
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD isn't far away, and Nintendo's ramping up its marketing for one of the key early releases of the year on Wii U. It's also got the job of giving the franchises' Anniversary an early leg-up, so no pressure then...
As expected it's Twilight Princess, in HD, though with varied support for its own Wolf Link amiibo and IP-related figures from the Smash Bros. range, it's throwing some new features and content into the mix. For its latest video, however, Nintendo's focusing on its rather dramatic story. It's easy to forget now, but this was the 'realistic' or 'dark' 3D Zelda many desired when it arrived as a GameCube latecomer / Wii launch title, and as a result wasn't afraid to take things rather seriously.

This writer's a big fan of the story in this game, and is thus preparing to be called an idiot on Twitter. In any case, the neat story trailer is below; it's weird to say this for a game nearly a decade old, but we think there's a bit of a spoiler at the end.
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I agree. Let them tweet. Never finished this game, looking forward to playing through it again and finally finishing it this time
wolf link looks like s**t
whoo looking forward to replaying this game, mine went missing after i moved so this is gonna be fun, i last played it on wii.
Never played this game, can't wait ^_^
Never played this game before how does it stack up with the rest of the games?
Great trailer. "Looking forward to this game" is a gross understatement for me. I'm actually really excited to get the soundtrack CD, as I love the music to this game also (beautiful usage of the Midna theme in this trailer also).
A possible spoiler at the end, but I mean come on, look at the cover of the game itself. Nintendo is not keeping it a secret this time around.
@Fearful-Octopus one of the best ones once you get passed the opening. the dungeons are some of the best in the (3d zelda) series.
They should have added an HD version of Link's Crossbow Training onto the disc and marketed it as a bundle. You don't need the piece of plastic gun, my kids and I have played it for hours and we never owned the gun.
@kenrulei Ok sounds awesome! Hopefully we hear more about Zelda wii u soon!
I played the original on the Gamecube to completion. It felt like quite a chore at the time. I was going to pass on this hd version but the Amazon Prime discount + amiibo allowed me to comfortably preorder the game. Now I am increasingly hyped to revisit TP. Although some textures still look muddy ( yeah wolf Link looks pretty bad ), the improvements in other visuals are very noticeable and look good. Hopefully, there are still a few more surprises to reveal but either way, I'm excited to play this game again. I lean more towards the toon Link style ( WW is my favorite Zelda ), but I always liked TP's design.
I'd love to get the HD remake, but I'm not paying £45 for it. Especially when you can get the Nintendo Selects version on Wii for £17.
Looks HD to me.
I can't wait to revisit this game! It's been seven years since I last played through it. It was my first entry in the Zelda series, and is still one of my favorites.
STOKED.
Looks awesome!! I love this one. But...what is up with Ilia's face in that one scene? Looks like she got stung by bees in the lip about 12 times.
Played it years ago. Looking forward to playing a brand new Wii U game.
Wouldn't it be awesome if the wolf link amiibo allowed Link to turn into a wolf on Zelda WiiU. Idk it shouldent have a big role in the game, but just a fun way to travel around. Maybe even a few side missions exclusive to the wolf link. Idk how they'll do it but im just being optomistic
They should've added voice acting
That's a really good trailer!
This is amazing. I can't wait to play this game again in HD, it's my favourite game of all time. I had to watch the trailer more than 3 times.
@RainbowGazelle I mean I got the Wolf Link amiibo bundle with the game for £35 on Amazon (it was a limited thing though). I'm pretty sure I've seen it for £40 with the amiibo in many places. You could always just buy the bundle for the game, and sell the amiibo. But to be fair though, Wind Waker HD was also £35, so I wouldn't expect TP to be lower.
@Fearful-Octopus It's like Ocarina of time with steroids. Much better than Wind waker
I never was able to play the original TP so in a way it's a brand new Zelda game for me to hold me over until Zelda U or whatever the hell its gonna be called. I'm pretty stoked for this game.
OMG!! This looks so epic! I have the limited edition pre-ordered and I can't wait! I literally got chills from watching that trailer.
And at the end! That has to be Ganondorf!! There's the flame backgrounds from Ocarina of Time, and his theme song and everything!
