The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Dual GameCube and Wii release made it the hinge between Nintendo's disc era and motion era.

Released 2006 Developer Nintendo EAD Publisher Nintendo Platform GameCube Genre Action-adventure Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics it built on

Ideas The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Day/Night Cycle ~~1983~~Analog Free-Roam 3D Movement ~~1996~~Contextual Lock-On Targeting ~~1998~~Spatial Motion Input ~~2006~~

The The Legend of Zelda series in this dataset

1986

The Legend of Zelda ~~1986~~

1987

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link ~~1987~~

1991

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ~~1991~~

1998

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ~~1998~~

2000

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask ~~2000~~

2002

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker ~~2002~~

2006

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ~~this page~~

2011

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword ~~2011~~

2013

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds ~~2013~~

2017

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ~~2017~~

2023

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ~~2023~~

Look this game up elsewhere

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