The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is the first Zelda game for the Nintendo DS and a direct sequel to The Wind Waker. The art direction is the same cel-shaded style as the Wind Waker but is displayed from…

89 23 June 2007

Adventure Puzzle Action Fantasy

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3, released 23 June 2007 on Wii U and Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.

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What The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3 and released in 2007. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Many months have passed since the events of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Link, Tetra and Tetra’s band of pirates have set sail in search of new lands. They come across a patch of ocean covered in a dense fog, in which they discover an abandoned ship. Tetra falls into danger when she explores the ship alone, and Link falls into the ocean when he attempts to rescue her. When he washes up unconscious on the shores of a mysterious island, he is awakened by the sound of a fairy’s voice. With the aid of this fairy, he sets off to find Tetra – and his way back to the seas he once knew.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is the 47th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Link's Crossbow Training in 2007. Its critic score of 89 is 3 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 25 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 20 hrs.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass launched on 23 June 2007, within three weeks of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, The Darkness and Colin McRae: Dirt. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, The Darkness, Colin McRae: Dirt.

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