if he gets hit 3 times you have to start the whole thing over :|
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword |OT| Home of Punkin' Chunkin' Champion 2011
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if he gets hit 3 times you have to start the whole thing over :|
Lord_Byron28
Member
I only had an enhanced guardian potion on me along with the potion medal and was down to one heart midway through the
Ghirahim
You can swing the Nunchuk in any direction so it's pretty easy.
Yeah, exactly. In other 3D Zeldas I always avoid equipping shields for just that reason. In SS not only does the meter decrease if you time it wrong, but some attacks will hit you anyway or knock you off balance if you time your shield wrong. Pretty cool.
victreeb3l
Member
dungeon 5 spoilers
wait, is the sandship the 5th dungeon? i think i just saw a boss door...yes or no answer please, nothing more :3 and damn, both weapons in one area back to back? hope they got something left for the next dungeon (no spoilers on this please)
Up to the 4th dungeon. I was really hoping for a big, open L
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like TP or even OoT, so I was a bit dissapointed that it's nothing like them at all. Still, the area was awesome visually and musically, so it was impressive. Especially the entrance area to the 4th dungeon.
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Green Mamba
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plagiarize
Banned
you will be happy soon. probably.
anyways, just dropped in to say, just arrived at the sixth dungeon, and this is the best Zelda game i have played. officially. it just passed Wind Waker as my favourite in this last play session.
Yeah I do not understand the hate for the harp here. The duet play was awesome.
All I need is "Fast text speed" and "Fi never speaks" codes and I'll start my second playthrough.
Does that bug/treasure code mean no more "You got this treasure! blah blah blah" *open menu, slowly add another bug to your collection*?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Shit, turning on all of those except the 3 heart run and the max fly speed.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
Without spoiling things, is there any Master Quest, or any new game + stuff once you beat the game once?
When you pick up treasures or bugs, it will just appear over your head without interrupting the game. The collection screen or text won't come up unless you got it from a treasure chest or you picked up a gratitude crystal.
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Deleted member 30609
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And the award for the laziest new mechanic of 2011 goes to "sitting in a chair to regain hearts".
Yeah haha, it's great. Took me awhile to notice there was an animation there.
And maaan, I just noticed that the Shiekah Stone things aren't like OoT 3D in that they show you how to progress. I've been activating them but skipping them. Just now I realised they instead give you little tips about the game, which are pretty handy. I've already talked to two of them and I got tips on
drawing hearts on the walls, and that the glittering mushroom power stuff can be poured on enemies and bugs to paralyse them.
I like how if you sit in seats near other people you sometimes get extra dialogue.
This took me by surprise with the rupee digging minigame. The guy gives you his life story almost, lol.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Yeah I remember this! Simply amazing XD
Yeah, though I remember an asshole-ish one in Eldin.
It tells you about a rumor on Eldin and asks you if you want to hear the rumor again, you say "No" and says something like "Rumor says that you're a know it all that gets stuff the first time"..or something like that.
I am at what is probably the most tedious segment of the game and am hitting a brick wall.
I'm on a return trip to Skyview Temple for the Water Dragon. And to make things even more tedious, I have to unlock the door that I had previously unlocked. Fair enough, I have to dig holes for the key cause the dude lost it. Only I can't find the freaking key. I've tried every single hole and nada. So where is the bloody key?
Heh, I didn't even see the chair when I accidentally pressed A near it and sat down. He gave some good info.
Dude, they are the
gossip stones from OoT. The ones that go boing when you hit them and tell you the time. In OoT you needed the mask of truth to hear their tips. They even blast off when you bomb them like in OoT. I had the biggest smile on my face when I first did that.
Why can't Link just sit on the ground to regain hearts?
Also I thought the character designs in this game was great. Then I saw Batreuax.
I'm at almost seven hours in and I haven't even gone down the second beam of light yet. I thought Twilight Princess was long, but this game is going to be more bang for your buck if I'm guessing correctly.
ALSO I finally found Beedle. People kept saying he was above Skyloft but I never saw him. I even found his island but the sign says he's only there at night. So I try to fly there at night but apparently I'm not allowed to. When I finally see his ship, I immediately run to my bird, but then I find out he's nowhere to be seen. I dive back down in Skyloft, and then realize you can actually get in his shop while on Skyloft if you hit the bell. All this work for a bug net.
Well, that's actually not the most tedious one.
But just keep doing that. Seems there's no specific place since different people has reported different places.
Mine was in one in a corner, right around an exit in one of the rooms to the left.
Or maybe we all just have fuzzy memories.
In the 5th dungeon. Wow loving this game. Everything is clicking and the motion controls have been perfect. Don't understand why Fi annoys some people. She has barely popped up at all for me.
Only complaint is that it's too easy, but I've played every Zelda so I expect it to be sort of easy.
Only complaint is that it's too easy, but I've played every Zelda so I expect it to be sort of easy.
They both ended up taking me nearly 40 hours, with a good amount of side questing in that time.
If you want to go to Beedle Island at night..
You have to sleep in the bed on his ship
That fucking sucks. The filler gets worse? Seriously, this kind of stuff was not needed. But back to the hunt I suppose.Well, that's actually not the most tedious one.
