E3 2010: Link Returns In Zelda: Skyward Sword

[Mr.Pandah]

The game...honestly didn't impress me. They have a whole year though to improve it and work out all the kinks, but until I get through Twilight Princess, I won't be picking this up anytime soon. The rest of their event is really letting me down as well. Wii Party? Seriously? Mario Sports Mix? I won't buy them, but I'm sure there are others who will go out to purchase it.

Dude, you STILL haven't gotten through TP? It's been out for ages, man. God, stuck on the Water temple? That's not even the hardest temple in this game.

I haven't gotten through it because...it hasn't held my interest long enough. With my original setup of my three systems on my TV, I would have to swap out cables in order to play the Wii...and with no real incentive to continue hooking up my Wii over my 360, I just never bothered. Now that I have a TV in my room, I'm currently making my way through Super Mario Galaxy (55 stars in just 5 hours of gameplay or so, clearing all worlds because I want to see Luigi as a playable character) and I may pick up TP again as well.

It isn't about skill...more like, I just haven't had the time, nor the desire to play the Wii until now.

 

[ajofflight]

Huh. Haven't heard much about this, but generally Zelda promises a good game.

 

[BabySinclair]

I heard somewhere in an interview that it would be possible to switch Link to either left or right handiness but that was about a month ago and I have no link to back it up but it would be the smart thing to do and wouldn't be that hard to implement. Flip the character model in cut scenes and in game and presto, lefties are happy.

 

[coldfrog]

Don't get me wrong, I have and always will love Zelda games, but frankly I'd love to see some better advances than 1:1 swordplay, which, fun as it sounds, is just not something I want out of a Zelda game. What I'd LIKE to see is another Majora's Mask type interjection, something holding many of the same gameplay conventions but including some new, unique puzzling style or a different kind of interface or something. Well-designed as they may be, I've grown rather tired of them using a lot of the same formulas and, unless I hear otherwise, I probably won't be getting this game.

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On release date.

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probably.

 

[jamesslater]

What about left-handed people?

I'm left-handed, and I don't see a problem. You're only being asked to move your wrist and elbow, after all. In fact, I (personally) prefer holding the nunchuk in my left hand, since the analogue stick requires finer-grained control. (Now, the 3DS, on the other hand...)

 

[iBlooba]

@First poster, don't worry about the video. Watch the E3 on-floor demo, it's alot better. I think the lighting was interfering with the pointer.