The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | |
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Developer(s) | Nintendo EAD |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Eiji Aonuma |
Producer(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto |
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Series | The Legend of Zelda |
Platform(s) | Wii, GameCube, Nvidia Shield TV |
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Wii GameCube Shield TV
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Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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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+ | |
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 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 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.
At the time of its release, Twilight Princess was critically acclaimed, receiving several Game of the Year awards. As of September 2015[update], 8.85 million copies of the game were sold worldwide, making it the best-selling title in the series. In 2011, the Wii version was rereleased under the Nintendo Selects label. A high-definition remaster for the Wii U, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, was released in March 2016.