off plenty of other players becomes more of an economic problem for Nintendo, and so it was kind of a stupid move on all ends on Nintendo's part. My main gripe about WW is still that the gameplay sucked. As you know, graphics are usually an afterthought for me, it only becomes a forethought when I have more to gripe about when the gameplay sucks.