The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is a remaster of the 2011 game Skyward Sword that features enhanced graphics and frame rate. The game now has a standard resolution of 1080p, an intuitive auto-save…
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is an adventure developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3, released 16 July 2021 on Nintendo Switch.
What The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3 and released in 2021. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Born on an island suspended in the sky, a young man called Link accepts his destiny to venture to the world below to save his childhood friend Zelda after being kidnapped and brought to an abandoned land.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is the 120th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - Wave 2: Guardian of Remembrance in 2021. Its critic score of 83 is 3 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 70 votes.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD launched on 16 July 2021, within three weeks of The Forgotten City, Death's Door, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! and Final Fantasy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Forgotten City, Death's Door, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, Final Fantasy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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