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The one that always gets to me is the Wind Waker discussion
When Wind Waker was revealed, there was a sizable backlash towards the cartoon artstyle compared to the realistic rendering gamers had seen in the recent Spaceworld 2000 demo.
But the revised history claims that Wind Waker was widely dismissed at first, and that it was only in the last 10 years or so that gamers have finally been able to see past it's art style and re-discover it as a great Zelda game.

But this isn't true at all.
Despite the initial reaction to the art style on reveal, it was universally acclaimed on launch. Famitsu gave it a 40/40, it carved out a 96 on metacritic, it won GameSpot's game of the year award and won Gamefaqs' sitewide Game of the Year poll. It was the fourth best selling game on the Gamecube, selling more copies than Majora's Mask, Skyward Sword, or Link's Awakening.

I think it comes down to, Youtubers have amped up the Wind Waker controversy so much that they've gaslit a million zoomers into believing it's some kind of misunderstood hidden gem masterpiece. Plus, hardly anybody in the wider discourse actually had a Gamecube back in the day.

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