You won't feel the same way in 2021 or 2022. That's when I think a resmaster of SS will happen. WW was remade 11 years after and now TP 10 years after.

I dont think we will wait for so long, we could have SS HD in 2017/2018 easy.

I'm not talking about the Gamepad and I'm not considering motion controls at all. That's the whole point. ZL is the standard name for the trigger button on Nintendo platforms, not L2. L2 is a Playstation button. It doesn't appear on any other platform. I think it is erring on fantasy to assume that the NX will be adding even more buttons to an already complex button set up.

You don't have to be locked on, but you can't chose where to poke. You just poke directly in front of you, so it's Link's position that matters. You have to be perfectly in front of what you're poking in order for the hit to register. If not, the move will be deflected.

The Z button isn't the ZL/ZR button. It's not the more general term. It's the most specific term you could use, and it's only used for playstation platforms. XB uses LT and RT. Everyone calls it something different. I wasn't even trying to turn that into a point of discussion or really even correct you on it, but it literally makes no sence to call it that. You're talking about an exclusive Nintendo game from an exclusive Nintendo IP that will only happen on an exclusive Nintendo platform. Nintendo would never be allowed to use a button called "L2." It's the same thing with the LR buttons. Only Nintendo calls it that. Face buttons. Everyone's is different. Even Start/Select are different for everyone now, to the point where those buttons technically don't really exist for anyone anymore. For Nintendo it's - and +, for PS4 it's Share and Options, and for XBO it's Back and Start.

I feel like it's a waste of time to speculate on what extra buttons the NX could add for something like this. They aren't going to add buttons just to make a SS rerelease work on a controller with only motion controls, and adding more buttons goes against the function of motion controls in the first place, which was to allow for infinite movement with only one method of input. They were made to be an all in one solution.

Even if you're talking about it running on dolfin, you're still at the mercy of controllers that actually exist. What are they going to use? The Steam Controller? They could probably do it that way, but that isn't a standard controller. You could hold down the grip button and then swipe the touch pad for all the appropriate unputs and just tap the center to poke. You couldn't control the camera, but you couldn't in the original either. 

I've really become lost to what you're asking about, to be honest.

On Wii your Wiimote acts like a sword 1:1, so when you move it slowly to the right, sword moves slowly to the right. If you hold it up right and then swing down-low, fast, sword will go fast, due to Wiimote detecting speed and acceleration. If you wave your hand around in cirlces, sword will move in circles.

In Dolphin Wiimote Plus branch this is solved in a way that (for example) you assign right stick to Wiimote (sword) X/Y axes with certain slower setting - when you move R stick, it moves slowly. But when you want to move it fast, standard controller stick does not have a way to measure your acceleration - that's why you assign to some button (or stick click) modifier that changes sensitivity, effectivly getting fast movement.

This is actually (depending on setting) a lot faster that you can ever actually swing Wiimote, so fights can to be (again, depending on the setting) a lot easier with enemies that do not ask for specific trajectory to be hit. For those who can block from certain directions, or change what you need to hit, this control method takes some adjusting to, but as I said earlier, it is perfectly playable, and I even prefered to play that way - I tend to have a long 5-6 hour sessions when I play, and waving Wiimote for that long of a time is not comfortable for me - eventually, I finished the game on Wii, beacuse my kids needed help with their playthrough, so I abandoned mine on PC and played with them together on Wii.

Of course, this is not perfect solution, you're mapping something that can move in every direction to standard controller, but apart from drawing everything else was possible. Even drawing would be easy to execute if it was made with stick in mind, but game uses, instead of Wii pointer controls, some wierd combo of tilt and pointer, so that does not translate well to either stick or mouse.

Bottom line - given that SS controls are not made for standard gamepads, yet game is more than playable in Dolphin (again, except for drawing) with standard controller, I really don't see much of a problem for devs to actually redo sword controls for gamepad - sure, it might not be as precise or fluid as Wiimote, but honestly, IMO, it really doesn't need to be.

I don't really get this people are moaning about simply aiming with the gamepad in SF0 being possibly an issue so why would a more cumbersome approach to SS be more inviting?

If SS is remastered it'll simply come with a packed in Wiimote, far cheaper solution then reworking the whole game, anyone not keen of MC will just have to accept it.

I would be interested in an SS with standard controls. The advanced motion controls were an interesting idea, and I somewhat enjoyed them but I would've probably preferred standard controls with harder enemy AI.

Well, I guess that if the game was made for standrad controller it would be able to measure somehow if you moved your stick really fast or slow, and to act acordingly - however, when you do that in Dolphin sword does not move fast enough - remember, your initial setting is fairly slow, since that R stick controls all sorts of things, not just sword, that's why there is a modifier to activate other setting (which is set a lot faster).

As for Dolphin Wiimote Plus branch itself, it is quite old, I've played SS a number of years ago - initially, I had to spend some time messing around with contoller settings, but afterwards it was fairly smooth epxerience. Well, until the first drawing that is (that's about half of the game, IIRC)...then I had to connect actual Wiimote and play that through.

As I said earlier, I never got to finish it on Dolphin due to kids asking for help on Wii, so I played with their save onward - they were maybe only about quarter of the game through, so I had a chance to play again with Wiimote same parts of the game.

If you don't shy from fiddling with Dolphin you should definitelly try it, look up some videos on Youtube as well, IIRC, there were people posting settings for 360 controller in that version of Dolphhin. I can't really tell if you'll like it or not, as I said, one of the reasons why I found standard controller to be preferable for me was my very long sessions (later, with kids it was 2 hours max, so I didn't felt that was much of a problem). But, eventually, you will hit that 'drawing' wall, so if they haven't figured that out in the meantime (it was failry long ago when I played SS), you will need Wiimote Plus.

Anyway, bottom line being, if they want to, they can redo controls with no great obstacles in remaster/remake.

Nothing, It's perfect! (Not really, but still my favorite game :D)