An enterprising fan poking around Nintendo's eShop recently uncovered an icon for Twilight Princess kicking around the store's back-end. Cue rampant speculation the Big N is busy beavering away on a HD port of the classic Gamecube adventure.
At first, many of us believed the icon pointed towards a simple emulated job - akin to the Wii U Virtual Console releases of Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime. But that was before a listing for "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA Twilight Princess HD" was found nestled in Nintendo's eShop servers. If that isn't proof that TP HD is on the way, we don't know what is.
This isn't the first time the possibility of a re-release of Twilight Princess has come up - before Wind Waker HD sailed onto shelves, series director Eiji Aonuma revealed that his dev team ran some tests on TP to see how it performed on the Wii U hardware. Perhaps they felt that Wind Waker's vibrant, toon-like art style better lent itself to a snazzy HD makeover and shelved Twilight Princess for a rainy day.
Well, with Zelda Wii U off the board this holiday, Nintendo will be looking to give hungry Zelda fans something to sink their teeth into, and a shiny new HD remaster of Twilight Princess would certainly get fans' Triforces tingling.
The title, one of the most divisive in the franchise's long history, had an earthier, darker tone than its predecessor, trading the sweetness and light of Wind Waker for a hard-bitten, high-fantasy aesthetic. A lot of gamers were turned off by the game's lengthy opening hours, which is a shame, because once TP gets going it really gets going, containing some of the series' best dungeons.
WW HD featured a few judicious nips and tucks, so it's possible Nintendo will use this HD update to address some of TP's shortcomings. In our opinion, a pacier prologue would do wonders and help TP find the audience it's always deserved.
Nintendo has yet to respond to the rumour, so we'll just have to sit tight and see what the next Nintendo Direct has in store for us.
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