So I wanted to rate this 3 stars, as I feel this is a 6/10 game, but I added another to make it really clear that it's only that rating in relation to the fact this is a Zelda game. Because this is a pretty good game, it's just a shame that you can take direct comparison to both Spirit Tracks and Wind Waker, two of the best games in the entire franchise.

I do have personal and genuine qualms with this game, I think the world is uninteresting and the characters are generally dull (other than Linebeck), the repetative and boring dungeons that require backtracking to reach too often, and way too much of a reliance on touch controls (seriously I think there's two functions in this entire game attatched to buttons, and that's switching to map edit mode and.. pause), In fact I think this would play great, maybe even better on mobile (though something would be lost in boss fights).

The thing I couldn't get over though is the grating repetativeness in every aspect of gameplay and the fact that throughout the whole game I could not stop thinking about how this is just an objectively worse and more limited version of Wind Waker, a pale immitation, but not without merit.

I think over time my rating will go down to 6, but I'll keep it at 7 because I know for a fact I'm only being so harsh on it because it's in one of the most consistently outstanding gaming franchises of all time.