Audience of The Wind Waker

[Alex_Da_Great]

I think that Wind Waker was the first game to introduce Zelda to little children but with the action-packed gameplay that adults still want. So basically it's an all age game.

Nintendo just wanted their audience to spread to more people without taking out anything of the game.

[DesertDweller]

I think the story is the primary aspect that is a little above the comprehension level of a child. I honestly don't think the graphics had much to do with it except mislead people into thinking the game was less serious than previous Zelda games.

I had a similar experience too recently with a friend my family watches after she gets out of school for a couple of hours. I let her try out WW, thinking that it was somewhat of a kid's game (she's 8 if my memory doesn't fail me), and she enjoyed it for a while. She loved going in and out of houses, collecting rupees, etc., to no end. She didn't get anywhere.

Then a couple of days later, her mom asked that she not play that particular game of Zelda because she had had nightmares of the little kid with snot hanging 6 inches down from his nose...not sure if that would happen to anyone else but maybe it could?!