The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

When Nintendo revealed a cartoon-styled Zelda in 2002, fans revolted. They were wrong. The cel-shading still looks better than most games twenty years older, because it was never chasing realism. You play a boy with huge expressive eyes who sails a small talking boat across a flooded world, hopping between islands, conducting the wind with a magic baton to steer. The ocean is the whole point: it is open, lonely, and beautiful, and the sense of a kingdom literally sunk under the sea gives the bright surface a real undertow of loss.