Link's wallet size has also increased for this remaster - part of a general smoothing out of progression across the whole game. It's a fairytale told with a snarl on its lips. It's a world painted in Stygian tones, where the themes of corruption that have long been the mainstay of the series are now played with a more sinister edge. The contrast between the two is stark if those rolling oceans and all that wild-eyed wonder saw the series at its brightest, then Twilight Princess is Zelda at its most gloomy. Playing Twilight Princess today via Australian developer Tantalus' handsome HD remaster for the Wii U - especially so soon after Nintendo's own Wind Waker remaster - can be enlightening. Here was the darker, more physical take on The Legend of Zelda that was briefly glimpsed when the GameCube was first properly unveiled in 2000 here was the spiritual successor to Ocarina of Time that people had been clamouring for.Īfter the heady expanse of the open sea and the invigorating lungfuls of salty air offered by Wind Waker, director Eiji Aonuma returned to familiar terra firma with Twilight Princess. Following an understated reception for The Wind Waker, work on a direct sequel to that game was halted, its colourful vibrancy swapped out for the same gritty read of Tolkien that Peter Jackson was making fashionable with the Lord of the Rings films at the time. Twilight Princess has always had its own strange place in the Zelda canon, a multi-million dollar apology to the vocal critics of its immediate predecessor on Nintendo's GameCube.
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