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[Warrior_of_Death]

My brain has officially melted from the ridiculous outpour of Legendary from this game. Maaaaaaan. It's just... so beautiful. I shed many a tear. ;_;

If anyone complains that this is a spoiler (given that it's pretty common knowledge to anyone who kept up with all the trailers and info about skyward sword pre-release) I'm gonna set some kittens on fire, but anyways:

The birth of the Master Sword was the most glorious thing I have ever witnessed, or will witness in this lifetime. ;_;

[The Satellite]

Alright, that cutscene after dungeon six everyone was talking about... I saw it.

And it was the best thing ever

That scene was a shocker. I also wasn't expecting another goddess, named "Hylia," to be involved. I definitely wasn't expecting her to be reincarnated into a human. But seeing the Master Sword form, I was wondering whether you had to awaken the Earth and Wind Sages just like Wind Waker chronicled, but then I saw it form to its true form. ... being the ALttP fanboy I am, I got all giddy when I heard the theme play as the Master Sword awoke, the same theme that played when you removed the sword from its pedestal in ALttP, but for some reason everyone associates with OoT more. And then it became the true sword and I seriously went "YES!" ... only quietly since parents are asleep.

The scene had powerful emotion, and I felt it. I didn't cry; not much makes me cry. But were I less... well, hesitant to cry, I would have. It was beautiful, it had more emotion than almost all of Wind Waker combined. And I shivered when Zelda mentioned something about "sleeping for thousands of years." I was almost certain this was indeed going to be the scene that proves that this is the Zelda whom Link awoke in Z2, but then I realized that the situation there was entirely different. So maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It's still interesting, and I can't wait to see how the story unfolds.

Worth. Every. Cent. And almost easily becoming my favorite game. Well, ALttP still holds up strong contention but still.

[Peteo]

Wow, looking at people's reactions here one could think that this game is the best thing ever. But I've gone through the 3 first dungeons and I am not impressed yet. I guess the really awesome stuff is still ahead, RIGHT?

[LinktheMaster]

In all honesty, the game probably isn't for you if you're not impressed yet. I mean, I'm not done with the game yet, but I'm done with dungeon 6. The story takes a few turns, but the quality of the game and gameplay stays about the same. There is one new element to the game that you (might) not have reached yet, but that's it.

[Soarin]

You can call this cheating if you want. But I am using a walk through on zelda dungeon.net for the game. Link is here Game guide by the way i love this game.

Edited by Rudolph043, 27 November 2011 - 11:21 AM.

[Ventus]

I officially hate this game!!...as of right now

Stupid thing thats making me hate this game!!

the boss run to get the hyrule shield, I keep getting to the one match where I can get the shield, but I keep getting killed!!, Screw you Nintendo!! I don't want, your crappy shield!
I'm going to go finish this game and get it over with right now!.

[Plissken]

Use 5 bottles worth of potions.

[HylianGlaceon]

Wow, looking at people's reactions here one could think that this game is the best thing ever. But I've gone through the 3 first dungeons and I am not impressed yet. I guess the really awesome stuff is still ahead, RIGHT?

In all honesty, I was disappointed overall with Skyward Sword. Not that it isn't a good game, just they really didn't do much with all that they had to work with, with this being an OoT prequel and all. Dungeon design in SS also felt very lacking to me, it didn't really seem much like the great dungeons we got in TP and OoT.

I'd go on, but I'd probably get slapped if I say any more of the things I was disappointed with without a spoiler tag. Once someone here completes the game, I'll probably post everything in a spoiler tag that I was disappointed with.

For anyone who is having an issue with a certain enemy in the third area, I have a tip for it too..

Third Area Enemy Tip

The Electric Bokoblins, or whatevere they're called have got to be the most annoying enemy in this game. The best way I found to kill them was to use a Skyward Strike, then use the Fatal Blow to finish them after that. It's actually pretty easy to kill them that way, and you don't get zapped..

@Ventus -

After 6th dungeon Spoiler

Which one is giving you trouble exactly? Usually I do the one I have the hardest time with first and refill my health on one of the easier bosses as they still leave hearts for the first Ghirahim, Scaldera and I believe the 4th boss when it knocks down the pillars. While there is a timer, you should try to take you time and avoid getting hit more than anything.

Edited by HylianGlaceon, 27 November 2011 - 12:29 PM.

[Isdrakthül]

I finished the game yesterday.

Spoiler

Is it just me, or does the whole thing with resurrecting Demise seem like Malladus all over again?

