I finally was able to get started in this game after putting a month into "finishing" Skyrim. I've only completed the beginning tutorial and opened the first entrance to the surface. After reading everyone's impressions on here though, I'm almost scared to continue lol. I'm loving the game up to this point but I hope I don't get as agitated with the game as some of you did.
As for the intro and tutorial section of the game, I think its the best yet out of all the most recent Zelda games. It did drag a bit and at times I was lost as to where I was supposed to be going but nothing to big. I actually like this game's Link and Zelda. Out of all the LoZs, these two seem to have the most chemistry and seem the most natural. Link, although you don't hear him speak, you can see him talking to various characters during some cut scenes, so you at least get the feel that he is a person and not a completely silent hero. Zelda is an average girl in this game and not a princess which helps in her having a more down to earth and approachable personality. You don't sense the class distinctions as before.
As for the quest itself, most here describe it as a fetch quest or shopping list for the goddess. I haven't started it but just from the sword sequence in the biginning of the game, Fi basically states that I'm going to be an instrument of the goddess along with Zelda. Link seems hesitant at first to grab the sword and is so until Fi explains things in a manner which relate more to his immediate life. When Fi tells Link that if he'll like to rescue Zelda he'll have to take the sword and fullfill his destiny he basically runs towards the sword. Its obvious Link doesn't really care what exactly the goddess has planned for him or what he needs to do, he just knows that if following her instructions will lead to him bringing Zelda back, then so be it. Its all the more believable now since Link and Zelda have been life long Friends as apposed to some of the other LoZ games where Link just meets her and all of a sudden he's compelled to go to hell and back for this girl.
Like I said though, I'm only right at the beginning so my mood can change over the course of the game, but as the game has begun, I feel more attached to this Link and Zelda than I ever have to any of the previous versions. I actually feel compelled to see this story through just to see them reunited again. Hopefully I can weather some of the rougher portions of the game as I have been known to really lose patience with some games (hell I almost lost my drive to finish Twilight Princess when I played it lol) I've been carefull in reading posts here as there seems to be spoilers oozing out of every other sentence but I'll pop back in with my progress over the next few weeks. I need to have this game done and over with as I've just received around 5 other games for Christmass that are on the waiting list as a result of this lol.