TheLastStarFighter said:
I think you miss the point that what OoT did hadn't been done before it by virtually any game. Much of SS is recycled from the previous titles. I'm not saying SS is a bad game. It just didn't give me the same "wow" experience that other Zeldas did upon booting it up. Much of this was due to it releasing on the SD Wii in 2011 when so many other titles were blowing it away graphically. They also chose to do a prequel and a game with a limited world scope, all of this limited the games potential for grandeur. |
No, I didn't miss that...I just don't particularly care. The fact is that it doesn't really hold up very well today, and without the nostalgia of it being "the first of its kind", it wouldn't be as well regarded.
Skyward Sword on the other hand, did quite a few things that were new and interesting, many of which tied into the control scheme and central design philosophy. The graphics looked very pleasant, and while it may have been in dreaded SD, it still managed to wow me on multiple occasions. The fact that it was a prequel gave the game new plot threads to run with and caused the story to go places other games didn't go (most notably the brand new villains).
As I said, there were some tweaks that could be made to make the game better (I feel like just tying the ground level together at a few points would iron out a lot of complaints), but the same can be said about any game...
