Zelda: Skyward Sword

Some days ago I finished the Wii game Zelda: Skyward Sword. I got the game some days after its release, around the second half of November. I'm not a big videogame player, meaning that I usually am quite busy with other things to sit down and play, but if I have a new game, I usually find some mins every now and then to have fun with it. And this was the case of course.

I got caught by the style of the game: it's way more colorful and cartoonesque than the previous chapter for the same console, Twilight Princess, and while I like both styles equally, the colorful style really adapts well to this new story, wich someway reminded the feeling of anime movies like Miyazaki's Laputa! The characters and locations are various enough, and fans of the series can have fun finding new version of some classic characters like Impa or, of course, Zelda and Link. Zelda in particular has a great cute design in this episode, and her role in the story is more active than usual; she surely appears as a strong and determined girl, with a very sweet side as well. I definetly liked both her design and her characterization.

Zelda can deal with some bullies without Link help ;)

The story is epic enough and the series trademark inventivness for puzzles and items to be equipped is at its best here imho :) The wiimote controller is fully used and you really feel the game wouldn't be the same on a different console :) In any case, was writing this post also because yesterday I sketched a couple Zelda: Skyward Sword pics, there you go:

I liked the idea of Zelda relaxing after all the adventures she had in the game, chatting with Fi, another very nicely designed character (but she isn't a great talker I admit).

This is just a random sketch I did, to practice a bit with Zelda face, and to sketch chibi Fi, just for fun!

In any case a strongly suggested game, if you were looking for a great adventure to play with you wii :)

And here also is a link to Laputa anime movie DVD. Among other things, it inspired one of my very favorite Gainax series, Secret of Blue Water! Laputa is a great classic of animation, by the amazing director Hayao Miyazaki: