I can't wait to bomb some dodongos! (Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sord)

[Kim]

I just got Zelda: Skyward Sword, and not only am I confident that Skyward Sword should be the next great slang for boners, I'm excited to find out if this Zelda lives up to the hype. (It won't.)

I got the special edition with the gold Wiimote with Motion+ and a soundtrack.

I was also the least excited person in line! Aw yeah! Let's do this thang!

[Kyanbu The Legend]

We shall eagarly await your judgement, Liz.

If my uncle does end up picking this up this week I'll be trying it out myself.

[EVILNess]

Originally Posted by Liz

I was also the least excited person in line! Aw yeah! Let's do this thang!

However, you were certainly the most fabulous in the line, Nonsy.

I have heard nothing but praise and hype. Also that there is a surprising amount of little details in the game.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by EVILNess

I have heard nothing but praise and hype.

This is actually part of why I'm so worried hahaha

EDIT: I like the dialogue choices. Also, you can make Link sit on a toilet. I half-expected that to be how you save.

[EVILNess]

Originally Posted by Liz

I half-expected that to be how you save.

This never occurred to me, and now that you said it I am sad it isn't so.

[Kim]

Now that I'm almost done with the tutorial segment, I think I know enough to sum up the game's premise in one sentence.

Skyward Sword is a game about a teenage boy getting a robot maid who helps him save his magic girlfriend from monsters.


Intro is a few hours long, which is fine, but really makes me wish they'd cave and just add voice acting already. As it stands, all the dialogue and stuff is just a bunch of words to read, which doesn't hold my interest as well as people just fucking talking.

Now that Link has dialogue options, it really makes no sense for him to be a silent protagonist. There's one scene where it's clear he's actually talking and explaining what happened to someone else, but it doesn't show what he's actually saying, because God forbid Link have actual dialogue.

The no voice acting bothers me more than Link having no dialogue, but I'd like to see both change as neither really work.

Anywho, this has been another episode of Liz bitching about stuff that nobody else seems to agree with her on. Join us next time when she complains about how heavily the game pushes the Link x Zelda ship compared to every other Zelda game ever.

[phil_]

Phew. I got two-day shipping on this game for once, and I was worried that I might get it before everyone who cares had already finished it. Good to see the tradition is holding up.

[RickZarber]

About to head out the door and pick up my pre-order from the store... And then head to work. >.<

It's gonna be a long 8 hours...

[Locke cole]

I can't get my pre-order until Wednesday.

Still hyped for the pre-order stuff. Even if I wasn't extremely excited for the game itself, I'm getting a golden wiimote and a Zelda music CD out of the deal.

[Bells]

Originally Posted by Liz

Now that Link has dialogue options, it really makes no sense for him to be a silent protagonist. There's one scene where it's clear he's actually talking and explaining what happened to someone else, but it doesn't show what he's actually saying, because God forbid Link have actual dialogue.

The no voice acting bothers me more than Link having no dialogue, but I'd like to see both change as neither really work.

Actually i think they could solve this by going the Sims route and simply adding Gibberish talk to the dialogue. It's not the "Nobody is talking" thing that annoys me, it's the "Silent Reading" that annoys me. the do it for My Sims, they could do it for Zelda. It's a faraway land, just give them some gibberish language !