The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess? is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, and published by Nintendo for the GameCube and Wii video game consoles. It is the thirteenth installment in The Legend of Zelda series. Originally planned for release in November 2005, Twilight Princess was delayed by Nintendo to allow its developers to refine the game and add more content and to port it to the Wii. The Wii version was released alongside the Wii console on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December 2006 in Japan, Europe, and Australia. This made Twilight Princess the first Zelda game released at the launch of a Nintendo console. The GameCube version was released in December 2006, and was the last Nintendo-published game for the console, as well as the final official GameCube game released in Japan.

The story focuses on series protagonist Link, who tries to prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by a corrupted parallel dimension known as the Twilight Realm. To do so, he takes the forms of both a human and a wolf, and is assisted by a mysterious creature named Midna. The game takes place approximately 100 years after Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, in an alternate timeline from The Wind Waker.

Twilight Princess is the first game in The Legend of Zelda series to receive a T (Teen) rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which cited fantasy violence and animated blood as reasons for the more mature rating. Twilight Princess received critical acclaim from video game publications, and ranks as one of the best Zelda games of all time. It also won several Game of the Year awards.

Alternative Titles

Zelda no Densetsu: Twilight Princess

Platform

Nintendo Gamecube

Developer(s)

Nintendo EAD

Publishers(s)

Nintendo

Genres(s)

Action, Adventure

NA Release Date

December 11, 2006

JP Release Date

December 2, 2006

EU Release Date

December 15, 2006

AUS Release Date

December 19, 2006

ESRB Rating

Teen

PEGI Rating

PEGI 12

CERO Rating

CERO B

ACB Rating

M

MVGL User Score

8.6 by 728 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

2.0000

Composer(s)

Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta

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This game also exists on:
Nintendo Wii

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