 Well, good news for Skyward Sword HD There's been a number of quality of life improvements, and we'll probably dabble into all of those improvements here at some point in this video But Nintendo has now confirmed a quality of life improvement that some people were bringing up in the comment section on my video yesterday But was never actually confirmed by Nintendo. It's just something people noticed and we have details on how this works Thanks to Nintendo, specifically Nintendo of Japan We're gonna get into that here in a moment after I remind you that we are giving away two copies of Skyward Sword HD To enter head down to the description for details Nintendo of Japan or specifically the official Zelda Twitter account in Japan have now confirmed Basically free roam camera controls now This was widely noticed and speculated by fans yesterday with some of the new Other quality of life improvements that came out because they noticed the camera seemed to be moving in a way in some of those clips That wasn't possible in the original Skyward Sword, but obviously it was still Speculation at that point because it wasn't confirmed although it seemed rather obvious It was using it one issue of course being that while it made sense to add a free roam camera What didn't really line up what didn't really make sense is how it was going to work When the right stick in button mode when you're not using motion controls is for the sword How the hell are they gonna do it? There was some speculation out there about how they would do it and it turns out that speculation was pretty much spot So here's what the official Zelda Twitter account says in Japan This is just according to a quick Google translate of the tweet now you can rotate the camera freely How about looking at the world from various angles if you have two joy cons turn the right stick? If you want to operate the buttons turn the L button and R stick So what they mean by that is press in the L button almost like a shift modifier like you would use in a keyboard So hold in the L button and then the R stick will have that for your own camera functionality Let go of the L button and it will just operate the sword So a little bit more cumbersome obviously in that mode But hey, you know what that's just the way the game is gonna have to deal with it It's still really nice to have it as an option and I'm sure after you get used You know in button mode after you get used to that functionality It could just become second nature especially for people who want to play a skyward sword HD at a high level And obviously you could just opt to do it and you know complete motion controls And then you don't even have to worry about it But that's neither here nor there so this is obviously an excellent addition to skyward sword HD And obviously, you know, here's a little clip that you know, I've been showing you a clip I guess I should say it from the Twitter account that's been showing this off And this is just one of many quality of life improvements They've actually added to this game and you know, I mentioned this in a tweet yesterday But you know where I talked about Right essentially, you know admitted that you know what I guess I was probably a little too harsh on Skyward Sword HD because if you guys remember my original take on Skyward Sword HD was that you know what this game doesn't really have the kind of improvements That that you know that we should be excited about remember when it was initially announced they showed off okay motion controls the button controls people did that obviously You know with emulators and all that that's nothing new I didn't really show off any quality of life thing and then I also blasted Nintendo and one of the very first Massive quality of life improvements they added that was has not been done by fans was locked behind an amiibo I was fairly critical of this and in hindsight obviously that criticism was not Correct my tweet that I put out yesterday said Nintendo has made even more changes to Skyward Sword HD Next thing you know someone will tell me they added a whole new dungeon kudos to Nintendo for not doing the bare minimum Also, I apologize for my early criticism However, next time you announce an HD game give a little and what I was saying there is hey look You don't have to satisfy, you know by giving all the information right away, but it would have been nice to at least mention You know if nothing else like giving a little to me would have been okay. Yeah, here's here's your motion controls You know here's the controls in button format. Yeah, we tighten the tutorials and all that jazz By the way, there's gonna be other quality of life improvements. We're gonna talk about in the future That's it. That's all they would have to say just something like that and instead they didn't do that And I think that is where some of the frustration came from not because Nintendo doesn't have a history of adding quality of life improvements But because there's no guarantee they're going to if you think about Super Mario 3d world as Bowser's Fury Bowser's Fury mode is great, but they didn't really do anything to Super Mario 3d world really it's basically just the exact same game without like any changes I know when you think about what they recently did with Super Mario 3d all-stars. Hey look We finally got Mario Galaxy and HD and they didn't really do anything There was not any real quality of life improvements to that game And so I thought I think it was fair to both don't wonder where they're gonna be quality of life improvements in this game Yeah, they just because they did it in the Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD Didn't mean that they were necessarily gonna do it now because those games were done so long ago And those games were done honestly under a completely different president in you know, Satoru Ohata So we had no idea if Nintendo was just trying to bleed us for money And by the way, this obviously gets into a grander point that have they done enough yet for you to buy Skyward Sword HD at $60. So let's go over, you know all of the bigger changes here that they have now announced In all agendas obviously button controls obviously the games in full HD full 1080p or 720p in handle and 60 FPS That's what we found out right away at the very beginning They have tightened up some of the tutorials a little bit to make them easier to understand Okay, they have also gone through and made a lot of the tutorial section of the game Me part of the game that it used to take like two hours to get through they have tightened it up and made a lot of it Optional so if you're going in with motion controls, you already know what you're doing You're a veteran You don't have to waste a bunch of time doing all these forced tutorials They would do to teach you how to climb teach you how to jump like You might already know how to do all that and it's just gonna be an optional thing That's really really good. They obviously added the free roam camera again. That's really really good