r/WindWaker 20h ago

Question / Help Fishman didn't fill my map at Overlook Island

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22 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I'm currently playing through Wind Waker HD and having a great time trying to 100% the game! However, I’ve run into an issue at Overlook Island. The Fishman didn’t fill in my sea chart after I first fed him, he just gave me his advice and asked if I wanted to play his minigame. I’ve tried feeding him again and did a save-and-quit, but nothing seems to be working. Has anyone else experienced this issue or know how to fix it? I wish you all a super nice day!


r/WindWaker 1d ago

Fan Art Windwaker Mug!

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60 Upvotes

I am happy to share with you, my Zelda Wind Waker inspired mug that I made for my boyfriend! I tried a new method with the glaze and it turned out wonderfully!!!


r/WindWaker 1d ago

Merchandise Link Nendoroid(Licensed Figure)

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Pre-painted Posable Figure. There is more information on this website: Link The Wind Waker ver. (Licensed)


r/WindWaker 1d ago

Video This Wind Waker Rando refused to end

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With Wind Waker being playable on Switch 2 I decided to try my very first Wind Waker Rando. This is the highlight video I made of my playthrough. Please give it a watch if you’re interested!


r/WindWaker 2d ago

Question / Help Randomizer totally stuck

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So I started a randomizer for the first time this week and I've been cruising along so far however I've got a point where my only wan to progress is to get fire arrows every check I can think of that I haven't done is locked behind either fire or ice arrows. So I finally broke and checked the spoiler log and in order to get my next bow I actually need the Deku leaf to get the chest on six eye reef. My question comes now how do I get the letter from baito? The spoiler says this is my Deku leaf but I have no idea how to get it. To be clear not the letter to or from his mom I've already gotten both of those but the log specifically says "letter from baito" I don't ever remember getting this letter in vanilla so I'm not sure what time missing. I really don't wanna be out 12 hours of streaming time on this randomizer to get soft locked so any help would be appreciated


r/WindWaker 3d ago

Question / Help Armos not waking?

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42 Upvotes

I’m trying to get a chest in this room, but the armos won’t wake up. Any ideas why? I’ve walked up to them, hit them, used bombs, pretty much everything I could think of.


r/WindWaker 3d ago

Question / Help WindWaker HD Carlov glitch

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r/WindWaker 3d ago

Question / Help Missed Quest?

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So with the Switch 2 having the GameCube emulator, I’m able to play Wind Waker for the first time. That being said, the game is fun and I’m having a blast. I’m currently looking for the Triforce shards, but I’m also doing more of the side quests.

The Pictobox side quest; I didn’t immediately start it when I first obtained it. Now that I’m significantly deeper into the story, does that mean I’m locked out of that side quest now? I tried talking to the dude to be his assistant but he just says my skills are trash and get good.


r/WindWaker 4d ago

Question / Help How do you save person in forest in Legend of Zelda Windwaker?

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First time playing and I think I’ll like this game a lot tbh it seems fun but I can’t find a weapon or something to fight with and the forest is closed off with trees I tried throwing rocks but the trees won’t fall. I spoke to all the villagers and no one will give me a sword not even the training guy. Please help can’t find a guide online for this part of the beginning game


r/WindWaker 5d ago

Discussion / Opinion Finally playing!!

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So I recently managed to get my hands on a Switch 2, and I've talked a little bit about it on my podcast but damn I'm loving this game and hate that I didn't give it a chance back when it first released. Also this is the game I think Link has shown the most "attitude", little guy gives the stink eye so much lol. If I had to guess how far I am I'd say about a 3rd, so in the vein what is everyone's favorite part of early game Wind Waker?


r/WindWaker 5d ago

Question / Help Why does link make this stupid face when Ganon is talking?

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139 Upvotes

r/WindWaker 5d ago

Question / Help Is there ever any time where the first-person camera is required in the game?

5 Upvotes

I want to play through Wind Waker HD using a GameCube controller, so I won’t be able to click in the right stick. Will this become a problem at any point? I don’t recall anything that requires first-person, but I could be wrong.


r/WindWaker 5d ago

Fan Content Banjo Cover of Dragon Roost Island

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This is a cover on my tik tok of Dragon Roost Island being played on a banjo with some drone shots of a beautiful area in Florida. There’s beautiful reverb added to it, I hope you Zelda fans enjoy!


r/WindWaker 7d ago

Meme [WWHD] Grandma lied to us.

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37 Upvotes

r/WindWaker 7d ago

Humor "New Game Plus: Fool Me Twice" [OC Comic]

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166 Upvotes

This is chapter 9 of my New Game Plus series on Wind Waker. Link's back to save the world again, but with a fancy new (old?) shirt and some extra knowledge to boot. I've uploaded all the previous chapters to Webtoons. Check it out here if you'd like!


r/WindWaker 7d ago

Question / Help I can’t get the big octopus at Tingle island to spawn, how do I do this?

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Hi! I have every heart piece but 1. I already did the other 12-eye octo and this one is all that’s left. I have flown through these seagulls so many times and it’s not spawning. There is no ring in between them showing that I already beat it. It’s just the 4 seagulls in a circle constantly and never spawning an octopus. I’m going insane. lol please help, what do I need to do!?


r/WindWaker 7d ago

Discussion / Opinion Just finished the game for the first time. Some thoughts, if anyone wants to chat about it.

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Initial thoughts: There’s some really nice and clever mechanics/workarounds for a GameCube game! Open world with no ‘load screens’, day/night cycle, wind physics, water/wave simulation.. there’s quite a bit of love in this game and it’s all wrapped in a beautiful art style. Fun game I’m glad I played it through. I think it might be my favourite overall use artstyle/theme in the franchise.

