Last year, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedrunners found a way to get to the end of the game early, but reaching Ganon for the final fight involved a risky trick that was entirely dependent on luck to complete. A new trick discovered this weekend removes the random chance and makes the game faster than ever.
There’s a reason Breath of the Wild is played in German. It’s just a heck of a lot faster. Speedruns use different languages and versions to cut down on time. Here’s how that works for The Legend of Zelda.
Last Tuesday, the Any% speedrunning world record for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was about three hours. Now, less than a week later, it’s been cut in half, thanks in part to one super lucky fairy.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has some pretty tough bosses. But a sneaky new trick allows players to slay one dangerous boss monster without ever swinging their sword.
For years, the speedrunning community surrounding The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has been searching for a way to perform what they call the “Barrier Skip,” a way to make it through a walled off section in Hyrule that leads towards the endgame. Last week, this Holy Grail of glitches was found.
Even these guys are like “OK maybe we should have made this smaller”.
The closest one can legitimately get to playing The Legend of Zelda on mobile is now the closest one can get to legitimately playing The Legend of Zelda on PC. Let's see how much Link is packed into the first five minutes of Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas.
"This is what I think Wind Waker would look like on the SNES," writes gilamasan, the guy behind this piece of Zelda fanart. "I imagined the sailing would be done with Mode 7 graphics like in Super Mario Kart and F-Zero." Looks about right to me. Head over here to see more of gilamasan's artwork.
First 4 Figures is launching a The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker statue line this year, and they're starting big. Here's a teaser for the first piece in the series. Look for more pics of Toon Ganondorf when he goes up for preorder later this week.
Painting Toon Link from start to finish, by redditor paosquared, made as a gift for a friend and then shared on r/zelda. paosquared documents the process in the imgur album embedded below, where you can also find hi-res photos of each stage.
I can totally imagine this scene: a seagull—voiced by Morgan Freeman—gives life-changing advices to a computer-animated Link from Wind Waker or from any of the Zelda games.
Batman: Arkham Origins by Auto Reply is one of this week's selection of 16 gaming wallpapers, including Child of Light, Dark Souls, and Skyrim featuring the Crysis Nanosuit Mod.
I mean I don't think that you forgot, really. It's just that it's never a bad thing to be reminded.
Wind Waker fan art by Faith Erin Hicks.
The prettiest Zelda game, now playable in virtual reality and in a new perspective. Awesome.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker in HD has been out for a while now, so we're all pretty clear on how great it looks. But now pixel artist Dean Bottino shows us that this art style goes really well with anything, even if it's a 16-bit, painted demake of the game.
Artist Liza van Kempen did a great job showing us what the characters in a Japanese-themed The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker would look like, by changing the atmosphere and everyone's outfit, yet keeping the original art style of the game.
Actually, Ganon being lactose intolerant would explain all the world-conquering rage. Life without cheese must be hard.
