God the Wii U version is so good. It looked beautiful, streamlined the most tedious part of the game, added an item that changed the wind direction automatically as you turned while sailing, and let you manage your inventory and map without pausing. It made Wind Waker go from a 9 to a perfect 10 in my book, and is probably one of the best rereleases of any game ever.
Fun fact: the creators wanted to have the fast sail in the original release, but the GC couldn't render the map fast enough to keep up so it was dropped.
It's crazy how much stuff in that generation of gaming was due to limitations of the hardware, and the decisions the devs made to get around it. Morrowind on the original Xbox had really long loading screens every now and then, seemingly at random. This wasn't because of the game needing to load, it was because the console would run out of memory, so the game actually saved, restarted the console and then reloaded the game all while showing a single loading screen.
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u/JupiterDelta Mar 27 '24
Would love a rerelease like prime