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Natural Harmonia Gropius i did play Skyward Sword lol , i played all the Zelda games and i think i know which games i play :3, and i can give you a simple example of where you can revisit an area to do something other than look for heart pieces, and that would be a link to the past, you travel from the light world to the dark world, where the whole world changes and you have to revisit areas to find dungeons, etc. What i said was my personal opinion of the game, maybe i should mentioned i do think skyward sword is a step forward with the items, etc, but this was about pointing disappointments , in my very personal opinion the game is a step back, like you say it's tight, and i don't prefer my Zelda games like that, that's the reason why i compared it with the DS games of Zelda, but i can understand people can like this style of game more, my opinion is more like a veteran one, my first Zelda game wasn't even on a console was on a brick game boy, and even then i remember going through 8 different temples, and starting with 3 hearts.

Andy, what you say is also true, the areas are highly dynamic, and some people might like it best that way, like you, and naturally, after stating that this is the best Zelda game you had to come forward and defend it .
The problem i have with the 3 main areas is not so easy to explain, to me they are not as memorable, compared with the Goron city or the Zora's domain. The areas in SS felt a little like ghost towns, it's hard to understand, but the combination of having 3 options of areas, even if they had other areas inside them, didn't work for me, i did like when the volcano erupted though, i loved the song in the first temple of Lanayru desert ( the only song i will remember ), i liked how the game had fun parts, but the game was missing points that are very important for me, what i liked of Zelda from the beginning, i couldn't find it in this game, and that was my disappointment, i do respect other people opinions and i can understand how they prefer it this way, and that's my main concern lol, but just pointing my disappointments , which a few people will be able to understand.

I was disappointed with the game in general, but what really bothers me is the direction of the new Zelda games, because this felt like another ds game of Zelda to me, and i didn't hate the ds games of Zelda, i liked them, but they weren't suitable to be successors of Link to the past, Ocarina of time, or even Twilight Princess.
So to me Skyward Sword isn't a worthy successor of those great games, mainly because, the game is small, and i don't mean that the areas were small, for a Zelda game Skyward Sword was small, didn't have much going on, you can tell the attempts they did to make it look like a longer game, and that's one of the things, i felt specially around the end, that they were just trying to delay me from beating the game, from beating a small game, where you mostly just notice Link, Zelda, Fi, Impa, and Groose. I remember specially one part of the game where Zelda talks to you for two hours and all you see its Link's face and her face, it would helped a little cinematic showing you pictures of what shes talking about, i don't know, details like those disapointed me.
The controls are good, they are fun, the puzzles are simplier and don't make you want to kill yourself or something, but like i said, this isn't the epic successor i was hoping for.
You already start with 6 hearts, that's never done before, you have 6 main temples, all in the same 3 areas, with mini temples in between. I was disappointed that there wasn't more temples to beat in the past, i was hoping link would travel to the golden land or something alike to a link to the past, and have more temples there, but no, they make you stay in your little world of 3 main areas. They make you seal the same boss 3 times senselessly, just another attempt to delay you from your main goal. Those who were expecting an epic game like myself might been disappointed, or brain washed by the good reviews this game got, i think it's fun, it's good, but they took a step back in the series, and i'm worried they keep it like that, i hope we get that epic successor in the wii-u.