SKYWARD SWORD, EASIEST ZELDA GAME TO DATE?

[StarBound]

It is nowhere near the easiest.

 

[ChuChuOfTime]

It was way to easy with dowsing and how easy puzzles were it was by far the easiest.

 

[Kare]

I found the game very easy aswell, Fi helps you way to much and the dowsing ability makes puzzles a walk in the park

 

[kapzillion]

I wouldn't consider SS to be the easiest , I think Phantom Hourglass and WW are like 100 times easier !

 

[bloo977]

no it is not the EASIEST game still trying to beet it

 

[Reptiletc]

I feel that the challenge level in SS was perfect! Those new to the series tend to have troubles, while those who have played through a majority (or in my case all of) the Zelda titles to date don't have too much trouble aside from learning the controls.

 

[SinkingBadges]

Easiest depending on how you see it. The combat aspect was certainly harder to me than any other 3D Zelda and enemies like Scervo in the Sanadship were actualy the first enemies to actually make me use potions and still see the game over screen. That's a sense in which I think the game delivered when Nintendo promised to actually make the game waggle-proof and requiring some strategy. And that wasn't even in Hero Mode...

I just wish that aspect had carried over to the actual bosses other than Demise.

The puzzle aspect though, was a mixed bag in my opinion. There were parts where oit was pretty easy, but also pretty straight-forward. I mean, not hard to guess but at least not exactly boring either. Ancient Cistern, Sandship and particularly Sky Keep (pretty clever dungeon) did keep me thinking for a while at parts, but overall I keep thinking that the difficulty camne mostly from the enemies.

 

[AsianPoptart]

all i know is the easiest is NOT majoras mask. so confusing with having to always changing the time

 

[Jallyward]

the easiest for me was the first legend of zelda cause i used a walkthrough and finished it in 2 days cause i took my time

 

[wakerofdawinds]

yes because it gives you hints and it walks you through it and gives you six heart containers at the beggining

 

[Danigo92498]

In my opinion, WW was probably the easiest but it took a while. You could probably beat SS faster than any other zelda game(100%ing it)

 

[Rytex]

Oh, hell no it isn't. The game is pretty difficult. I mean, come on! If it were easy, all the enemies wouldn't be able to block and stuff. Anyway, the easiest game is 4 Swords. I beat it with a friend and neither of us so much as took a hit, if that tells you anything.

 

[Big Octo]

I had no trouble with enemies, and little trouble with puzzles. You know a games easy when no walk-through is used, so it might be possible that this the easiest Zelda title, for me at least.

 

[athenian200]

Honestly, I don't feel that the game is all that easy. Twilight Princess was a much easier game for me. I beat that game in less than a week. The puzzles were easy, the controls were familar, and the sequences were much more familar. There was little innovation in that game.

Skyward Sword, on the other hand. I died 5 or 6 times to some bosses and in some areas, something that has rarely happened to me in previous Zelda games. And I had trouble with the enemies a few times, because I always used targeting and fought them the way I was "supposed" to fight them. I've learned since that you can just not target them and beat them without them blocking, etc. If you want a bit more of a challenge, you should fight them that way.

The Silent Realms are harder than the Tears of Light collection. The controls are new and take some getting used to. The sequence is broken up between dungeon and overworld, and there are new types of puzzles and items. Should I mention the frogs and the water sprouts? Or the digging puzzles?

If you factor in all the sidequests, and how you have to think about how to reach certain things along with all of these new elements, I would say that Skyward Sword is easily one of the harder Zelda games. It's not anywhere near AoL or some of the other older games, but it's definitely a lot harder than what we've become accustomed to lately.

 

[Link and Cuccos]

To all those who say Skyward Sword is the easiest -- so you're also saying Wind Waker is harder?? I love WW, but I want to know exactly which parts of Wind Waker makes that game harder than SS.

I wouldn't say SS was the hardest, but it was definitely one of the harder Zelda games. I had more trouble with the puzzles in TP because TP was my first official Zelda 3D game (the last game I had played was ALttP as a kid). I then played WW and OoT in that order, and found OoT to be easier than TP (except for bosses) since by then, I had been accustomed to the Zelda formula. In SS, the puzzles were challenging enough but not nearly impossible. Some were easy. Some were really difficult. I felt the difficulty level was well balanced. I also felt SS had more challenging bosses than TP, OoT, and WW.

But I'm wondering for those who are saying SS is the easiest really felt WW (which I felt was easy, but still a LOT of fun) and some of the handheld Zelda games were harder. I know it's different for people, but I'm having a hard time understanding how WW especially is harder than SS.

Even compared to SS's final boss, Ganondorf in OoT, TP, WW, and ALttP was much easier than Demise for me. So for some of you, Ganondorf was harder?