The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Difference between revisions

|name= ''The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker''

|image= [[File:TWW English Logo.png|250px]][[File:TWW US Box.jpg|250px]]

|designer= {{List|[[Eiji Aonuma]] (director)|[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] (producer)|[[Takashi Tezuka]] (producer)|[[Yoshiyuki Oyama]] (character design)|[[Kenta Nagata]] (sound composer)|[[Koji Kondo]] (sound composer)|[[Hajime Wakai]] (sound composer)|[[Toru Minegishi]](sound composer)}}

|modes= Single player, Asymmetric two-player

|ratings= {{List

  |{{Game Rating|ESRB|E}}

  |{{Game Rating|PEGI|7}}

  |{{Game Rating|ELSPA|3+}}

  |{{Game Rating|ACB|G8+}}

  |{{Game Rating|USK|0}}

|platforms= [[Nintendo GameCube]]

'''''The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker''''' is the tenth main installment of {{TLoZ|Series}}. It is the first ''Zelda'' game for the [[Nintendo GameCube]] & the sixth game in the series to be released on a Home console. 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 May 2, 2003 and in Australia on May 7, 2003.

{{TWW|-}} is notable for being the first game in the series to employ {{Wp|cel-shading}}, a lighting and texturing technique that results in the game having a cartoon-like appearance. 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]]. It is an indirect sequel to {{OoT}},<ref>[http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=1934 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Review - Gaming Target]</ref> taking place several hundred years after the events of the previous games.<ref>[http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/27362/interview-with-nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-and-eiji-aonuma/ Interview With Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma - GamePro]</ref>

When Link descends beneath the waves, he discovers that Ganondorf kidnapped Zelda and took her to his headquarters,<ref>{{Cite|You have deceived yourself... Did you think you'd be safe inside the castle? Foolish... Now that my power has been restored, there is no safe haven for you! I have taken your precious Zelda. And here, you shall fall into eternal slumber!|Ganondorf|TWW}}</ref> [[Ganon's Tower (The Wind Waker)|Ganon's Tower]], a daunting fortress that even the legendary [[Knights of Hyrule]] were unable to assail in ages past.<ref>{{Cite|Long ago, Ganon's Tower was an impenetrable fortress that not even the daring and dauntless Knights of Hyrule could hope to assail.|King of Red Lions|TWW}}</ref> Link makes haste for the tower and scales it. Ganondorf is waiting for him, sitting on a bed where Zelda is sleeping. He expresses his outrage at the concept of people living on the Great Sea above Hyrule with little to nothing to achieve.<ref>{{Cite|How ridiculous... So many pathetic creatures, scattered across a handful of islands, drifting on this sea like fallen leaves on a forgotten pool... What can they possibly hope to achieve?|Ganondorf|TWW}}</ref> He then transforms into a [[Puppet Ganon|large marionette-like creature]] to battle Link, who defeats him. Ganondorf takes Zelda away and tells Link to follow and stand before him.<ref>{{Cite|Yes, surely you are the Hero of Time, reborn... Your time has come... Come now... Stand before me!|Ganondorf|TWW}}</ref> He catches Link off guard and knocks him down, and proceeds to summon the pieces of the Triforce from within Link and Zelda, along with his own to assemble the full Triforce. He wishes for the rays of the sun to expose Hyrule anew so that the kingdom and the world may be his.<ref>{{Cite|Gods! Hear that which I desire! Expose this land to the rays of the sun once more! Let them burn forth! Give Hyrule to me!!!|Ganondorf|TWW}}</ref>

In a fit of madness, Ganondorf attacks Link. With the Master Sword at its full power, Link and Zelda battle Ganondorf as Hyrule floods around them. Link eventually deals the final blow to Ganondorf, stabbing him through his head and turning him to stone. After bidding farewell to the King of Hyrule, Link and Zelda are spirited away to the surface of the Great Sea as the floodwaters come crashing down, burying Hyrule and its King beneath the Sea. Zelda returns to her old form as Tetra and Link and Tetra are reunited with Aryll, the Pirates, and some of Link's friends. In a post-credits scene, Link and Tetra sail away with their Crew in search of a new land with the wind as their guide.<ref>{{Cite|Ah, but child... That land will not be Hyrule. It will be YOUR land!|Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule|TWW}}</ref> This scene marks the beginning of the first [[Nintendo DS]] Zelda game, {{PH}}.

As previously noted in the above sections, the game makes use of cel-shading graphics. Contrary to popular belief, programming the game with an engine based on this style was more difficult than programming {{TP}}, after modifying said engine, to favor realistic graphics.<ref>[http://gc.kombo.com/article.php?artid=2777 Eiji Aonuma Interview]</ref> The style was influenced by the animated film {{Wp|Wanpaku Ōji no Orochi Taiji|''The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon''}}, suggested by Yoichi Kotabe, a former illustrator and character designer at Nintendo who also worked in the film.<ref>{{Cite Web|quote=. . .Hota-san [said] that one of the art directors from these old movies came out of retirement to help art-direct or at least do some of the concept stuff for Wind Waker.|published= March 4, 2012|retrieved= September 9, 2012|url= http://www.siliconera.com/2012/03/04/how-the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-inspired-skulls-of-the-shoguns-art/|title= How The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Inspired Skulls of the Shogun's Art|site=Siliconera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Web|quote= {{Exp|In the latest Famitsu, Kotabe Youichi looks back on his career at Nintendo and gives an interesting anecdote about #Zelda Wind Waker! The film "Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji" from Toei studio would have greatly influenced the DA of the game!|Dans le dernier Famitsu, Kotabe Youichi revient sur sa carrière chez Nintendo et donne une anecdote intéressante sur #Zelda Wind Waker ! Le film « Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji » du studio Toei aurait énormément influencé la DA du jeu !}}|author= @Pixnlove|title= Editions Pix'n Love|url= https://twitter.com/Pixnlove/status/1060193261262962688|archive= https://web.archive.org/web/20211022141501/https://twitter.com/Pixnlove/status/1060193261262962688|published= November 7, 2018|retrieved= November 9, 2018|site= Twitter|type= }}</ref> The cel-shaded graphics style was found to mask system limitations well and was later adopted for handheld Zelda games such as {{PH}}.

{{TWW|-}} directly references places and events from {{OoT}} and gives some indication of what happened between the two games, making clear that it happens after {{OoT|-}}. Some examples of background references include the prologue, the decorations within Hyrule Castle (which allude to the Hero of Time with a sculpture and the [[Sage]]s through the glass windows in the basement), [[Ganon's Tower (The Wind Waker)|the final dungeon being the same]], etc.

After Link defeats [[Puppet Ganon]], Ganon remarks that Link is "the Hero of Time, reborn".<ref>{{Cite|Yes, surely you are the Hero of Time, reborn...|Ganon|TWW}}</ref> According to the <span class="plainlinks">[http://forums.legendsalliance.com/topic/14202-translation-of-japanese-game-texts/page__st__840__p__404470#entry404470 original Japanese text]</span> Ganon most likely says that metaphorically. Link in this story is the [[Hero of Time]] "reborn", since he possesses the same skills as his predecessor (despite not being an actual descendant).

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