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If you've been keeping up-to-date with everything to do with Zelda recently, then you know that the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon just featured a visit from Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. He was there to demonstrate the 3DS AR Cards from Kid Icarus, the new Wii U, and also... Skyward Sword!
It was a less than exciting little demonstration, though. It was a few seconds long in all as there wasn't much time to do anything. It featured Jimmy Fallon battling the first mini-boss of the first major dungeon of the game, Stalfos. The Stalfos looked big and intimidating... with a giant sword and a huge shield that covered half of his body. The thing about it, though, is that this undead monstrosity doesn't seem to live up to his image. Jimmy Fallon took a few steps forward and swung his Wii Remote around rapidly and randomly, landing many successive blows on Stalfos with absolutely no delay between the sword slashes.
Many of these slashes were blocked, around 4-7 of them in total, but Link still fell the giant within a few seconds. During the whole time, only 1 heart of damage was taken, with the count being 4 at the time of the battle. This poses a question... is Skyward Sword as hard as a lot of gamers are hoping? Difficulty has been absent recently, and people are hoping for a change in Skyward Sword. We were promised a puzzle in every enemy, to map their blocking and attacking strategies. In a game where you can defeat a mini-boss with no blocking and random slashes for an almost flawless victory, can every enemy truly be a puzzle? Is it going to be as hard as we were promised?
It was a less than exciting little demonstration, though. It was a few seconds long in all as there wasn't much time to do anything. It featured Jimmy Fallon battling the first mini-boss of the first major dungeon of the game, Stalfos. The Stalfos looked big and intimidating... with a giant sword and a huge shield that covered half of his body. The thing about it, though, is that this undead monstrosity doesn't seem to live up to his image. Jimmy Fallon took a few steps forward and swung his Wii Remote around rapidly and randomly, landing many successive blows on Stalfos with absolutely no delay between the sword slashes.
Many of these slashes were blocked, around 4-7 of them in total, but Link still fell the giant within a few seconds. During the whole time, only 1 heart of damage was taken, with the count being 4 at the time of the battle. This poses a question... is Skyward Sword as hard as a lot of gamers are hoping? Difficulty has been absent recently, and people are hoping for a change in Skyward Sword. We were promised a puzzle in every enemy, to map their blocking and attacking strategies. In a game where you can defeat a mini-boss with no blocking and random slashes for an almost flawless victory, can every enemy truly be a puzzle? Is it going to be as hard as we were promised?