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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Limited Edition for Nintendo GameCube
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Limited Edition for the Nintendo GameCube is part of the release that linked the sea adventure to a separate bonus disc. The main game follows Link after his sister is kidnapped. You sail between islands, explore dungeons and use items to open new routes. The cartoon-like characters show what concerns them with their eyes and movements.
While playing, you alternate sword fights with exploring rooms and landscapes. A found tool often has different applications: you use it to progress, to approach an enemy or to view a previously inaccessible place. With the Wind Waker baton you can perform melodies, including a melody that changes the wind in front of your sail.
The original Limited Edition came with Ocarina of Time and Ocarina of Time: Master Quest on the bonus disc. Ocarina follows Link through Hyrule, while Master Quest redesigns that adventure's dungeons with different puzzles and placements. They are two versions of the same adventure, next to the complete The Wind Waker. That combination makes the edition interesting if you want to see how the three-dimensional Zelda games build up their assignments, from closely connected rooms in Hyrule to separate islands on a large sea.
Region and language
Our Nintendo GameCube games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Limited Edition for Nintendo GameCube includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Limited Edition
Nintendo announced the Limited Edition of The Wind Waker in February 2003. The original set paired the new GameCube game with a second disc containing Ocarina of Time and Master Quest. For example, an adventure of the Nintendo 64 was placed next to a new version of Zelda on the same console. These were individual games on a bonus disc, not additional chapters within The Wind Waker.
Master Quest emerged from the plan to provide Ocarina of Time with modified dungeons. Nintendo referenced the original development for the Nintendo 64DD in the announcement. In the final GameCube version you recognize the story and the outside world of Ocarina, but the dungeons require different solutions. Knowledge of an original route can help you, while at the same time the new layout forces you to look carefully again.
The edition also marks the transition between two visual styles. Ocarina works with the more angular figures and environments of the Nintendo 64 era; The Wind Waker uses emphatic facial expressions and broad areas of color. Later, Nintendo released another Zelda collector's item for the GameCube, Collector's Edition. That is a separate compilation with four older games and a Wind Waker demo, with different content than this bonus disc.
Similar games for Nintendo GameCube
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess offers a later 3D adventure on the GameCube, with dungeons, a larger land world and Link's wolf form. The similarity is mainly in building up your equipment and learning to use new tools. The Wind Waker revolves that research around sea voyages and individual islands.
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures makes four Links the starting point for puzzles and battles from a top view. You work through defined areas. The Wind Waker and the Ocarina adventures of the original Limited Edition give one hero an ongoing three-dimensional world in which you learn routes and tools.
Star Fox Adventures shares the setup of a hero exploring an environment, using items, and fighting in between. Fox does that with a staff at Dinosaur Planet. In The Wind Waker, Link's equipment grows throughout the journey, and finding islands and exploring dungeons are the main activities.
Beyond Good & Evil gives a journalistic interpretation to investigating a world. Jade photographs evidence and animals as she fights and sneaks past guards. The Wind Waker uses discovery mainly for new routes, equipment and dungeon puzzles. Both give you reasons to look at a place carefully before moving on.
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy alternates battles of Sphinx with puzzle sections of the mummy. You will therefore learn two different ways to use a space. Zelda has one hero deploy different tools, with a new discovery often explaining how to pass a previous obstacle or reach a secret.
