The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

THE BAD:
- Too much handholding
- Poorly designed dungeons
- Uninteresting terrain
- Horrendous motion controls*

SUMMARY:
Here's some disclaimers first:
> I don't much like motion control. It's a brilliant idea for mini games (ie, Wii Sports Resort), but basing a whole game on it wan't such a great idea. I'll get more into this later.
> I am a die-hard Zelda fan. I've beaten and generally loved every Zelda game as soon as I could get my hands on them (this includes the infamous Zelda II).

I'll get into the goods of this game first. This game had the potential to be the best Zelda game yet, with a plethora of risky new features that simply printed gaming joy. The story, which even before seeing the official timeline, obviously set itself up to be the first in a series, and Ghirahim's placement of monsters throughout Hyrule is an excellent explanation as to the sta...

THE BAD:
-No item short cuts
-Graphics lose detail when in the background
-Repetitive

SUMMARY:
Graphics: Up close, there is a very good marriage of the graphics of Wind Waker and the graphics of Twilight Princess. Solid colors and a painting like texture compose the animations on the screen. Unfortunately, many of the details are lost as character and places move into the background. It reminded me of an impressionist painting. For anyone who didn’t take an art class, enter Monet in a search engine. This made it difficult to tell what exactly was coming when looking through the first person view. (3.0/5.0)

Gameplay: Since 2011 was the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, there should very few surprises to anyone who has played a previous Zelda game while playing this game. The number one feature of Skyward Sword is the motion plus controls. Link now swings his sword that closely mirrors how you swing your arm. There was one time where I had to r...

THE BAD:
Camera angles are sometimes hard to fix and get right.
Wii remote loses it's sight from time to time.

SUMMARY:
Graphics:

When I first started playing this game I was truck by it's detail. The graphical style of this game is beautiful. Every detail of the dungeons and the houses are just in my opinion "Fantastic". Every time I get in to a new area of the world I just have to explore and see how many rupees I can find. I don't think that this beats the visual and astounding feeling you get from Oot when you first step into Hyrule but for me it was still very pleasing.

From the Spiders all the way to the Kikwi, you will find...