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Updated August 18th 2011.

Release Dates:

Europe release date

18th November 2011

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/29577/zelda-skyward-sword-uk-release-date-confirmed/


North America release date

20th November 2011



Post any details from any footage you see of the game here (items, locals, enemies,  mechanics, etc).

Items:
Skyward/Master Sword
Hylian Shield
Lamp?
Whip
Flying Beetle (can pick up bombs and other items, hit switches)
Bottle
Red Potion (can be drunk from bottle while moving)
Bombs (can be dropped, thrown, or rolled like a bowling ball, shows path trajectory)
Bomb Flowers
Slingshot
Bow
Harp

Mechanics:
Sprint (uses a stamina meter)
Real-Time Weapon Inventory Access
Dropped Health-Hearts Are Shootable
Spin Attack
Chargeable Sword-Slice Projectile Attack
Destructible Scenery (Trees can be cut, they sever at the exact point you slice)
Shield Bump
Jump Slash
Forward Jump
Side-Hop
Front-Flip Sword Slash
Back-Flip
Forward Stab Sword Attack
Roll
Swing On Hanging Ropes
Log-Roll on Lava Boulders
Grab Bombs with Whip
Leap Up Vines (quicker than climbing normally)
Wall Run

Enemies:
Octoroks (they hide under bushes, rocks can be reflected back with shield bump)
Keese
Skulltulas (on vines, very mobile)
Giant Scorpion Boss/Miniboss (has eyes in it's claws that must be slashed in a certain direction)
Goriyas
Bokoblins
Deku Babas (must slash them in the vertical/horizontal direction of their mouth)
Eye Doors (can be made dizzy by rotating sword around them)
Blob Monster (possibly a type of Chu-Chu)
Stalfos (they have 2 swords, can do shield breakers)
Lava Mollusk
6-armed boss
Fat moblin with wood shield
Big rolling metallic electric enemy
peahat
beamos (need to chop lower sections to reach it's eye to kill it)
fire-breathing monkey under rock
large on-land skulltulas

Locals:
Skyloft (Various islands of clouds in the sky, Link's home)
Forest Area
Lava Dungeon
Buddhist-style dungeon
Mechanical style dungeon
Desert/Beach Area

Other:
Link Appears As Right-Handed
There Are At Least 8 Inventory Items
Bottles Have Their Own Inventory Screen
At Least 4 Bottles Are Obtainable
Map Screen Flies Straight-Up Overhead Above Link's Position
Cutscenes Are Skippable By Pressing "2"
Two Of The Enemies In The Demo Do Up To 2 Hearts of Damage Per Attack
A smoking volcano can be seen in the distance from the forest, most likely a Death Mountain of sorts
New pale & skinny male character, most likely a main antagonist
Meter of some kind is under hearts
Great Fairy Girl is on D-pad (most likely a Navi button)

I've already found a huge sequence break! (yes I did cause I'm the son of Chuck Norris)

The tone looks much more colourful than Twilight Princess, I have a feeling it uses a heavily modified engine of TW. The IGN stream was laggy in my half so I might have to watch it again to see the missing parts, including the trailer.



Fixed.

forward jump / ground jump


graphics look amazing, the controls looked horrible in the demo, hopefully we'll hear more about this game soon from the people playing it at e3


OK the controls are fine:
http://kotaku.com/5564197/the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-video-preview-starring-me

good shit


You can skip cutscenes like in TP
theres a bottle and map on the + - buttons? Hmm

this game sucks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tr73yddYd0

Move while using the item menu, Stalfos wrecks this kids shield, 2 full hearts of damage. drink potion while moving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB80OJrMLbI

Scorpion — again 2 full hearts of dmg.  Forward hop -> JS

Controls are fluid. I like it. the second this gets leaked I'm pirating and playing it live. :)

new stalfos video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6swIOgyaVxI

new scorp video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcGfbd3t7w

zelda games and physics always have an inverse relationship

It hurt to watch the shitty live demo during the conference this morning. Is very good to hear the positive reviews on the smoothness and precision of the controls since then. And the graphic style looks really nice - almost like a cross between WW & TP.

You guys like the graphics? I really dislike them. They had a great graphics system for TP and it looks like a downgrade to me.

