The gameplay in The Wind Waker HD has been tuned up from the original to enhance the player experience. The Triforce Shard Quest has been shortened; five of the eight shards are now found directly without having to go through the process of decrypting a Triforce Chart.
Certain item usage cutscenes, such as the cutscenes that play upon using the Grappling Hook to swing and salvage, have been shortened. Some items, such as the Picto Box , have new and improved functions. The Picto Box can now store 12 pictographs as opposed to 3. In addition, Carlov can now sculpt up to 12 figurines per day, as opposed to only one.
The gallery can thus be completed more rapidly and efficiently. All pictographs can be sent to other players in the Tingle Bottle. The receiving players can add the pictographs to their own Picto Boxes and use them to complete their Nintendo Gallery.
Additionally, he no longer needs a Forest Firefly for the Deluxe Pictobox. Sailing has also been improved with an upgrade to the sail , called the Swift Sail.
In addition, it automatically changes the direction of the wind to the boat's heading. This replaces the function of the A button in the original game, which was used to stop the boat from sailing. The changed functions came about as a result of technical limitations in the original; the GameCube version loaded only a single "chunk" of ocean as Link traveled, requiring the slower sailing speed to mask loading times [11] , while the Wii U can and does load the entire Great Sea at once.
This does, however, result in occasional framerate issues, particularly during rainfall. The Tingle Bottle , which allowed players to randomly send messages to other players, replaces the Tingle Tuner in the original game. The Tingle Bottle was used to send messages in bottles, which will subsequently appear on the shores of other players' islands.
Knuckle now appears on Tingle Island after all five statues have been found. Link's actions have been altered slightly. He is now capable of changing direction while swinging on a rope, without having to stop first.
However, the shield button is no longer the "grab" button for draggable objects, and instead both the "grab" and "climb" commands are part of the primary action button, making block controls act like older games. The game includes a higher-difficulty Hero Mode, but unlike other incarnations it has no unlocking requirements, and can be toggled on or off when starting a new game or when a save game is resumed.
The game supports GamePad-only play, allowing for play without a television, as well as control with the Wii U Pro Controller, for those who prefer a traditional control scheme. During use of the Pro Controller, the GamePad can still be used as a map. Other altered gameplay elements include: [10]. The Inventory has been made accessible through the GamePad's touchscreen, with no need to pause the game. It is now possible to slide an item icon on the GamePad to one of the three slot icons at the top of the screen, allowing players to switch items quickly.
The older style of item selection by pausing and using the d-pad and buttons must be used when playing the game with the Wii U Pro Controller, and may also still be used with the Wii U GamePad. Some items, such as the Wind Waker , are permanently mapped to certain buttons as opposed to being equipped to the three item slots.
This allows players to quickly and conveniently access these items, as they are key to playing the game. First-person aiming of items is achieved through either the right analog stick or the GamePad's gyroscope, though there is an option to disable the gyroscope. Link can also move in first-person mode, though item usage is limited to ranged weapons such as the Hero's Bow.
Some cutscenes where Link makes a facial expression silently have voices added to match the expressions. The ending cutscene and staff credits, which were prerendered in the original game, are now fully real-time cutscenes in the remaster. Other elements that are now commonplace in videogames were done earlier in Wind Waker, like the way that Link's eyes and head would turn to look at people, enemies, or important things happening around him. His facial expressions would also change based on context: If you were in a tense battle for your life, Link would squint his eyes and grit his teeth.
When you finally won, he'd sigh in relief. Sometimes it was more utilitarian — Link's eyes would focus in a particular direction, indicating to the player that something of interest was there. So in typical Nintendo fashion, the graphics were there to serve the gameplay: The exaggerated cartoon style made it possible for the player to easily read Link's face, especially on a model standard-definition television.
Even so, Wind Waker took a lot of heat from fans when it was revealed to be a whimsical, cartoony adventure that would end up looking more like Mickey Mouse than Lord of the Rings. Today you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't think Wind Waker looks astonishing, especially with the new HD remake.
What was once its biggest criticism — "It looks like a cartoon! Link and the rest of the characters are beautifully animated, and so is that ocean: Alone out there, looking into the vast horizon while the blue waves lap at your boat, it's enough to convince you, even if just for a moment, that secrets and mysteries are still out there waiting for you, even in this now well-explored world.
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