The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

November 18, 2011·Single player
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Ratings

82
User Score
398 ratings
93
Critic Score
7 reviews
87
Total Score
405 combined

About

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is the first Zelda game created specifically with the Wii in mind. The game makes use of the Wii MotionPlus peripheral for sword fighting, with a revised Wii Remote pointing system used for targeting. Skyward Sword is structured very similar to previous Zelda games, as you travel through an overworld in search of temples to visit and once in you solve a series of puzzles before fighting a boss at the end and receive the next bit of plot. The biggest change is that the overworld is more focused on puzzles with only a handful of action.

Storyline

In the floating island community of Skyloft, a young knight-in-training named Link lives above an endless sea of clouds, unaware of the surface world below. When his childhood friend Zelda is swept away by a mysterious dark tornado and pulled beneath the cloud barrier, Link is drawn to a sacred sword hidden within a statue of the goddess. The blade's spirit, Fi, reveals Link is the prophesied hero destined to confront a rising evil. He must descend to the long-abandoned surface lands to find Zelda before the self-proclaimed Demon Lord Ghirahim can use her to revive his imprisoned master, the ancient Demon King Demise, whose return would threaten all existence.

Release Dates

PlatformDate
WiiNov 18, 2011
WiiNov 20, 2011
WiiNov 23, 2011
WiiNov 24, 2011
Wii USep 01, 2016
Wii USep 02, 2016
Wii USep 02, 2016

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Game Info

Developer
Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3
Publisher
Nintendo
Release Date
November 18, 2011
Supporting
Monolith Soft
Franchise
The Legend of Zelda
Collection
The Legend of Zelda
Perspective
Third person

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Platforms

WiiWii U

Genres

PuzzleAdventure

Themes

ActionFantasyHistoricalOpen world

Game Modes

Single player

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