Motion controls are great. One point to keep in mind about it though is to make sure you are in front of the sensor bar as it uses it to recalibrate. Also manually recalibrating is easy with down on the d pad. Hope these will make your playthrough a bit smoother.

Thank you, my lord. I will indeed abide by your rule when playing through the game.

I've had a similar experience with Super Mario RPG. Didn't like it at first, played it again after a few years and now it's my favorite Mario RPG.

Hylian shield is unbreakable.

Yah, I definitely can see it as a somewhat experimental/transitional Zelda title but I'll definitely keep my mind open.

It's not perfect, but it is enjoyable, has great story telling and it created new mechanics that IMO were needed and do better for the series. People will hate it because they want HD OoT, even though that released too long ago and things have changed. Never understood whats wrong with backtracking, specially since you visit new areas in the zones.

Anyway, if you dislike linearity, motion controls, following orders instead of freedom and not well done exploration mechanics, this ain't your game. If you like combat based Zelda, filled with action and a rich story, fun characters (main and side), an actually interesting Zelda and amazing antagonist, great soundtrack, and weird non-zelda characteristics (weird, right?) then this is your game.

Clearly, I am biased. I consider SS my favorite game of all time, and it's actually because it drifts itself from the Zelda people love (OoT), but also the Zelda we deserve (ALttP or original)... it has flaws, but if you look over them and look at the great creativity, I think you can love it as much as me.

Thanks for the advice! I usually put the sensor bar on top of my TV but it's not big to begin with.

When it comes to linearity, I think a game like FFXII has a near perfect balance between freedom and following the intended path because the areas are big. If it's linear like say FFXIII, then there's a problem. But I don't mind linearity, as long as the action, the story, OST, etc. are good. 

Also, I may get burned alive by a red priestess for saying this but I didn't really like ALttP.

@innocentSin. Never played FF
And it's fine, I dislike OoT with a (weird) passion. I didn't enjoy ALttP at first, but on my second run I'm liking it a lot.

Zelda is such a weird franchise. Nobody likes every game, yet it is praised as the best Nintendo has ever done... Pikmin and Metroid > Zelda

My favorite Zelda game of all time. It gets so much hate but too me it was the best. It was actually my first real Zelda game, since I used to watch my friends play the other ones but SS hit me and I ended up buying it.