It's a little known fact that Twilight Princess was originally going to be a sequel to The Wind Waker. Though the final versions of both games are quite different, some things in Twilight Princess are the stuff of a The Wind Waker sequel. The Wind Waker's Hookshot, though not clawed, feels quite a bit like the prototype of Twilight Princess' Clawshot and Double Clawshots. It might be an obvious connection (the case could be made for them just being the same item, merely redrawn), but there's another that's more substantial.
The quest for the Triforce Charts in The Wind Waker, takes Link back to his home of Outset Island. On the isle, the chart is found in the "Savage Labyrinth," a series of rooms infested with enemies from throughout the game. Any players of Twilight Princess will recognize this idea's being reused for that game's "Cave of Ordeals." But it wasn't just the idea that was carried over. The ultimate reward - even the final room - is similar.
As mentioned, these areas involve 51 and 50 rooms respectively, each holding a group of enemies to be handily dispatched. The final room of each involves a mad melee with four Darknuts, and the final reward of each is particularly underwhelming.
In Twilight Princess, the various Light Spirit fountains across the land become populated with fairies. In The Wind Waker, you get a piece of heart. Twilight Princess' reward is slightly more substantial, but considering that both involve a solid 40+ minutes of battling and neither can be completed until the final leg of each game, their rewards fall far short of the effort required.
At least the in-game rewards are rather thin. Hardcore Zelda players will take each area's completion as a point of pride, but it would be much more incredible if there was something grander at the bottom of each. Maybe a scroll that teaches Link the sword beam technique.
Maybe that's one of the things added to The Wind Waker HD (along with a higher gear for the boat), or at least such is hoped.
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