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Looking at metacritic, this game has received a perfect score (100) from:
IGN Wired The Escapist The A.V. Club Guardian Telegraph Game Informer Wii Brasil Eurogamer Portugal DarkZero Cubed3 Game Revolution Eurogamer Spain N-Europe Eurogamer Italy Digital Spy Nintendo Life Meristation VideoGamer NintendoWorldReport Metro GameCentral Edge Magazine And received between 90 and 100 from: RPG Fan Nintendo Power XGN Machinima Nintendojo Joystiq and a bunch of others I've never heard of. Anyway, I got it the other day and I've been playing it. It's pretty freaking fantastic. The granularity of control with regards to the wiimote emulating your sword on screen is a lot more amazing than in any other Wii game I've played. It really feels like you're swinging a sword around, aside from the weight. It senses what angle you're holding the blade at, and will react accordingly if you hit something with the flat of the blade instead of the edge. I'm really enjoying hacking and slashing my way through it. And the puzzles are pretty fun so far too. Anybody else playing it? |
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I have it sitting, shrink wrapped in my basement since the day of release. It's going to be opened once the basement is finished, and I've moved the TV to the newly finished room. A reward of sorts for finishing, plus there's no room to even move right now with everything piled into the other bedroom.
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Selfish Heathen
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Selfish Heathen
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Oh wait, I meant: Skyward Sword... is this a game or something?
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BANNED
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Location: Inner Swabia. If you have to ask twice, don't.
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Selfish Heathen
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THREE A.M. UKRAINE MADNESS
I'm having SS withdrawals. I had the shakes on the flight in, man. Devotchka. Spasibo. |
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
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Funny, just took a short break(From playing it) to check my email. I just completed the 4th dungeon and am taking some time off from the main quest to collect rupees, heart pieces and do other side quest type stuff. It doesn't feel weird saying this is the best Zelda game ever made and it's barely even a contest. Aside from a few complaints I have about the 'hand holding' present in the game, it is, in short, a work of art. Back to the game!
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It's fucking amazing. That's all I can say.
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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You mean there's a reason to pull my Wii out of mothballs? Seriously, the Wii is the least used Xmas present I've ever gotten for my son. It's been unplugged for 2 months now and no one has noticed.
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Selfish Heathen
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Flying around on the loftwing is neat for the first few island hops, but I found it has grown a bit tiring. The mechanics of flying are perfectly fine, but it's the sheer emptiness that gets to me. It's not a massive lot of empty on the scale of Wind Waker (at least Wind Waker had periodic guard towers and subs to keep things interesting), but it's still quite disappointing that you're basically navigating a big empty void instead of what could be a richly detailed and artistic landscape pitted with coves and secrets. It's as though Nintendo thinks that if there's no functional need for an interesting environment it's okay to just completely omit any environment at all. After some 50-odd hours of play (can't remember what I'm at now), the controls still feel off a fair bit in some regards. Anything that requires aiming sucks terribly because the controls rely solely on the gyroscope and none on the IR bar. Again, Nintendo, why?? Yes, I get that you can rely on the fancy new tech and give up on old tech like the IR bar, but giving up a long known working solution in favor of one that forces players to recalibrate the gyroscope (in the middle of a fight, to less) is just plain stupid. That having been said… Yes, the story, the characters, the baddies, the level design, the various nods to previous Zelda games, and the overall visual style are all quite good. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Yes. Having withdrawals at work right now.
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This is the first game I've played since Ocarina of Time that has given me withdrawal symptoms while I'm at work. It makes me want to stay up past any sort of reasonable bedtime even though I have to work the next day. I have to say, neither Majora's Mask, Wind Waker or Twilight Princess were good like this. IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE. |
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
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I have not had the same addiction to it that you guys are describing, in terms of wanting to play it more than I reasonably should, but I have found that time has melted away while playing it more than once.
Another comment I have about the game is that it really feels like the Wii is holding it back a bit. As if the game wants to be even more than it is, but the Wii just isn't quite 'enough' to make it happen. The lack of HD also stands out for the first time pretty much ever for me(on the Wii) where all the graphics look really great and inspired, but you'd kind of like them to all be just a little bit smoother. |
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HD would be nice, but I only notice that it's missing when there are some resolution-induced rendering artifacts in large rooms... I'll see something I don't recognize "way over there", and half-way there after there are more pixels involved, I can see what it is. When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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If you search YouTube for any GC or Wii game with "HD" or "1080", you'll almost certainly find someone's recording of a Dolphin playthrough. Some games look really amazing with higher resolution display (Super Mario Galaxy for one), others not so much. Some games actually have bitmaps and HUD images that are higher resolution than the Wii can natively display, suggesting that in-house the developers may have better hardware for development and testing. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
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So, I'm sad to say that tonight I had to take Robo's "Zelda Card". This fiend has been postponing playing Skyward Sword so he can finish playing through, wait for it, OoT 3D.
I will be keeping this bad boy in a well-secure vault, guarded by the Groosenator. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Oh wow, didn't think you were going to THAT much effort!
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Selfish Heathen
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Totally awesome.
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Always sad to see that happen to someone you know.
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I want to know what the motor is for. Brad, are you automating your character on Minecraft?
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I shot the sherrif.
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I finally started playing, after finishing up the basement. So far, it's a ton of fun, and most of the stuff that I've gotten stuck on wasn't too bad once I did some flying around. I like the idea of using the beetle to explore, gives you a totally different perspective on the dungeons and rooms.
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Has anybody:
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Yarp
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For some reason I just stopped playing and I haven't resumed. I made it to the final dungeon, started solving it, didn't get too far, but completed a couple of rooms, and that was like 3 weeks ago and I haven't touched it since.
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Selfish Heathen
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I loved the silent realm areas and wish there were more like them. They were some of the few areas in the game that required actual strategy and stealth, and if you made a mistake, you felt a serious sense of urgency to get your shit together. More please!
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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I got the Hylian Shield in a normal file. Still working towards it on Hero Mode, but not quite far enough to get there to attempt it just yet.
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