Current Events > Can we re-confirm that Skyward Sword was not a great game?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Lifeless sky islands that make Wind Waker look fun
Terrible back tracking
Weird annoying characters
App Game Pop-ups constantly
Meh dungeons and story

Only good thing they introduced was the stamina meter

The dungeons and story were not meh. The dungeon designs and plot were probably the best parts about it.

Had annoying repeating bosses but the game is an easy 9

We can reconfirm you have bad taste.

I liked it less than every 3D Zelda before it.

Of course I dislike BOTW/TOTK more than I dislike Skyward Sword.

It's the only 3D Zelda I've never finished. I thought I would with the Switch port, but nah, it's still a boring slog.

Its better when you turn motion controls off. The sword fighting is just fine, but flying the bird or beetle is awful.

Anyway I just played it for the first time. Great game overall, but some of the unnecessary backtracking is really bad, especially because theres no fast travel and it takes way too long to fly around on your bird. The sky world overall is barren and bad, and I can see in hindsight why BotW was such a breath of fresh air. The dungeons are as good as any Zelda game, and they do some really creative things.

Sure, it was not a great game.

It IS a great game.

Not sure why you wanted to make a topic about your incorrect word usage, though.

TheOtherMike posted...

It's the only 3D Zelda I've never finished.

same. not good.

Ancient Cistern is probably my favorite dungeon in the series, and the Sand Ship and Temple of Time are also fantastic, but I cant fault anyone for disliking it moment to moment.

I had fun with it back in the day.

"boring slog" sounds about right, from the first minutes of the game. not memorable, not worth the time.
definitely one of those "unless you just blindly love zelda, no need to play it" type of games

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

"boring slog" sounds about right, from the first minutes of the game. not memorable, not worth the time.
definitely one of those "unless you just blindly love zelda, no need to play it" type of games

Agreed.

Fortunately, I played it on a modified Wii at the time, and was able to add a bunch of quality of life options that made it less annoying. But still, I have never had the urge to touch it again.

I liked it, but they build up this relationship between Zelda and Link and dont even kiss at the end let alone hug. Cowards!

I agree but for different reasons

I think most of the Zelda games are mid now after Totk released. Even botw seems pretty bad to me now.

Now I haven't played the Zelda games on n64 so idk about them but based on footage they don't look as great to me as Totk. But maybe they play better than they look

I liked it. Second best dungeons in the series (after Twilight Princess).

Its got amazing highs and some garbage ass lows.

I love how it's always the same fucking user obsessed with re-affirming their hatred of this game. It's time to move on, not to mention you're just wrong and can't give specifics outside weird nitpicks.

It's not a perfect game, but most Zeldas have horrendous flaws. We can literally sit down and talk about the flaws of every single entry for ages

The biggest difference is that you just choose to focus on this one game. It's really cringeworthy

My tag for you never fails.

King_Rial posted...

My tag for you never fails.

Lmao wait whats my tag

It's pretty trash. People that think otherwise can safely be disregarded.

I'll never not welcome the opportunity to shit on SS

what a piece of shit

Everytime someone brings it up, people rightfully rag on it. Though I'm not sure if the Switch version made it better? I had no interest in buying it a second time.

i never played it, but i got the switch cart for $30 for my collection

CruelBuffalo posted...

Lmao wait whats my tag

Yo, real talk, you wouldn't like your tag either, brah. Also, I could post it if I wanted to.

If I could tag myself, it would be "Weirdo Pervert" for sure.

It's terrible. One of the worst Nintendo* Zelda games, right down there w/ Ocarina of Time and Crossbow Training. I pre-ordered it and still have the gold wiimote. It's literally the reason I've never again pre-ordered a Zelda game.

* So someone doesn't try and say, "but the CDI games, tho!"

Over-time I've become less interested in Zelda games in general as they all have too much backtracking, or boring parts between dungeons.

Skyward Sword had the flying beetle and that was fun to use. Annoying the shop keeper by not buying anything and making his flying store too "heavy" was also funny.

But there were a handful of bad things that did negatively impact the game that would make it difficult to go back to.

1) Fighting the same boring boss 10 times. Like...WHY?
2) The bad-ass villain that flirted with Link throughout the adventure ended up being a sword or whatever? Lame.
3) There were three major environments in the game - Forest, Desert, and Fire Mountain. A larger variety was needed and either the desert or fire mountain should have been replaced with something prettier.

combat was torture

so many times I would move my hand right to do a slash left but it picked up that I was slashing to the right first

sometimes would just drop and need total recalibration

I thought it was good
One of the weaker 3D Zeldas, but still a fun time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0ciael7NE

It is the worst 3D Zelda easy.

It sucked in every conceivable way other than a few dungeons were okay and some places looked nice from a distance.

The controls (Wii Motion +) were unreliable, due to the way you held your sword Link always looked like a moron when running around with it, the enemies were dumb and many of which relied upon the gimmick control method making the effort of fighting them nothing more than a swing in the right direction and hope that the Wiimote detected it correctly challenge, the overall gameplay structure and progression of places to visit was repetitive as hell, the entire sky area was a restrictive waste of space, and literally every character looked like wax figurines with the most punchable faces imaginable (actually, come to think of it, Impa's designs were okay, but everyone else looked like they needed a dropkick to the face).

Hayame_Zero posted...

The dungeons and story were not meh. The dungeon designs and plot were probably the best parts about it.

I generally dont remember any of the dungeons at all compared to wind waker. And the plot starts decent but is eventually ruined by the games repetitive writing, pacing, a otherwise good antagonist getting cucked by ganon again and Pi.

A character Who Im convinced was designed as the anti Midna.

This is just my opinion but I believe the devs gave up on the game about halfway through then just half assed the rest.