Oh boy, I'm going to be controversial about Zelda here aren't I? Yes, probably I will since I know this game has a good fanbase. It's not going to be all hate I swear. Was this a game I liked? No. However I felt that this game had a lot of good qualities. We'll see below by what I mean with all of this here. However, on the Wii, it won a ton of awards. You can just Wikipedia that to be honest. What does the Switch version of this game get right and what does it get wrong? Let's find out below.
Positives:
1. Story: Skyward Sword's story is very, very well written and very well done. The game throughout provides this with a new mission for Link but also it's important to the timeline of the story of Zelda itself. The story itself throughout is terrifically balanced and well done but provides a ton of structure and development throughout the game.
2. Music: Terrific soundtrack throughout the game and one of the best soundtracks probably in the Zelda series. They did a terrific job with this and it deserves a lot of merit.
3. Graphics: I would expect Skyward Sword's original Wii graphics to be good because HD's was phenomenal overall. I enjoyed the way the game looked throughout on both the sky areas but also the ground level areas looked very, very good overall.
4. Ghirahim: He honestly should have been the true final boss because his boss fights are tough but fun. They are honestly a lot better done than the true final boss of the game. I honestly enjoyed the Ghirahim fights and liked the challenge overall with this.
Negatives:
1. Controls: I have not played the Wii version of this game, however the Switch version of this game with the controls is absolutely diabolically bad. Like bad, bad and it is not something you can sit here and exclaim is okay. These are just bad controls that make the game almost feel broken.
2. Control Speed: This goes with controls. The speed of what you input feels slow. This is evident in the last boss so much so. It also just feels awkward when you input the controls and just they feel slow throughout. I could be wrong on this but to someone like myself it felt slow on the Switch, but they might have been better on the Wii.
3. Why is the last boss this boss?: I won't spoil who it is but I just sit here and wonder why it couldn't be Ghirahim instead of the last boss? It would be a great final boss, with a tough battle rather than what you actually get which while tough to an extent seems a lot easier.
4. The second part of the area around Faron Woods: Just makes no sense. It is seemingly there for filler and something to do just because. I don't need to learn a song for this game to be better. Just make the world better and provide a better challenge to the gamer themselves.
Reaction/Rating:
This game is one of the more frustrating to rank and rate. Is it better than Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, Tears of the Kingdom? Absolutely not. Is it better than Zelda 1, Zelda 2, Zelda CDi? Absolutely. It's one of those more middle of the road games in my opinion of the Zelda series. It has a brilliant story, terrific music but some of the things there for filler will knock it down. However, you can bypass that as that is part of almost every game. However, the one main thing that is not forgivable is just how bad the controls are in this game, at least on the Switch side. If they ever had these fixed, it would be a much better game on the Switch but it didn't happen. For me, it would be a 7 out of 10 on the Switch, and I would be intrigued to see if it is better on the Wii.
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