Hi all.

Last year my most anticipated game was Skyward Sword. I am a big Zelda fan so when my copy came through my letter box I has as happy as a Pig in s*%t. As I started to play it my excitment started to fade. Excitment turned to hate. hate led to the darkside. I hated a Zelda game. Everything irked me. Here my comment from the "How far are you in skyward sword thread?"

RedInker said

I've given up on it. Far to many annoying elements to the game. I'm not liking the controls. It keeps going off centre which is soooo frustrating. Stamina guage is an unwelcome addition. A couple of of spin attacks and Link's gauge is empty and you're completly open to attack. Save statues are a step backwards too. I wish i could enjoy the game as the Zelda series is one of my all time favourites. It hurts me to say it but it's the worst Zelda game ever. Such a shame.

At the time of playing the game I was experiencing a lot of stress at work which may have affected my enjoyment of the game.

So what do you all think? hall I give it another go now that I'm not stressed? Or was my original critisisim an accurate picture?

You decide.....

No, wait for the HD version.

/s

Of course you should try again!

You're right.

I'm just really hoping there will be an HD version since my Wii was stolen.

(and I love Zelda)

It was the biggest dissapointment of the last few years, for me. I´am playing it sin January and haeven´t finished it yet, because it so boring :(

I had quit once before too but got convinced to pick it up again, only to quit for good 6 hours later and trade it in. I don't know how far you have played but for me it became more and more of a disappointment the further I got, with the exception of the sand sea part.
The nearly empty over world, re-used environments, archaic drawn out boss battles with uninterruptible cut scenes, and motion controls that still regularly do the opposite thing of what I want to do after 20 hours made me quit for good the third time you have to fight the big worm thing in the forest temple area.

And seriously the motion controls aren't good. Stabs are a pain in the ass to get registered reliably and the sword will just as well swing on your back swing as forward swing. The best way to get results is completely unnatural, by suddenly flicking the remote left/right from the wrist and then not reset to the middle but work from that position for the next input.
It's not 1:1 motion controls, just simple gesture recognition that fails 20% of the time.

Skyward Sword is probably the best Zelda I've ever played. Definitely give it another go homie!

Motion controls is something you either love or hate. If you absolutely HATE motion controls then no I don't think you should go back to it.

but when previous games of the series don't have cutscenes in the same manner I don't think this is a step forward for me. Not to mention they mumble in the cutscenes and don't speak, and it really isn't cute a lot of the time making the cutscenes more pointless... The start of the game is really heavy in cutscenes and a lot of games have this fault. It's a fault with other games, and this.

There are a ton of prompts that interrupt you. Navi was annoying but you could ignore her. You can't ignore the prompts that consistently interrupt the gameplay and you can't skip the cutscenes or prompts like a lot of cutscene heavy games these days. Which hurts it's replay value.

still a really good game. Just has a lot of issues for me. It grew substantially from my first impressions of it though.

I generally hate motion controls... but the combat I thought was a lot of fun (something zelda lacks a lot of time). The swimming was pretty bad though. His sword stance is ugly, it's like alpha protocols crouching stance, I know it's that way because of the person holding the wii-mote. But, akward animation is akward.

@OP
Essentially I say give it another go. I was initially dissapointed like and and still somewhat, but it grew on me and ended up being a lot of fun.

give it another try, it's a masterpiece!
and make sure that you have calibrated your wiimote and the sensor bar correctly...I had no problems with the controls at all....I love them