I had put off playing this game for way too long. I heard so many mixed opinions on this game that steered me away from playing, and yet I finally bit the bullet and played it.
It was fucking amazing.
The story, the music, the art direction, even the combat with the new controls on Switch is so fucking clean. I really had an amazing time with this game. Some of the dungeons are really creative, as Sky Keep and Sand Ship are some of my favorite in the series. The story and relationship between Link and Zelda is perfection and sets up the series in such a great way. I ended up really enjoying the cast of characters in this game way more than I had anticipated from my first few hours with it, and I have to say I almost cried a bit at certain scenes involving a crystal. I picked this game up and beat it in three days, basically playing it in all of my free time as I was enamored with how clean it felt to play portable on the switch. While the game has a little bit of a slow opening, once it gets the ball rolling, it's a non-stop blast until the end. Even though you end up backtracking ALOT, Skyward Sword manages to change up the level enough to keep each pass through one of the three major areas interesting to the player. The biggest critique I have is that at times, the right stick sword movements got a little finicky sometimes and it was annoying when making precise cuts, but it was totally fine like 95% of the time.
I think this is the first game to get me this excited about Zelda in a long time, ever since I first played Ocarina. Skyward Sword is a fantastic entry and based on how little I've heard people sing it's praises, I would even potentially say an underrated one. I know that the Switch version did SO much to try and smooth over some of the gameplay frustrations, so I can't comment on the original, but damn the HD version hits so hard.
It was fucking amazing.
The story, the music, the art direction, even the combat with the new controls on Switch is so fucking clean. I really had an amazing time with this game. Some of the dungeons are really creative, as Sky Keep and Sand Ship are some of my favorite in the series. The story and relationship between Link and Zelda is perfection and sets up the series in such a great way. I ended up really enjoying the cast of characters in this game way more than I had anticipated from my first few hours with it, and I have to say I almost cried a bit at certain scenes involving a crystal. I picked this game up and beat it in three days, basically playing it in all of my free time as I was enamored with how clean it felt to play portable on the switch. While the game has a little bit of a slow opening, once it gets the ball rolling, it's a non-stop blast until the end. Even though you end up backtracking ALOT, Skyward Sword manages to change up the level enough to keep each pass through one of the three major areas interesting to the player. The biggest critique I have is that at times, the right stick sword movements got a little finicky sometimes and it was annoying when making precise cuts, but it was totally fine like 95% of the time.
I think this is the first game to get me this excited about Zelda in a long time, ever since I first played Ocarina. Skyward Sword is a fantastic entry and based on how little I've heard people sing it's praises, I would even potentially say an underrated one. I know that the Switch version did SO much to try and smooth over some of the gameplay frustrations, so I can't comment on the original, but damn the HD version hits so hard.