Magic Meter Upgrades

Discover how to upgrade your Magic Meter in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Learn about the items and locations needed to increase your magical capacity in this comprehensive guide.

This article is about the game. For the item, see Wind Waker (Item). For other uses, see The Wind Waker (Disambiguation).

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is the tenth main installment of The Legend of Zelda 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 Korea on April 16, 2003, in Europe on May 2, 2003 and in Australia on May 7, 2003.

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 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 Ocarina of Time,[⁶](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-6) taking place over a hundred years after the events of the previous games.[⁷](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-7)

Although 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.[⁸](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-examiner.com-8) 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. Master Quest is an altered port of the original Ocarina of Time, with partially re-designed, more difficult dungeons.

In 2007, a direct sequel to The Wind Waker, entitled Phantom Hourglass, was released on the Nintendo DS.

During 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.

Contents

• 1Story
  • 1.1Synopsis
  • 1.2The Sinking of Hyrule
  • 1.3Link's Quest
• 2Gameplay
  • 2.1Sea Exploration
  • 2.2GBA interaction
  • 2.3Wind control and new item usage
  • 2.4Second Quest
  • 2.5Game Style
• 3Game Information
  • 3.1Graphics
  • 3.2Audio
  • 3.3Japanese Version
  • 3.4Setting
  • 3.5Timeline Placement
  • 3.6Limited Editions
  • 3.7Speedrun Records
• 4Audience Reception
  • 4.1Sales
  • 4.2Reviews
  • 4.3Fan Reception
  • 4.4Awards
• 5Listings
  • 5.1Bosses
  • 5.2Characters
  • 5.3Dungeons
  • 5.4Enemies
  • 5.5Items
  • 5.6Locations
  • 5.7Objects
  • 5.8Other Listings
• 6Ports and Remakes
  • 6.1HD Remaster
• 7Legacy
• 8Trivia
• 9Nomenclature
• 10Gallery
• 11External Links
• 12References

Story

Synopsis

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. Link lives with his grandmother and younger sister Aryll on Outset Island, one of the few inhabited islands in the Great Sea. The people of the Great Sea pass down a legend of a prosperous kingdom with a hidden golden power.[⁹](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-9) An evil man found and stole this power, using it to spread darkness until a young boy dressed in green sealed the evil with the Blade of Evil's Bane.[¹⁰](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-10) The boy became known as the Hero of Time and passed into legend.[¹¹](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-11) It is clear that this legend is the story of Ocarina of Time, wherein the Hero of Time, Link, fought Ganondorf. When boys on Outset Island come of age, they are customarily dressed in green to pay reverence to the Hero of Time.

The Sinking of Hyrule

The memory of the kingdom vanished, but its legend survived on the wind's breath

Ganondorf, the great evil that all still thought to be sealed away in the Sacred Realm of Hyrule, crept forth, eager to resume his dark designs.[¹²](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-12) As the darkness was spreading over the kingdom, the people hoped that the Hero of Time would once again appear to save them, but the hero did not appear.[¹³](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-13) Ganon's next step was to make another aggressive move for the Triforce. The king, Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule, attempted to stop the fiend, but was not strong enough.

As doom drew nigh, the king and his people prayed to the gods, leaving their kingdom in the hands of fate.[¹⁴](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-14) The goddesses answered their prayers by instructing those chosen to flee for the mountaintops, before they flooded the land. Ganondorf and his minions were sealed along with Hyrule in an enchanted air chamber at the bottom of the sea, with the Master Sword serving as the key suspending the flow of time within the chamber. Over the centuries, the memory of the kingdom vanished, but its legend survived on the wind's breath.

Link's Quest

Link getting his new Tunic

On Outset Island, a young boy named Link finally comes of age to wear the green of the hero. Link's younger sister Aryll's present to him is permission to use her Telescope.[¹⁵](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-15)[¹⁶](https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#cite_note-16) With it, Link sees the Helmaroc King fly over the island, carrying a young girl in its talon