Skyward Sword May Have Sucked, But...

There were certain gripes I had with Skyward Sword like the Dowsing and the lack of stuff to do whilst flying a Loftwing but overall I thought some of the temples were actually pretty good. The one with the ship espically and the Ancient Cistern very clever. I also actually liked the Bug item as well.

The game is far from perfect and it's no Ocarina beater but still a game I play again and again on the Wii.

@SexyJazzCat: xenoblade chronicles has the best soundtrack of all time.

Yea I'd be ok with that. I suppose maybe I just would like Nintendo to bring the series up to modern standards in terms of presentation, and also go back to what made the series great: exploration. SS was a step back. I would love to see a Zelda look like that tech demo shown a few years ago. And I think most importantly, Nintendo needs to get rid of the handholding. ALBW leaves me hopeful.

After having had some time to reflect on ALBW, I've come to believe that making dungeon progression non-linear was a wrong step. In fact, at the end I though the whole buying your items mechanic drastically removed a large part of the enjoyment. Within a few hours of starting, I was pretty much able to go anywhere I wanted on the map. There was no wonder, no "remember to come back here later to see what I can get" feeling. It was like as if Metroid had a shop I could go to to open up any area......it's antithetical to what makes the games fun. To their very nature and design.

I'm not saying the execution wasn't there. ALBW is excellent in its own right but for a Zelda, the fun part, that feeling of accomplishment beating a boss to get an item to now access a new area, was relegated to the exchange of coin. It sucked and I hope that feature will not be present in the U game.

@MirkoS77: the item shop idea I agree wasn't as executed as well as it could've been. If it were up to me I'd have the items obtained in caves and sidequests that you could just stumble upon. Still I liked the end result of freeing up the game

like this. who the hell complains about an item shop?

It's a very valid complaint when the manner in which it was implemented ran counter to what makes so enjoyable.

Skyward Sword has very good music but everyone knows Tropical Freeze is soundtrack of the forever.

Er, when the item shop is the basis of the game, a complaint against a perceived lack of execution of it is a pretty valid one :/

@charizard1605: still it's nowhere near game ruining. It sacraficed the feel of item progression which sucks but it resulted in a non linear experience with next to no handholding. I think the tradeoff was fair, epseically considering it was an experiment in them shaking up the flow of the game

It's not at all; I thought it formed a great base, and though it was lacking in execution by the end, it was a great first attempt, and can only be improved upon from here. But Mario's assertion that complaining about the item shop was nitpicking, as though the item shop was something trivial, was laughable. it makes me think that Mario hasn't actually played the game yet, and thought the item shop was a peripheral mechanic in ALBW, similar to how it is in other Zelda games.

@cainetao11: list is based on soundtracks, not overall quality

Ok, after beating Burial at Sea Episode 2, Bioshock Infinite might have my favorite soundtrack this gen.