Me (28f) and my brother (31m) have been playing WW our whole lives (basically.) We always have the wind waker equipped to the Z slot, no matter what. Instead of having a third, potentially more useful item in that spot, it’s always the wind waker. For some reason, along the way, we felt it was sacrilegious to do anything else. Anyone else in the same, odd boat?

*Bonus points if you felt the same way about the ocarina

i’ve done 23 runs on wind waker HD and another 8 on the original gamecube version. i still love replaying it, and i recently completed the entire nintendo gallery for the first time.

so yeah. i’m talking actual playthroughs, not speedrun attempts or resets. anyone else replay this game an unreasonable number of times? 😂

That little kid Zill on Outset Island who follows you around with his little ‘dokdokdokdok’ noises and the snot flying out of his nose!!! So silly, but that cracks me up everytime and I also feel a little imitated by his snot trail! hahaha.

Ive only seen like two decent ones on Gamebanana but I have no idea where else to look.

Was curious if wind waker hd had any other model swapping available besides what's on that site. Or if anyone knew of any

Did some modicum of time pass between Link killing Ganondorf?

The bird kid that greets them looks much older than the one from before.

I couldn't get a sufficient answer from Google and I don't really like using AI anyway.

Was that the same bird?

I do not remember Wind Waker being this hard when I played it on GameCube back in high school?

I use my hands daily in my profession and in med school one of our professors even encouraged us to play video games (in moderation) to build up dexterity, strength, etc.

I've been playing for a month and finally got to the end.

The other forms were so much easier and I get that they make it that way on purpose.

But even if you do hit him in the face with the master sword and he stops for half a second, you can't get the light arrows, or I CAN'T get the light arrows to focus on his tail butt.

Am I missing something?

Edit: it really is this bad on the Switch 2. The controls are terrible. I've beaten puppet Ganon and now I'm trying to beat the final Ganondorf after Zelda wakes up but she keeps hitting me with the light arrows.

How did we do this as kids?

As soon as I manage to correctly deflect and arrow, he's recovered by the time I can hit him.

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Playing Wind Waker for the first time rn(on original hardware), and I have been exploring the world since the tetra reveal. I also played BotW and beat that game (not 100% completion). And this might be sacrilegious to say, but despite not having beaten the game yet, I’d say Wind Waker has the better designed open world, or at least it has better open world rewards.

BotW is indeed beautiful, with gorgeous landscapes and physics systems that make regions not only have character, but a challenge in survival at times. But one of my biggest issues with the game is that many of the rewards I receive for exploring feel less than satisfying after the first 10 times I receive the same reward, be it a korok seed, a weapon that might be weaker than what I have or will will easily break, a shrine puzzle or some materials.

Whereas with Wind Waker, if I explore around a random island, what I might find could be in the form of a treasure chart, rupees to use for tingle or beedle, a piece of heart, a character who could be useful at some point as a merchant or part of a side quest, or a unique item like an empty bottle, or even a fairy fountain. I feel sufficiently rewarded for exploring different parts of the ocean. It also helps that there aren’t the hundreds of items to collect like in the Wild era games, and they also aren’t locked behind the same activities over and over again.

So while BotW and TotK may have more beautiful and varied open worlds, I find myself more interested in exploring wind waker and feeling like I’m rewarded more for exploring the islands rather than getting an Amber/opal in a enemy camp chest or a korok seed for the umpteenth time. Echoes of Wisdom felt similarly rewarding to Wind Waker with its world design despite being able to go anywhere. If Zelda insists on continuing open world design in their future games, I’d rather them take inspiration from Wind Waker over BotW/Totk. Did anyone else feel this way?

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I'm nearing the end of my Windwaker HD playthrough, and while I usually am a completionist, there are some things I just do not want to do.

I've done

-All heart pieces

-All treasure charts

-Savage labyrinth/Heroes Charm

-Most of the story ( of course)

-Got all items in the auction

-Both beedle VIP tickets

So I'm asking, are there some things you do every playthrough/ is there something you think I still should do before ending the game ?

