Remaster
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
90IGDB player score
402 ratings
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A 90 score from 402 devoted raters — the math of a game with a real following. An adventure game, from Nintendo leaning hard into fantasy, kids — more about the journey than the destination. A single-player game with no interest in being anything else. Respect.
About this game
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 textures.
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.
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Game facts
Release date
Sep 20, 2013
Developer
Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3
Publisher
Nintendo
Platforms
Wii U
Genres
Puzzle, Adventure
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Kids, Open world
Game modes
Single player
Franchise
The Legend of Zelda
Perspective
Third person
Critic score
90 / 100 (10 reviews)
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