Skyward Sword Wii Motion Plus Complaints

November 19th, 2011 by Austin

Over at GoNintendo, they’ve provided a link to several game reviewers complaining about Skyward Sword’s controls (inside of an otherwise glowing review of the game_ along with a rebuttal to said reviews. The links for both articles can be found below. Basically, the three reviewers in the second link complain that the Wii Motion Plus feature isn’t as great as it’s made out to be. The first reviewer notes that while the controls work most of the time, there are some instances where it will just not cooperate with certain moves that you have to perform. He also complains about having to recalibrate the controller multiple times. The second reviewer is more generous, although he does note that the type of control scheme used feels dated because of its lack of precise camera control used in most modern adventure games. The third and final reviewer states that the inclusion of Wii Motion Plus was the game’s weakest link, and also complained about having to calibrate the controller multiple times.

The person over at GoNintendo, however, claims that he never had to deal with such issues, even going so far as wondering if he was living in an alternate universe from everyone complaining about the controls. He says that the controls always performed to his expectations and that he had no issues with the controls whatsoever.

What do you all think? For those of you that have played the game, who do you agree with? Have you experienced any issues? Are the three complaining just crazy? Leave a comment and let us know!

GoNintendo Link: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword – more calibration complaints have me scratching my head
cnet Link: Is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword the Wii’s last great game?

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Categorized under: Skyward Sword
Tagged: Motion Controls, Skyward Sword, Wii Motion Plus

WDM

iam having horrible problems with it …. it works for 5 sec.than link turns around and wants to jump off a cliff or juss runs in circles by himself an controller does not work til i recallibrated every min… errr i love the game but cant stand this drama…????
murat

omg im having loads of problems too :@@@ I have to recalibrate every 2 minutes its so frustrating and I cant get immersed in the game because of it the worst one for me is swimming omg so frustrating the moment i press A to start swimming underwater it just goes haywire and link swims in circles :@@ recalibrating it fixes it for a few minutes and then its back so annoying.. and im using the bundled gold wiimote
jonnyfrag

Main complaint? Not knowing that it requires a wii motion plus and finding that out while trying to play the game on Christmas morning…with no where open to get one. My son, who breathes Zelda didn’t even know that until we got there.
Feh!
BlackBeltAunti

I think it was rotten of Nintendo not to do a major advertising campaign about this Motion Plus thingey – Christmas Day we don't have one and some very disappointed kids sitting around wishing they could play Skyward Sword. Never heard of the thing before today, all of us are not electronics geeks who hang on every word that comes out of E3. Bad marketing.
Alex

I have a different problem. All the way through the first two dungeons the game worked perfectly fine, but when i got to the third place the controllers stared acting all weird. The pointer would randomly go berserk and just start pointing around everywhere, causing link to hack away frantically with his sword. Been lurking forums for a solution, any ideas?
Andy

Does anybody else have to detach and reconfigure the wii motion plus every 2 mins and after almost every cut scene because the controls freeze up? its ruining the game. right now i wish i could plug a gamecube controller in.
Zeldablues

bought the motion plus adapter for old remotes just for skyward sword. Got towards the end of the game and now all of the sudden the nunchuk, motion plus, remote combo don’t seem to be compatible with one another. The cursor dissappeared so I tried all the troubleshooting techniques for the motion sensor. It seems to be good, but I bought a new one anyways. Next I tried starting the game with just the remote. There was the cursor. I then plugged the motion plus adapter in. The cursor was still there. Then I plugged the nunchuk into the adapter and the cursor immediately disappeared. I cant even leaxe the main menu screen and Im going through Zelda withdrawl.
Cheyleew

this is fan fucking tastic! i cant play and my brother betted 10 dollers i could beat it before a guy! i dont have built in does it change it because I GOT THE WII MOTION PLUS FOR CHRISTMAS I HATE IT! IM TRYING TO DEFEAT STALFOS AND THE STUPID THING EATHER STOPS OR GOES OFF INTO MY UNWANTED DIRECTION I KEEP LOSING! GRAHHH! FUCKING GOD MAN!
Gargomon251

I have to recalibrate CONSTANTLY nearly every time I swing the remote. It’s gotten to the point where I have to consciously let go of the stick any time I do.
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Skye

Well my gf’s been having a problem where the nunchuck stops working and she’s died literaly over 100 times from it causing link to jump into lava. And we keep having to point the wiimote in odd angles to get it to work, like I was having to point it to the side towards the wall for it to let me control link, and after that i had it pointed backwards over my shoulder, and calibrating really doesn’t help at all so what’s the problem? Cuz it’s really made the game way too aggrivating and stressful for either one of us.
Tmarro

From what I have read, it seems that people with the Wii Motion Plus dongle are the only ones experiencing problems with the controls for the game (Link randomly running in circles like the directional stick is getting stuck or the camera randomly zooming in without hitting the “C” button). Apparently, these problems are not really an issue for people using the new Wii controllers with Motion built-in. Maybe that explains the differences between the reviewers. I keep having the above-mentioned problems with my Wii Motion Plus attached to my Wiimote, but I find it quite ridiculous that after having bought the stupid Wii Motion Plus, I now have to buy a whole new Wiimote with Motion built-in just to be able to play this game. -10 pts Nintendo.
- magicks
  
  I’ve had this problem with the Wii remote with motion plus built in.
ZeldaNerd

I have the wii motion plus accessory and my connection was fine for the beginning of the game. Then while I was fighting Scaldera, Link wouldn’t go in the direction I wanted. He could still throw bombs and slash his sword. Since then, it got worse as I went along. I managed to play through the whole Lanayru region and the first Imprisoned battle recalibrating the motion plus every 10-30 seconds. I’m now trying to fight the 3 stalfos at Skyview Temple and I’ve just given up as it breaks EVERY TIME I SLASH MY SWORD!!! I’ll probably buy a built in motion plus but if anyone has a solution, that would be great.
http://www.facebook.com/gavinthomson1968 Gavin Thomson

Yes, I had this problem. What is happening is that during battles when you’re frantically waving the wiimote about, the connection with the nunchuk get momentarily broken and when it reconnects it is off-centre. I fixed this by giving the connections a good blast of switch cleaner (google it). Been fine ever since!
Valen

I have a motion plus built-in and I need to recalibrate very often, plus sometimes get stuck going around in circles.