The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an
action-adventure game and the tenth installment in
The Legend of Zelda series. It was released for the
Nintendo GameCube in Japan on December 13, 2002, and released in North America, Europe, and Australia over the following five months. The player controls
Link, the protagonist of the
Zelda series, as he struggles against his nemesis,
Ganondorf, for control of a sacred relic known as the
Triforce. Link spends a large portion of the game sailing, traveling between islands, and traversing through dungeons and temples to gain the power necessary to defeat Ganondorf. A heavy emphasis is placed on using and controlling wind with a
baton called the Wind Waker, which aids sailing and floating in air.
The Wind Waker follows in the footsteps of two of its predecessors,
Ocarina of Time and
Majora's Mask, retaining the basic gameplay and control system from the two
Nintendo 64 titles. Though controversial during development for its use of
cel shading graphics and the younger Link character,
The Wind Waker was still one of the Nintendo GameCube's most successful games. (
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