Kyaaaaaaaaa!!! (^. ^ )
@patbacknitro17 And the other Zelda amigo make you change character or at least an alternative costume with one extra specific weapon...
I meant amiibo, my mac always corrects the wrong words...
What's up with Ilia's lips?
Great! So there is a version of the game without the amiibo.
Can't wait to complete for the third time but in HD!!!! Awesome
I actually loved the story in this one. TBH this is one of my favorites, and I can't really stand Ocarina of Time. That must make me a heretic?
Yeah..... I'm getting it. >_>
The game with some of the worst dungeons in the Zelda series. (I'm looking at you, City in the Sky and Lakebed Temple!) Lakebed Temple can go suck it, worst dungeon in Zelda history.
Anyway, the HD looks great, the amiibo features aren't the best, but I'll gladly play it a second time.
@vonseux He looks okay, but definitely not using the hair textures that we see on other Wii U figures like DK. Still this is a HD remaster and not a remake so I'm okay with the look.
@AVahne Just means that you likely didn't get past the Water Temple. I actually liked OoT as it was the first Zelda game that I owned and beat 100%. It had a great soundtrack and an immersive story and 3D environment. Maybe it's the rose colored glasses of my youth that I see it through but it still is one of my favorite Zelda games to date.
Looks like Europe is getting screwed on the release date again. You're getting it April 2nd and we're getting it March 4th in the US. Not that I'm looking forward to gleefully lording that over my British friends or anything. Because I'm not.
Okay, maybe I am.
http://imgur.com/Rn2oZhI
The faces, omg the faces
@Pod: I wonder, too. Maybe Botox?
@Zibene999 Why? Because they're hard? That makes them GOOD dungeons then. You WANT challenging dungeons.
@Pod this is about all I took away from this trailer, lol
Do i get a discount b'se i bought the original on wii? 😄😄 No, but serious, if I need to buy a plastic puppet for extra content I will be not amused, but still will buy the HD remake!
@Ronnie1969 From what I've heard you won't be missing out on much if you don't have the amiibo so go ahead and enjoy
@BlatantlyHeroic I like challenging dungeons too, those two dungeons are awesome.
Best Zelda ever
One of my least favourite Zelda's, but still looking forward to this. Kids will love watching/playing this together.
WiiU controls alone will make this worth a purchase, improved GFX or content is a bonus.
Wolf Link amiibo/Proper controls/Updated textures/GamePad enhanced UI and gyroscopic aiming make this worth the plunge. Glad I held off on playing this now.
After I play this and Skyward Sword, I'll have completed every 3D Zelda. All for the first time this gen.
Not interested in an update as I still have my original. Love the game to death, probably my favourite Zelda. Wonderful immersive story, much more story-driven than Skyward Sword. I never understood why some people rate it somewhat low.
Wow, that brings back memories. This was the 2nd game I beat for Wii (first being Metroid Prime 3) and my first Zelda title (was just getting back into gaming, think I was about 22 years old at the time).
Yes, now I'm definitely hyped.
@Fearful-Octopus It was the most boring 3D Zelda I've ever owned, and the only one I only played through once. It's OK though. It's the most boring 3D Zelda I've played but it wasn't boring, just most boring out of the others, and I'm pretty sure I've played all the others...WW, MM, OT, oh nevermind I never played Skyward Sword.
Actually I've played practically every Zelda game since 2,000. The only ones I haven't played are Skyward Sword, Triforce Heroes, the Oracle games, and Hyrule Warriors which isn't standard Zelda anyway, and other than Four Swords I think I liked Twilight Princess the least. I still liked it though.
@Whopper744 It's a weird camera angle. She always looked like that, it just wasn't as noticeable in the jaggy, blurry resolution of the original.
This was my first Zelda game ever and I will always be extremely fond of it. And for people that have never heard anything about the game or played it, the scene at the end is definitely a spoiler haha. This was before I ever looked up plot details so I never anticipated who the final antagonist was.
@able_to_think We (as in the US) are among the few, assuming we're not the only ones, that label our dates mm/dd/yyyy. All of Europe (which this is an NoE trailer) and much of the rest of the world labels them dd/mm/yyyy. So for us 4/3 means April 3rd, but for them it means March 4th, so they get it the same day as us.
