The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an action/adventure game for the Nintendo Gamecube, and the 9th in The Legend of Zelda series. The game follows the same formula of a young Link fighting over the Triforce against the evil king Ganondorf, however it is set on a different timeline than the previous games.

The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, was the most controversial Legend of Zelda game to date. When Wind Waker was first shown, there were mixed feelings about the game. People loved the art style of the game, and others highly disliked the cel-shaded style for Wind Waker. None the less, the reviews for the game were great. Wind Waker had excellent controls, similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and introduced new weapons and items not known to the series before. Along with the game Cel-shaded graphics came a huge ocean to explore with many dungeons and fortresses as far as the eye could see. This game quickly became a good seller.

Wind Waker caused a lot of controversy before release. Almost everyone was expecting the next Zelda installment to have the realistic feel that was seen on Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, but upgraded with the graphical power of the Gamecube. Instead, a cartoonish looking Link with huge eyes was seen running away from some enemies in a teaser shown at SpaceWorld 2001. This cause confusion and concern among the gaming community that were used to Zelda's "mature" look. Still, Nintendo released the game in 2002 hoping it would change people's minds once it was tried out.

Thankfully, it was received extremely well and receive great scoring from gaming sites and magazines. The cel-shading gave the game a unique artistic feel that certainly didn't feel out of place. Also despite of the look of the game, it actually has a dark storyline that follows up the legend dropped with the N64 games.

Even so, many gamers though Wind Waker had some flaws such as heavy relying on sailing, a very toned down difficulty, and a lack of enough dungeons when compared to the previous games in the series.

There is a sequel to this game coming later this year on the DS called The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Plot
(Spoiler warning!!!) Wind waker takes place 1000 years after twighlight princess(not stated in game but stated at E3 05).Due to a mysterious evil, the gods must flood Hyrule yet in doing this the entire regeion is in water and causes the gorons to become endangered and the zora's to evolve.A few hundred years later on Outset Island,a tradition is held that every 100 yers when a boy turns 13 they must earn the Kokiri tunic worn by the hero of time and the other Link. When a young boy named link turns 13 his life changes by meeting a pirate named Tetra and the evil Hemorock king capturing his sister. Link earns his sword and sheild and goes after the giant bird.Later Link saves his sister from the king but finds the somehow revived Ganondorf(who only makes references to the hero of time).Link journies throgh a portal with tetra and ends up in Hyrule castle and earns the master sword,find out that Zelda has suddenly changed appearence through Tetra,and finds that he is truly related to the two Links before him.Link then must find two new sages and finds the mirror sheild(which strangly is blue instead of red like the master sword is blue not purple).Link revives the light to the master sword and returns to Hyrule castle,breaks the barrier and confronts Ganondorf.In te end the king of shadows is defeated and sadly Hyrule castle is flooded even more.Zelda reverts back to Tetra and Link and her sail off.

Characters

 * Link - The main character in the game.
 * Tetra/Princess Zelda
 * Ganondorf - The final boss in the game.