TheLastStarFighter said:
Nah, that's not true at all. It has a 93 meta vs OoT's 99. OoT also has sold over 10 million copies while SS struggled to sell just under 4. Very few people would put SS at the top of the Zelda heap, but probably most would put OoT there. Personally, the best ever for me is the original, but I digress. The bottom line is SS, upon its release, did not see a single call for "best game ever" and didn't even get much consideration for game of the year. Every Zelda in the past was a landmark, ground-breaking title. SS was not. It was "just" a real good game. That's fine, but if you're Nintendo - the supposed finest game maker on the planet - and Zelda is your showcase series, that's not good enough. If the games are simply going to be "good new entries in a beloved serires", and not an amazing new gameplay experience unlike anything before it, then the team should tighten up the dev schedule and stop fiddling around with pointless new game ideas for a few years before reworking everything. |
The point wasn't to say it was better than OOT, the point is when looking at the view of the masses it is a very well received game. It would be considered the core gamers swan song of the Wii, and proof to many that motion controls were a viable control scheme for a game with depth. Did everyone love it? No. When the way you play a game is changed so drastically there are obviously going to be people upset with it.
I also don't understand how it isn't an amazing new gameplay experience unlike anything before it.... It kind of was. True sword play that worked with the motion plus would show up first in Red Steel (which the motion plus came packaged with), correct me if I'm wrong though, but to be able to toss and roll bombs with 1:1 input, to be able to control the beetle and solve puzzles through its flight 1:1 it is the first time it has happened in a game. Basically it was the first game that didn't change its formula to utilize the motion controls but integrated them naturally, and it is every bit a masterpeice (and it isn't just me saying it).
http://n4g.com/news/892001/the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-a-masterpiece-hooked-gamers
http://kotaku.com/5858011/30-seconds-of-skyward-sword-a-masterpiece-of-a-forest
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2011/11/ign-skyward-sword-review/
Yes some of these huge gaming websites may not have liked the motion controls, but every one of them consideres it a masterpiece as well. As well as those who took to the IGN poll and gave Skyward Sword the viewers choice award for best LoZ ever.
"This latest entry of the Zelda series is not only hands down the best game on Wii, it's the greatest Zelda game ever created" - IGN
"By the lofty standards of The Legend of the Zelda franchise, Skyward Sword is a masterpiece." - N4G
