[SSHD] I don’t enjoy most of Skyward Sword

For some context, I’m 15, and trying to make my way through the Zelda series. I’m at the part in Skyward Sword where I need the Song of the Hero. I’ve loved every single one I’ve played so far (Zelda original, alttp, oot, mm, WW, TP, albw, minishcap, OofS, FSA). Some games have had learning curves, I think Majora’s Mask was the main one where I thought “man, this game sucks” until I really got into it. But for Skyward Sword, I just am not having fun.

I think this game has a lot of things that it does well, I really enjoy the characters, having at least Groose not be a one-note anti-hero and having a little arc of his own is nice, I love seeing Zelda and Link, the art style grew on me after a while, and I even would go as far as to say I think the motion controls are perfectly fine and I don’t think I’d even have a lick of enjoyment out of this game if it wasn’t for swinging my hand around. I also ADORE the silent realms, I think those are really fun and engaging, the only part of the game where it feels like there’s a real threat and has me sweating looking for the tears. But c’mon, it was fun once, fun twice, at the third time it just pissed me off, and apparently there’s another at skyloft so that’s gonna suck.

I think what I want out of a Zelda game is a world to explore, I want quests that aren’t in the same 3, objectively BORING locations. I’m dumb and bad at Zelda, but for most of this game I didn’t even need to peak a guide, because everything is mind numbingly simple, and any hint of fun I have from few “dungeons”, are done instantly for more fetch quests. I like linear Zelda games, Majora’s Mask has all the problems with the same 5 locations, fetch quests, and other areas. But I think for Majora’s Mask, the linearity works in its favor. There is pressure to complete the dungeon within the time limit, so when you do, you feel accomplished. The puzzle solving makes you go “wow that was pretty clever I’m proud of myself” to in Skyward Sword where I just feel like a toddler putting in a shape into one of those boxes with the cut outs.

I think what Majora’s Mask lacked in the amount of dungeons, it made up for in it’s world building, all the Zelda games I’ve played so far did that, it would be lacking in some areas but more than make up for it in other areas. But this game is not fun. I’m only playing through it to check the box of “okay beat that Zelda game, time to move on to BOTW”. On google, it has a 85% and says “loved the story”. The story is MID. It’s not engaging, I care about the characters sure, but remember when you had to save a talking monkey who’s going to die unless you save a princess scrub who has issues with her over bearing father? Something that made you care about this and have a temporary motivation. What does this game have? So an old bully character helps you beat the same boss 3 times how FUN.

This game is repetitive, boring, and worst of all, just not a good Zelda game. Fine game on its own, and I really want to know how you guys feel about this game because this is the worst Zelda game I’ve played so far. Also, English isn’t my first language so I’m sorry if my grammar isn’t correct and this was hard to understand.