'The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker' News & Updates: Sequel Canceled; Nintendo Artist Satoru Takizawa Reveals More Details

Released in 2003, "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" had received universal acclaims despite, many criticizing its eerie graphics. But with the improvement of technology, many were excited to finally play the game with a much better graphics.

According to Nintendo Everything, there were plans to create a more direct follow-up to "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker". At the 2004 Game Developers Conference, series producer Eiji Aonuma confirmed that a sequel was in the works, and now Takizama has offered up more details on what the project would have become. With its surrounding hype, "The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker" was originally planned to get a sequel. However, Nintendo canceled the plan as it chose to focus on "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" instead,

That's according to an interview with artist Satoru Takizawa (translated by Nintendo Everything), who says, that the company had begun the initial steps towards creating "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" part 2. However, due to the demand for a more Ocarina-like game was growing by the day, the company chose to focus on Twilight Princess. Takizawa said in an interview for a book called "The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts," which is scheduled for a western release in February 2017 but is already available in Japan.

The odd reason of its cancellation and subsequent development of Twilight Princess instead is due to a horse. Yes people, because of a horse. "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 2"  would have taken place in a more land-based setting, rather than on the sea, so that we could have Link gallop across the land on a horse," says Takizawa. "But Link's proportions in "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"  weren't very well suited for riding on horseback; he was too short, and an adult version of Toon Link did not seem appropriate either. High-budget live-action fantasy movies were also huge at the time, so with all things considered, we decided to have at it [and switch to Twilight Princess]."

"The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" never got a sequel, though it did get an HD re-release in 2013 on Wii U while Twilight Princess also got improved in an HD Wii U version, in 2016.