

The people of the Great Sea pass down a legend of a prosperous kingdom with a hidden golden power. Link lives with his grandmother and younger sister Aryll on Outset Island, one of the few inhabited islands in the Great Sea. Set hundreds of years after the events of Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker finds the hero Link in a sea scattered with 49 islands, which necessitates frequent sailing and naval combat. In 2007, a direct sequel to The Wind Waker, entitled Phantom Hourglass, was released on the Nintendo DS.ĭuring a Nintendo Direct on January 23, 2013, an enhanced remaster of the game was announced for the Wii U console, called The Wind Waker HD, and was released during the Fall of that year.

Master Quest is an altered port of the original Ocarina of Time, with partially re-designed, more difficult dungeons. However, it should be noted that pre-orders of the game were significantly boosted by the inclusion of a pre-order bonus disc, which features Ocarina of Time and Master Quest. Īlthough the seafaring gameplay and cartoon-like graphics were a point of critique for some, The Wind Waker was, in the end, the fourth best-selling GameCube game of all time. It is an indirect sequel to Ocarina of Time, taking place several hundred years after the events of the previous games. It also differentiates itself from other Zelda games with its massive Overworld, the Great Sea, which must be explored using a boat, the King of Red Lions. The Wind Waker is notable for being the first game in the series to employ cel-shading, a lighting and texturing technique that results in the game having a cartoon-like appearance. It was released in Japan on December 13, 2002, in North America on March 24, 2003, in South Korea on April 16, 2003, in Europe on and in Australia on May 7, 2003. It is the first Zelda game for the Nintendo GameCube & the sixth game in the series to be released on a Home console. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is the tenth main installment of The Legend of Zelda series.
