Zelda: Skyward Sword coming to Wii U today

In another surprise announcement, Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is launching on Wii U today.

[Hoffmann]

Wow, the hype is real. This will move so many more wii U consoles.

edit: I just made a sarcastic face.

[SCW1982]

You forgot to put a sarcastic face after your comment.

[Hoffmann]

Hmmm I will edit the comment to fix this problem

[Bahamut]

I'd get excited if it were an HD remaster of SS.

But I know it's just a direct port of the Wii game... 480p... woo.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Agreed.

Called this would happen a long time ago. Nintendo has a history of porting titles, this should come to no surprise to anyone. Called Zelda Wii U was coming to NX, called this was coming to Wii U.

[RosweeSon]

Still got my disc so yeah wasted on me

[kainslayer]

there is always doplphin emulator ;-p

[ShadowKnight]

I've been trying to get them to release and remaster this game for years. My wish has come true!!!!!🙌💃

I don't see it in the Wii u store yet? Did anyone buy it yet? I'm in US

[lastking95]

That milk has gone stell

[deafdani]

It's not a remaster, it's the Wii game as it was released years ago.

Still a pretty good game, if you can put up with the ridiculous hand holding (the worst in the series). That, and Fi is the worst companion that ever disgraced a Zelda game. People talk too much shit about Navi, but she doesn't come anywhere close to the maddening stupidity of Fi's attention grabbing.

On the flipside, this game has the best story, best narrative, best lore and best characters of all the Zelda games, some with pretty good character evolution (Groose ftw). So, it's pretty worth it. The last third of the game is pretty amazing, too.

[-Foxtrot]

If it's playable with the gamepad or pro controller then this would be great. The motion controls was one of the things which really spoilt the game for me

[MilkMan]

Id like to know this also.

[Bahamut]

The motion controls are actually good in SS though. I can't picture using some of the items in the game without it.

[-Foxtrot]

Forced motion controls are never a good thing to put onto a consumer.

But like I said to be fair it was one of a few problems I had.

[WildArmed]

Yeah, SS had pretty good motion controls.

[Intranquill]

Neckbeards? Wanting to play a game with a traditional controller, like they have been played for decades, is now considered a "neckbeard" thing to want? Lol ok guy.

[The 10th Rider]

Yeah, I honestly didn't like the motion controls in SS, but they worked and I wouldn't want them to release the game without them.

And really? "Forced motion controls are never a good thing to put onto a consumer." There's plenty of good games where the motion controls are essential and make the game. Wii Sports, of course, wouldn't be any fun without motion controls, Red Steel 2 was a blast with motion controls, Wii Sports Resort. No More Heroes. . . I get that you don't want motion controls in a mainline Zelda game, but to say motion controls are never a good thing is just ignorant.

[Bahamut]

@Intranquil

It goes with the laziness thing. If they don't want to move their arms around, then they probably won't want to bother to shave either. Also I picture them wearing tophats.

[ChickeyCantor]

> Forced motion controls are never a good thing to put onto a consumer.

It's a game designed around motion controls. If it was forced it would have been tacked on as a last minute decision.

[spoilerjerk]

The motion controls are why I didn't own a Wii, I absolutely hated using them every time I tried them out. Same thing happened with the Wii U... although this time I bought the console I sold it because I hated the controller.

[Bahamut]

Buncha lazy fuckers you guys are, rofl.

Neckbeard: "I don't like moving my arms around and stuff"

I absolutely loved Skyward Sword, definitely a contender for best Zelda ever, right next to Ocarina. The controls were different, but I didn't feel it took anything at all out of the game, if anything it added even more. The motion was accurate as hell, the items were really fun and interesting to use, and that's good because the whole game relies on these items in order to solve the puzzles and temples in the game. The game relies on motion controls. It wouldn't be the same game without it. For those of you who don't like to swing your flabby arms, quit whining, burn some calories for once. For those of you who just don't have the living space to play a game like that, that actually sucks, sorry to hear that.

