Skyward Sword review thread [Newest Reviews - Cubed3 10/10, GC: A, AusGamers: 7/10]

Kard8p3 said:
Compared to Miyamoto saying it would take anywhere from 50-100 hours I'd say 35 is much more realistic.
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ONM said:
~35 hours to complete the main quest. Around double to collect all bugs, upgrade all items, discover all secrets, etc.
Best Zelda ever, yadda yadda.
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It's not that far off. 15 hours more upfront if you're slow and 25 on the tail end.
 
Sn4ke_911 said:
That's the highest score they ever gave, of course im.
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It's also the swan song of a struggling console that Nintendo desperately needs to sell now, especially after the 3DS disaster that's still hurting Nintendo badly.
 
only 2 games ever got a 98% guess the other one:

OoT .....

i don't think you can apply that 98% blindly to a more objective magazine but its clear that they liked it a lot. i think it's credible in that way.
 
Shit, this thread just made me realize we haven't had a console zelda for 5 years, and this is the first real wii one. Even GC had one 1-2 years in it's life cycle and ended it's life with another one.
 
35 hours is nuts. I don't buy that. 20 hours at best to complete the main quest. I can see the side quests add some significant hours to them to reach 35, maybe 40 hours. If they are pointless collecthathons I will pass though, I did that stuff already in Xenoblade :D. TP clock for me to reach 100% was about 20-25 hours.

Admittedly I used a guide for the poes because I hate collecting shit without some form of guidance. Infamous 2 and Arkham Asylum/City spoiled me on that. I guess my tolerance level for those type of things has decreased over the years.
 
StevePharma said:
35 hours is nuts. I don't buy that. 20 hours at best to complete the main quest. I can see the side quests add some significant hours to them to reach 35, maybe 40 hours. If they are pointless collecthathons I will pass though, I did that stuff already in Xenoblade :D. TP clock for me to reach 100% was about 20-25 hours.

Admittedly I used a guide for the poes because I hate collecting shit without some form of guidance. Infamous 2 and Arkham Asylum/City spoiled me on that. I guess my tolerance level for those type of things has decreased over the years.
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35 hours is crazy? My first run through of TP was ~55hours, and that wasn't a 100% run.
 
Echoing the "Zelda games are f-ing long" sentiment. Every console Zelda game I've played has taken a solid 30-40 hours the first time through, which includes Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time and Link to the Past.
 
heres a slightly unrelated story:

i had the skyward sword / motion plus controller pre-ordered on amazon.

i cancelled it so i could re-order with my $10 from arkham city.

then i went to the order page and its no longer being sold by amazon!

its available from other third-party sellers for a minimum of $175!!!

i called amazon and they wouldn't let me have that pre-order back.

so what the hell? was that bundle a limited time thing? or limited supply?

this is such a shame.
 
StevePharma said:
35 hours is nuts. I don't buy that. 20 hours at best to complete the main quest. I can see the side quests add some significant hours to them to reach 35, maybe 40 hours. If they are pointless collecthathons I will pass though, I did that stuff already in Xenoblade :D. TP clock for me to reach 100% was about 20-25 hours.

Admittedly I used a guide for the poes because I hate collecting shit without some form of guidance. Infamous 2 and Arkham Asylum/City spoiled me on that. I guess my tolerance level for those type of things has decreased over the years.
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On your first run?
 
35 hours for the main quest, damn. They spent 5 years making the game so it sounds plausible. What a huge undertaking it must have been... how many employees does that division of Nintendo have? I wouldn't be surprised anywhere from 100-200 worked on it for 5 straight years refining every nook & cranny to perfection.
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
Oh, yeah, I totally agree. But with the pacing issues and horrible fetch quest bits in TP it's easy to understand why someone would consider TP less than OMG UTTERLY AMAZING.

If you use the 1-10 scale properly, 8.8 (or even just 8, since .1 increments are stupid) is a great score. The problem is because people are used to the 7-10 scale an 8 is basically a 5 to them.

So stupid.
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Don't you think both sides are stupid? I mean the people saying they trust Gertsmann's review because he gave a game .2 score lower than other people are just as dumb as the too low people.

To me it seems that reviews are there to validate peoples opinion about the game. Most people have these games preordered in advance, and even when a game is panned in the press, they get it anyways. Or you get the other people, who were determined to hate, and of course the reviews are going to be high because its "games journalism lol".

I don't use reviews anymore so maybe I'm wrong but it seems like this is a common occurrence.
 
98%
~35 hours to complete the main quest. Around double to collect all bugs, upgrade all items, discover all secrets, etc.
Best Zelda ever, yadda yadda.
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This. Makes. Me. SO FUCKING HYPED. TP was like 30 hours to me.
 
thecouncil said:
heres a slightly unrelated story:

i had the skyward sword / motion plus controller pre-ordered on amazon.

i cancelled it so i could re-order with my $10 from arkham city.

then i went to the order page and its no longer being sold by amazon!

its available from other third-party sellers for a minimum of $175!!!

i called amazon and they wouldn't let me have that pre-order back.

so what the hell? was that bundle a limited time thing? or limited supply?

this is such a shame.
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Well that's why it's called a LIMITED EDITION.

StevePharma said:
TP clock for me to reach 100% was about 20-25 hours.
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Also, the 20-25 Hours to 100% TP is bullshit unless you knew where everything was. Impossible on a first playthrough. Heck, you used a guide for the Poes, that doesn't count.
 
