Swift Sail
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Sailing with the Swift Sail
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The Swift Sail is an item that appears in the HD remake of The Wind Waker. It is an upgrade to the original Sail that is available later in the game.[1][2] Just like the normal sail, it allows Link to travel across the Great Sea on the King of Red Lions. However, the Swift Sail moves the boat a lot faster and is always filled with wind, so Link does not have to play the Wind's Requiem to make the wind face where he is going.[3] Although it is similar in appearance to the original sail, the design on it is red instead of blue.
According to Eiji Aonuma, the boat could not go any faster in the original Nintendo GameCube version due to the fact that the world could not load quickly enough to keep up with it, but the Wii U's advanced power makes it possible.[4]
References
- ↑ "During the game, you can acquire the ability to speed up the ship." — Eiji Aonuma, Wii U Developer Direct - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD @E3 2013
- ↑ "But if the ship was that fast from the beginning, he wouldn't appreciate it. Once you reach a certain point in the game, you'll become able to go this fast and experience how great it feels." — Eiji Aonuma, Wii U Developer Direct - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD @E3 2013
- ↑ "The Nintendo Direct video showed a glimpse of the Swift Sail (red sail) that allows the ship to go faster. Those of you who played the original may have noticed, but not only will this sail make the ship go faster, but it will always be full of wind, meaning you’re now able to control the ship to any direction you want, without having to use the Wind Waker to change direction of the wind." — Eiji Aonuma, Miiverse
- ↑ "On the GameCube, in the previous version, it took some time to load the ocean data, because it was so vast. So, if the ship had gone too fast, it would have sailed to the edge of the ocean and fallen off. Now that it's on Wii U, the capabilities have been enhanced greatly, and we're now able to load the entire ocean at once. Now that we're able to do that, we could speed up the ship." — Eiji Aonuma, Wii U Developer Direct - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD @E3 2013