this game is really fun., but there are indeed many dissapointments.
one mayor problem is that you have to travel on a boat, and to move you have to change the wind's direction. at dist it is not that bad, but when you get to need to go to different places for one mission or so, it starts to get tedious, also, the boat won't move that fast. there are some shortcuts like whirlwinds, but they apear later in the game and won't help that much.
the story is kinda mixed, som parts are really fun and other i find them annoying, like the fact that zelda is spoiler $%# spoiler. some scenes are really cool,
like when you go underwater and go to hyrule for the firts time, the story and animations look nice.[/size]
the greatest disapointment people felt that it has absolutely no relation to all the other games, its just another spinoff title.
at last, at the end you have to collect the triforce and it is really really booooring. i played the game like 2 years ago, but this is more or less how it goes.
the 3 parts are separated into 15 to 20 parts and they are hidden in all the game world. you have to find them to do i dont remember what. to find them, you have to get a lot of money to pay the map green guy (forgot the name) to give you the map of the location of ONE of the parts. then you go look for it.
the cost of the map is approximately 200 to 300 rupies. the parts are mostly hidden underwater, unless you have to go into a sidequest like getting a bunch of masks or completing a dungeon or a slide puzzle. the hardest one for me was the one in which you have to find a ghost ship, i found it at pure luck. i followed the instructions on how to find it, but the wind ket changing so that i couldn't get there, or the night became day and it dissaeared. i randomly walked over it in a quest for another part.
according to nintendo, they didn't finish testing this game, and that;s why the boat is so neccesary and slow, and the triforce was split in 16 parts instead of 10, 6 or 3. the ending is pretty funny though[/size]
after all, i recommend it, it gives you a certain satisfaction after beating it with so much hard wrk