#nintendofun

As most people probably know, after years of waiting skyward sword was finally released this past Sunday. The Zelda team spent the first 2 years coming up with ideas then started making the actual game that was just release. You may be wondering if the game is worth the while or not. The answer, yes. I won’t ruin any of the games plot points but some things from the beginning may be mentioned.

First i thought I would start off with the most controversial topic of the game, the controls. It seems people either love or hate the controls. The ones that hate it seem to find the controls unresponsive, and that can affect your game entirely considering that the motion controls are used every second of the game. Before playing the game the main thing i worried about was the controls, I’m not big on motion control because my sensor bar is in a weird place and messed with the pointer, but that was fixed in skyward sword, if the pointer is out of alignment you just press down on the D-pad and it goes back to the middle of the screen. But if the controls where unresponsive, that’s probably your own fault. When i first began I didn’t like the controls and soon grew into it, near the beginning when link flies his loftwing you have to rock the wiiremote up and down to fly up and I must have missed that because i spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what to do. The one control that has the most issues is the jab/stab. You have to thrust the wiiremote forward and it often thinks you are doing a side slash. This is most annoying while facing a beamos, you have to quickly jab it in the eye otherwise you get zapped by a laser. But if you can keep your head clear and you’re not under pressure it’s fairly easy to pull off the jab.

Now on the actual content of the game. I was very spectacle of the content. I didn’t want to know anything before buying it so as not to ruin any plot points. But this could be one of the best Zelda games ever, even rivaling ocarina of time. But we will have to wait until the hype dies down for that. The first thing i noticed when arriving on the surface was the game really reminded me of twilight princess. Not because of the content, it just had the same feeling to it. But the game doesn’t follow the typical order of things. Usually after every dungeon you return to skyloft but you don’t have to, you could just move on to the next area. And you can easily return to skyloft and the place you left off via bird statue, which is also the only way to save in the game. One thing it doesn’t follow would be the use of "Dungeons" yes there are plenty of them but a lot of the time you don’t even realize that you inside of one until about half way through, it’s very cleverly done.

There are three main areas on the surface and each time you come a new part to the area is unlocked to explore. I’m not very keen on re-exploring areas but i found it very fun to do this time around. There is one part of the game where you have to search for some objects, once I found out how much time it would take i was beginning to dread it, as memories of searching for the triforce in wind waker flooded back to my mind, but the controls really made those parts fun, even boss battles. If it had been regular standard controls all you would think about is how challenging the game is. But now all you think about is how much fun it is to swing around your sword like link does or use one of his items.

The game took a lot of misfit items from previous games and put it into skyward sword. They weren’t really that memorable of items but skyward sword made them memorable. To switch between items you hold down B and move the pointer around to choose 1 item to use while the area around you is unpaused. It makes the game a lot more realistic and Its not much of a hindrance.