Nintendo Hits You in the Feels with Wind Waker HD

Wind Waker HD

Man, Nintendo sure does have a bullseye right on our nostalgia bone, doesn’t it? In a totally unsurprising move, Nintendo revealed this morning (via Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma) that an HD version of Wind Waker will be releasing this fall.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Reborn is meant to tide maniacal Zelda fans over while the real Wii U game is in development, but this doesn’t just look like a straight port. Based on some of the game’s gorgeous screenshots, I think it’s safe to say that Nintendo is updating this classic game in an even more beautiful way, in addition to all these new-fangled definitions.

While it’s easy to sour on HD remakes as nothing more than the often-brandished money grab, I still stand by the position that playing a timeless game in a more future proof fashion is a good thing for video games. It’s a way to preserve some of the medium’s history, and really, I can’t think of a more excellent game for Nintendo to have done it with. Wind Waker had such a lovely style to it, I can’t wait to see it on current hardware. Once I get a Wii U, that is.

So what do you guys think? Are you yay or nay on a Wind Waker HD? And seriously, check out the Wii U Facebook page for more awesome screenshots.

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7 thoughts on “Nintendo Hits You in the Feels with Wind Waker HD”

  1. It will take a lot more than this to convince me of a Wii U, but Nintendo is heading in the right direction. I just need to get a better glimpse of what’s all in the pipeline.

  2. Still asking people even after the stream? Well in any case it still is not enough to make we want to buy a Wii U but if they make possibly another remake and definitely another game I would get it.

  3. Here’s what excites me most about an HD Wind Waker. It’s not the updated textures, or the mesmerizing bloom, or the hi-poly models, or the beefed-up cel-shading. It’s the fact that this game finally upscales to 1080P widescreen. People were always saying that Wind Waker will still look good ages from now, but since I started a playthrough of it last week, that game looks pretty bad. It doesn’t scale past 480p and it doesn’t support widescreen. I’m curious if this’ll just be a graphical update or if Nintendo will add some other bells and whistles in.

  4. Cool as this might be, I too am pretty firm on not buying a Wii U for now. Mostly, this makes me want to load up the Dolphin emulator and give the orignal a playthrough.

  5. I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U I DON’T WANT A WII U

    (Maybe if I say it enough…)

    Seriously, this was actually the first thing to make me say, “Oh. interested.” So…we will see. But not likely.

  6. Ah for fuck’s sake… I only know one person with a Wii U and he’ll be too busy playing this to let me have a go. ;.;

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