Another podcast, WOW I feel spoiled. Thanks guys  :cool;

I'm sure if RFN was off this week Greg would do something light like replay Super Ghouls n Ghosts without dying while performing brain surgery.

Plan on listening to it later. Just finished listening to the 9 hour live show while playing Ace Combast: Assault Horizon Legacy, Sonic Generations and Super Mario 3D Land on my 3DS. I forgot to donate but I plan on doing it next year though. Money is tight so I really can't right now.

And I sent in an email that used Skyrim saying I had heard about it on every other podcast... oi.

Jon not only broke the shrinkwrap on Skyward Sword, but he put in 30 hours? My god...

Apparently the cure for Lindemann Syndrome is young boys in green tunics.

It doesn't count if he played for an hour, paused the game, and left it running while he did other things.

On the subject of shields in 3D Zelda:

I've never used shields outside of puzzles. Maybe OOT scared me away, the first enemy I encountered that wouldn't fall to button mashing was the stalfos and they don't attack while you have the shield out so it doesn't help. Maybe that's why I die quite often in 3D Zeldas but I've never been one for blocking anyway, I dodge or make the enemy flinch by attacking, I never block because I can't handle the timing needed in melee combat.

The first boss in Skyward Sword isn't as hard as you guys describe him, 1. you don't need to waggle to get the caught sword back, you just need to pull upwards and 2. his hand tracks where you hold the sword which isn't connected to where your attack comes from. If you hold your sword to the right and swing further right you actually do a left-to-right swipe in the game. That's probably cheating but hey, it works flawlessly.

Am I the only one who has had a heck of a time with the controls in Skyward Sword? So far I have not been enjoying the game much because the system does not seem to recognize what I am telling it to do. The first boss took me at least a half hour to fight because I would motion one swipe and the game would interpret another. I wonder if I hold the Wiimote wrong or something?

oh god... My copy of SS is still in the shrink wrap and Lindemann has put 30 hours into it.

I may need to re-evaluate my life now.

You may need to recalibrate the controller mid-fight through the Inventory screen.  Skyward Sword tends to lose calibration at the most inconvenient moments.

I don't like it either but since the first phase is pretty cheesable and the second is mostly a matter of timing I still managed it after many tries.

Interestingly, I've fought 4 bosses and several mini-bosses since the battle with Lord Gihrahim, and I still think that was the most difficult fight. Certainly the hardest first boss in the series.

Agree and I still think the Skulltula are the hardest enemy in the game.  I've still died the most times the them than anything else in the game combined.

You mean the spiders? If you do an upward vertical slash, its weak spot will be exposed. They're pretty easy. And if the ones hanging from the ceiling give you grief, just cut their web line, or if you don't want to do that, hit them horizontally so they don't swing towards you, then get in close and stab that weak point.

I couldn't cut the line before the Beatle.

Sorry for my kinda wonky audio. I had some tech problems on my end.

I'm really enjoying Skyward Sword as well! And of course Super Mario 3D Land.

As Jonny was saying, this holiday season is pure Nintendo bliss with Mario and Zelda (and Mario Kart 7 releasing soon!). For me, all other games have fallen by the way side for the moment, EXCEPT for BIT.TRIP Complete. The BIT.TRIP games are incredible, and I'm playing for the high scores among my friends!

Haha, Greg is right, poison mushrooms are incredibly evil in 3D Land.

NSMB 'Mii and U'... oh no!