But just keep doing that. Seems there's no specific place since different people has reported different places.
Mine was in one in a corner, right around an exit in one of the rooms to the left.
Or maybe we all just have fuzzy memories.
Haha, why haven't I tried the bomb thing yet! It's so obvious.
And yeah, I knew they were
gossip stones from OoT, I just assumed they took on the role of Shiekah Stones from the remake ^^' I didn't consider they instead give tips like the originals.
I'll wait til there's a treasure chest code.
Shouldn't be too difficult. "No text appears after acquiring an item from a chest".
Octorockin'
Member
I didn't think there was one!
I'll have to check that out during a Hero Mode run
Oh, and just to praise this game some more; The entire desert area is brilliant. One of my favorite environments in the series.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Another cute Mogma moment...
Also, another thing I just realized that I never tried before involving bombs...(spoilers on later items)
After you take Guld to the Lumpy Pumpkin, you can talk to Silva and tell him that Guld "is gone", leading him to think the old Mogma died. :0
Also, another thing I just realized that I never tried before involving bombs...(spoilers on later items)
You can pick them up with the Whip and pull them into your hand
Well, "tedious" if anything. Is one of those "you mileage may vary" kind of things.
Limited play session tonight, I managed after much trial and error to land on the birds nest in skyloft , collected a couple of goddess cubes and made it to just inside the 6th dungeon. On one hand I don't want this game to be over soon but on the other hand I'm kind of worried that the 10 hours or so that will be left when I finish this dungeon will involve being a super gopher. I can see 3 or 4 small areas of the map that remain dark , I've got 37 gratitude crystals and can only guess that I have at least 6 more heart pieces to get.
It's been good overall so far.
It's been good overall so far.
SirPenguin
Member
I hated everything about the 5th dungeon, holy shit.
rant about said dungeon below:
rant about said dungeon below:
First of all the build up to it was awesome. Time shifting desert -> ocean? Mechanical pirates? Crazy mine carts? THE FUCKING HOOKSHOT?! I was absolutely shitting my pants in excitement at the prospect of this dungeon.
I should have known I was in for disappointment when I wasn't even sure I had entered the dungeon or not when I boarded the ship. It was going alright even up until the miniboss, and when I got the bow I knew I was in for some sweet puzzles.
Nope. Nothing. The hookshot was literally never even used (save for an optional chest), the bow was reduced to hitting the same type of target over and over without encountering any new enemies. The puzzles were barely there, with the huge mechanic of this entire province being used only a handful of times. The "pre-dungeon" with the movable time orb was 10000% better designed.
I mean hell, they had time travel and mechanical boats...they could have done so much! Off the top of my head, I can think of puzzles involving going into the past to traverse the engine room, or bringing damaged parts of the hull into the future to prevent it from sinking. Etc. etc. etc. Instead it was used only a handful of times to help open doors!
So stupid.
AND THE BOSS! Holy shit I hated everything about that fight. I thought my game had broken at first, because nothing I did would advance the fight. After about 10 minutes I realized that the way I was doing the skyward strike - a vertical slice, the way you're taught from the start and use up to the very boss fight itself - was entirely wrong. Unfortunately the game didn't tell me that at all, and in fact made the "hey you're hurting him!" sound effects every time I landed a hit like that. So I did it over and over and over, until I accidentally turned my Wii remote sideways in frustration and sliced a tentacle.
I did not like the aiming at all with the monster constantly moving and attacking you. It was dumb.
To top everything off, the reward you get is so pointless. Grats, you can now dowse for EIGHT things!!! I don't think I saw a single time where I could dowse for over 3 things, so why would I give a shit? I mean, ok, I did go back to town and picked up 2 useful new dowsing abilities, but at the time it was such a slap in the face for an already lame ass dungeon
I should have known I was in for disappointment when I wasn't even sure I had entered the dungeon or not when I boarded the ship. It was going alright even up until the miniboss, and when I got the bow I knew I was in for some sweet puzzles.
Nope. Nothing. The hookshot was literally never even used (save for an optional chest), the bow was reduced to hitting the same type of target over and over without encountering any new enemies. The puzzles were barely there, with the huge mechanic of this entire province being used only a handful of times. The "pre-dungeon" with the movable time orb was 10000% better designed.
I mean hell, they had time travel and mechanical boats...they could have done so much! Off the top of my head, I can think of puzzles involving going into the past to traverse the engine room, or bringing damaged parts of the hull into the future to prevent it from sinking. Etc. etc. etc. Instead it was used only a handful of times to help open doors!
So stupid.
AND THE BOSS! Holy shit I hated everything about that fight. I thought my game had broken at first, because nothing I did would advance the fight. After about 10 minutes I realized that the way I was doing the skyward strike - a vertical slice, the way you're taught from the start and use up to the very boss fight itself - was entirely wrong. Unfortunately the game didn't tell me that at all, and in fact made the "hey you're hurting him!" sound effects every time I landed a hit like that. So I did it over and over and over, until I accidentally turned my Wii remote sideways in frustration and sliced a tentacle.
