The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)

Best: Groose

Groose is just the best. An absolute king among men. Link’s rival in Skyward Sword is easily the best character in a Zelda game full of good characters. Sit down, Fi. We don’t need to hear from fives when a 10 is speaking. Groose is a big jerk in the beginning and all that bravado goes away when he’s around Zelda. He’s such a dorky himbo and he more than redeems himself in the end. I love this guy. What a king.

Worst: They really baked motion controls into this one, huh?

Skyward Sword is the only game made natively for the Wii, and it’s built into every facet of its design. The game came out in 2011, long after any fervor for the Wii’s motion controls had passed. It really tested the limits of what the tech was capable of, to the point where it required the Wii MotionPlus peripheral to register more precise motion. But by then, the novelty of swinging the controller to swing your sword had worn off, and it’s made Skyward Sword a contentious entry in the series. The more recent Switch remaster does a bit of work to make the game’s input more along the lines of a traditional Zelda game, but some of those mechanics just weren’t meant to function any other way, so the game can still feel a bit clunky.

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