Yeah it did get allot of silly complaints. The sailing I kinda get, I mean I loved it, liked feeling like an explorer, but it was a slow way to travel and kinda clunky how you had to play a song to change the wind and talk to fish to fill in the map, I hear the remake included a faster sale that changes the wind which I think sounds like a good idea, but even so I still liked it. But complaints about the art were just ridiculous, I seem to recall that around this time gaming was getting real obsessed with realistic and hardcore graphics and couldn't appreciate anything different. sigh.
Oh and Happy Halloween
hope you had fun.