Nintendo's Legend of Zelda?franchise over the years has defined a genre, first by revolutionizing action adventures with its guided go-anywhere structure, and then by evolving it with several critically acclaimed sequels.

The Legend of Zelda: The 'Wind Waker in many ways eclipses its predecessors. Set in a huge overworld that takes more than seven minutes to traverse by boat (at full wind speed), it's not only easy to get lost, but it's near impossible to find all the secrets without a helping hand. IGN's Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker wiki strategy guide helps you along through the main quest with a detailed walkthrough with plenty of maps and images. It also gives you important tips on all the sidequests, hidden treasures and secrets.

Key Sections

• Walkthrough: Link's entire journey with detailed sections on each region you visit and the key items you have to pick up.
• World Map Almanach: This section lets you read about every single quadrant in the world of Wind Waker.
• Wind Waker Interactive Map: See an interactive map flooded Hyrule, with key item locations marked. Check them off as you find them.
• Pieces of Heart: There are 44 Heart/health upgrades for you to find. We've got detailed locations and a tracker for you to accomplish this.
• Treasure Charts: The best way to track which of the 50 charts you've found and what's till out there.
• Special Charts and Triforce Charts: We've included both the three Triforce map locations in the Wii U version as well as the total eight original ones in the GameCube edition.
• Items: Easily find every item or weapon in the game.
• Sidequests: Though Wind Waker is limited in scope compared to modern open world games, there's plenty to do. Can you complete everything?
• Gallery Figurines: Fill the entire gallery by tracking which figurines you've found

The IGN Guide to Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker was originally written in 2003 by Peer Schneider. We converted it to an editable wiki in 2011. It now houses strategies for both the GameCube and Wii U (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD) versions, as well as a searchable, editable overworld map of the game. With the release of the Wii U edition, we also added full video walkthroughs and in 2024, we expanded the guide further with trackable checklists.