The Wii’s motion-controlled epic looks like it might be getting a new remaster, but how would it work on the Nintendo Switch?
Many Nintendo Switch owners have given up hoping that Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 will be released this year, and while it’s still not 100% out of the question, a new rumour has emerged that another, older Zelda game may be arriving instead.
Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword was released in 2011, in the last days of the Wii, and had exactly the same producer and director as Breath Of The Wild. It’s always enjoyed a far more mixed reaction though, not just because of its use of motion controls but also its bloated structure and repetitive quests.
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It’s not an obvious candidate for a remaster on the Switch and yet it turned up on Amazon, complete with ASIN number, but no box art or other images. It’s gone now, but was it a sneak peak or just a mistake?
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Although Skyward Sword’s impressionist art style would probably work quite well on the Switch the obvious problem is the motion controls, which were the most complex of any Wii title and used for the entire game.
The Switch’s Joy-Cons do have motion sensors but no major game has ever used one for controlling movement at the same time, which is what you’d have to do if you wanted to play Skyward Sword.
Perhaps it could work if you used the analogue stick on the right Joy-Con (it seems like it would be a lot more awkward for left-handed people) but the set-up seems less than ideal.
But that could explain why the game was listed for £69.99, which is either a mistake or an indication that the game comes with some sort of peripheral – perhaps some kind of larger grip for the Joy-Con to slip into (£69.99 isn’t enough for a brand new motion control device).
Or perhaps that just means the whole thing is a mistake and not going to happen. It’s hard to say, but on the face of it you’d imagine there’s relatively few people that would jump at the chance of paying £70 for a remaster of Skyward Sword without some major improvements.
Perhaps Nintendo could take the motion controls out, but they were so intrinsic to the experience that that would probably just make things worse.
As with all things Nintendo, we’ll just have to wait and see. A Nintendo Direct has been rumoured for this month but then Nintendo rumours are rarely the most accurate.
And yet, surprisingly, producer Eiji Aonuma has been talking about a HD remaster since at least 2013, when he mentioned the prospect to Polygon. Then in 2016 he told IGN that it was ‘definitely possible’ and in late 2018 hinted at a remaster at a Zelda concert in Japan. So maybe a remaster isn’t so unlikely after all…
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2020-08-17 08:07:00Z
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