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Topic Started: Nov 8 2011, 09:32 PM (3,080 Views)
Lotus Prince
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I just watched Gametrailers's review of Skyward Sword. They ultimately gave it a 9.1, but that score doesn't match the comments in their review at all. Honestly, the game came out sounding way more negative. I am far less interested in Skyward Sword than I was earlier.

Also, basing the entire game around motion controls = FUCK YOU WITH A SHARP STICK, NINTENDO.
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I thought their review was very nitpicky and had some questionable complaints.

"There are only 20 NPCs in Skyloft" - Well do you really expect a small village to be packed with 50+ NPCs...? That's still more than Zelda usually has anyway, and unlike TP's Hyrule Market, you can talk to all of them.

"There are few sidequests" - ...When every other reviewer is saying the exact opposite. Matter of fact, they're saying it has the most sidequests of any Zelda game.

"Lack of variety compared to other Zeldas" - Again, every other review is saying the opposite.

That graphics comparison with the tunnel... Of course I don't expect some random tunnel to look as good as other areas. Wtf GT

"I never thought we'd see a console Zelda without fishing" - MM and TWW say hi

Then there's the typical no HD and no voice acting, but we knew that already. No voice acting isn't nessecarily negative, at least IMO.
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Eep, reviews!

I better avoid this topic. I want to go into the game with the blankest slate possible!
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Lotus Prince
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"There are only 20 NPCs in Skyloft"

Yeah, that was definitely pretty weak. This is Zelda we're talking about, here.

But honestly, the general look of the game and its gameplay turned me off. Not to mention that it being a prequel to OoT mean that we pretty much know how it ends. The villain, whoever it may be, will die, and the "master" that he resurrects will either be killed, or will be Ganondorf.

Actually, Link's an adult here, so some crazy time something or other will go down, and this entire game will have been rendered pointless, as OoT of course stars Young Link, who grows older in a completely different timeline within OoT itself.

And once again, FUCK YOU, OMNIPRESENT MOTION CONTROLS.
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Sigh... this is far from the first time that a Zelda game has perfect or near-perfect reviews. I don't know much about Skyward Sword, but it seems that this game will experience the same pattern since Ocarina of Time:

- Nintendo announces a new Zelda game.
- Nintendo overhypes the game to insane proportions.
- People get very excited due to the massive amounts of hype.
- The game gets delayed until the end of time.
- People are still very excited about the game despite the delay(s).
- The Zelda game comes out.
- Due to the hype that the game has received, people are blinded by all the hype and give the game very high reviews, regardless of the quality of the game itself.
- Eventually people bug me and say "You should play the new Zelda game! It's so awesome lol!"
- I eventually cave in and try it, and end up being very unimpressed. I never find it as totally groundbreaking as people say it is, and in fact, find it very boring and often get stuck and have to use a walkthrough to find out what to do. Yeah, that's fun all right.

Skyward Sword has already reached the third to last step in this pattern, so basically history is repeating itself, and this whole thing is nothing new. Due to this, I'd be very surprised if I actually enjoyed the game at all, and this time I won't even try it even if people bug me to. So forget it. I would have given it a chance if everybody wasn't giving the game very high reviews like usual, but that's not the case here.

Zelda games are overrated in general. Here's a hint to everybody: A game needs more than hype to be good. I only liked the first four games, from the first one to Link's Awakening, and even those weren't perfect to me. (And I only recently warmed up to A Link to the Past.)

By the way, the graphics of this game, like some other Zelda games like WW, don't appeal to me at all, and I feel way too old for them.

And for the record, my favorite Zelda game always has been, and always will be, Zelda II. Kinda tells a lot, doesn't it?
Edited by Blaziken257, Nov 14 2011, 12:35 PM.
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Blaziken257
Nov 14 2011, 12:28 PM
By the way, the graphics of this game, like some other Zelda games like WW, don't appeal to me at all, and I feel way too old for them.
How can you be "too old" for a Zelda game?
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Eiji Aonuma confirmed that Ganondorf won't be in this game, thank god. Though I think he said we'll learn about where he came from.

