7 Minutes in Heaven with Deb-…Ghirahim

Ha!

I’m sure by now many of you have read Alex’s Skyward Sword Demo Walkthrough. I think I did at some point too. I can’t remember. I wish I did though, as it would have been helpful in my own quick play through of the demo. Particularly the boss fight. Which was awesome. After discussing my quick adventure with Mr. Plant, I’ve decided to write down my own impressions, in hopes of giving you all a different point of view.

Upon reaching the Nintendo World Store, I briskly jogged up the stairs, in hops of grabbing an open Wii Kiosk. I looked around for a few seconds before spotting one. Success! I walked up to it nervously and grabbed the pink wii remote plus, with its deliciously pink wii remote condom, and a white nun-chuck attached to it. My hands quivered with excitement. I selected the demo, before I could start playing I had to re-calibrate the motion plus. No problem!

I was then asked to select which portion of the demo I wanted to play. Good question! I scratched my beard a few times and decided to go balls to the wall, and fight Ghirahim himself. Also, I only had about 10 minutes before I had to get to work. (You can obviously see what my priorities are…). The demo started. I was ready. Right off the bat Fi wanted to sell me something. “Master, The batteries on your Wii remote are running low”…Oh. Okay, thanks for that, little girl who lives in my sword. I got off to thinking she was almost as useless as Navi, only not as annoying.

Before taking on Ghirahim, I decided it’d be more fun to start sprinting around the room. Sprinting is awesome. After getting that out of my system I started swinging around my sword. Again, it felt great. I didn’t notice any of the input lag at all, and the sword followed my every whim. There were a few instances where the motion plus was a bit off, and thought I was holing the wii mote higher than I actually was, but that quickly passed. After getting used to the controls I decided to take on the Demon Lord himself.

Okay, honestly I had no idea what I was doing. Sure, I’ve watched other people play the demos and all. Especially that one demo where the guy kept dying. Didn’t remember a damn thing. After wildy slashing at Ghirahim like a hyperactive 5 year old who just got their hands on a plastic lightsaber, I decided to rethink my strategy. Also, either Ghirahim’s got some really hardcore callouses, or my sword was about as a wet noodle.

My next attempts at attacking Ghirahim were a bit more successful. With a little finesse I was able to fool him with my sword movements, and then let him have it. He did grab my sword at one point, but I was able to knock it out of his hand by using my shield. Ha, take that, you strangely dressed she man! At this point I was really into the demo. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had that much fun playing a game.

After bopping Debbie a few more times, I finally pissed him off enough to take me seriously. For some strange reason I found this part to be a bit easier than the first part. He pulled out his sword and started sending his crazy floating daggers at me. I sliced at them in the same manner that they were heading toward me, and successfully deflected them each time. Awesome,

I’m really digging the motion plus accessory. My only issues with him at this part of the fight was when he did his little running slash attack thing. It has quite a bit of range, go figure. A few quick side jumps and back flips got me out of harms way. Paying attention to how Ghirahim was holding his sword got me through the rest of the fight quite quickly. Hell, I didn’t even die, granted I was running around like a headless chicken, gathering hearts when my health started to get low.

After “beating” the Demon Lord himself, I was treated to the same heart cut scene that I’ve seen over and over again online, and damn did it feel good. Honestly, I had my doubts about skyward sword at first, but that all changed after playing the demo. The controls were solid, the combat was fresh, and it looked beautiful. I can’t remember the last time I was this excited about a Zelda game At some point this weekend I’m going to head back to Nintendo World and hopefully try to get some play time in the dungeon, and maybe load up Alex’s walkthrough on my iPhone so I don’t look completely clueless while I’m playing.

For those of you who are in the NYC/NJ area, I strongly suggest you guys get yourselves over to Nintendo World and play the demo this weekend. Hopefully those of you who’re attending comic con will have time to play as well. Just out of curiosity, how many of you guys (and girls) out there have had the opportunity to play demo? What were your own feelings about it? If you haven’t played the demo, do you like what you’ve seen and heard about it online? Leave some comments and let us know.

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