They added the ability to insta teleport With an amiibo that's obviously just a convenience feature. That's really nice to have they have also done things like Decided to give you the ability to not only have multiple save slots Which thank you because it was kind of a pain in the butt that that wasn't the case in the original game They also have auto saving and that's obviously Well a stock standard feature in today's games was not present in the original and is a massive improvement So there might even be some other minor things I'm forgetting about and some other things along the way that still might be announced or we still might discover While playing the game But a lot of that leads to just a more complete a more definitive version of Skyward Sword HD a better Version of Skyward Sword HD even if you don't care about the button controls and you're gonna go full motion It's just better and almost every conceivable way now does this make the game worth $60 to many of you I have no idea. I think if you're someone who hasn't played Skyward Sword HD There's already a good argument that it's worth the money just because it's a brand-new Zelda game for you But obviously for those people that wanted this game to have something like the Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition treatment New content plus it like you know sort of a remastered version of the game that is obviously you know And when I say remastered, I mean they really overhauled the visuals as you know the Chronicles, right? You know to update it into the current engine. Yeah, that would have been like really nice to see here And that didn't happen. So There is a lot of things and maybe you expect more you obviously see what's happened with other series like Spyro and Crash and then putting three games together and only charging 40 bucks and I've tried in the past So those IPs unfortunately for those IPs They're just not as popular and a probably can't get away with higher price points And when we saw a brand new crash game came out Crash Bandicoot 4 Which by the way is actually a pretty good game and it sold Worse than the trilogy remastered. What does that tell you? There isn't really high demand Does anyone honestly think that as an example Breath of the Wild 2 is gonna sell worse than Skyward Sword HD? I mean come on that's not even a realistic possibility to even think about right But that's because we know and understand the fundamental popularity of Zelda and obviously the high demand in high price points It can get away with in comparison to contemporary other IPs from other companies. So I'm not saying that it's right I'm just saying that that's the reality we live in so this guy was already she worth 60 bucks to me It was worth 60 bucks to me just for the fact that it was coming to switch and it was an HD and 60 FPS That to me was a big enough change for me to dive in but I'm also a Zelda fanboy and I know I'm a Zelda fanboy and I don't know that there's anything wrong with being a fanboy It does make you a little bit unreasonable and this could be one of my unreasonable takes But I do believe that the value of something's in the eye of the beholder and they're still gonna be Thousands maybe millions of you that still don't think this game is worth it. They're gonna wait for a price cut That's probably never gonna happen during the lifetime of switch. I know some people think oh man I'm gonna wait this game is 30 40 bucks. It's never gonna be 30 or 40 bucks Until I don't know like ever like never pretty much ever until they just stop printing copies of it I know we keep waiting for like a Nintendo selects a line of games Doesn't appear like it's gonna be happening this time around maybe it will by the final year of switch and maybe this is one of Those games that gets that treatment, but I honestly won't count on it But I'm very curious to hear from others if you feel like this game is worth 60 bucks to you And you're going to be picking it up this week Tell me why and if you don't think it is what more would you like to see Nintendo do? I think obviously the big thing out there that you know, we don't know about and Nintendo probably wouldn't tell us about his New content. We obviously would all love a new dungeon or a new area at least when you think about you know Majora's Mask 3d we can chastise them for some of the changes they made that made me made the game a bit worse They definitely messed up Zora swimming they did add an entirely new area for fishing in that game that never existed So that was at least some semblance of new content now They didn't do that in Ocarina of Time, but still there was at least some semblance of new content from a recent You know re-release remaster remake whatever you want to call it of Majora's Mask It would be cool to see something of that ilk. I don't know what it would be Especially with the way this game is designed, but you never know. Maybe there's something they do Maybe there's a new shop that streamlines something in Skyloft, right? Like just something in that bizarre I don't think you guys I don't know how many guys know there's a bizarre in Do you guys even know what a bizarre is? So I feel like it's a word We don't really use that often here in the United States. Anyways, I know it's more a comment in other countries But anyways, you guys let me know what you think about this. Are you going to buy it? Are you waiting to see if there's even more changes has Nintendo done enough quality of life improvements? You'd be like, you know what 60 bucks for the best version of Skyward Sword worth it to me for other people Hey, maybe Skyward Sword was never going to be your jam anyways. It's a very Unique game in the Zelda realm sort of like Zelda 2 is like this unique game The Wind Waker is this unique game Breath of the Wild right now is this unique game It's one of those uh pillar games in Zelda that just doesn't really fit Exactly perfectly with the rest of the franchise Doesn't mean it's not a Zelda game just means it really heavily leans on certain aspects of Zelda in this case Dungeons it's like the polar opposite of Breath of the Wild Breath of the Wild leans heavily into the foundational aspects of open world and exploration this game leans heavily on dungeons So if you miss dungeon gameplay and you didn't play skyward sword This game has some of the best dungeons around at least for zelda So you guys don't know what you think about this down in the comments below I am Nathaniel Robert Jets from Nintendo Prime and yes, again, I'm not on camera yet Working on it should have the studio finished up today after I get my law my law mode and all that Um So then I'll move you back on camera like normal hopefully for a video later today I am still trying to work on getting a podcast episode set up for this evening if it doesn't work out It's okay. We'll still do a live stream, but I am planning on bringing a podcast episode back today So we'll see what happens. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video