I was disappointed in TP because a LOT of the stuff that was in the trailers didn't actually make it in the final game. With this game I can actually be sure that what I'm seeing is what I'll get. TP's lack of sidequests and barren overworld were the other big factors, but seeing all the reviews it looks like it won't be the case this time either.

Too old for the graphics? Aren't the DKC games your favorite ever? Those have a very kiddy atmosphere to them.
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Lotus Prince
Nov 14 2011, 12:29 AM
I just watched Gametrailers's review of Skyward Sword. They ultimately gave it a 9.1, but that score doesn't match the comments in their review at all. Honestly, the game came out sounding way more negative. I am far less interested in Skyward Sword than I was earlier.
Welcome to GT's reviews. Don't bother with them other than to see the game in action. They bitch about games and give them high scores, and say good things about other games and give them low scores. Their scores are clearly based on how much they got paid, and they are clearly biased in every review. Some games they attack from the very start with absolutely no reason behind it (See the WKC2 review), and others they are practically imagining in their bed when they talk yet the score is not reflective of the commentary at all.

GT is crap. Plain and simple. Their reviews are utter shit. I only watch their reviews so that I can laugh at their clear contradictions. For example, they say for half the MW3 review that it's almost exactly the same thing as MW2, complain about that, and then give it a 9.1 (or similar, I don't remember the exact score). And if you want to complain that that's what sequels should be like, well then why did they bash WKC2 for doing the same thing? They literally attacked that game left and right for doing nothing wrong other than being the same gameplay that the predecessor had, which people liked even if they didn't.

About the 10/10 thing: 10/10 means that a game is near perfection. It's literally impossible to make a game completely bug free, however your job as the programmer is to make sure that the user sees no seriousness in the issues. Having a little tiny glitch where an NPC moves a little weird is fine, but having an issue where NPCs teleport around in front of you...that's a problem.

As one of my deans once said: "You can never make a program bug free, but your job is to make it 99% bug free, and make the other 1% invisible to the user."
Edited by Polantaris, Nov 14 2011, 03:43 PM.
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Polantaris
Nov 14 2011, 03:36 PM
Lotus Prince
Nov 14 2011, 12:29 AM
I just watched Gametrailers's review of Skyward Sword. They ultimately gave it a 9.1, but that score doesn't match the comments in their review at all. Honestly, the game came out sounding way more negative. I am far less interested in Skyward Sword than I was earlier.
Welcome to GT's reviews. Don't bother with them other than to see the game in action. They bitch about games and give them high scores, and say nothing about other games and give them low scores. Their scores are clearly based on how much they got paid, and they are clearly biased in every review. Some games they attack from the very start with absolutely no reason behind it (See the WKC2 review), and others they are practically imagining in their bed when they talk yet the score is not reflective of the commentary at all.

GT is crap. Plain and simple. Their reviews are utter shit. I only watch their reviews so that I can laugh at their clear contradictions. For example, they say for half the MW3 review that it's almost exactly the same thing as MW2, complain about that, and then give it a 9.1 (or similar, I don't remember the exact score). And if you want to complain that that's what sequels should be like, well then why did they bash WKC2 for doing the same thing? They literally attacked that game left and right for doing nothing wrong other than being the same gameplay that the predecessor had, which people liked even if they didn't.
I agree. They used to be not so bad, but here lately all of their reviews are just nitpicking and complaints about non-important things that don't really effect the gaming experience. If anything, the reviews are good about informing you on a game before it comes out. Other than that they've lost all creditability to me.

Like Sonic Generations. Don't get me wrong it's a great game, but they hardly mentioned any of the games flaws. They focused on the good points and left it at that. But if it's Zelda, then they try to find anything they can to tarnish the game's name.

Just look at Super Mario 3D Land. It scored .1 point higher than Skyward Sword. I have SM3DL and the game is amazing, but I'm 100% positive that SS will easily be the better game, it's been called the best game on the Wii. Period. How can a portable Mario game compare to something like that?
Edited by andaryu, Nov 14 2011, 03:43 PM.
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