The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
North American Wii box art, featuring Link in Hylian and wolf forms
Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Eiji Aonuma
Producer(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto
Artist(s)	Yusuke Nakano Satoru Takizawa
Writer(s)	Aya Kyogoku Takayuki Ikkaku Mitsuhiro Takano Eiji Aonuma
Composer(s)	Toru Minegishi Asuka Ohta
Series	The Legend of Zelda
Platform(s)	Wii, GameCube
Release date(s)	Wii NA: November 19, 2006 JP: December 2, 2006 AU: December 7, 2006 EU: December 8, 2006 GameCube JP: December 2, 2006 NA: December 11, 2006 EU: December 15, 2006 AU: December 19, 2006
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Aggregate score
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	(Wii) 95/100 (GCN) 96/100
Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	(Wii) A+
AllGame	(GCN)
CVG	10/10
Edge	9/10
EGM	(Wii) 30/30
Famitsu	(Wii) 38/40
Game Informer	10/10
GamePro
GameSpot	(Wii) 8.8/10 (GCN) 8.9/10
GameSpy
GamesRadar	10/10
IGN	(Wii) 9.5/10 (GCN) 9.5/10
Nintendo Power	(Wii) 9.5/10 (GCN) 9.5/10
Nintendo World Report	10/10
X-Play	(Wii)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Japanese: ゼルダの伝説 トワイライトプリンセス, Hepburn: Zeruda no Densetsu: Towairaito Purinsesu^?) is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii and GameCube home video game consoles. It is the thirteenth installment in the The Legend of Zelda series. Originally planned for release on the GameCube in November 2005, Twilight Princess was delayed by Nintendo to allow its developers to refine the game, add more content, and port it to the Wii. The Wii version was released alongside the console in North America in November 2006, and in Japan, Europe, and Australia the following month. The GameCube version was also released worldwide in December 2006, and was the final first-party game released for the console.

The story focuses on series protagonist Link, who tries to prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by a corrupted parallel dimension known as the Twilight Realm. To do so, he takes the form of both a Hylian and a wolf, and is assisted by a mysterious creature named Midna. The game takes place hundreds of years after Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, in an alternate timeline from The Wind Waker.