I only have one thing to say about this:

[20:23] <Razakin> But probably most major news are new DKC, Kirby and Kid Icarus
[20:23] <Razakin> And some silly Zelda with penis name

Okay, Here is what I took from a press interview tonight, there are a few useful things in there:

Miyamoto said that the goal of Skyward Sword is to get back to basics and focus on what makes them really fun. He said that there's often a big lag from when the graphics get done and the game is completed. He said the reason they only showed a piece of teaser art at last year's event was because of this lag. He said that gameplay on Skyward Sword is almost complete, and the graphics are being polished. He said they need to make a few more dungeons but it's mostly complete. However, since he couldn't guarantee it would arrive this year, he'd rather take his time and get it right.In this Zelda, Link is a little boy born into a land above the clouds called Skyloft. One day, he learns there is a land below the clouds ruled by evil forces. However, the revelation prompts a series of events which forces him to go to the land beneath the clouds. The reason he goes down is in the title--it's the Skyward Sword. The sword possesses intelligence, and will assume the semi-human form in the teaser poster shown last year. It's the "master sword." The Skyward Sword will become the Master Sword, apparently. The sky is also very important to the game, apparently. He said when you play the game, the cloud banks are "very impactful" and they wanted to make the art style highlight them. Apparently Miyamoto was such a fan of the art style the approval process took one step. Miyamoto said he's a big fan of Impressionist Art, so the new art style reflects that. He said Cezanne was a big influence. He said the Wii MotionPlus offers such precision that players have to pay close attention to the enemies. For instance, the demonstrator is fighting a scorpion, and must hit its claws at specific angles. Aouma said the new, exaggerated art style helps in this process. "If we had kept the Twilight Princess art style, we'd be done already!" He said they also want to change the typical structure of Zelda games with Skyward Sword. He said they also want to change the typical structure of Zelda games with Skyward Sword. He asks how many people have played Ocarina of Time. ALL the hands go up. He apologizes for the long time it took to change out of iron boots going through the Water Temple. He says the 3DS version will make this process much easier. He said that Skyward Sword will make item management and changing clothes much easier and more streamlined. Miyamoto says the item selection process may be unfamiliar, but once players are used to it, it will feel comfortable. He said the pointing item system from Twilight Princess could be cumbersome because people often couldn't find the cursor on screen. He said the Wii MotionPlus will have a new pointing system that will make the Wii Remote be used like a three-dimensional mouse. They run the trailer from this morning's presentation again. Wait--Link? In a Zelda game? I. am. shocked. Second questioner expresses concern the HUD for Skyward Sword is too crowded and takes up too much real estate. Aonuma said that the demo at E3 will have the HUD up all the time, but they are still working on how to deal with it exactly. Third questioner asks whether or not Skyward Sword will have an original orchestral score or maybe even voice acting. Miyamoto says they have increased the number of music staff at Nintendo to write more songs. Next questioner says he noticed that Link could drink potions while running in Zelda, where as in the past he had to stop. Aonuma said that it was a decision to provide more seamless combat. Miyamoto says one of the goals of the game is to have gameplay be as seamless as possible. Next question talks about how he just beat Spirit Tracks on the plane and wants to know if the whip originated in Spirit Tracks or Skyward Sword. He gushes about the whip item at length. Aonuma said the whip originated in Spirit Tracks, and that the same person is handling the mechanic in Skyward Sword. Much of the staff of Spirit Tracks is working on Skyward Sword. Next question wonders if the developers worry that the sword fighting mechanic will tire out players. Miyamoto says he does get a bit tired playing it at the office. But he plays it a LOT, apparently. Aonuma says that the pace will vary enough, with puzzle solving and exploring and whatnot, that it shouldn't be a problem. But the demo on the show floor made it look like its constant combat.

Here's a 12 minute interview about Zelda: SS's development

http://e3.nintendo.com/wii/game/?g=zelda


Click "Iwata Asks" at the bottom right.

That is one wall of text worth reading and the Nintendo E3 site is awesome.

What about the save mechanics? Without a start menu or pause HUD, I wonder how they plan to "seamlessly integrate" that..

MEHdit: Nevermind. Just because there are no item select menus doesn't mean no start menu. I doubt the save mechanics will change much.

