New Skyward Sword Screens Take Link on Hyrulean Wildlife Tour

[Logan Westbrook]

New Skyward Sword Screens Take Link on Hyrulean Wildlife Tour


Legend of Zelda fans beware: the scorpions in Skyward Sword are massive, and they're just the beginning.

It's no wonder than the people of Skyloft don't go down to Hyrule in Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword; it's full of rather mean-looking flora and fauna, apparently with a taste for green-suited heroes. Still that doesn't seem to have deterred the stalwart Link, who has a childhood friend to save, and doesn't have time to worry about being eaten.

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Not every screenshot in the this collection is new - we've seen Link's battle with the Stalfos before, for example - but there's plenty of other creatures that we haven't come across before. It's also another look at Skyward Swords' interesting art style. Personally, I will admit that I wasn't sold on the visuals at first, but they've really grown on more the more I see of them.

Skyward Sword is looking like it's going to be a really solid addition to the franchise. It's also exciting to hear that Nintendo is trying new things with the setting and gameplay, like changing Link and Zelda's relationship and tweaking the ever-so-familiar standing set of inventory items.

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword comes out for the Wii later this year.


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[Baldr]

I first disliked Wind Waker's stylized graphics, but it grew on me and it certainly aged better than other Zelda games or games from that generation.

 

[Kinokohatake]

Is that annoying ass Wiimote outline going to be onscreen the entire time?

 

[darkfire613]

The one thing that bothers me most about Zelda games is having the entire control scheme laid out on the screen. I think I can remember that Wiimote waggle swings the sword, I don't need the picture on the right reminding me.

That's honestly one of the reasons the OoT 3D remake was so good: they shifted a lot of the clutter UI elements to the bottom screen on the 3DS, leaving the top for the actual game world.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

hmm...I will have to steal my wii back off my nephew. I still haven't gotten to play all of Mario Galaxy 2 -.-

It's looking great so far and I like the change back to ocarina style graphics. I like the wind waker etc but it's nice to have something different.

Taking a closer look at the screens it almost looks like a mixture of both.

 

[Keith K]

I thought they took that wii remote picture off the screen. Are we sure these are new screens? I have my doubts.

Also.. I believe those to be far higher resolution than the actual game.

 

[Sepko]

Better stylised than brown, I say.

 

[Rawne1980]

And Link was slaughtered by a giant Scorpion and the world rejoiced ..... what? Can't a man dream?

 

[Mister Benoit]

Is that annoying ass Wiimote outline going to be onscreen the entire time?

You can probably toggle it on/off, wouldn't see why not.

 

[Alon Shechter]

Well..
At least it's not the total horror that is the Radscorpions.

 

[DustyDrB]

Yeah, I've really fallen in love with this game's look after being iffy on it at first. Hopefully the vertical/horizontal/diagonal slash thing isn't annoying. I actually really liked the motion control parts of Twilight Princess, so it's not something that worries me as much as it does some people here.

 

[Chknboy]

All I really miss are the tights

 

[FreakSheet]

All I really miss are the tights

I'm pretty sure Link doesn't...

 

[Samus Aaron]

Is that annoying ass Wiimote outline going to be onscreen the entire time?

The one thing that bothers me most about Zelda games is having the entire control scheme laid out on the screen. I think I can remember that Wiimote waggle swings the sword, I don't need the picture on the right reminding me.

Nintendo has confirmed that that Wiimote outline is just being used as a guide for people to understand the control scheme. It won't actually be in the final product. No, I don't have the link to prove it (no pun intended) but assure you it was mentioned in a news post a while back.

 

[minnull]

Looks like they took the gears of war approach to camera angles with Skyward Sword. Not that its a bad thing at all. The wiimote blocking half the screen has gotta go.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

do you have any more recent ones?
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/gallery/index.php?cat=102

i looked at this zelda fan site that i look at least once a day to find out any news related to recent game and avoid the forums just so i don't have to deal with idiotic fanboys/girls [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanDumb]. i know not all of them are like that but enough are

The one thing that bothers me most about Zelda games is having the entire control scheme laid out on the screen. I think I can remember that Wiimote waggle swings the sword, I don't need the picture on the right reminding me.

That's honestly one of the reasons the OoT 3D remake was so good: they shifted a lot of the clutter UI elements to the bottom screen on the 3DS, leaving the top for the actual game world.

the wii remote, nunchuk, and the thing that say's how to shoot/launch/whip/roll seems unnecessary once you know the controls but it's likely it is only there for demo, tutorial of the game, and for a short amount of time when you get a new item. you could probably turn it on or off in some options menu. so would worry about that too much.


but you could be there for the whole game so who knows but i would not be a smart move by nintendo if they did
although the picture of the currently equipped item in the coroner, rupees and hearts is most likely not going anywhere and will be there like the rest of the games

 

[Jurian]

Aren't these the same pictures from the trailer and gameplay videos we already saw 200 times ?
I'm beginning to think there's nothing else to the game besides the scorpion and the stalfos battle.

 

[Black Watch]

I am really looking forward to this game. I think the merger with the Wind Waker style and the Twilight Princess style graphics are amazing.