[HylianGlaceon]

I finished the game yesterday.

Spoiler

Is it just me, or does the whole thing with resurrecting Demise seem like Malladus all over again?

Cool, someone else who's finished!

(Don't read unless you've completely beaten the game)

End of game spoilers

Yep, it does, however the fight is nearly identical to TP Ganon too, at least to me. It was a huge disappointment on how short it was as well. I was also disappointed with the ending where we never really get to see if Zelda really likes Link or not, despite them hinting on it pretty heavily in the Skyloft chapter. You'd think he could at least get a hug or something in the end..

[LinktheMaster]

In all honesty, I was disappointed overall with Skyward Sword. Not that it isn't a good game, just they really didn't do much with all that they had to work with, with this being an OoT prequel and all. Dungeon design in SS also felt very lacking to me, it didn't really seem much like the great dungeons we got in TP and OoT.

I'd go on, but I'd probably get slapped if I say any more of the things I was disappointed with without a spoiler tag. Once someone here completes the game, I'll probably post everything in a spoiler tag that I was disappointed with.

Well, this is where we start getting into opinions. Personally, I felt that the dungeon design was some of the best in the entire series. The 5th dungeon wasn't that great, but the rest were really good, but they definitely were different. Personally, I liked the more condensed, yet lengthy dungeons. Though I will admit that they will be rather short on a second run through once you know the puzzles.

I finished the game just now, myself.

Spoilers for the end of the game

I do admit that the actual final boss Demise wasn't what I expected. It could have been a lot better, but it was still difficult, at least for me. It took a couple tries before getting the hang of it. As far as length goes, I don't think it was too short. IMO, you need to include Ghirahim. He was pretty much part of the final boss, but it's obvious that they were worried it would be too difficult to face him, then immediately face Demise. It's sort of like the Puppet Ganon at the end of WW. You could tell that they wanted you to go directly from Puppet Ganon to face Ganondorf, but they were worried it would be too difficult. (It really wouldn't have been, but WW was definitely easy on the player.)

I do admit that they could have done more with the game, though. Especially when it comes to intertwining the stories of SS and OoT. There's still quite a bit of space there. Maybe they plan for a handheld sequel like they did with PH, I dunno. But there's definitely some gaps in the story.

I also sort of expected them to end Fi some how. I mean, she said she would be resting in the Master Sword. Why don't you see her in the other games? (I know it's because SS was made after the other games.) But that's definitely a plot hole, and a big, obvious one too.

Still, it's an amazing game. I'll have to think about it, but I think it might hit best Zelda game to me. It certainly righted all the wrongs of the past few Zelda games, but there were also some newly created problems that could have been addressed too. I liked going back to the old areas, but I felt like them using all of those fetch quests got old... but they just kept bringing them on throughout the game.

I dunno. I definitely felt like it could have been better, but it was definitely amazing.

[Nicholas Steel]

Yeah I'm enjoying every bit of the game and think it easily bests pretty much every Zelda game except the GBC ones and Majora's Mask. Those games are fairly close in terms of enjoyment.

I was wrong about the Beetle item, it's only the aiming that requires you to recalibrate the controls, the actual flight controls don't require any calibration at all (Aside from the initial one when starting the game). It actually controls fairly well once you get used to it and is an awesome tool for scouting around the overworld etc.

Still hate the Bug Catching Net though but am very gradually getting used to the idea that you have to swing it sloooowly and that it frequently spazzes out (Or moves at a different pace) when swinging it the wrong way.

@Koh, mentioning that you upgraded an item might not be a spoiler, unless you mention what the upgraded item does.



Edit: After having beaten Twilight Princess and had the initial excitement wore off, I find that that games dungeon items, dungeon designs and overworld designs extremely bad in comparison to pretty much every other 3D Zelda (It has better overworld then Ocarina of time, woot I guess?) game while SS has so far featured excellent items and makes extensive use of most of them throughout the game, item use isn't largely restricted to the dungeon you found it in in SS which is fantastic it also has excellent overworld/dungeon designs and fantastic music, story, dialogs, inventory system and item variety (Upgrade system is aww yeah).

Edited by franpa, 27 November 2011 - 03:53 PM.

[Ventus]

@HylianGlaceon:
Its fighting

Boss who's giving me issues!

"The imprisoned Part 2" boss fight, he is always fight number 8...I dont know why but he is, heck I've tried beating him first, but I have a really hard time with him so I get Killed...

