The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
- Eiji Aonuma (producer)
- Daiki Iwamoto (Director)
- Japan September 26, 2013
- United States October 4, 2013
- Australia October 5, 2013
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is an action-adventure video game that was released in October 2013 for the Wii U home console. It is Waker to a new edition of 2002/2003 published GameCube game The Wind.
The first announced in January 2013 The Wind Waker HD is published by the Japanese game console maker Nintendo and comes from the Department Entertainment Analysis & Development. Gameplay and plot of the game the same of the original. In addition to revised graphics, the new edition offers according to developers adjustments and optimizations in detail.
The Wind Waker HD received positive reviews.
- 2.1 Development Process
- 2.2 Announcements
Game Description
Plot and gameplay
The plot of The Wind Waker HD resembles the original. The protagonist Link lives on Preludes, an island in a large ocean. Previously there was the Kingdom of Hyrule was flooded centuries before the game's plot, however. The action begins when links aryl sister is kidnapped. In order to save his sister, to link joins a group around the pirate Tetra and toured with the help of a talking boat, the Red lions king of the ocean. It is later revealed that Tetra is actually Princess Zelda, behind which the villain Ganondorf ago.
The graphics of the game is held in the cel-shaded style.
Changes from the original
As the producer of the game announced that The Wind Waker HD has been modified from the original game in some detail aspects. Thus, the control on the Wii U GamePad has been adjusted. The motion control that enables the controller, is used as the social network Miiverse. Improve further adjustments according to Aonuma, the pace of the game.
New game content in the form of additional, not yet contained in the original Dungeons but there is no.
Development
Development process
The Wind Waker HD was developed by the Zelda team, the Software Development Department 3 of the Nintendo department Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development ( EAD). As a producer Eiji Aonuma acts. When the team began the development of a completely new, until now unrevealed Zelda title for the Wii U, it faced many new possibilities, since the Wii is the first Nintendo console allows U HD graphics. Therefore, the team initially experimented with various HD graphics styles. These continued to previous series offshoot like Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword, in HD to test. Only the results of a HD version of The Wind Waker, however, the team were able to fully convince. Therefore Aonuma suggested to develop the HD version and bring to market.
Parallel to The Wind Waker HD Aonuma and his team worked on The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for Nintendo 3DS as well as on a new Zelda for the Wii U. Aonuma According served The Wind Waker HD the development team as a sort of testing ground for new opportunities on the Wii U to try and become familiar with the technology of the console. This experience should be included in the all-new game. After the completion of The Wind Waker HD, the team was joined by the developers of the new title.
The development of The Wind Waker HD lasted for six months. The EAD was assisted in the work of outside companies that were mainly responsible for the high-resolution textures.
Announcements
On January 23, 2013 Eiji Aonuma announced during Nintendo Direct webshow The Wind Waker HD and showed the first screenshots of the game. As part of that took place in June 2013 Game Fair E ³ 2013 Nintendo introduced before a first trailer for the game. Visitors were able to retest the game.
Publication
The Wind Waker HD first appeared on September 26, 2013 in Japan. This was followed by North America and Europe, where the game was released on October 4. In Australia, the game came a day later on the market.
During the first week on the Japanese market about 30,000 units of The Wind Waker HD were sold as the market research firm Media Create told. To make the game finished in seventh place of the weekly Japanese charts; it passed the worst Japanese debut of all Zelda games.
Reception
At Metacritic The Wind Waker HD has an average rating of 90 /100. At Game Rankings, the average score for the game is 91.02 %; According to the page it is the zweitbestbewertete Wii U game.
The following table provides a selection -like overview of votes that The Wind Waker received HD.