Can you believe it’s been five years since the Wii first came out?  Five years since Nintendo was unanimously agreed to be in last place in the console race?  Five years since motion controls were considered a failure waiting to happen?  Five years since all of those Wii sexual innuendos?  Can you believe it’s been five years since the last console Zelda game?  What in the wide world of video gaming has Nintendo been doing these past five years?  Well, in addition to enjoying the unexpectedly explosive success of their “subpar” home console, they’ve been working harder than they ever have to create not only the best Wii game ever, but perhaps, the best Zelda game ever.  With the Wii U, Nintendo’s next home console, hitting shelves sometime next year, Nintendo wanted The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword to be their swan song to the Wii.  Ladies and gentlemen, they succeeded.  If you read nothing else in this review, read this: get this game.

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