The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is a remaster of The Wind Waker with an alternate recreation of the original's art style, several gameplay adjustments, a new lighting engine and higher resolution…
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3, released 20 September 2013 on Wii U. The main story takes about 30 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3 and released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set hundreds of years after the events of Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker finds the hero Link living with his grandmother on the Outset Island, one of the many small islands lost amidst the waters of the Great Sea. On his tenth birthday, Link encounters a giant bird carrying a girl. He rescues the girl, but as a result his own sister is taken away by the bird. The girl is a pirate captain named Tetra, who agrees to help Link find and rescue his sister. During the course of their journey, the two of them realize that a powerful, legendary evil is active again, and must find a way to stop him.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, kids and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is the 61st of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. It arrived 10 months after Nintendo Land. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD - Limited Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 91 is 5 points above 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: The Wind Waker HD holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 90, across 392 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 30 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD launched on 20 September 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, The Wolf Among Us, Rayman Legends and Outlast. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, The Wolf Among Us, Rayman Legends, Outlast.
Cheats and codes
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