Legendary producer of The Legend of Zelda series Eiji Aonuma discussed how the team came to pick The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker for the HD remake on Wii U. Aonuma said they tested out Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess before they choose to do the Wind Waker. 

In an interview, Aonuma said, “When we looked at creating a Zelda for Wii U, there were so many possibilities given the HD graphics. But rather than starting from zero, we actually ran a few tests.


“We tried converting other console games to Wii U. We actually did this with Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. And the result of that was, hmm, those are semi-realistic representations of the Zelda world so we weren’t really surprised with what we got. But with Wind Waker, when we converted that to HD we were really surprised at how great it looked.”

“We actually started thinking, maybe it was too soon to create that graphic style with the GameCube because of the limitations of the hardware. And we’re finding that we’re able to do what we wanted to do: The vision that we had then was being created thanks to the system specs and the HD graphics.

“It feels like we’re really able to create the complete Wind Waker experience on Wii U. In addition to the graphics, we’ve also got the GamePad and there’s lots of other pluses that we’re finding in converting to the Wii U system.”

Aonuma also explained that Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess already looked good considering the hardware it was running on. The Wind Waker would be a more significant jump to the Wii U. Not everybody agreed Nintendo should go with the Windwaker HD though.

“When I suggested moving forward with Wind Waker HD, internally there was actually a lot of pushback. The reason for that is, people were saying, ‘Oh, that Link. People didn’t like that Link.’ But in talking to our counterparts in the U.S., that wasn’t actually the case, people didn’t have that negative reaction maybe anymore to that younger Link.”

“When I suggested moving forward with Wind Waker HD, internally there was actually a lot of pushback. The reason for that is, people were saying, ‘Oh, that Link. People didn’t like that Link.’ But in talking to our counterparts in the U.S., that wasn’t actually the case, people didn’t have that negative reaction maybe anymore to that younger Link.”

The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker is my favorite Zelda game of all time, so you have no complaints from me they are remaking this one.


Source:http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/07/aonuma-zelda-wii-u/all/

Sounds like the right decision to me aswell.

Wind waker is the second best zelda in my opinion (after ocarina).

Excellent. The other Zeldas were too recent to be remade.

I'm still hoping for a Majora's Mask remake!!

I reckon we'll see that in a couple of years on the 3DS.

I wonder what the graphics were like on the Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess HD versions.

True, that's still my favorite Zelda game of all time.

I thought the original was fine, stylistically. You're going to have to do much more than this to make me buy it again, Aonuma.

I want a whole chunk of extra game.

A bit of déja vu in that article.

Nintendo got this all backwards. If they wanted to impress they should have made Wind Waker for 3DS and OoT for Wii U.