Love everything about this game, but I'm still not sold that this is really the HD version I want. It's a higher resolution with some Amiibo features :
I'm still convinced that the Winter Chateau dungeon from this game was the best from any Zelda to date.
@ASonic3582 I remembered that about an hour after I posted. It's really weird that we're the only ones that do that. It makes more sense for it to be day month year. Then again the metric system makes more sense too and we use imperial anyway.
@Fearful-Octopus
I honestly didn't love this one. It has its strengths and if you've never played it, it might be worth it, but I had to force myself to finish it and don't think I'll play it again. I personally found the large world very empty and boring and the story kind of fades a little ways in. Plus I didn't enjoy the wolf segments and Zelda is hardly in it. To each his own but I honestly think it's got nothing on the likes of Skyward Sword or Ocarina of Time.
I didn't play Twilight Princess until years later after it was released. My first reaction was that it looked a bit rough but as I started playing I completely ignored graphics and found myself really enjoying the game. I'm one of the few who actually enjoyed the slow start. I liked the starting village and I felt like I was just a normal boy. I hadn't enjoyed any 3D Zelda (OoT, WW, SS) much before so I was kind of ready for disappointment but I'm glad it wasn't one. Twilight Princess is my favorite Zelda game. The only thing I didn't like was the Ooccoo place, mostly due to the music.
TP is my least favourite 3D Zelda, but that's not saying anything bad, because all of the 3D Zeldas are fantastic.
It definitely has strengths, but if we're talking about complaints: the graphics were a bit eh, and I always felt the great art style of the game deserved better than SD resolution (hence why I'm partially excited for the remaster), and it just hasn't aged well (games like WW and SS on the other hand, still look good to this day). The slow start was kind of boring, and the story kind of fizzles out halfway through. Yes, we had a really large world, but I found it very barren and unexciting. The wolf idea was intriguing, but I just never got the full enjoyment out of it. And overall, the game was just too easy; dungeons, and combat alike. I feel like a lot of the love that TP gets, comes from it either being people whose first (3D) Zelda was TP, or people who LOVED Oot and get a nostalgic feel from it while playing TP.
That was a lot of negatives but don't get me wrong, I loved the game. Like I said the art style was great, the dark, eerie atmosphere was interesting, and Midna was truly developed to be a great character (no spoilers obviously). The dungeons, whilst easy, were fun nonetheless, and although the world was barren, it was enjoyable regardless to traverse through the massive world. TP, while has its flaws (mostly it being boring), is definitely a must-have for Zelda fans though.
I never loved this game, I enjoyed parts of it but to this day it's the only one I've played but never finished. It just seemed to drag on far too long, I may have tried it again had it been cheaper but not as a full price game, when the reality is the game is playable on this very console for a fraction of the price. Some new textures aren't going to convince me and much more really should have been done if they're going to charge full retail. I'll wait for the new Zelda game whenever that may be
So glad to get this with a sharper look to it. I will say some of the visual FX aren't as nice when the whole image isn't in bloom or blurred and low-res. The ability to see detail in even a medium distance is dramatically more pleasing than the original. That and the ability to tap the GamePad to instantly transform rather than ask Midna first is going to be a nice smoothed out detail among, hopefully, many other details to make it flow better.
Wish I hadn't played it again last year because it's a bit fresh in my memory, but I think I'll let my oldest child do most of the playing this time. On the upside, playing it so recently made the improvements instantly obvious to me even from the horribly compressed initial videos.
Let me just start by saying Twilight Princess is one of the best games ive ever played. Its one of the rare games I have completed several times. But, and for owners of the original like myself, I still see nothing here that makes it worth buying again. The game has just had an up res and thats about it. Maybe if it runs at 60fps I would double dip but I doubt it will. All that aside if you somehow have not yet played Twilight Princess, this version is an absolute must buy, but I mean come on, who here hasn't played Twilight Princess who is a fan of the Zelda franchise?
The werewolf thing though...
I will never understand how anyone could favor skyward sword to TP...
Am I the only one that wishes they added Skyward Sword's sword mechanics to the game?
@vonseux Jeez
The graphics seem better then last time, though its still a small improvement. And seeing as there is no real new content (the trial-cave doesn't really count in my opinion, and is Amiibo-locked anyway. I hate Amiibo), I'll pass on this!
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