The items you find are also surprisingly good, and you wind up using all of them until the end (and there's a late-game section that really makes you realize how useful even the weirdest of them can be). You even have to use the rolls, dodges, and shield bash to get around your enemies and stun them, because they will counter you, and it can quickly destroy you if you're not paying attention. You'll get lucky (and one enemy really only works if you just hammer on him haphazardly), but for the most part, you're just elongating what could be quick, fun battles. You have to fool them to get around their defenses- and this gets more difficult when enemies start to have electrical charges on their weapons, making a mistimed attack even harmful to you. While it may look incredibly gimmicky, the action moves fast enough that you have to really react to what's going on, and a lot of the enemies do a good job of taunting you, countering your attacks, and adapting to where you're holding your sword. Of course, the swordfighting is great and responsive.

I don't want to throw the words 'game changer' around lightly, but really, you've never seen them done as well as they are here, and it just widens the gap to show how far behind them Microsoft and Sony are with their motion peripherals.Д®verything you do with them just feels really good.

There are a lot of changes going on in Skyward Sword, and I should say this right now: even if you don't like the Zelda formula, and the idea of going into themed dungeons, finding special items and defeating the bosses with those items doesn't interest you, you should still play Skyward Sword. It's really the most fitting game to send off the Wii from its parent company it looks at the strengths of the system, the weaknesses of the hardware, and addresses it all in ways that continue to surprise the player until the credits roll- and yes, by the end of it, you'll have changed your views on motion controls (unless you liked them- in which case, you'll like them more). Skyward Sword doesn't just keep that high level of quality, it also takes advantage of the motion controls in a way that everyone had written off by now.

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