Skyward Sword General Discussion V.2

Let's hope for someone like Zant to be the villian.

Am I the only one who is really going to miss the graphics of TP? Those graphics drew me into the series.. and I really liked the whole dark theme to the game.
Skyward Sword looks like it's going to have a more easy-going storyline.. and personally I really dislike this new look of Zelda.

I love you Zeldablue. You made my day for posting that.


Not that it wasn't made already. This has been the best 2 days of my life!

Yeah it seems as if the slingshot is a weaker but faster version of the bow in SS. I think they could make it deserve its place if it could take out small weak enemies (like the spiders) but not bigger enemies (like bokoblins). Also, it being a slingshot, perhaps you can shoot different kinds of ammo. That would open up a lot of different puzzle and combat potential. Perhaps you could shoot little mini bombs to blow up small things, or shoot something else to distract an enemy.

Yeah, I guess they control differently enough to deserve to be separate items. And hopefully there will be puzzles/enemies that require the slingshot.

Just because the game has brighter graphics doesn't mean the storyline is going to be more easy going.
The Twilight Princess graphics were good and all but I think that this games graphics are also good and they have lots of potential. I cant wait to see them when they're all finished!

Originally Posted by twilight_princess98

Am I the only one who is really going to miss the graphics of TP? Those graphics drew me into the series.. and I really liked the whole dark theme to the game.
Skyward Sword looks like it's going to have a more easy-going storyline.. and personally I really dislike this new look of Zelda.

How can you assume how the story will unfold by the graphic style?

I urge you to watch the 3 videos gametrailers.com have of the gameply. I love the new Zelda, graphics is not what I expected but that doesn't mean it's bad...

here's a question.....does it really matter that much? so he has two ranged combat items. big deal.

Yep, in my opinion, wind waker's story was just as dark as TP's, or should I say TP's story was no darker than WW's. And the wind waker looked far more cartoony than this one does.

Originally Posted by twilight_princess98

Am I the only one who is really going to miss the graphics of TP? Those graphics drew me into the series.. and I really liked the whole dark theme to the game.
Skyward Sword looks like it's going to have a more easy-going storyline.. and personally I really dislike this new look of Zelda.

Hell no. I fell in love with its graphics at once. I can't see why it gets so much hate. It fits really well to its story, and I liked how realistic it looked. Some improvements could've been made of course, but overall I loved it. It would be interesting to see a screenshot of SS with TP-esque graphics to compare with as they actually intended to use those graphics at the beginning.

Originally Posted by twilight_princess98

Am I the only one who is really going to miss the graphics of TP? Those graphics drew me into the series.. and I really liked the whole dark theme to the game.
Skyward Sword looks like it's going to have a more easy-going storyline.. and personally I really dislike this new look of Zelda.

Your not the only one. But if you watch the trailer 16 times or so it gets better, but your right, the story line makes it looks like link is on a mission to save a bunny from a farmer rather than Zelda from Ganon.

The stalfos looks AWESOME though...

If Nintendo wanted to go for an artistic visual style, they should have looked to Okami for inspiration. Not only does it capture the "painted" feel well, it moves incredibly smoothly and looks downright beautiful.

Looks great!! I dont know why people are complaining about the graphics style.. suits the game well in my opinion. I think it will be truly a great game by the time they are done =]

Or, here's an idea, make combat difficult so we actually use our bows and stuff on a regular basis. As is, pretty much any enemy can be taken down with the sword at close range, so there is no point in wasting arrows.
If combat was difficult, however, I might use my bow frequently. I might run out of arrows and have to rely on the slingshot. Or I might learn through playing that the slingshot works better it some situations. The problem isn't having multiple range weapons, it's being too easy to need ranged weapons at all.

I dont mind as long that they have more new exciting items to add to the list.

Originally Posted by coke

If Nintendo wanted to go for an artistic visual style, they should have looked to Okami for inspiration. Not only does it capture the "painted" feel well, it moves incredibly smoothly and looks downright beautiful.

I agree the visuals in Okami are really nice to look at but i think they have done a good enough job with skyward sword as well. As it seems, they are trying to mix in the styles we saw in TP and WW so it cant look too much like Okami.

Lol...three girls posting in a row.

I really like how this trailer shows the combat. Link attacks like...super fast. I wonder how badly I'll abuse that.

C-c-combo breaker! xD

Yeah, that video is pretty awesome. SS Link is now officially the greatest sword fighter out of all of them.

Yes, &we used both in Ocarina of Time as well but htat turned out great.

There are always going to have staple items in The Legend of Zelda series.

At least there are some new items.

^ The thing is, in Ocarina of Time, the bow was for Adult Link only, and the slingshot for Kid Link only. Each served a distinct purpose, and they didn't 'overlap' on each-other's usefulness. In Twilight Princess, both could be used in the same way at any time, but the bow was just a bigger, better version. Once you got the bow, you never had any reason to use the slingshot again.

I like the brightness. It isn't even that bright.
Certainly isn't as bright as the yellow and blue and green in WW. It is a more shaded realistic WW I love it already.