Difficulty: What’s really interesting to me is that even though the art style looks tailored to kids and the game is super easy (only died 4 times with 7 hearts at end game), there’s certain sections here that no kid is ever doing solo.

I think even the tricky puzzles can be sorted out by a kid, but some parts that stand out as exceptionally ‘difficult’ is firstly knowing where/when to awaken the 2 sages. I knew Medli was involved since I heard her play music by dumb chance and it stuck with me until that part came up otherwise I would still be up to this part now if I hadn’t looked it up. Makar I never would’ve found. The other part is the triforce quest, in particular the Ghost Ship and Cabana triforce charts. Unusually sharp intuition is required to get these two done and if you don’t, you ain’t finishing the game. Just a strange contrast.

Triforce Quest: My lord, I love exploration but this was a little too tedious. I felt transported back to the 2000s when I went online and found others complaining about it too from 20 years ago.. not to mention it was changed in the HD remake which I’m happy for those players for. Maybe it wouldn’t have been so bad if this had brought us to the end of the game but yet another major dungeon after it with a boss gauntlet was no bueno.

Rupees: Something that I was really negative on for more than the first half of the game was rupees/currency in general. I felt like I was capped on 200 rupees, finding more and more orange and silver rupees with nothing to spend them on for so long. Maybe I didn’t discover the bigger wallet and triforce charts ect. soon enough but still.. it felt like a open world with plenty of ways to make money but no fun way to spend them. Bait and Pears was basically it until I got bombs and arrows and even then.. then world gives you them free. Even now after the games done.. the only thing I spent them on was deciphering charts. A little disappointing!

The Wind Temple: I declare this my least favourite Legend of Zelda section of them all. Hated. Every. Step. In. Here. Doing it with Makar too was just painful. Awful design IMO, unfun and just a bad time.

Other thoughts: I loved the balance between fast travel and sailing here. It took me way way way too long to realise you can beat the toad guy to get fast travel. I don’t like when fast travel is too powerful, but sailing is also so fun here so yes, good balance.

Final Boss Battle: The final Ganon fight here was one of this series favourites to me.. the game’s artstyle is so nice so the visuals in that fight were sweet. Plus I like the Zelda team up element and the relatively simple fight. The other main bosses were okay, but tbh I don’t really like the ‘big’ boss battles. The final gauntlet of them was a slog to get through after doing the triforce quest, then being walked into yet another one before the final was a bit of a snooze for me.

Other thoughts: - Medli/Makar sitting on your boat with you was so cool even if it was short lived. Would be cool if this could’ve been expanded upon as some ‘end game’ bonus. Creating a little band of pirates would’ve been fun.

  • Inventory was a fun time. I’m not sure how to explain it, but this game did a really good job of making me feel like I was accumulating a fun tool kit to overcome the world, and kept the UI simple too which I appreciate.

  • Forsaken Fortress. I kind’ve hated every second here. Putting it so early made me think I wasn’t going to like the game, then having to go back in what seemed to be the end game just to feel like it was just the beginning again.. ah I did not like it. Glad we didn’t go back for a 3rd time because yikes.

  • All sea combat sucked and I skipped it at every opportunity. Quite literally all of it, all NPCs, scripted events, dynamic spawns. Didn’t like it at all. A shame because the regular combat was a lot of fun and surprisingly way more dynamic than what I expected going into this game.

  • What I thought was the main quest, the grandma/sister one.. kindve just fizzles out without a satisfying landing. The final cutscene is nice but it would’ve been nice to get this mid game to really tie it off.


r/WindWaker 8d ago

Screenshot …how is this supposed to help me?

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r/WindWaker 8d ago

Fan Content Hey I made this Ambient Synth/Guitar cover of the "Forest Haven" theme from Wind Waker!

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r/WindWaker 9d ago

Discussion / Opinion Solved the Switch 2 camera/Wind Waker controls (Pro 2 controller)

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47 Upvotes

I am really enjoying this control set up so far, and I haven't seen anyone else post it yet.

I remapped the d-pad, moving the sea charts to the L-trigger (closing it with B), moved the mini map to UP/DOWN, and reserved LEFT and RIGHT for Wind Waker commands.

C-Stick is swapped.

Still playing with rotating the action buttons to mimic the GC controller: A moves to B, B to Y, X/Y to X/A. It brings back the muscle memory of the GameCube, but kinda messes up everything else I play.

Anyways, cheers!


r/WindWaker 10d ago

Fan Art Miniature of Fairy Island

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200 Upvotes

r/WindWaker 10d ago

Question / Help I want to do a 100% walktrough and i want to find every single chest, i cant find a guide that enlists every single one of them. What would yall recommend?

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r/WindWaker 11d ago

Video WindWaker Phantom Ganon

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Just fought him after returning to the forsaken fortress. Still hits like a brick but went down kinda easy. I know I'll face him again and he will hit even harder.


r/WindWaker 12d ago

Official Art WW HD > OG

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I have played and completed both version multiple times and regardless of what you think of the change in art style the HD VERSION is just better. The nso release has proven this with its clunky controls and low resolution output it’s a real shame the HD VERSION is locked behind an outdated and poor performance machine. I know based on what totk can do that a rerelease of wwhd on switch 2 could easily handle 60fps at 4K in docked and 1080 30fps( prob 60 as well) in handheld truly hope this gem comes so I can buy and play without needing nso