The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was initially developed with the Nintendo GameCube in mind, but ended up receiving a Wii port when it was released to promote the new console. This version has motion…
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3, released 19 November 2006 on Wii.
What The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3 and released in 2006. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Link, a young farm boy whose tasks consist of herding goats to watching children in Ordon village, is asked by the mayor to run an errand in Castle Town. But things went strange that day: the land becomes dark and strange creatures appear from another world called the Twilight Realm which turns most people into ghosts. Unlike the others, Link transforms into a wolf but is captured. A mysterious figure named Midna helps him break free, and with the aid of her magic, they set off to free the land from the shadows. Link must explore the vast land of Hyrule and uncover the mystery behind its plunge into darkness.
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: Twilight Princess is the 44th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in 2006. Its critic score of 98 is 12 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: Twilight Princess holds a critic score of 98 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 33 points above the year average. Players rate it 89, 9 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess launched on 19 November 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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