UGO has posted a preview of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the GameCube. Here's a bit:
The Legend of Zelda series, from its Super Nintendo outing onward, has featured a collection of mini-games to enjoy, some for fun, some story-required, and some simply to hone your skills. Ocarina of Time features perhaps the two greatest mini-games ever, the detailed fishing game and the highly addictive horseback archery game. While we know of only one so far on the GameCube, it looks like it will double as an integral mode of transportation as well! Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker will allow Link to embark a one-man sailing raft, very similar to the one depicted in the opening cinematic of the Gameboy classic, Link’s Awakening. Seemingly, this personal sailboat will afford Link the opportunity to travel to new lands, as the world seems to be comprised mostly of islands, not the typical Hyrulean continent we are used to. However, the sailboat was only available in recent demos as a mini-game, which had Link navigating an enclosed area of the ocean in an attempt to ramp off barrels in order to collect rupees dangling in midair, off the water’s surface. This is very similar to the manner with which Nintendo showed off Ocarina of Time’s horse, Epona before that game’s release. |