>>717328498
It was the 00's. "Mature games for mature gamers" was in full effect among your average gamer. Edgy was the order of the day. Didn't help that WW came off the heels of OoT and Majora's Mask, not to mention the Zelda tech demo, as well as Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf appearing in Smash based off their OoT incarnations. It was a perfect storm of expectation and zeitgeist.