[-Foxtrot]

@Bahamut

It's the worst main Zelda game

The forced motion controls

The lack of freedom

Overworld is very linear

The repetitiveness

Side missions are pretty bad and annoying

Stop dishing out personal attacks because people didn't like the motion controls, I hate people who go on the offence like that because they want to try and defend something. This has nothing to do with us being "lazy", it's the fact that nobody likes motion controls, especially at the time when people stopped caring for them. Being forced to play a game in a certain way is not consumer friendly, not matter if you liked it or not.

It's the worst main Zelda game period. Ocarina, Majoras Mask, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess were better in every way.

[EddieNX]

@foxtrot that's just your opinion bud. Skyward sword is one of the best games i've ever played and the motion controlls are flawless and properly immersive.

[Darkfist_Flames]

Forced motion controls and the boring fly gameplay(which many people hyped about with the trailers)

[Bahamut]

The fly gameplay was just alright but the swordplay and items were fun as hell. I really liked using the whip, had a lot of fun with that one.

[meganick]

I think the people who didn't like the motion controls were probably exaggerating their motions too much and moving too quickly. If you limit your range of motion (particularly for sword swings) and get the timing down then the controls worked quite well.

[RosweeSon]

If they had the energy to move their arms that much at all, sure I love traditional controls and no I don't wanna be dancing, prancing swinging and a swaying about but if the games good enough step back watch your face cos I'm slashing the Wii remote around, Mario Galaxy was no pun intended out of this world I don't really see why everyone moaned so much 95% was still on the traditional Stick and buttons anyway. Seriously great game tho 2 was good but for sheer originality and inventiveness Galaxy 1 smashed it, Skyward sword was also great heard Resi 4 was cool but didn't wanna do it again and Metroid prime trilogy with motion controls is meant to be fantastic I heard best FPS' ever being shouted about when it came out sure I'll get round to it on my Wii u some point.

[RosweeSon]

It was only forced upon yourself as your so unwilling for change be it for the better or worse motion controls were fine it was built from the start with motion controls. A bad workman always blames his tools. Thing is you can with nintendo and never have been able to even as far back as Mario 1 if you die 99% of the time is not because the games glitched or stiched you up its because your not up to the task. Sure I'm not a massive fan of motion controls but when done as well as they were in skyward and Mario Galaxy absolutely fine. Worst main Zelda game... Nothing is beating Zelda 2 anytime soon sure it's ok but compared to any other main game in the series it's utter dribble even number 1 was MUCH better the series just gets better and better and that's because it's Nintendo it's what they do, innovative, original and all around top notch on the games sure they are still stuck in the late 90's sure they do things their way or the highway but when it's the quality it is always got time for it.

[Metallox]

Come on, Foxtrot. If there's a Wii game that requires the motion controls is Skyward Sword. Obviously this re-release doesn't support traditional controllers.

[deafdani]

It's the Wii game as it was released years ago. Motion controls and all, no Gamepad at all.

I'm 50/50 on the motion controls on this game. It was amazing for some stuff, like sword fighting, and incredibly stupid for others, like swimming. Ugh. They just went overboard with the motions, they should've just normal buttons for some things and motion for others, not force motions on everything.

Still a pretty damn good game, especially because of its story, lore and characters. All of these are cool as fuck. :)

[Ohmei]

Yeah, same here. I'm disabled, so I'd love an option to use a gamepad for SS.

[MilkMan]

I love this game. Great!

[DillyDilly]

Quite the predicament either get this game now or wait for the NX reveal & see if I want the NX & get this on the NX as Im not buying this twice

[MilkMan]

Is NX backwards compatible? I thought it wasn't. ITs all new content for the NX.

[RosweeSon]

They'll have plenty of new content for sure but they won't abandon the VC.

[Cheezeman3000]

That's why he's not sure if he should wait or not, because if he buys it on Wii U he may have to rebuy it on the NX.

