Given how popular it seems to be with fans these days, it's easy to forget just how divisive The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was when it first launched for the GameCube back in 2003. The Toon style that has become so appreciated since, just wasn't what Zelda fans wanted at the time, with most asking for the gritty realism that was eventually delivered with Twilight Princess.
These days, it's seen as one of the real high points in the series, and it regularly crops up in conversations about which games deserve a similar treatment to what Ocarina of Time is about to get. Now, Nintendo themselves have weighed in on the game moving forward, and there's plenty of reason to be hopeful if you're a big Wind Waker fan.
Over on Reddit, one user shared a post from The Gamer, detailing a recent Nintendo event in which the company confirmed that they were adding GameCube games to the Nintendo Switch Online library. This caused some immediate pushback from fans in the case of The Wind Waker specifically, with many much more keen to see the HD Wii U remaster added instead.
Happily, the GameCube version being added to...