Completely disagree.  TP had no color anywhere and it tried way too hard to look "realistic" which is stupid when you're fighting blob monsters and purple goblin things.  This game is pretty much Wii TP (now compatible with color TVs).

tl;dr

I absolutely HATED TP's graphics. Very low-res and shimmery, everything bled together. Skyward Sword has a kind of painting look to it which looks OK. The develpoer's themselves said in the interview "the graphics is the current thing we are working on", so I'm assuming the visuals are still in development.

Another video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em-n3LrCD-Y

shit pals I'll start saving money starting from today, the game won´t be on Mexico until almost 5 months after the relase, so I got to buy it online, which would be almost $1500 (around 110 USD)

that's weird. so close to USA and you get a massive delay like that. i'm much further down the americas and i get games here day 1 with USA nowadays (it used to be days later before and weeks later before that. month delays were in the N64 days and it was 1 month usually)

Mejor crusa para el otro lado y compralo. ;)

She made my sword go skyward.

This will be an E for everyone game?

If any of you remember the old demos for TP before it came out, the prototype demo version was a lot different from the final version. I don't know about the graphics. I have somewhat of a hope that they will be altered a bit before the game's release. Personaly, I loved TP's graphics, and predict that SS will be like the graphic altering form OoT/MM to WW. Probably the same level of disappointment-- I love WW graphics--. I like the wierd bug item that you shoot out to pickup bombs and stuff too.

This game better have Guays

Yeah lol, I should walk 30 miles to buy a CD, (I have no passport) >_>

If I lived in Texas I'd totally smuggle in you in my trunk and take you to BestBuy, but alas :/

Just smuggle the game across instead and have him pay in pesos, less danger danger

(http://i.imgur.com/ViiLG.png)

*senses a glitch already* if u can drink bottle while moving wouldnt drinking and falling oob cause a glitch of some sort

I'm sure they made it so you cant drink while falling, and from the physics it looks like you can't dive with it or anything like that.

still we dont know what'll happen

spoiler: it will have brand new glitches.

spoiler: link is in the game

I'll wait for you at Nuevo Laredo and you go to Laredo, then send it to me on a boat across the Río Bravo, then I'll send it back with tha money ;D

I know it's not out yet but I thought it would be a good idea to make a new topic about it. This game is sort of like a hybrid between the two Zelda games Wind Waker (and of course the other few games with the same graphics) and Twilight Princess, for those of you guys who didn't know. Honestly i realy don't like the graphics to much. Links hair is freakin shineing. It looks like he's made of plastic! I dont know about you but that's not right.
It looks too cartoonish as well. Spinning your sword around in the air to beat a bad guy thats an eye! This game better not get a T rating. And it also looks like the whole game is in agayforest. I should have seen Hyrule field and Hyrule Castle and Epona too. I also love the bad guys. They look like freakin homo-sexual fox's like you would find in a gay fairy tale. This game better be good to make up with the graphics like with Wind Waker. I'll give this game one chance though.

heres the video; http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-zelda-skyward/101468
There's a trailer for another game. Oh, and I like the "MAY CONTAIN CONTENT INAPPRORIATE FOR CHILDREN" thing in the begining of the trailer. Yeah right!

http://forums.zeldaspeedruns.com/index.php?topic=391.0


I popped that thread out on E3 day after seeing the trailer and gameplay demo, lots of good details and such.

Sorry, didn't think to look there.

In this video, you can clearly see the guy grabs a bomb with the whip for a brief moment. So this may mean you can pull/hurl bombs around using the whip. Also, he walks forward while aiming the bow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNWn3yeho3k

New Skyward Sword gameplay video: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/nc-10-nintendo-wii/705395

Still demo footage, but you can see the lava boulder you roll on looks like... an eyeball? Also you can get a pretty good view of the ornate center-platform in the Fire Temple.

Here's a two-part, 20 minute playthrough of the SkyWard Sword E3 Demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOlmV1-a4fw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ed_X4flM0&feature=related

I've noticed:

1. You can leap up vines repeatedly, definitely faster than climbing normally.
2. You can wall jump! (see 1:15 and 4:51 in part 1).
3. You can slash really quickly, faster than any other 3D Zelda so far for sure (see 6:33 in part 2).

