beat it almost a month ago. highly disappointed, though the game does progressively get better the farther you get, culminating with very cool boss scenarios at the end. Structurally this game has many problems - attempted Hero mode and was sorely reminded of all of them...

Good to know, I'll put some more effort in collecting the desert tears. Fi kept nagging me I might not be the one and should take a break, so I did.

Got past it.  I'm navigating the land sea now. Imagining what that would look like in the Uncharted 3 engine alone makes that section awesome.

I can go to the last dungeon if I want, but I'm going to go and get all of the heart pieces and goddess cubes because I'm a butt-hole completionist.

I'm in the same spot, only missing one heart-piece and I got no idea where it could be. Will be doing rounds through the mini-games later today.

ROFL, either you have a faulty wiimote+, or you're not calibrating it correctly (on a completely flat surface). 

I played my entire first run on the game (45+ hours) and I only had to calibrate it every time I started the game (again on a completely flat surface). The wiimote+ performed well enough to not have any trouble on the trickier mini-games such as Fun Fun Island.

Either way, it's not an issue with the game per se.

You're free to believe whatever you want to believe I also don't believe that you have to recalibrate every 30 seconds (or any amount of time close to that), because I don't believe anyone can be that shitty at calibrating the Wiimote+ (considering there's nothing wrong with the device per se).

I've seen those kind of problems before (they're all over gamefaqs and youtube, then again, there only seem to be complainers over there) and everytime someone points to the fact of bad calibration, it usually solves the problem. It falls in line with the people complaining that they look ridiculous playing SS because they're doing absurd motions for playing it, when you can play it comfortably by doing precise and quick motions. 

Of course, that must have been it. That's why I controlled the Beetle perfectly, could fly perfectly, did the fun fun island minigame where you have to sky dive perfectly and many other precise things without a hitch. 

Damn controller being out of calibration and still not giving me any issue  

Bad calibration throws your actions out of loop. Minute actions like turning left or right with the beetle become screwy and twitchy and either you turn too harshly or can't go in a straight path.

A pretty easy way to detect if you have bad calibration is to go to the map and see how the pointer reacts to your moves: 
 - If it's smooth and doesn't twitch around when you move it, it's well calibrated.
 - If it's all over the place and it get's hard to point it at a specific place, then the calibration has gone to shit. 

So, seeing that I rarely experienced the aformentioned situation in the grand majority of my playtime, I know I didn't have calibration issues.

It's hard to get signal interferance when there's nothing near it that could cause it. I played it on my bedroom at my parents house which has an old Mitsai tv and nothing else, so that goes out the window. And since the wiimote+ doesn't use the IR bar for the movements, interference is much less of an issue on SS than in other Wii games.

By twitch I meant that even the slight movement of your hand would create a fast movement of the pointer on screen to the point that there's no possibility of fluid motions. As I said, not only is that easily visible on the map screen, using items like the beetles is also a good way to test the calibration, since with bad calibration it becomes increasingly hard to control it straight and any motion will throw it around. 

Then again, this discussion is going in circles. I don't believe you, you don't believe me, so why are we bothering? It's not like this will change the very smooth experience that I had with the game

For those situations, Nintendo should have implemented other controllers like SSBB. Geez, this game sometimes seems rushed.For WMP issues, I suggest the implemented WMP remote (old remote + wmp is mostly shitty) and to look if something in your room could affect the sensor bar, because normally you only have to caliber once.