So I've had Skyward Sword sitting on my shelf for a good year and a half calling to me, making me feel guilty for not picking it up.  And I've really been looking forward to playing it for a long time now. Anyways so I finally said f**k it and popped it in.

All I can say is I'm sooooo disapointed  

For the record, I've loved every Zelda game I've ever played and consider them top of their class in the genre. But this game is just not doing it for me.  First off it looks horrible on my 60 inch samsung, just horrible. I know the Wii's an old machine, but seriously the game is a flickery blury low res mess. Which is unusual as Nintendo are usually able to impress based on style and amazing art. But in this case, whatever art and assthetic they were shooting for, is completely ruined by the poor performance.

But graphics are only the most obvious of problems here.  Zeldas about kick ass game play after all, and that's what's really off putting about the whole tihing. The actual game play and controls are just plain bad to broken. I seriously hate it. I spent the first few hours wandering around a near empty town playiing out the most cliche of stories, fighting with the inept camera and unituitive controls, just waiting for it to get good. Now I'm about half way through the first dungeon and it's just more of the same. Horrible horrible camera, and broken unresponsive combat..

Anyone else have th same opinions/experience?

Should I give the game more time?

Am I missing something?

Just having a hard time accepting this is the game with a 93 on metacritic!

I never had any problem with the controls, I remember the camera being annoying a little bit, but not anywhere near it being horrible.  I really like the game and it had my favorite moment in all the Zelda games, which I can't link unless you've given up on continuing the game cause it would be a huge spoiler.

1) It's a Wii game, the low resolution on HDTVS will look horrible, naturally. You even stated this, so I do not understand the complain. 

2) This game has amazing art, and it's the style that makes the game look less awful on your screen. I bet Twilight Princess would look HORRENDOUS in that TV. 

3) I don't agree with the control part, it was stable for me the whole time. 

Though don't worry too much, I do hate the game so hard as well, so I feel your pain :D

All wii games will look bad on a 60 inch HD tv... that's not the game's fault, it's simply how things are.

And as someone who has played through the entire game, I can tell you that the game is amazing after those first few boring hours. I guess it's not a game for everyone, but for me, it definitely is in my top 3 favorite LoZ games of all time. So I'd definitely recommend you to give it another go (on a smaller tv perhaps if possible?). For the controls part, the gameplay was very fluid for me. It does take a bit of adaptation to appreciate those new controls, but once you get the hang of it, you really begin to appreciate them. Atleast, that's what happened for me.

When I first got SS, I played it the first few hours (like you) and I quickly gave up on it due to the boring and extremely long turtorial. I then came back to it a full month later, and I never looked back after that. I was surprised at how good the game actually was after the turtorial. I find it sad that many people gave up completely on SS due to it's super long and tedious turtorial. It's really a masterpiece IN MY opinion.

In short, yes, I think that you should give it another go!