JuicieJ
SHOW ME YA MOVES!
The motion controls were grand. I loved the swordplay, best the series has ever seen. Everything else? Not so much, at least not in my opinion. The story felt godawful in my opinion though I won't elaborate because I've done so a billion times by now. The items felt too puzzle oriented, no other application (we could do petty things like carry a bomb with the beetle, but honestly why do that when we can hack and slash our way through with the eponymous Skyward Sword just as easily if not easier? Side content...the sidequests all felt the same to me. Too much fetch, too little quest. I like Hero Mode for being there, but all they did was edit the game code to slap double damage and remove all heart spawns unless you have the Heart Medal.
Well, I can definitely tell all of this is just personal issues with you rather than things being reality to the general public. No point in continuing. (And no offense intended in those sentences.)
I really cannot explain it beyond making some claims that some will not agree with. The story structure, the characters, everything just felt too "alike" OoT. It's not necessarily bad that SS' framework resembles that of OoT, but with the way I took it...it was. Not as bad an offender as TP, but still pretty bad.
This is a "to each his own" moment.
Heck, I could say that SS grabbed its story structure from TP, and that's almost a de facto truth!
Only SS triumphed were TP failed (and was 85% original).
The promise was what killed me. They PROMISED us the best Zelda ever. I didn't get that.
You should know not to take statements like those too seriously. You're a huge fan of OoT and believe it to be the best Zelda, so taking a statement like that and forcing yourself to believe it is only going to give birth to a disaster. You have to have expectations for a game, yes, but you can't overhype it in your mind, especially when there's some nostalgia for a classic and timeless game involved.
This is an immense bias and sounds like IGN Nintendo is just dying to get Ocarina of Time off its pedestal.
OoT was the first game to ever receive a 10/10 from IGN. That game has a lot of love there. I'm sorry, but that statement of yours couldn't be filled with any more bogus.