The Legend of Zelda. The Wind Waker Official Strategy Guide for GameCube

Customer Reviews

Old Zelda Rockz

2003-11-14
Ok look the original Zelda was Awsome but all this new cartoon stuff is simply horrible. Before when i heard Zelda i thought of Link from "The Ocarana Of Time" but now i think of the True Gayness of the little Cartoonie Charachters. i am truely dissapointed at the way the game has evolved.

Awesome

2003-10-15
I puchased this when I got stuck on zelda and it helped me allot it is very detailed and well explained and eaven has about 20+ pages on the orcarino of time I recomend this to everyone who's having a tough time I give brady games major props hey should'nt a guide that have 272 pages be helpfull you decide : )

THE book for Wind Waker

2003-09-08
This walkthru is all you need , good design , pics and maps everywhere , spoiler-free and everything is well explained , it's also delivered with a chart map and all sidequests are briefly but perfectly explained , then why "only" 4 stars .Well because of it's other part : the "ocarina of time" walkthrough , wich is done like a summary of the game .
Go 'n get it ya'll.

good walkthrough; lacking in Nintendo Gallery collection

2003-08-18
A commercial guide is used to help the player get through a game with minimal effort and meant as a time saving effort. It has to enhance the player's experience by giving clear, concise maps, listings of items, weapons, enemies, as well as divulge secrets hard to find on your own.

Doug Walsh suceeded in most criteria. In his walkthrough, he assists the player by placing accurate maps, marks the rooms, item locations and gives boss strategies. The sidequests section is equally choke full of useful strategies. A section by section of WW's 49 sections are given-a pull out 2-sided poster helps in your task of exploring the world of WW. In these, he has done an excellent job.

However, the Nintendo Gallery collection, easily the most daunting task faced by any Zelda fan, is not covered fully by him. There IS a complete listing of all the figures, but he does not tell you how to get their picture for ALL figures. To give credit, he did highlight the importance of taking Tetra's picture but the information about several key personal in Wind Waker being obtainable only in the second playthrough is WRONG. I managed to get all of them in the first playthrough. You can purchase them from Lenzo-no need to wait till your second walkthrough. Lenzo will offer you a Legendary Pictograph during different moon phrases-so just keepy playing the Song of Passing until you get them all. Information on hard to find NPCs and timing to take their pictures are also MIA. Some NPCs will never face you in the face-so how are you going to get that 'full frontal shot' as required? Others like the Kragaroc need to be staying still and not flying the skies for an effective shot to be approved. I learnt these through trial and error or got the missing information from gamefaqs.

Similiar to Metriod Prime scanning of enemies, in WW, you only get one chance to take pictures of certain characters and bosses. This information is also missing-making my second playing of WW compulsory if I am keen on completing my collection of figures.

In short, an good guide for anyone who don't want to complete the Nintendo Gallery. Perfectionists would have to look elsewhere.

A definite "must get" 2003-07-25
Now, like most people, I wanted to get Prima's strategy guide. But after I read the reviews about it, I heard it just gives away the whole story. So I went with this one. It's great. I mean there are some things that may be hard to understand what it's talking about but it's relatively easy to find out matching the pictures with the area you need to go to. Also, this book tells you the items and enemies you will find before every temple. Personally, I don't care that it tells me what I should be looking for. I just don't want to hear the whole story before I'm going to later. So I highly recommend that you get this strategy guide.

this is really helpfull 2004-10-29
this guide is really helpfull it tells you many extra things where to go everything! if you have the game you need this to in order to beat it or want the extra things i have everything in this game because i beated it twice you get to have three names and of course you start off at 3 hearts but with this guide you can get more when ever you beat a major beast in the game you get a heart and you also find peices of hearts to earn a full one it takes 4 peices of hearts to get a full one you get tresures and empty bottles to carry things hookshot fire errows ice light and the regular you get the graboling hook a camera a tingle tuner this item is when ever you need help you hook up your game boy advance to be connected with tingle and he could help you out i cant tell you everything because there is so much things and it might ruin the fun of the game but anyways this guide would really help so if you have the game and dont have this guide then you should get it now!

A good guide with one mistake 2004-05-10
this guide has everything you need in it to complete the game fully exept that it has one mistake in it. in the list of all the heart pieces there is one listed twice and one missing. heart piece 43 should be at rock spire island and to get it you need to defeat the boats in the area and haul up the treasure they leave. one of them is a heart piece.
other then this it is a very good guide.

Well-done strategy guide 2004-04-05
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is not an easy game to write a strategy guide for, considering how very many tangents and extra features there are in the game. But this book succeeds pretty admirably, walking you throught the tough parts step-by-step. The charts that cover such things as where to find Heart Pieces and Treasure Maps are especially helpful. The only problem with the book is that in a few places, it directs you to use more difficult methods than necessary to accomplish tasks - for example, it might tell you to use water jars to cool off lava to make a footpath (hard to do and usually gets you burned a few times) when you can simply use your grappling hook to swing across the lava with no problem. But overall, this book is pretty much a must for anyone with a Zelda: Wind Waker game.

I don't mean to insult the game 2004-03-12
The game is great. Another Legend of Zelda has hit top grade and flew over the disappointing Majora's Mask. The game is quite easy, but having a guide for an adventure game isn't much so of an adventure. I love the game. I also appreciate that they made this guide, but i don't think too much of it.

I'm new with strategy guides... 2004-02-08
I don't use a lot of strategy guides, so my opinion might reflect my limited experience. But when we (my son and I) couldn't figure out what to do next or remember what we had already done in the WindWaker game, I decided to get the strategy guide. This guide is very well laid out and gives you needed information without spoiling the game for you. Half the fun of a Zelda game is the storyline, and this guide does not give away important plot development. Though I was able to find important items located on each island without having to return to the location over and over again. (And it does take a while to sail around the world in that little boat!) I found the guide well thought-out and an invaluable aid in my 'virtual' quest.

Another person commented about the lack of info on the Nintendo Gallery. I must agree about that. Though I have found (in my 4th play-through) that trying to get all those photos is a huge and fun challenge. This is just an added feature to give the game replay value. If you are dead bent on getting the details on the Nintendo Gallery, do a search online.

Overall, I would highly recommend this particular strategy guide.