EDGE Magazine - The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword review [Complete]

Next-Gen.biz: Nintendo has been so busy elaborating on Ocarina’s heroic ideal that it’s forgotten to embrace it for itself. So what better way to honour 25 years of bravery than courageously striving for something new? And what opportune hardware to cut those ties. After all, hasn’t the Wii hardware spent the past five years searching for the hero inside itself? Firstparty experiments have tested Wii’s boundaries, deducing what does and doesn’t work. Their findings resonate throughout Skyward Sword. In Wii Sports-powered bomb bowling. In skydiving and swordplay learnt on a Wuhu holiday. In the surreal beauty and orchestral bombast beamed down from Super Mario Galaxy. In the metallic Metroid chu-chunk of a door lock. Even the opinion-dividing Wii Music is vindicated in subtle moments of auto-tuning cleverness. How apt that this ultimate tale of heromaking should see Nintendo’s hardware become the console it was always meant to be.

A Triumph.

[Titanz]

Here Wii go.

[StanLee]

I think Skyward Sword just became the front runner for Game of the Year. Time to dust off the Wii I guess. Hope it still works.

[-Alpha]

This is the strong GOTY contender that I keep forgetting about.

[Pacman321]

Going to be between this, Uncharted and Skyrim i reckon, maybe Dark Souls too.

[Oldsnake007]

right know arkham city and portal 2 rthe highers rated games this year.

[StraightPath]

you forgot Batman AC and Portal 2.

[Pacman321]

Oh s**t forgot about Batman & Portal!
Too many AAA games came out this year, to the point where i was actually hoping some of them would flop just so i wouldn't have to buy it.

[nikola987]

Edge gave Uncharted lower score (9), so Zelda should be better? :)

[Sticky__Rice]

I don't have a wii. Nor do I plan on buying one.. But I musy say, If I ever wanted a reason to buy one... this is it.

[Aggesan]

Its crazy times im telling you. Batman, battlefield, uncharted and now this? Why does all the great games have to come all at once?!

[Dacapn]

Guess it's finally time to dust off the Wii.

[LordMegatron]

Absolutely can't wait for this

[Dr Face Doctor]

Considering the sheer amount of 10/10's being passed out these days, it's hard to tell how good this game actually IS based on the score alone. Such is one of the many downsides of giving fucking 10's to every game with a scrap of polish.

[krazykombatant]

10s are being dished out to games such as, Batman and UC3. I can't recall a game that nintendo ever made that was crap to play. This game is one of the strongest and most under the radar GOTY contender out there.

[Oldsnake007]

this is the 15th game edge has ever given a game a 10

[dark-hollow]

It's. Not their fault that they are overwhelmed with masterpiece after masterpiece.

[Dr Face Doctor]

It's their job to help me distinguish the masterpieces from the other masterpieces by actually having a bar to compare ratings against instead of blindly calling every game perfect. Certainly UC3, GOW3, Skyward Sword, MW3, BF3, Skyrim, Dark Souls, Portal 2, AssCreed Bros, Saints Row 3 and LA, Arkham City, can't ALL be on the same exact level of perfection, yet all of them have recieved 10/10's from various different reviewers. If I'm some guy just going off of review scores how am I supposed to tell which one is actually perfect when they're apparently ALL perfect?

[kramun]

10/10 doesn't mean perfect, it means it is an amazing game. And if you look at those games you listed they are pretty much all completely different kinds of games, so they are at the high end in their genre.

[Dr Face Doctor]

No, a 9/10 is an amazing game. 10/10 is supposed to represent something that is basically perfect, even though that's not what a 10/10 represents in the game industry nowadays.

[krazykombatant]

WOHOOO CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS!!

[MasterCornholio]

If it wasn't for the controller I would buy a Wii to play this.

XperiaRay

[AWBrawler]

most reviews say its the Control that makes it so awesome!

[MasterCornholio]

I know. But my room is set up in a way that it's impossible for me to use the Wiimote or move well. However if I had it set up in the living room it would not be a problem. Except my parents won't let me do that.

XperiaRay

[--Onilink--]

Actually you dont need any type of wide motions for the control to work properly. M+ is more about movement of the elbow and wrist than the shoulder, so whatever movement you do is in a small area in front of you

[AWBrawler]

My rooms are all cluttered, but I still played Red Steel 2. This isn't kinect we're talking about. You only need enough space to throw a punch at most

[juaburg]

Maybe i should sell my xbox,buy a wii and this game...

[eagle21]

I love me some Zelda. :P

[johnthe5th]

If I hear the words "Wii" and "dust" in the same sentence again, I'm gonna kill someone. It wasn't funny 4 years ago, and it isn't funny now.

Anyways, this review isn't surprising. I'm not even sure if it's possible for Nintendo to make a crappy 3D Zelda game...

[meganick]

Wii owners are really clean and just want to make sure their Wii's aren't dusty.

[AWBrawler]

I'll say it again, it depends on where are, my apartment is rather dusty, so even though I play my Wii daily it's dusty. only thing not dusty is my 3DS, because i have to hold it to play it, and I'm constantly wiping the screen and the exterior on it

[Raider69]

Since i have already sold my too dusty Wii,i guess im only be playing this wend the WII U gets on sale!

[browngamer4]

Zelda will always be great..period.

[Ezetta]

How come this isn't one of the hottest news? N4G makes me sad.