[SCW1982]

I think you might be confusing your Zelda's bruh.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Well its likely coming to NX too as a port anyway. MOST console Zeldas get ported......this isn't really news, I'm not even sure why Nintendo fans seem to forget simple history.

[RosweeSon]

Nintendo hopefully and this is real wishful thinking but I'm hoping they will actually go you know what we're doing cross buy now or at the very least go look if you've just got it on Wii U and it's now on NX it's yours, would make all Wii U owners happy surely and new customers will just get on makes no difference, however they did deals on all my previously purchased Wii VC games for Wii U between 99p and £1.49 normally to get the Wii U version it's hardly life changing money not like I've got to buy it again and it's not like the games even cost anywhere near what they did back in the day £40 each, £30 second hand unboxed haha. These digital versions are barely 10-20% of original cost try tracking down some of these titles for the price they charge digital, mega man 1-2 clear £40-80 now unboxed with a box your looking triple figures.

[DiscoMan]

Control scheme is very important.

[overrated44]

The entirety of the combat was centered around motion controls, there's no way you can play this game without a Wiimote.

[InTheZoneAC]

pro controller support or no buy

actually I'm not going to buy anyway since I'm waiting for the NX reveal AND the possibility of all these games coming over to that.

[meganick]

How exactly would they put in standard controller support? You can't just press a button to swing the sword in that game. They'd have to map the sword controls to the right analog stick or something like that. Maybe that would work, but it could end up being inferior.

[sarkwalvein]

Better "inferior" than bad and infuriating.

[InTheZoneAC]

hello?

ever heard of optimizing? OBVIOUSLY I felt like I didn't need to state what Nintendo needs to do to meet my wish. OBVIOUSLY they would have to implement a controller scheme.

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some of you are so simple I swear. If this wasn't a "lazy" port they could add controller support. Yes that means they have to work around their limited budget and time, but they'll get over it or learn to.

[overrated44]

And he's asking you how exactly you would get this game to work with a controller? Most of the enemies have specific hitboxes that need you to swing the sword in a specific way, that's how ALL the combat works. How do you make a controller do that? That's what he's asking. Like you want Nintendo to go in there and completely remake the combat and completely redo every boss fight in the game so you can use a controller for a VC release? There's no way that would happen.

[Cweed]

WII U killer app! What a huge surprise! 🙄

[Elda]

In hd?

[superchiller]

Come on, this is Nintendo we are talking about. It'll be a lazy port in SD, complete with the spastic motion controls that ruined the original game

[RosweeSon]

They ruined nothing other than your chance to try something new and different for a change.

[Number-Nine]

SS was so weak. Fi was the worst sidekick

[meganick]

I disagree with your first sentence but totally agree with your second sentence. I wanted to stab Fi in the throat to make her shut up.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

It's not Fi fault she didn't have emotion or a personality of her own.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Anyone who disagree with my comment. Has never beaten the game.

[Lionalliance]

Oh good, the Zelda that.... not a lot of people liked.... yay?

[_-EDMIX-_]

lol, I love how this was the example used by many fans on why the new Zelda was not going to come to NX.

Funny how this game is coming to Wii U and the new Zelda is coming to NX.

Soooooo what did we learn here folks? Both things that many doubted is happening and all it took as looking at the companies history to tell us this.

I'm not a wizard folks, I can't tell the future, but some things are more likely then not. To those who kept using this as some magic example of Zelda not coming to NX.....looks like you folks were wrong on both. This company isn't going to hold games back on devices out of some strange loyalty, they are a business first and foremost.

Was told Twilight Princess getting ported to Wii was um "which was an exception, not the rule", never mind that every major Zelda console title has gotten ported before....

Yet here we are, once again showing that history very much wins in this regard. Not assumptions.

[meganick]

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. This is just a digital copy of the Wii game being sold in the eshop for people who prefer digital over hard copies. You could already play your hard copy of SS on Wii U since it's backward compatible with all Wii games.

