New Skyward Sword Details

Nintendo have confirmed a few details for Link’s latest outing, including a left handed option…

• Link starts with six hearts.

• Skyloft has a bathhouse and a toilet

• A lot of interactivity with objects

• Knock down a bunch of stuff

• Knock over glasses, plates, vases, flowerpots, and more

• Roll by shaking the nunchuck while dashing

• When you knock into a piece of furniture while rolling, anything on top will fall over

• Fight off bats and slime in the night, along with the cats mentioned previously

• Bazaar contains the item shop, potion shop, fortune teller, storage facility, and Scrap Shop

• Scrap Shop is sort of like a blacksmith’s (upgrade items)

• Rare ingredients include the hornet larvae, ornamental skulls, and lizard tails

• Use two amber relics, one monster claw, an one jelly blob to enhance your wooden shield

• Your wooden shield will become the Banded Shield

• Eldin Province (from Twilight Princess) is now ardous and hot

• It’s full of lethal lava streams and rocky terrain

• Any plant life in this area is withered and brown

• You’ll find Pyrups in Eldin

• Pyrups hide in small caves or within skeletal remains of other beasts, then breathe fire at anybody that comes by

• The Mogma are cowardly

• Bokooblins are trying to take over Eldin Province

• They set up a makeshift village halfway up a volcano consisting of mainly lumber and tattered cloth

• Link raids the village, defeats the enemies, and blows their watchtowers to the ground

• All we know about the mystery woman in black is that she wears the mark of the Sheikah on her clothes and her forehead

• Earth Temple has a Chinese dragon theme

• Spend a lot of time in the dungeon atop a stone sphere to navigate past the lava

• The sphere was originally the eyeball of a massive statue

• Have to use bombs often to create new paths as you guide the sphere

• The boss, Pyroclastic Fiend Spaldera, can burst into flames whenever it wants

• Knock Spaldera back with bombs as it approaches

• It retaliates by shooting large bursts of fire

• Spaldera has Dodongo-like tendencies

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