20 Most Criminally Underrated Video Games Of All Time

7. The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Critics swooned around The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker like love-struck teenagers, feeding it grapes, fanning it with palm fronds and giving it passionate foot massages. "OMG!", they exclaimed, gushing happy expletives with reckless abandon. But the fans weren't quite as generous - Nintendo took The Wind Waker in a bold new visual direction and the fans went ballistic, spitting vitriol about the childish cartoon-like graphics like it was the end of the world. This fan outrage actually ended up affecting the future direction of the series. "I personally didn't feel that the changes we had made were especially dramatic, but the reaction from the fans at the time was like, 'This is not a Zelda game'", said franchise director Eiji Aonuma. "I really felt that gap between how the fans saw the game and how I saw it. So because the fans seemed to consider the changes to be so dramatic at that time, nowadays I am careful not to make such big changes." To this day there are Zelda acolytes who call The Wind Waker the weakest moment in Link's illustrious career, despite the game earning near-perfect ratings from just about every reliable industry source.