Saw the trailer for Zelda's Skyward Sword

[SAUSAGEMAN]

 

[CaptainWacky]

Do you control his tongue with Motion Plus?

 

[Tisiphone]

I'VE GOT A WII NOW SO IT WILL ALL BE MINE SOON

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Someone's getting lucky.
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[SAUSAGEMAN]

And Zelda? Is having none of your shit.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Why does Zelda look like Kathy Griffin?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Yeah, that's kind of an ugly Zelda.

 

[CaptainWacky]

...I really want to write a big long thread about the history of Princess Zelda now.

 

[Tisiphone]

Yes!!!!!!

 

[CaptainWacky]

I'll do it later.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

First review out!

As for those puzzles? How’s this for a statement of intent: not a single torch-lighting number, and only one push-the-box-on-the-button incident. How does it have the nerve to call itself a celebration of 25 years of Zelda?

Having broken moulds, Skyward Sword refuses to set others. No two hours are the same. Pirate ship chases become mine-cart rollercoasters become stronghold raids all in the course of one afternoon. Elsewhere, in a beautiful nod to Zelda’s dual-world tradition, one new gimmick causes two worlds to collide in a single space. When later acts see entire regions double back on themselves – either reinvented as terrifying stealth scrambles or disrupted by illtempered deities – you wonder if Nintendo has found the secret to infinite level design.

A reliance on riddles and cranking up ancient machines finds its treasure-hunting roots not in Wind Waker, but Indiana Jones. As cracked tablets lead to forgotten sanctums and mystic hymns stir memories in Link’s otherworldly aide, the hairs on the back of the neck bristle to salute a quest unique in its unabashed lack of irony. This is a game made for Christmas Day, released an agonising six weeks before.

Nintendo has been so busy elaborating on Ocarina’s heroic ideal that it’s forgotten to embrace it for itself. So what better way to honour 25 years of bravery than courageously striving for something new?

How apt that this ultimate tale of heromaking should see Nintendo’s hardware become the console it was always meant to be.

10/10


(26 days, people)

(24 if you're in europe)

 

[CaptainWacky]

But is Tingle in it?!

(I don't care really.)

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Tingle is not in this videogame.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Thinking about it, he was only in Majora's Mask and Wind Waker. Except I haven't played the GBA games, sorry, so he might have been in them.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Off the top of my head, he was also in one of the Oracle games, Minish Cap and Twilight Princess, and who can forget the DS hits Freshly Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland and Ripening Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love.

 

[CaptainWacky]

He wasn't in Twilight Princess.

Anyway...

 

[Tisiphone]

He's got a statue covered in sap? That's wrong in so many ways.

 

[CaptainWacky]

That's why it's forbidden!