The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is the second Zelda game for the Nintendo DS. The art direction is still cel-shading, but the game have notable changes from Phantom Hourglass with more puzzles and a new…

92 7 December 2009

Adventure Puzzle Action Fantasy

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3, released 7 December 2009 on Wii U and Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 19.1 hrs to finish.

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What The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3 and released in 2009. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Apprentice engineer Link is ready to travel to Hyrule Castle and receive his engineer's license. During the ceremony, Zelda slips Link a note warning him not to trust the Chancellor and to help her reach the Spirit Tower. The land's Spirit Tracks, mystical railway tracks that cover the land, have been disappearing and she suspects that the Chancellor is the cause. While heading to the Tower, the Chancellor intercepts them and proves Zelda's suspicions right: he casts a magic spell on her, splitting her body from her soul. Link and Zelda must work together to return Zelda to normal and save Hyrule once again.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is the 53rd of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D in 2011. Its critic score of 92 is 6 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: Spirit Tracks holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 25 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 8 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 19.1 hrs.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks launched on 7 December 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Final Fantasy XIII. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Final Fantasy XIII.

Cheats and codes

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