PS: This guy has a very compelling theory about the story of the game as well as the mystery girl on the poster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdBEBdnxFo4&feature=related

New GDC trailer for Skyward Sword: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5HxKASXjeM&feature=feedu

Stuff I've noticed in it:
1. Main logo now has vines growing on it.
2. There's now a Hylian Shield icon at the top left as well as a meter right next to it.
3. Big Skulltula's (Twilight Princess style) have returned.
4. Peahats return (metallic looking with very small propellers).
5. New type of Beamos enemy shown (need to slice it's lower sections to shorten it, to presumably be able to attack it's eye).
6. The "master sword/great fairy girl is equipped to the D-pad (most likely a Navi/Midna-type button).
7. There's a new fat moblin with a large wood shield.
8. There's a Bamboo-chopping minigame.
9. New big rolling enemy (looks electric and metallic)
10. New enemy that's a monkey that breaths fire while hiding under a rock.
11. New 6-armed boss. Notice the strange dude that's sitting on top of it before fight starts (probably a main antogonist).
12. Lamp looking item is equipped in the 3rd scene.  

Edit:
13: Harp

note on the guy you think is a main antagonist taht was seen before the boss. i only looked once (and not closely), but to me it looked like a sheikah

This video really brings up some excellent ideas about Skyward Sword by dissecting the trailer very carefully:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9m0Z8aHnQU

That little icon that appears on the Dpad looks like bulbasaur to me. I had to stare at it for a minute before I saw a girl lol.

Meant to say this earlier-
Bug Item Icon Differences:

(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5830/ssbugweapon.png) (http://img155.imageshack.us/i/ssbugweapon.png/) <--2010 Trailer

(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9266/ssbugweapon2.png) (http://img195.imageshack.us/i/ssbugweapon2.png/) <--2011 Trailer

I think the main boss will be Vaati.

The trailer is better when you watch it in reverse. Start watching this video at 1:02:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPWBJ7TV-Xk

Haha crazy. Reverse ZL niiice.

Nintendo composing pro music strats on video game trailers :o

Reviving due to the fact that E3 will be this week. Also, this...

That link is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz94iPLRJ3I

Also, the latest trailer is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG8WNWJlZow

Flying through the sky looks like it's going to suck worse than Top Gun (NES)

At 4:40-4:45 in the vid he does a standard quick spin but then also does a veritcal quick spin. I noticed also that there is an 8 piece shaped pie magic meter (I'd assume it's a magic meter) that goes down when he does the quick spins, and it auto refills after time.

More Videos:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-zelda-skyward/715236?type=flv

(http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/06/xlarge_05.jpg)
(http://i53.tinypic.com/2hz3ccl.jpg)

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-zelda-skyward/715245

In one of the demo videos I heard the temple of time song playing in the background... Not sure if this actually means anything, but since the story is about the mastersword, it wouldn't surprise me if the temple of time had some roll in the game.

The temple of time song starts at about 3:56
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-LXoxNFnQ3m58s

The same battle with Ghirahim, but this time you can actually hear that awesome music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rI43Xk9rn0

(http://i53.tinypic.com/1058j76.gif)

Full walkthrough of the  2011 demo:

Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjwWBEzpvNc&feature=feedu

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyPybhjTEGs&feature=feedu

(I think part 3 will be uploaded soon)

Notice the change in the "shield meter":
(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/8074/ssmeter.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/ssmeter.png/)

Taken from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS9EA_LXbTM&feature=related

That's because Link's shield changed as well. It's a rectangular shield with two bird-feet on it.

I find it odd how Ghirahim says he "will not murder you", which is both surprising and illogical. When synonyms for destroy are more often used. Murder is an illogical statement because Ghirahim is basically implying that he's not entitled to kill Link and that killing is wrong. They probably won't do it, but I hope "murder" gets changed to "kill" before the final release. 

What may be more important other than the shield icon....

Is the positioning of the hearts right next to the shield icon. As is, they are too close to one another to allow for a second row of hearts to be shown like they would be traditionally shown.

The same could be said about the magic bar in OoT, MM and TWW, but that was obviously not the case.

After watching more videos of this, I'm feeling much more positive about this game than before.  Maybe it wont suck after all.

Game is sounding better and better each day. Who knows? maybe this will be a truly great game

There are some (possibly big) plot spoilers in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckVwh80O2BM

Lol, it was Ganon all along.

Some bad news for anyone (everyone) that hated tears of light in TP http://e3.nintendo.com/videos/#/all/roundtable1 .  Look at 2:07, it looks like the exact same thing from TP, right down to the number if tears and how the ones you've collected are displayed on screen.

