Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD

I think it’s related to the book of twilight and the big cannon, under certain situations it’s possible to completely soft block the game if you do things out of order.

I knew about the Skyward Sword bug, though I thankfully did things in "sequence" my first time through and knew about it during my second run. So it was never an issue for me.

Didn't know about the Twilight Princess bug though. I guess I'm just lucky at avoiding gamebreaking bugs?

I wonder if we'll be able to use the Back in Time glitch like on Wii. I'd love to try and mess with my game...

That kinda relied on the reset function in the pause menu the Wii and WiiU have when you press Home. The Switch just sends you straight to the actual Home menu, with no reset option.

Don't think so. Unless I'm misremembering and I'd tried to play the gamecube version about a year earlier. I just remember it being about 5 years ago, so I'd assumed I must have been playing the Wii U version. That was the first version where I actually finished the game. I never completed it back on launch on the Wii.

It was a bug with the area after you cross one of those big stone bridges in the overworld. You fought some of those twilight monsters in an enclosed area. The bug was something like if you saved and quit the game before finishing the fight, once you loaded back into it the twilight barrier thingy would never move, even after you beat the enemies, so you'd be forever stuck there and your save wouldn't allow you to go back before that. Something like that?

Here's some more visual comparisons with the wii original. Looks like the watercolor effect is severely toned down, so far away details are actually discernable now. Which could be bad or good depending on the location.

Yeah I was disappointed to see they'd dialed that back (or had failed to reproduce it effectively) . I liked that effect!

Also, I just heard a youtuber refer to Fi as "demented Cortana" and I'm never gonna forget that.

I think it’s fantastic. It used to flicker like crazy turning the camera. Not only that, you couldn’t even make out objects it was so blurred together.

Also, massive difference visually.

Apparently you can aim stuff like the bow and arrow using the gyro on the pro controller too? That's awesome if true. That's the only time I like motion controls.

Heck ya that’s awesome. They really went all out.

I like Gyro mainly for aiming- when it comes to that it’s superior in every way. But I do enjoy various other uses of Gyro as long as they are well implemented. I think Zelda Skyward Sword is one of those games that has smart implementation for slashing sword. Mario Golf is another. Resident Evil Revelations 1/2 with gesture reloading (which is used in combination with the IR sensor to detect your hand when you reload), etc. The vast majority of use cases that actually makes sense are for aiming, but there are other good uses, it’s just not as much of a guarantee it’ll be good.

I like flying the little robotic bug around in Skyward Sword with motion. I remember doing that in the Wii version and it’s a ton of fun. It doesn’t even go that fast, but it’s just really fun to steer it around.

any word on gyro aiming when handheld?

@Eel

Isn't that kinda impossible, because you'd have to tilt the screen away out of view?

@Dezzy didn't OoT 3d aim that way?

@Dezzy ... What do you mean by tilting the screen away out of view? I would expect it to work like other games with gyro aiming. (Like Ocarina of Time on the 3DS, as mentioned)

I decided to order the game with a steelbook, but I’ll have to wait a few days to get it delivered. A worthy sacrifice.

So who's gonna cheat on zelda their first playthrough on switch? Those who've played it know what I'm talking about.

My copy arrived a day early today (thanks Smyths!) but I'm still catching up on my gaming back backlog and want to have Rise of the Tomb Raider finished before I start it. Literally the definition of a first world problem.

@Zeldafan79 I played the game for the first time in 2019 and I don't remember anything like that lol

@Balta666

Does the name Peatrice ring any bells?

@Zeldafan79 just checked and I remember the character but I don't think I did that sidequest