The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD - 6 Small Changes Worth Knowing
4. Graphically It's Never Going To Age As Well As Wind Waker
What's the change? The graphics have been upgraded as Nintendo embraces HD content via HDMI output. It looks good, but is still a little lifeless in places. Why? This is a HD edition of a ten-year-old game. Its creaking game engine looks sharp and definitely less muddy on contemporary televisions, and it is vivid, bright and looks night-and-day compared to the GameCube release, from a time before high-definition was in anybody's vocabulary. But this is always the difficulty with a HD port/remake/remaster/reimagining or whatever you want to call it; ports are never going to quite look as amazing as a game built from the ground up with one system or generation in mind. Generally speaking, most reviewers have noted that owing to the art style seen in the Wind Waker, Twilight Princess has definitely aged more rapidly compared to its sibling. Twilight Princess deserves another outing, however, given its straddled release across the then bowing-out GameCube and then-newest successor, the Wii. With the sharper graphics and better controls, theres every reason to give this another go. Just temper your expectations.
Bryan Langley’s first console was the Super Nintendo and he hasn’t stopped using his opposable thumbs since. He is based in Bristol, UK and is still searchin' for them glory days he never had.