Zelda: Wind Waker HD took six months to develop

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD took only about six months to turn around, according to producer Eiji Aonuma.

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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is pretty great, partly thanks to having a solid foundation to build upon. So solid, in fact, that it took an extremely short time to turn around. Producer Eiji Aonuma says the HD makeover took only six months to make.

"It took about 6 months," Aonuma told Zelda Informer. "Development was still difficult. You had to consider the difference in hardware at the time." He said that the original Wind Waker took much longer because cel-shading was a fairly new technique and the team had to learn about it, but now revising it is much easier.

The bulk of Aonuma's efforts went into reevaluating the second half of the game, since it wasn't as well-received. "That was my first time in control of the direction of the game and designing a game from scratch, there were some portions that I wanted to expand upon," he said. "If a remake were to happen, I believed I could work on some of those portions."

Nintendo started teasing the project in January, so if development only took six months, they started showing it off fairly early in the process. That would make sense, considering all we saw of the game at first was concept artwork and environmental stills.

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    October 7, 2013 11:15 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Zelda: Wind Waker HD took six months to develop.

    The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD took only about six months to turn around, according to producer Eiji Aonuma.

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      October 7, 2013 11:18 AM

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        October 7, 2013 11:23 AM

        I'm hoping they are too busy actually doing something awesome. USA FF6 remake

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          October 7, 2013 12:01 PM

          please, why cant this just be made, from the ground up, remake the entire game, it would sell a billion copies

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        October 7, 2013 11:53 AM

        I'd rather have an FF7 remake built from the ground up.

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        October 7, 2013 12:01 PM

        I think it's more that expectations for a FF7 remake would be so high that they think they have to something like a full 3D remake of the game.

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      October 7, 2013 12:02 PM

      I hope that means they'll keep doing remakes. It seems like an easy and low cost way to bring more games to the Wii U.

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        October 7, 2013 12:09 PM

        Super Mario Galaxy HD Collection (with 1 and 2 packaged together)

        Who says no to that?

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        October 7, 2013 12:14 PM

        Agreed. I'd love to see Twilight Princess in HD.

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          October 7, 2013 12:22 PM

          This needs to happen. TP was a quickie GameCube-to-Wii conversion so Nintendo had a core game available for the Wii's launch. And it was fun, but constrained in certain ways. I'd love to see an HD rebirth on the U.

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        October 7, 2013 12:21 PM

        Yeah! If there's one thing I want Nintendo to keep doing it's remaking the same game over and over and over and over and over again.

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        October 7, 2013 1:31 PM

        If they did Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask I'd have to buy a Wii U.

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        October 7, 2013 1:44 PM

        Metroid Prime Trilogy HD

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