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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is the first Zelda game for the Nintendo GameCube and also the first in the series to employ cel-shading, a lighting and texturing technique that results in the game having…

2 May 2003

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition is an adventure developed by Nintendo, released 2 May 2003 on Nintendo GameCube.

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What The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition is

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition is an adventure game developed by Nintendo and released in 2003. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set hundreds of years after the events of Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker finds the hero Link living with his grandmother on the Outset Island, one of the many small islands lost amidst the waters of the Great Sea. On his tenth birthday, Link encounters a giant bird carrying a girl. He rescues the girl, but as a result his own sister is taken away by the bird. The girl is a pirate captain named Tetra, who agrees to help Link find and rescue his sister. During the course of their journey, the two of them realize that a powerful, legendary evil is active again, and must find a way to stop him.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition is the 33rd of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Doubutsu no Mori e+: D02 - Design Card: Yuusha no Fuku in 2003.

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What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition launched on 2 May 2003, within three weeks of Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Fire Emblem.

Released around the same time: Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Fire Emblem.

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When did The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition come out?
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Limited Edition was released on 2 May 2003 for Nintendo GameCube.

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