I give this game a 5/10
10/10 for the first half and 0/10 for the 2nd.
Seriously the 2nd half of the game was a joke. I can just imagine what the conversation at Nintendo was like.
Tester: Hmm this game is kinda short, I could finish it in 8 hours on my first playthrough.
Nintendo:You're right! How can we increase the length?
Tester: Why don't you add more dungeons, there's only 6. Most Zeldas have over 10.
Nintendo: I know, slow down the sailing speed and decrease warp spots. Plus we'll make the the non wind aided sailing so freakin slow that it'll be really hard for the players to find stuff so they waste a lot of time.
Tester: Um, I guess you can do that but you still would only add about 2 extra hours.
Nintendo: I know lets spread the islands even more apart so iti'll take them longer to each destination. That'll at least add another hour.
Tester: Well, we're still only at 11-14 hours. How about spliting the triforce into pieces and adding dungeons for each.
Nintendo: Brilliant!!!!, but instead we'll just make them as treasure under the sea. With the enchance sailing, thats should add another few hour. No, you know what would be even better if we made it so the player has to find a map to show where the triforce is. That should add at least 5 hours.
Tester: Hmm so you're basically gonna make the 2nd half of the game exactly like your heart container side quests. Don't you think we're missing something (Thinking: Dungeons, please we need more Dungeons)
Nintendo: You know what, you're right. We need more Tingle. How could I have forgotten such an important aspect. I know, we're make the makes for the triforce hunt to only be about to be read by Tingle, Plus we're put ridicles rupee cost on each to extend the gamplay even more. HAHA, we're geniuses. We have at least 20 hours now.
(Tester post on GAF that GCN will have the lowest userbase this gen, many GAFers mock him and tell him GCN will own when Zelda comes out)
Seriously how the heck can Nintendo release something that was basically half complete. This was the game that really pissed me off about Nintendo. They did everything right for this game from beautiful graphics to awesome gameplay but they forgot the 2nd half of the game and instead to lengthen gameplay time they put in tedious and repetive quests that was freakin worst than playing Big Rigs.
Also this is the only zelda game that I did not get all the hearts pieces for and items for. The sailing was cool for about 2 hours then it was the worst travelling vehicle in the history of video games.