[InTheZoneAC]

who are you talking to?

who said the nx wasn't getting a zelda game?

who said anything about a game coming or not coming to the wii u or nx?

[_-EDMIX-_]

Lol I won't name any names.

A few we're very vocal about their theories and reasons why it would never happen. And be specific it was stated that the nx was not going to get the Zelda U game specifically.

Many people last year regarding Zelda U coming to the NX simply because Skyward Sword was never ported to the Wii U.

Apparently this was an example to show that not every Zelda game what to get ported and my response was literally "not yet" lol

It was also stated to many people on here that Twilight Princess was a special case and that Skyward Sword was proof that not every Zelda game would get ported , which to them also meant proof that Zelda U was going to stay on the Wii U only, for god sakes someone even said it being called Zelda U meant that it likely wouldn't go anywhere else. lol

This just goes into another list of I told you so's to the naysayers with bizarre theories.

I always saw it even several years ago as being exactly this the rest of the Zelda's would get ported on the Wii U, the new Nintendo platform would release with a port of Zelda U and it would release day and date and it's exactly what's currently happening right now.

Yet do you understand how many times I meant opposition? Even when what I was predicting was what the company had done in the past?

[AndreR]

they should have released it for NX instead.

[InTheZoneAC]

right, because the nx is already available?

who said this game won't be on the nx at some point?

[_-EDMIX-_]

Who's to say they're not?

[peewee11016]

WHAT!!!!!!!!! Thats cuz my father bought a Wii U 2 days ago. OMG IM MA PICK IT UP TODAY!!!

[RosweeSon]

They should really start banging out the GameCube games instead of games you can purchase and play through the disc drive already out of the box I can't pop GameCube disc in my console... Get Em on VC Nintendoh

[NohansenBoy]

How many people asked for this?

[MegaGhost]

Just played (and beat) SS for the first time a few months ago. Though I got used to the motion controls, I definitely had love/hate feelings towards them. Kinda wish this version game came with a standard controller configuration.

[AuraAbjure]

The Skyward Sword story was SICK. The way Fi flew around the room at the end of temples right before energy streamed into and upgraded the master sword was spectacular.

[Loadedklip]

Despite this game having a 92 or something on metacritic/gamerankings .... i feel this game is underrated. The temples, the puzzles, the story, the characters, the combat are amazing. The controls for me worked perfectly. I THINK ... .but not sure if its that people played too close to the TV and/or they maybe had the motion plus adapter and not the actual one piece wiimote plus? I have a feeling the later was more reliable.

[NotoriousWhiz]

I like Skyward Sword. I am actually going through it for the first time now, because I've recently moved into a home where I have the space for it. Sure the graphics are awful on my HDTV, but it's a fun game. Only annoying thing is the faery thing and the constant pop-ups when picking up items for the first time after booting the game.

[PygmelionHunter]

Funny how I just finished playing this game for the 2nd time a couple of hours ago, and then I saw this.

I was very critical regarding various design choices my first time through it back when it came out, but I've seen so much crap this gen that I was somehow able to get around most issues and focused on the better aspects of the game. In fact, I found it to be a very refreshing experience, even though I already knew how it all ended.

Word of advice to those buying it on Wii U: DO NOT let the Wii U upscale this game to 1080p. You'll notice a bunch of depth of field grid-like artifacts on almost every scene that were not as noticeable through analog cables on the original Wii. This is probably because of how the Wii U's upscaling algorithm works. So just change your Wii U settings to 480p and let the TV do the upscaling. That is, unless your TV can't do a good job at upscaling non-HD resolutions.

[MartinB105]

I don't care what anyone says... Skyward Sword is the best Zelda. :)

[Glak18]

But can't I just put my Zelda Skyward Sword Wii disc in my Wii U and....play it yesterday?

[ZorinInc]

had already gave up on the Wii by the time this came out.