I have gotten every figurine in this game all 130 something (except Knuckle, no gameboy) and it was tedious but fun lol. This might be my biggest Zelda achievement thus far and definitely the most difficult Zelda I’ve had to 100%. I can definitely call myself a true Zelda fan after this 😂.

Lego ideas won’t accept new Zelda sets, but had fun designing this one!

IM HOME

I'm at a loss of what to do. I don't want to consult a guide because the answer is probably so obvious that it's probably the only thing I haven't tried, but was it hard for any of you to figure it out?

I cannot be the only one finding this game to be tedious and off putting?

Is there some special trick I'm missing? I'm even hitting A before getting to the correct space and it helps a little.

The squid game was easier.

For those that have had the privilege of playing both versions: one on Wii U as the HD remaster, and now the version on Switch 2 through Nintendo classics, I’m wondering which did you prefer? Which is the superior game?

I can currently play Wind Waker on Switch 2, but a few people on other threads have said that the HD version is better and that I try and get a Wii U for cheap.

What do you guys think?

Hey everyone,

I am currently trying to decomp Wind Waker HD. I am roughly 40-50% through the functions thanks to the amazing work from the GC decomp project. Ofc the HD version has many changes compared to the GC version - so it will take some time to decomp it.

So, I was curious and asked Claude to spit out some code differences between the two versions. Here are some fun facts so far:

Graphics: HD replaced the GameCube tricks

- No more blob shadows. Many actors (Medli, tables, the seagull, objects) simply don't draw their round fake shadow in HD. The HD version computes real shadows for the whole scene instead.

- The sky was rewritten. The sky dome's drawing and update are completely new code, including the rain in dungeons.

- Tetra's eyes: HD gives her separate eye shapes per material and two texture animations, so her face is more expressive than the GameCube version's single animation.

- Rupees get extra material flags for the HD shine. One item swaps its texture at runtime.

- The spot box no longer draws its light cone model, and gets an explicit visibility box instead.

Gameplay: small changes Nintendo made

- Medli has an HD-only warp action. HD gives her a way to warp to you, probably so she can't get stuck while you carry her through the Earth Temple, a common frustration on GameCube. Her arrival on the ground also changed.

- Seagulls wander in a smaller radius, check for water when landing, and Aryll's seagull only lands near the ground.

- Aryll's telescope has rewritten code, which fits HD's GamePad gyro aiming for the telescope.

- The pig's attack collision moved to a different mode, and gravity and wall stops were moved to the end of its update. Pig chases feel slightly different.

- The jungle vines move differently and have 4 collision spheres.

- Objects with a mirror effect (Medli's mirror, for example) use a different mirror scale. HD also mirrors the "save option" behaviour.

GameCube bugs fixed in HD

- A Rito NPC turned toward the player starting from an uninitialised angle on GameCube. HD starts from the correct angle.

- A missing null check for collision triangles was added, a classic crash fix.

- The spikes in Forsaken Fortress had their action table moved into the function, a cleaner build.

Thanks grandpa, i love you

so im just passed the forest with the deku tree and whatnot and then it's still forcing me to go back to outset, i remember beating this game at least twice in childhood and i dont remember it being this much of a slog to get through,im playing the HD version if that matters but im not having a bad time i guess by any means, i just dont remember being unable to explore up until after this point...I assume anyway, I cant remember if i even can after this part lol

like i said, still having fun, I just dont remember this game being so dang linear

I have entered the auction house 46 times and still haven’t seen the swift sail. All of the other prizes have been offered at the auction many times. I read multiple posts saying it is a one in 5 chance of spawning but clearly that isn’t true because it seems to be unavailable for me. I read that the only prerequisite is completing dragon roost cavern which I’ve done. Am I missing something? Playing the GameCube version on dolphin emulator.