Well and another thing, I beat the game!! The ending was pretty good, I enjoyed the game throughly, except the

Spoiler

"The Imprisoned" <_< Nintendo....I hate you!!!....Why make such a hard boss!!

Okay well enough of me ranting on, Review time!!

Story 9.5/10
The story was pretty good, you know the almost the same, thing as the other Zelda games, Link you must save zelda, Blah blah blah...etc, etc, etc,

Gameplay 8/10
Well its alright...but i hate having to back track to areas too much, i mean the game only has

Spoiler

3 areas

Nintendo should have added more areas to explorer, Instede we get a game that has way to much back tracking, in it, but don't get me wrong, they did at least make the back tracking fun..I guess.
and the side quest are alright but they all seem like fetch quest to me...Which in my case, is kinda tiresome. but it was fun in sort increments, though, I would really recommend, do take your time and do the side quest slowly , not all at one time like me!.

Controls 9.5/10
You have to hand it to Nintendo, they know what they are doing with controls, I like all the controls, of the game except, the Swimming controls...I really think they could've just made them less annoying, Other then that They are great.

Graphics 9.5/10
Well you know the wii, can't pump out great graphics like the, Xbox360 or the ps3, but hey, the wii done a good job handling the graphics of this game. the graphics are the best yet on the wii, I've seen.
And I love the style of graphics in this game, Its like if, Wind waker, and Twilight princess. got hooked up and had babys ,

Final thoughts...
I kinda wish this game had a lot more dungeons, and a lot more areas to visit instead of,

Spoiler

3 areas

Overall score!! Duh duh don DA!!! 9.8/10
I really like this game, I would like to say this do not pass up the, last greatest Wii game ever, go buy it now!!

Thanks for reading!~

Edited by Ventus, 27 November 2011 - 04:21 PM.

[LinktheMaster]

As far as the number of areas and dungeons go...

Spoiler having to do with the number of areas in the game.

Well, I half agree about needing more places. I think the fact that there's 3 areas below the clouds is perfectly fine, and the general premise of going back to them over and over is definitely interesting. In fact, I sort of like that. In OoT-TP, there were side areas, but typically once you went through that side area and got to the dungeon, there was no need to go back unless you were going for 100%. There are a few exceptions, of course, but that's the general idea.

I do think, though, that the second round of dungeons should have had more established side areas. The 5th dungeon wasn't too bad because of the sea, but the 4th and 6th dungeons don't really have much of a side area to them. So I think it would have been nicer if they made those sections a bit larger.

Spoiler about the number of dungeons.

The number of dungeons was a bit disheartening, though. I would have liked maybe 2-3 more dungeons, and I would have left satisfied. I guess you can count 7 dungeons. 1 is sort of iffy. Plus, the first two dungeons will probably only take maybe 20 minutes to beat if you know what to do.

Still, the length of the game is pretty good. I think I finished around 28 hours into the game (focusing pretty much only on the main story), so it's a pretty long game. I will admit that I would have preferred that they shave off some of those fetch quests and maybe added in a few extra dungeons instead, though.

In the end, I do have to say that the game if pretty balanced as far as what you spend your time with. There's typically not too much of one thing to get bored of it. Even having a Zelda game where there's 20 dungeons and no overworld would get old, so in the end it worked out.

[Nicholas Steel]

The game was very likely another "test" by Nintendo to see what consumers like, yes it was a serious product but none the less also a test. Now that they know everyone's raving on about the game except FPS fans they'll probably step there game up with the Wii U with a similar game design but more expansive with more areas etc. especially now that they have the experience with this style of game (Notably different to previous Zelda 3D titles) and can probably better optimize/streamline all the processes involved in making a 2nd game like it.

It seems they fixed the problem with Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy 2's controls that make me cringe frequently whenever I play them. When you suddenly change what direction you choose to move in, the games sometimes would make your character continue walking in the direction you initially pressed and ignore the fact that you suddenly changed the direction your pushing the analog stick in. It affects lots of Nintendo's games ranging from Ocarina of time through to Wind Waker but all of these games would "Rectify" the situation automatically in less then a second. Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy 2 lacked the auto-correction mechanism. I believe the problem is a result of both you changing the direction your pushing in suddenly as well as sudden camera angle changes or you changing directions suddenly in relation to specific camera angles.

(There's a perfectly valid reason for why they disabled the auto-correct feature in both those games though)

Edited by franpa, 27 November 2011 - 05:46 PM.