I did not like the aiming at all with the monster constantly moving and attacking you. It was dumb.
To top everything off, the reward you get is so pointless. Grats, you can now dowse for EIGHT things!!! I don't think I saw a single time where I could dowse for over 3 things, so why would I give a shit? I mean, ok, I did go back to town and picked up 2 useful new dowsing abilities, but at the time it was such a slap in the face for an already lame ass dungeon
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MasterShotgun
brazen editing lynx
Just beat the game. My final playtime was about 37 hours, though I did not finish every sidequest or get all the Goddess Cubes and Heart Pieces. It definitely did not feel that long, but it's good that I never felt like the game was dragging its heels. I guess I was extremely tolerant of the so-called padding sections. Only one ever annoyed me (
), but at least it was a good idea that was just executed poorly.
The whole final section of the game was brilliant. The last dungeon had me in awe once I realized what the premise was. I won't go into detail, but suffice to say that it's one of the most unique Zelda dungeons ever. The final bosses were excellent.
The final scenes were very nice. I wish there were more to them, but that's only because I didn't want the game to end. The credits were great, and I was surprised when
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I can say now that Skyward Sword currently sits at the top of my favorite Zelda games list. I'll see how that opinion changes with time, but the high points are so high that any low point is negligible to me. (Well except Fi. It took until the back end of the game for her to finally shut the hell up. I had hopes for her, but they never developed her character which was a damn shame.) I'll do a second playthrough
at some point, but for now, I've got other games to play.
And now I can stroll into the spoiler thread! No more accidentally doing so and almost ruining parts of the game.
getting the sacred water for Faron
The whole final section of the game was brilliant. The last dungeon had me in awe once I realized what the premise was. I won't go into detail, but suffice to say that it's one of the most unique Zelda dungeons ever. The final bosses were excellent.
Ghirahim's final form looked cool as hell. The fight wasn't really hard, but I'm so glad it was somewhat different from the previous fights. And then there's Demise. While his personality was generic (I'M EVIL BLAH BLAH), the fight was great. I'd say the setting ties with Wind Waker's final fight with Ganondorf. I was hoping to start fighting with the clear skies and then have it go dark, but getting the storm at the end was just as good. It definitely was the most difficult final boss in a 3D Zelda game. The only reason I didn't die was because I downed two potions. I can't wait to face him in Hero Mode.
The final scenes were very nice. I wish there were more to them, but that's only because I didn't want the game to end. The credits were great, and I was surprised when
they showed some scenes of Zelda beginning her journey on the ground
I can say now that Skyward Sword currently sits at the top of my favorite Zelda games list. I'll see how that opinion changes with time, but the high points are so high that any low point is negligible to me. (Well except Fi. It took until the back end of the game for her to finally shut the hell up. I had hopes for her, but they never developed her character which was a damn shame.) I'll do a second playthrough
on Hero Mode
And now I can stroll into the spoiler thread! No more accidentally doing so and almost ruining parts of the game.
Garcia
Member
There's several ways but the one which I find to be the most practical (you save the trouble of inputting all the numbers and letters) goes as follows:
You must have Accio Hacks (http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Accio_Hacks) ( download link: http://geckocodes.org/AH.php?dl ) installed in your Homebrew Channel. When you enter Accio Hacks you will be prompted to connect to the database where they have all the cheat code lists stored; then you just have to choose a system and subcategory. For Skyward Sword You should go to Wii --> Wii Ntsc (U) --> T --> AccioHacks --> The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
When you select the game by pressing A the whole Cheatcode list gets transfered to your SD.
After that you just have to go back to the main menu, select AccioHacks Again, do the same steps (Wii --> Wii Ntsc (U) --> T ) and instead of selecting the AccioHacks option you will see Skyward Sword showing up right below it.
Select Skyward Sword and you will be taken to the entire set of cheats.
Look for the cheats you would like to activate, and press right on the D-pad. You'll see the selected cheat move one space to the right.
After you make your choices you just press B, then you'll get asked if you'd like to create a .GCN file for that game. Say yes and voila, your GCN file is all set.
To run the cheats you should use a USB/ISO Loader (I think all of them support Ocarina cheats by now). I use NeoGamma for running ISOs, but you could use any other app you want. You should turn Ocarina mode ON and that's it, that's all you have to do. Ocarina prompts the loader to look for the game's corresponding cheatcode list (.GCN), and if it finds one then all the cheats get activated).
Hope this helps!
Ooooooh, that's way faster than using the Ocarina Manager on my PC! And I'm using Gecko, the USB/ISO Loader won't be necessary.
Hobbestetrician
Member
Just entered Dungeon 3. Really liked the area leading up to it and the crystal mechanic. Enjoying the game more by the second. Don't know if Fi becomes more intrusive as time goes on but she didn't interrupt me at all through that section. Just a wonderful game so far.
Xane
Member
This is exactly the way I fought him. It is much quicker and way easier.
Hobbestetrician
Member
Man.
Fun Fun Island is the worst. The worst.
I've been playing for an hour and have landed on the gray space next to the 50 rupee space nearly every. single. time. Just like this > < much off.
Doesn't sound like much Fun Fun at all.