The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword – Special Edition (Nintendo Wii)

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword once again places the player in control of Link, a Hylian boy who this time around lives in the floating nation of Skyloft. Link is in love with a local girl called Zelda but one day while flying on their bird mounts, a tornado shows up out of nothing and takes Zelda away from Link. After that Link teams up with Fi, a spirit living within a sword and he descends to the long-forgotten surface to search for Zelda.

The game is structured very similar to previous Zelda games: 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 this time around with only a handful of action. Also new is the implementation of the Wii Motion Plus which allows full 1:1 controls and new puzzle possibilities.

The 2021 Nintendo Switch HD version includes:

• Enhanced Graphics and framerate
• Improved Motion Controls and all-new Button and Stick Control Scheme
• Free Camera Control at certain points of the game
• An intuitive auto-save function, which let the player automatically save when passing an Owl Statue. Instead of manually stopping and saving
• Streamlined opening tutorials and Item descriptions, as well as skippable cutscenes and dialogue (including Fi’s interaction with Link).
• Amiibo support, using the new Loftwing amiibo to instantaneously transport Link to The Sky and The Surface and vice-versa.