For me, I had never played the Wii ever, (I completed Twilight on GC), so when I was getting use to the controls of Skyward, I was also getting use to using the Wii in general aswell, so it took me a while to get into the swing of things control wise. I died a few times fighting some enemies in the first dungeon, and this would of been a lot lot more fustrating if I only had 3 hearts. However it would of been cool to have an option for 3 or 6 hearts at the begining?