**THIS IS WITHOUT PLAYING THROUGH THE ENTIRE GAME, HENCE "MINI", BASED OFF WHAT MY BROTHER SAID ABOUT THE GAME AS WELL, AND JUST FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN.**
*Title Mistake, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword should be game title
Rating System --------------------
1 - Terrible
2 - Awful
3 - Very bad
4 - Bad
5 - Mediocre
6 - Okay
7 - Good (Not an IGN 7.)
8 - Great
9 - Amazing
10 - Outstanding
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NOTE:
Take this as a first impressions, as that's what I meant with "mini" review. Thanks!
HISTORY:
Skyward Sword got super duper hyped. Reviewers put it on level of Ocarina of time. Everyone went nuts. Everyone was like "omg bst zelda gam evr", but everything turned upside down. For me, and most a lot of people recently, at least.
REVIEW:
My brother got this game around when it came out, with the music disc and the game. I had just got Sonic Generations, so I beat that first then went on to SS, and I was like "oooo motion controls ooo- OH GOD THAT TREE LOOKS AWFUL". (Beat 1st dungeon, that's how far I got by the way.)
GAMEPLAY:
Oh boy. This game. Hey! Like Zelda games? Like puzzles in those games? Want EVERY SINGLE ENEMY TO BE A PUZZLE (THE SAME EXACT ONE)????? Well thats how combat is. Its sliced down the middle, to the sides, ect. It was a big step down from Twilight Princess's combat where there were tons of cool moves, and you could fight enemies usually how you wanted to. Now enough of the awful combat, let's move onto the big one, the motion controls. Now at first, I thought they were great. But then, after I started playing again months later, I hated them. The sword would constantly not follow my Wiimote correctly and would be off the opposite side of me, which really doesn't help with the combat system. It's so bad and unresponsive Metroid Prime's Wii port has better controls, and it was a PORT. The game also is basically a straight line. So much so I felt I was playing Super Mario Galaxy (great game), which is LEVEL BASED, so its gonna be in a straight line. I mean it got to the point where there were FENCES (which didn't fit with anything else in the game) incase you might not follow the the path that tells you where to go. Don't even get me started on "Fi". Most annoying character I swear. But the fun doesn't end with that, the dungeons are reaallly boring to. I hear one later on is really good though, so I'll leave that one for debate, but from the first 1 hour plus, there is nothing to hold me back from thinking the rest is this bad.
GAMEPLAY SCORE: 4.0/10
STORY:
I think Fi is the master sword, but who cares. Zelda gets kidnapped by the worst villain in zelda history, and gotta save her. So different.
STORY SCORE: 0.0/0.0 (Didn't get far enough for fair rating.)
GRAPHICS:
The only good thing about the graphics are that if you go close they look painted, and at some points look like a pretty painted scene. Other than that it looks a disney game, which is never something good. Plus the tree's look flat out awful and something from the early 2000's PC days at best. Also link as lips. Which is awful. (But nit-picky.)
GRAPHICS SCORE: 7.5
FINAL SCORE: 5.75/10
THOUGHTS:
Go buy Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Ocaraina, or Major for your 3D Zelda needs. Not this. Never this.
Side Note:
The music is iffy. Its definitely not bad, but it's not memorable at all.
*Title Mistake, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword should be game title
Rating System --------------------
1 - Terrible
2 - Awful
3 - Very bad
4 - Bad
5 - Mediocre
6 - Okay
7 - Good (Not an IGN 7.)
8 - Great
9 - Amazing
10 - Outstanding
--------------------------------------
NOTE:
Take this as a first impressions, as that's what I meant with "mini" review. Thanks!
HISTORY:
Skyward Sword got super duper hyped. Reviewers put it on level of Ocarina of time. Everyone went nuts. Everyone was like "omg bst zelda gam evr", but everything turned upside down. For me, and most a lot of people recently, at least.
REVIEW:
My brother got this game around when it came out, with the music disc and the game. I had just got Sonic Generations, so I beat that first then went on to SS, and I was like "oooo motion controls ooo- OH GOD THAT TREE LOOKS AWFUL". (Beat 1st dungeon, that's how far I got by the way.)
GAMEPLAY:
Oh boy. This game. Hey! Like Zelda games? Like puzzles in those games? Want EVERY SINGLE ENEMY TO BE A PUZZLE (THE SAME EXACT ONE)????? Well thats how combat is. Its sliced down the middle, to the sides, ect. It was a big step down from Twilight Princess's combat where there were tons of cool moves, and you could fight enemies usually how you wanted to. Now enough of the awful combat, let's move onto the big one, the motion controls. Now at first, I thought they were great. But then, after I started playing again months later, I hated them. The sword would constantly not follow my Wiimote correctly and would be off the opposite side of me, which really doesn't help with the combat system. It's so bad and unresponsive Metroid Prime's Wii port has better controls, and it was a PORT. The game also is basically a straight line. So much so I felt I was playing Super Mario Galaxy (great game), which is LEVEL BASED, so its gonna be in a straight line. I mean it got to the point where there were FENCES (which didn't fit with anything else in the game) incase you might not follow the the path that tells you where to go. Don't even get me started on "Fi". Most annoying character I swear. But the fun doesn't end with that, the dungeons are reaallly boring to. I hear one later on is really good though, so I'll leave that one for debate, but from the first 1 hour plus, there is nothing to hold me back from thinking the rest is this bad.
GAMEPLAY SCORE: 4.0/10
STORY:
I think Fi is the master sword, but who cares. Zelda gets kidnapped by the worst villain in zelda history, and gotta save her. So different.
STORY SCORE: 0.0/0.0 (Didn't get far enough for fair rating.)
GRAPHICS:
The only good thing about the graphics are that if you go close they look painted, and at some points look like a pretty painted scene. Other than that it looks a disney game, which is never something good. Plus the tree's look flat out awful and something from the early 2000's PC days at best. Also link as lips. Which is awful. (But nit-picky.)
GRAPHICS SCORE: 7.5
FINAL SCORE: 5.75/10
THOUGHTS:
Go buy Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Ocaraina, or Major for your 3D Zelda needs. Not this. Never this.
Side Note:
The music is iffy. Its definitely not bad, but it's not memorable at all.
I guess its more of a "first impressions". It's the first hour/ 2 hours of the game and I felt like nothing happened. Twilight Princess was slow as heck but things still happened. And Wind Waker is awesome. That is all.