I have the old Brick silver DS too :3

I got it for Wii, and OMG i love it.
I'm so far inside the Mining Facility. Plus i spend most of the time bug catching or flying around for no reason on Link's Loftwing.

I love doing stuff for no reason. :). I'm the kind of person that will gladly toddle around and fish or do side quests, hence my love of Elder Scrolls games. I need to spend some time mucking around on Okami again to get back into game shape. Been so long since I've played much on console. Been sucked into the PC for the past few months, baring some Zelda action over Christmas.

Managed to pass that stupid silent realm trial thing with a few lucky moments on my second or third try, and we took turns with scorpion eye-claw thing. Is every first Zelda boss some manner of bug?

In Twilight Princess it was a plant, but the mid-boss for the first dungeon was being controlled by an evil bug.

It seems to be more predictable, but so long as it is varied at least, it will remain interesting.

Can't remember the Twilight Princess boss. I'm not even sure I opened the package yet. I picked up the game of the year edition because it was cheap, but I'm pretty sure by the feel of it that it's one of those flimsy plastic saving cases. Less plastic yay, doesn't protect the disc much, not so yay. Should have asked for the original case that was sitting empty on the shelf. :p


Does Skyward Sword work on the standard Wii with standard gear or do I need some manner of fancy motion attachment?

I wouldn't know since I got the GC version, but I think it runs on standard Wii controls, not the fancy Motion Plus ones like SS.

Stuff still comes out for Game Cube? Thought that was phasing out. Or are you talking about Twilight Princess? There's not problem with that one, I've played it. Was wondering if it was required for Skyward Sword or just recommended, like the rumble pack for Ocarina on N64?

OH! Yeah, I was talking about Twilight Princess.

For Skyward Sword, you have to have the Motion Plus controller... or the attachment. The Collector's Edition comes with a gold Motion Plus remote with the Hyrule Phoenix on it! You'll also need a nunchuk if you don't have one already.

Nintendo's technology requirements are evil! My friends and I were speculating for a while that all the link cables and special controllers and such were what Nintendo were using to stay alive when they were not doing well as a franchise.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Plus the fact that the Wii is their first console with backwards compatibility.

Hooray for backwards compatability! My sister has been lamenting the loss of her Gamem Cube as it's not working properly anymore. She didn't know that the Wii has ports for it until I showed her on mine. Not that I have anything Game Cube but I suppose I could. I forget what game it is she plays on it all the time. I remember playing some Wind Waker with my step sister (the one I play the other Zelda's with) but not much else.