The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
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…
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an adventure developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 13 December 2002 on Wii U and Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 32.7 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 2002. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo GameCube. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
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.
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 is the 30th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Animal Crossing-e: D08 - Design Card: Triforce Tile in 2002. Its critic score of 90 is 4 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 89, across 1,064 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 32.7 hrs.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker launched on 13 December 2002, within three weeks of Gothic II, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords, Dark Cloud 2 and Sonic Advance 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Gothic II, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords, Dark Cloud 2, Sonic Advance 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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