Skyward Sword What Was So Difficult About Skyward Sword?

[Chris Garner]

Getting those damn Tadpoles totally sucked - 3 hours! And, for the last hour, I was on a quarter heart, with the constant beeping warning me that I was going to die. I'm not sure how I did it, but I dodged one of those sharks and at the very last minute was able to find that one tadpole stuck up in the lily pad. I actually had to look up how to get that one because I had no idea you had to hit it from above.

That, and those Silent Realm tests were terrible.

 

[Dio]

The only difficult thing I found was the last dungeon, the whole place was just one big puzzle. The combat and general gameplay was pretty easy overall.

 

[Spirit]

Nothing was difficult, it was just irritating because of shoddy design.

The Imprisoned is a good example.

 

[Dan]

I was going to say nothing too but a certain Spirit beat me to the Punch Out™ so to speak.

 

[Jirohnagi]

If youse is tone deaf like the damned harp sections *Shudders* Or for that matter if you are bad at timing it's again the harp sections, seems like the musical instruments has been buggered since Spirit Tracks and its flute

 

[the8thark]

The controls just not working in certain parts make the game harder than it should have been.

 

[Adventurer of Hyrule]

I didnt. The difficulty was well balanced, there was enough challenge without tipping over the frustrating side. Controls were smooth and precise, design was stellar.

I do see a lot of people playing SS as they did TP (mashing and waving the controller senseless) so obviously those who cant be bothered to input the proper range of motion might have been frustrated with the lesser results.

 

[Justac00lguy]

Just generally having to endure through it really.

 

[MW7]

It's not that it was difficult, it's that by comparison it was difficult. The two previous 3d games had the parry and hidden skills respectively so by comparison motion controls are going to seem like a challenge even though they weren't that difficult to use. The parry in Wind Waker was so overpowered that a blind person with only two fingers could flawlessly defeat the toughest enemies in the game without much practice. By comparison Twilight Princess was difficult even though it had a move that let you kill most things in one hit, and by comparison to Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword was difficult.

 

[DarkestLink]

The enemies were way less aggressive and more defensive, which made them more challenging, compared to other games where they're stupidly aggressive (OoT, MM, TP) and games where they just stand still and don't do anything for extended periods of time (tWW).

The puzzles, however, were the easiest of all the 3D titles.