The games talked about in this thread have all one thing in common: they are not Wii games.

With the exception of Twilight Princess, but that is a Gamecube at its heart. The only good thing about your post is that it's worse than anything I have possibly said in this thread.

If you know something about Skyward Sword that the rest of us don't, then please share. We have barely seen anything of it so far.

The Minish Cap on the GBA is the answer, but Zelda started to change direction with OoT already. Of course not everything can converted from 2D to 3D, but Zelda has been becoming more and more about a story than being centered around sword combat ever since then and that's the problem.

Maybe Nintendo has said just that, but that is nothing that would worry me as the result of that approach usually is a game that is more of a game than anything else and that I like.

The difficulty level is extremely important for a game centered around combat. Because if the game is easy, then more powerful weapons and all sorts of other upgrades start to lose their meaning. If you don't need them, then why should you strive to get them other for completion's sake? That's where Zelda fails nowadays.

In the last few games the few challenging areas were entirely optional which also makes them just something you do for completion's sake, but the dungeons you have to pass to progress the story are generally all on the easy side. That may be cool for those people who enjoy the story of these Zelda games, but for people like me it becomes boring.