They don't look as bad to collect like in TP. I mean, you had to turn into a damn wolf. <_<

www.zeldawiki.org/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Skyward_Sword

(Scroll down to where it says "Bosses" - It states that there is a Fire Gohma, it may just be a rumor or an early prediction. It might just turn out to be like Fire Gohma from WW...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWu6YeRg2N4

Old stuff I just discovered.

Also, I read a youtube comment stating that the shield meter stands for the durability of the shield. If you rely on it too much and take too many hits, it breaks.

Brand new trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HncW8-7CwQM&feature=feedu

The only new thing I spotted in the whole trailer was a Goron.

HUGE SPOILERS:
----------------
i cant say where i got this information from but all i can say is that at the end of the game this zelda delivers a baby. she dies on the process and the baby is the zelda from oot. this game takes about 13 years before oot. the SS link dies as the deku sprout explains in oot.

that sounds too much like bad fanfic.

Today revealed loads of release dates for games coming out in Europe

Skyward Sword: 18th November 2011

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/29577/zelda-skyward-sword-uk-release-date-confirmed/

that's a very predictable date.

also, on that day the GC is 10 years old.

North America release date

20th November 2011

feels odd that most if not all of the must have games this year were out in Europe first.

What do you expect? NoA is baaaad

When is Europe getting it?

Lol, that was kinda funny.
Pokey, quiet. We Europeans have had most of the games released almost a month after USA before and we also got them in slow motion. The fact that we get the games a few days earlier than USA now, doesn't compensate all the old shit at all. 8)

NoA is turning into old NoE

how long until we get games 1 month late and with slowdown?

Not to mention how the original pricing scheme for E releases of games was just to change the dollar sign into a pound sign.

Nice to see we are ahead and thinking of speedrun this soon. Let now pass judgement of skyward sword and have estimates of the time for a speedrun.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_legend_of_zelda_skyward_sword/b/wii/archive/2011/09/12/exclusive-video-flying-to-eldin-volcano.aspx

New video, new useless? item, and a new place that's the same as before (Eldin Volcano).

oh god reused names again X_x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6qfp_z-ytk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xd2goLxBgI

This time I've not watched many trailers. So SS may be a new and exciting game.

I dunno about the speedrunning, but the gold-coloured Wii-Mote looks sick as heck.

More cool new stuff & items:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzESa1cvN5g

First person to do a 3 heart run of Skyward Sword will get a million bucks.

...because you start with 6 hearts.

http://www.swingingpuss.com/upload/2008/07/Cookie_Monster.jpg

Hopefully that's not a sign that there won't be many dungeons (hence few Heart Containers, so they had to give you 6 to let you get to 20).

if heart pieces are like TP, that would give us 30 heart pieces if there's 8 dungeons with a boss.

I smell some item glitches when I see the trailers.

Also I hope that stamina thing won't kill speedruns, maybe there is a way to overcome it. Best would be negative stamina to get faster.  ;D

i'm betting that it will be abused in some way. like, use your shield up to some point and then do something to make it last longer. same with the other actions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGiRpgZjhys

i got the demo and played around a bit. gainers are now one of Link's moves lol.

I am buying this game on the 18th of November and boycott any videos and guides about it. I like to beat the game on my own.

As far as stamina goes it looks like a very good thing. Check out TSA's playthrough of the dungeon and he dashes and jumps around really fast all the time because of it. looks pretty fun. I can only hope the controls are good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cozVXdA0bSU

i'm getting the hang of it. stamina management is going to be critical, especially to not fail a long vine climb after running.

the controls definitely require some time to get used to. they seem confusing at first but they start flowing once you know what each button does and how (to switch to an item, you need to tap B and then use it with A. this is probably the one that will take more to get used to since in all of the past 3D Zeldas you tap or hold the button where the item is assigned to use it)

the one thing i don't like is the pointer. this one uses the motion+ accelerometers instead of the sensor bar and it gets all weird to aim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7LQ3Y34cY0

i got 5:53 after a few tries in 40 minutes. the damn motion+ ended like half of my attempts and the rest were due to dumb stuff.
one handy thing is that you can prepare stuff like the bug while running so you can save a bit of time that way.

I thought turning into a wolf was the only good part about collecting tears.