The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the last Zelda game for GameCube, it was highly anticipated by many members of the gaming community and was regarded as finally fulfilling the dreams of those who…
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3, released 2 December 2006 on Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 30 hrs to finish.
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 Nintendo GameCube only.
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, fantasy 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: Twilight Princess is the 45th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Tingle's Balloon Fight DS in 2007. Its critic score of 96 is 10 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 96 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 31 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 707 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 30 hrs.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess launched on 2 December 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king.
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.
Official trailer
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