JuicieJ
SHOW ME YA MOVES!
It appears you quoted that statement completely out of context without paying heed to the fact that I addressed several of these points in my last post. Additionally, as I noted before, the circumstances surrounding the Zelda franchise and the state of the Wii meant any of Skyward Sword's flaws, even if seemingly trivial, would be nitpicked beyond the point of exhaustion.
That literally has nothing to do with anything. You explicitly said that it "failed to improve upon the shortcomings of its predecessors," when that's factually incorrect. Don't try to dodge the point.
The trailers may have been problems in themselves since they revealed large portions of the game, including important story elements. A better analogy would have been that Aonuma learned from the hype heand crew generated from Skyward Sword, so he showed comparatively way less footage for A Link Between Worlds.
A lot of footage was shown, yes -- probably too much -- but that even further proves my point about the press and fans hyping the game up beyond belief. They looked into things way too much, so much that they treated the theories they created as if they were confirmed fact.
2011 was a big year for sequels, trequels, and other continuations of franchises, and among many gamers and gaming sites, the general consensus was the Skyward Sword was a great game, but not on par with the likes of Skyrim, Arkham City, or Portal 2. At the end of the day, it was Skyrim that hailed as the Adventure game of the year and a template for future projects in the genre. Many Zelda fans and even Aonuma himself have drawn more comparisons towards Skyrim during the Zelda Wii U conception phase than Skyward Sword.
Oblivion was also heralded as a masterpiece during its day, and now many people look back on it and realize just how flawed of a game it was. The same has already begun to happen with Skyrim. Skyrim also got outvoted by Skyward Sword in pretty much every major poll, such as IGN's Player's Choice, Screw Attack's Top 10 Games of 2011, and even G4's Death Match, so the general consensus among the core gaming audience was actually that Skyrim was a game of lesser quality. Gaming sites tended to herald the latter as a flawless masterpiece, but is that really surprising when they did the same thing for the mess that was Oblivion?
You must not be aware that Aonuma clarified he never said he was using Skyrim as a template for anything. He merely said that he enjoyed playing the game and picked it up out of curiosity because of the similar name to Skyward Sword.