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I love Skyward Sword's soundtrack. It is one of the most beautiful imo.
I found four polls on this topic but none since January so I think it's fair to ask the question again. The interesting thing looking back is that the poll done a week after Skyward Sword's release was a landslide victory for Skyward Sword (32 votes to 13 for OOT), the polls done in January were much closer with Skyward Sword winning one by a decent margin and the other two were about even, and now looking through the first responses of this thread it looks like OOT is ahead slightly. So people always bring up nostalgia, but I think the newness of Skyward Sword is finally starting to wear off on people.Forgive me if there is a thread like this already in the Skyward Sword or World of Zelda forums, however, I browsed through both and found none on the first page of either.
I agree completely. For me Skyward Sword was almost like watching a movie rather than playing a game because it was so linear and structured. At least they tried to let you choose the order of the Song of the Hero (too bad they screwed it up with a glitch), but still Ocarina of Time offered significantly more freedom to the player than Skyward Sword did.OoT wins. skyward sword felt to much like a scripted tale, oot made me feel like I was the hero, I decided and made choices myself.
I agree completely. For me Skyward Sword was almost like watching a movie rather than playing a game because it was so linear and structured. At least they tried to let you choose the order of the Song of the Hero (too bad they screwed it up with a glitch), but still Ocarina of Time offered significantly more freedom to the player than Skyward Sword did.
I really love both games, and consider them both masterpieces; but Skyward Sword is overall a better game, imo. Not by much, but it's better.A_LINK_IN_TIME said:Which masterpiece do you deem superior? Let the games begin!
TriforceHunter said:In Oot the world is all connected, giving it a better sense of realism and adventure, and it sure feels a lot bigger, the night to day systems is smoothly done. The music is just classical, every track that you listen stirs an emotion and it sticks with you for a lifetime. The game also has a slighter darker tone that gives it a lot more style.
TriforceHunter said:One thing I will give Skyward Sword is that the land above the clouds is beautiful, the characters have a lot more personality, if anything I think that's where the heart of the game lies - that and the battle system which was done brilliantly - other than that Nintendo needs to get their stuff together and try again next time, that's all I will say.
MW7 said:I found four polls on this topic but none since January so I think it's fair to ask the question again. The interesting thing looking back is that the poll done a week after Skyward Sword's release was a landslide victory for Skyward Sword (32 votes to 13 for OOT), the polls done in January were much closer with Skyward Sword winning one by a decent margin and the other two were about even, and now looking through the first responses of this thread it looks like OOT is ahead slightly. So people always bring up nostalgia, but I think the newness of Skyward Sword is finally starting to wear off on people.
MW7 said:I'm going with Ocarina of Time because I felt like it didn't have as many minor issues as Skyward Sword. IMO neither game has any major issues and both have excellent content so minor problems are the deciding factor for me. Skyward Sword does plenty of things well, but I found much more to complain about within Skyward Sword than within Ocarina of Time.
Well said, but I think in the future Nintendo should try a branching story so that the story isn't exactly the same every time you play the game. The problem I had with Skyward Sword's dungeon progession was in the second half of the game. The first three dungeons have to be done in a specific order because that's how the story plays out and it wouldn't make any sense to do them in any other order. Like you said you're focusing on one objective and it supports the story. However once you start looking for the flames you don't have one objective- you have three. The game forces you to proceed in a specific order even though for the sake of the story it doesn't really matter. That's what I see as a flaw in the design of the game. I can't find fault if there's a reason to do things in a specific order like the single objective of rescuing Zelda, but once you are confronted with an open-ended problem like collecting three flames I expect to have at least some freedom.In some ways, the strait forward structure of Skyward Sword is not necesarily a bad thing. I feel that when a game becomes too non-linear it distracts people away from the story being told in the game. For example, Ocarina of Time was a beautifully executed, non-linear Zelda game. Arguably the best example for non-linearness in the series. However, IMO Ocarina of TIme also has one of the weakest stories in the series. However, once a game focuses the player on one set objective it can than unravel the story in a much neater, organized, and better fashion, i.e. Skyward Sword.
I honestly feel you can't have one with the other as well. It's hard to find that balance. I know you value the gameplay of Zelda more so than the story, so I can completley see where your coming from. However, with all games, I tend to place the storytelling/content of the story to a higher esteem than the gameplay itself.
Actually no my first reaction upon the completion of the game that it was probably my third favorite Zelda game behind Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. I immediately thought the game wasn't as good as it should have been. Now I'd actually say I like Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, and Wind Waker more as well. I would say Skyward Sword is a great game but not quite as good as several of the games in the series (including Ocarina of Time and IMO A Link to the Past and Legend of Zelda are the two best games in the series).Were you not one of the people who previously praised Skyward Sword as being better than Ocarina of Time? Forgive me if I am wrong but my memory seems to recall so. I agree that both games are fundamentally great and would even go so far as to say that they are benchmarks in the industry, however, Ocarina of time has a slight edge over Skyward Sword-not only for its own time but also today.