Excerpt: Sword combat against a variety of human-like and non-human enemies with animated blood in some cases. Enemies vanish and purple skull seen upon defeat, player character...
Conclusion: So yeah, you should buy Skyward Sword. There’s a good chance you were going to anyways, but if you had any doubts coming out of Twilight Princess or the even the DS...
Conclusion: Link, Zelda, and the lands they inhabit have all grown and changed for over five generations of video game consoles, and the leaps and bounds taken with almost every game
Pros: Beautiful art and sound design offer a sensually rich experience, Nintendo at last delivers solid motion controls , with superb responsiveness and fluid combat
Cons: Some control gimmicks were distracting and made completing certain tasks difficult, Stylistic choices led to an experience that didn’t feel as epic as we would have liked
Excerpt: There I was, sitting in my den, watching in awe as Link moved his sword around in the exact same way that I was moving my Wii Remote around. True 1:1 swordplay.
Pros: A milestone in motion-gaming and creative game design.
Cons: Wii Motion Plus controller can lose calibration, high difficulty at times.
Conclusion: called Skyloft. The people have heard about a mysterious place called the “surface” but nobody has been there or really knows much about it.
Summary: Zelda is always magical, but Nintendo are trapped in the structure of the franchise and trying to make the game accessible to a broad audience despite ever more complex
Excerpt: Just when everyone gets ready to dismiss Wii for its recent lack of high quality games, Nintendo goes and releases a high quality game. Go figure.
Excerpt: Being introduced to the world 25 years ago, The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo’s most enduring of franchises, and in that period the basic formula has largely stayed