Dammit Terfle

So. you have heard the terfle's thoughts on skyward sword and skyrim. he thought he was stealing. little did he know, that I WANTED HIM TO MAKE A POST LIKE THAT.

terfle talked about travel, items and experience. i will talk about story, combat and characters.

Story

now for my version.

Skyward sword: the story for skyward sword follows the basic zelda formula. "O noes! princess Zelda has been k

idnapped by a creepy middle aged Lincoln wannabe. go and save her!" but this time, its a little different. for starters, link actually has great reason to rescue zelda other than her being royalty. link and Zelda, and i quote from 4ever, have an ob

vious "thing..." going on. they clearly like each other. (you know what i mean here.) secondly, the main enemy of the game, girahim, is not a creepy fat

guy, but a rather... odd character. NOTE: if you were defeated by girahim in your first encounter with him, you have bee

n humiliated. i am s

orry. go fight bobokins and humiliate them to restore your manliness.

Skyrim: you are the dragonborn. your quest is to seek out and defeat the dragons. especially alduin. the big bad IMA KILL U AND EAT UR BA

BBEHS of d

ragons. Skyrim also has a compelling side story, a WAR. in skyrim, dragons take presidence over brothers killing each other... right...

each quest aslo has its own story line, so those ar

e the two main ones.

Combat

skyrim: you can fight with magic, 1 handed or 2 handed weapons in skyrim. magic can be used if your magika bar has enough left in it, 1 handed weapons swing faster than 2 handed, but 2 handed deal WAYYYYY more damage. while th

ere are many weapons and spells to choose from

in skyrim, you have no controll over where you swing your weapon, or fire your spells (and arrows). you can not attack around blocks making enemies with sheild annoying and rather tedious to f

ight.

Skyward sword:

skyward sword does the exact opposite. you only have your items and your sword to fight with, but your control over them is far more realistic. sword combat allows you to attack around blocks, this prevents fights with regular foes from

taking too long, and boss fights far more difficult. you have to read your opponents moves to find the right opportunity to strike. or just swing wildly and hope for a hit.

However, there is always a case of the miss swing. you swing in one direction, but link swings in another.

Characters:

Skyrim.

a lot of the charaters in skyrim are really memorable. Ralof, kudlak whitemane, ulfric stormcloak, and delphine. but the minor characters are easily forgettable. especially the guards. the only reason everyone remembers them is due to a joke that has no place here. why? IT TOOK AN

ARROW IN THE KNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Also, alduin is one of those villans you grow to hate, but not very much. kind of like ganon... from ocarina of time where he actually does stuff to you.

Skyward sword:

each character in skyward sword has their own unique personality. groose is a try-hard, FLedge is the young guy who needs help... a lot... and then there is girahim...

SWEET

ZOMBIE JEEBUZ. Grahim is by far the easiest tyrant to dislike in any zelda game for the simple reason that he makes a fool of you. Ganon was all like meh, Girahim takes no chances he wants you gone as early as possible.

this has been my comparison.

but my next question to you, who would win in a fight between Girahim, Ganondorf and any other villain that doesn't reappear as much.

Stealin'

Doc said that he would post pros and cons of skyward sword and skyrim. Then he didn't. So, time to steal his idea.

First. Traveling.
Skyward sword: it's okay, with sprint finally added to zelda getting around isn'y much of a hassle, though you do have to get used to stopping sprinting just before you run out. Though i find controlling the lofting a bit awkward and it does take a while to fly somewhere.
Skyrim: The dovahkiin walks at an alright speed though you will find yourself sprinting at all opportunities, just like skyward sword it will drain your stamina, though you can improve your stamina in this game, which you will find helpful because the world of skyrim is ridiculously huge, luckily though you can quicktravel to places you have already been, i don't really like the horses though, the controls are a bit clunky and my horse literally committed suicide, a thousand gold, wasted, and for some unexplained reason they can go almost vertical.

Items.
Skyward sword: items are always useful, whether they be potions, quest items or the awesome things you find in temples, but you have quite a limited selection of things you can carry with you, but you can upgrade your pouch to get more room, if you are full then you can store stuff at the items storage shop in the bazaar, but the checkout girl will hit on you.
Skyrim: there are so many items in this game that your inventory will be filled with crap loads of everything you can imagine, weapons, armor, books, potions, i've even found a human heart. But, a major downside of this is that you have limit to how much you can carry at one time, after you reach that point you will move at an immensely slow speed so that you can just barely move, to have a safe place to store your items you need to buy a house, which you can do at any of the major towns (all are marked on your map at the beginning of the game). The cheapest is whiterun, where it costs 5000 gold and the most expensive is solitude where it costs 25000 gold, but i hear you get a mansion in solitude, opposed to the very small house in whiterun.

Experience
Skyward sword: You do not level up at all in this game, though you do get better swords that do more damage, overall you really have to rely on actually getting better at the game to be more effective.
Skyrim: to level up in skyrim you hve to increase individual stats, you don't get experience from killing enemies, though if you kill them using a bow it will help your archery, with a sword it will improve your one handed and if you use magic it will improve what ever branch of magic you used to kill them. when you level up you get to increase either magic, health or stamina (if you increase stamina you also get higher max carry weight) and you also get a perk.

I'll do more of these when i get back, though ideas for what i should do them on would be helpful.

Sorry...

I can't post until saturday. See ya round!

Skyward sword vs Skyrim. What game is better

in the next few days, i will be making a pros and cons post on both the nintendo blog and the other games blog about skyward sword and skyrim. then its up to you to decide which game you prefer.