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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
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Link descends from his floating continent home to explore the dark and dangerous world below with the help of a magical sword, in this Wii installment of the Legend of Zelda series.
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"For mostly better and only a little bit worse, Skyward Sword is the best Zelda game in years, and makes a strong case for motion controls when done right."
5 ★ (11)
4 ★ (21)
3 ★ (17)
2 ★ (5)
1 ★ (2)

Better than its Wii counterpart, but still a mediocre Zelda game.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD (SS) has the unpleasant position of being a Zelda game on the same platform as that other Zelda game on the Switch… Link’s Awakening . I’m kidding of course, it’s… Read more

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

I recently played this game concurrently with its same system counterpart Twilight Princess , and I think it's had quite an effect on my opinion of it. Either Twilight Princess makes Skyward Sword loo… Read more

Review of Skyward Sword

I enjoyed this game immensely and found it to be my favorite game experience of 2011, despite an unusually amazing year chock full of great experiences. It is a game which stuck with me for a long tim… Read more

Another solid installment, introduces new ideas

Nintendo returns to the Legend of Zelda series once again with Skyward Sword, and like every second game in the series this one does away with the usual antagonist and setting. Nintendo has managed to… Read more

A quality adventure, held back by archaic design and technology

Sales numbers aside, it is my opinion that the Wii has been a disastrously bad console. It has given us an endless supply of garbage, with a handful of good or great games that fit into one of two cat… Read more

A game in need of an editor.

I'm not an eloquent writer but I have to cleanse myself of this game by writing some disjointed thoughts about its good and many bad qualities. The Bad: -The game uses every opportunity it can to pull… Read more

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

The first regular Zelda game on a console in five years came out as the Wii's life cycle began to wind down to a close, perhaps too late for it to have a major impact on the gaming landscape. I think… Read more

To celebrate 25 years of Zelda, Nintendo has made one of the best

2011 has been pretty hard on Wii owners. There hasn’t been many great titles released for the system in 2011, but it’s good to know then that Nintendo are making sure Wii owners aren’t forgotten this… Read more

A middling, but decent adventure

The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is mostly the game that I’d expect it to be. You play as Link the green suited Hero, on his epic quest to save princess Zelda. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s just what… Read more

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Review

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This must have been Nintendo's thinking when making Skyward Sword, arguably the most convincing case for motion controls in a 'traditional… Read more

Skyward Sword Overrun With Minor Problems

The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword was a big disappointment to me. The idea of it and the possibility of a new Zelda game that was supposedly going to fix all the problems from Twilight Princess made m… Read more

Still Annoying, Still Great

When The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is working right, it is a terrific game. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I've had a type of fun playing this game that I haven't had playing games since I… Read more

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Review

This has to be one of the more complete Zelda games I've ever played. You're going to start in a city named Skyloft, a city somehow suspended above to clouds, the ground has long since be forgotten. Y… Read more

Onward and upward, but where do we go from here?

This console generation has not been kind to the Legend of Zelda series. Often considered to be one of the most beloved console gaming franchises of all time, that legacy has been tarnished in the yea… Read more

A much improved combat system marred by monotonous game design.

Skyward Sword, in a way, doesn’t feel like your typical Legend of Zelda game. Nintendo’s release of Twilight Princess in 2006 was, for all intent and purposes, the most formulaic Zelda game in the ser… Read more

Skyward Sword Review

I am a huge Zelda fan, I will just go ahead and get that out of the way now. Ocarina of Time was the first game I ever beat and I still go back and play it every year. I have beaten every Zelda game e… Read more

The Legend of Zelda and the Burger of Taste

Yup. Thrust upon us once again is another Zelda game, released at naturally the worst time of the year for people whom wish to do things like accomplish work, see loved ones or even play other video g… Read more

Worth a try.

First of all, this is a great game. It still has room for improvement and one can only notice that it was probably going to be bigger but was cut short... On the plus side, the stuff that made it into… Read more

The Swan song for the Wii

It's been 5 years since the last Zelda game, which got a tepid response from a lot of people calling it too formulaic and a "Ocarina of Time remake". Others questioned if maybe the Zelda formula was d… Read more

I love me some Zelda

First off, my favourite Zelda title so far has been Wind Waker. I've played through every home console Zelda title religiously. I thought Twilight Princess was excellent, though it comes with a list o… Read more

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