How the hell are people 100%-ing TP in 20 hours? My first 100% playthrough took me 70 hours. TP is freaking huge. 35 for a Zelda game is pretty long as it is. Link's Awakening is probably the best Zelda game there is and that can be completed in a relative few hours, likewise OoT and you never hear anyone complain about those games. Length doesn't matter, it's what they do to fill up the time that matters. TP had hours of boring filler, Link's Awakening was 100% pure concentrated awesome.
 
You just know that before they even played the game, their review scale was only ever going to be about 92-100. So if you think about it this translates to about 75 heh.

Seriously now, would Nintendo actually allow them to give it anything less than 9?
 
2 quotes from the ONM review

"Skyward Sword is a game that enthusistically and tirelessly works to surprise you"

"Links destiny unfolds with the subtlety of a runaway freight train"

HYPE
 
BY2K said:
Also, the 20-25 Hours to 100% TP is bullshit unless you knew where everything was. Impossible on a first playthrough. Heck, you used a guide for the Poes, that doesn't count.
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It's no bullshit. You guys are experienced players right? Did you get stuck in a dungeon? Probably not, you can blaze through them because they are VERY straightforward. Same goes for the rest of the game. Or were you all wasting hours on fishing and the ball-maze game? :D

I used a guide indeed, because I have that awesome hardcover edition (will get the SS one as well). Would be pretty stupid not to use it since I had it anyway. Only used it for those collection guides at the end though when I finished the main quest. Wouldn't you do it as well? There were so many titles coming out at that time it wasn't even funny.

I'll admit I was a bit harsh in calling 35 hours bullshit but it still strikes me as odd because those times don't say anything and are usually way off for me. Exceptions being Xenoblade this year and the Elder Scrolls games.
 
I spent about 40 hours in TP on the main quest, and an extra 20 finding all the secrets. This is with no hint guide or help. When I replayed the game, I realized the main quest can easily be finished within 20 hours.

Considering there really isn't a overworld this time, I was expecting the game to be shorter, so 35 hours seems pretty good to me.
 
StevePharma said:
It's no bullshit. You guys are experienced players right? Did you get stuck in a dungeon? Probably not, you can blaze through them because they are VERY straightforward. Same goes for the rest of the game. Or were you all wasting hours on fishing and the ball-maze game? :D
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My first TP run took me 36 Hours and I never got stuck. Took me 60-70 to get everything.
 
Not that I doubted Nintendo but it's nice to know we are certainly getting a beauty. Can't wait to read all these reviews and previews after I finish the game to see what I missed during my media blackout.
 
Preordered with the golden wiimote. After that I removed the dust from the console and hooked it to the tv to check if it still worked after than more than a year turned off. No problems detected, this probably will be my goodbye-wii game, and it will be glorious.
 
I think my hype meter blew a gasket a while back already so I'm just like yep sounds about right. At this point I just want the game. I know how good it's going to be.
 
StevePharma said:
It's no bullshit. You guys are experienced players right? Did you get stuck in a dungeon? Probably not, you can blaze through them because they are VERY straightforward. Same goes for the rest of the game. Or were you all wasting hours on fishing and the ball-maze game? :D

I used a guide indeed, because I have that awesome hardcover edition (will get the SS one as well). Would be pretty stupid not to use it since I had it anyway. Only used it for those collection guides at the end though when I finished the main quest. Wouldn't you do it as well? There were so many titles coming out at that time it wasn't even funny.

I'll admit I was a bit harsh in calling 35 hours bullshit but it still strikes me as odd because those times don't say anything and are usually way off for me. Exceptions being Xenoblade this year and the Elder Scrolls games.
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Roughly 35-40 hours for me to finish TP the first time. I have next to no inclination for collection and shit so there was little of that.

Sorry, you're either way off in your time estimation, or the guide helped more than you think, or you're the world's greatest Zelda player--congrats! Regardless, 35 hours for SS is completely believable for normal people.
 
Quote from the review regarding items;

"Some old items make a reappearance, such as your slingshot and bow, though by the game's close your inventory will be largely made up of strange and funky new gadgets."
 
thecouncil said:
ha. yeah, i get it now. clearly, i didn't know it was limited. sorry.
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Don't take it personnally, the same was said of Prime Trilogy and now....good luck finding it new...
 
EatChildren said:
Quote from the review regarding items;

"Some old items make a reappearance, such as your slingshot and bow, though by the game's close your inventory will be largely made up of strange and funky new gadgets."
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strange and funky is good. like george clinton funky.
 
EatChildren said:
Quote from the review regarding items;

"Some old items make a reappearance, such as your slingshot and bow, though by the game's close your inventory will be largely made up of strange and funky new gadgets."
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I like this quote better than the other ones.
Any word on wherever or not the ground land is just a set of delimited areas you can only reach by skylanding ? Or do we have a real overworld under the clouds ?
 
Fantastical said:
Do most limited editions often sell out a month before release?
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If it's really a limited edition (like that 7777 copies of FF7 movie pack from years ago) and not limited edition which is really a money grab with the game and a plastic figurines to get people to preorder. Then yes.
 
Fantastical said:
Do most limited editions often sell out a month before release?
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seriously.

oh well.

i re-ordered the basic version. used some credit and points... got it down to $13.

i really wanted that controller though.

oh, what could have been. haha.
 
thecouncil said:
seriously.

oh well.

i re-ordered the basic version. used some credit and points... got it down to $13.

i really wanted that controller though.

oh, what could have been. haha.
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You didn't want the CD it came along with?
 
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