Skyward Sword Includes a Really Nasty Glitch

Does anyone know why the Wii doesn't have patches? I can't really see any reason why not. Or why they can't at least put something like that in the Wii Shop to download.

@MooseyMcMan: I don't think Nintendo built sending out patches into the system. Also there's only 512mb of memory to use and they aren't very generous with what let they you store on an SD card. They could maybe fix it through a firmware update kind of like what Sony did with Liberty City Stories on PSP where you could access homebrew or pirated games by parking in your garage or something. I don't remember it that well. Though that might have been a system problem and not a game issue. Who knows. I'm sure Nintendo will fix the problem and the second set of discs they print will have the issue corrected.

@MooseyMcMan said:

Does anyone know why the Wii doesn't have patches? I can't really see any reason why not. Or why they can't at least put something like that in the Wii Shop to download.

They do, but you have to have the Patch's friend code in order to download it.

no way, a zelda game with a horrible gamebreaking glitch?

So, guys, theres no way skyward sward will get GOTY, right?

That seems like a fairly easy way to break the game. Pity.

@MooseyMcMan said:

Does anyone know why the Wii doesn't have patches? I can't really see any reason why not. Or why they can't at least put something like that in the Wii Shop to download.

It's simply because the console was designed with online in mind. It's a pain in the ass to do anything online with the wii. It's simply because this is their first online console. Sony and Xbox learned their lessons with online with the PS2 and Xbox respectively.

Good thing I didn't run through this when I was playing through it.

Oof, that's a glaring error. I'll have to tell my fiance not to do that dragon first when he gets there.

Woah that's some serious shit, I wonder how they will deal with it.

@nintendoeats said:

What is this world coming too!? Has Nintendo ever shipped a game with a serious bug like this before? I mean, Bethesda I'll accept...but...

Yeah they have. There was a game ending bug in the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time if you got the keys for the doors wrong. Do them in the wrong sequence and you had to start over.

Thunder dragon is no backwards dragon.

So, knowing nothing about Skyward Sword, how common is this glitch? I mean, do you have to go out of your way to get it to happen, or could a random person playing the game without outside influences encounter the glitch?

Oh wow I just got to this part and I was totally going to that dragon first. Whew, thanks Patrick!

@nintendoeats said:

What is this world coming too!? Has Nintendo ever shipped a game with a serious bug like this before? I mean, Bethesda I'll accept...but...

Twilight Princess had a game breaking bug if you saved in that cannon room.

Other M had a game breaking bug that their solution was to have people send them their save files on a memory stick.

The glitch occurs if you you talk to Golo after getting the Thunder Dragons song while only having aquired the Thunder Dragons song up to that point. Doing the Thunder Dragon first is not an issue, just going to Lanayru Mine immediately after and talking to Golo causes it.

I did the Thunder Dragon first and had no thought of heading to Golo afterwards (and I played it before walkthroughs had been published so it isn't like I looked up to see that their was no point in returning to him).

All you have to remember is that after you have talked with Golo allowing oyu to head to the Thunder Dragon then you have no reason at all to go back to him, he does not have new dialog or any quests after this attached to him. If you remember that then this glitch cannot occur, you can still do the Thunder Dragon first.

@Catarrhal said:

@nintendoeats: Miyamoto-san deserves forgiveness; Todd Howard, on the other hand, does not.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, "miyamoto-san". hahahahahaha!

I was so worried when I read about this on eurogamer. I'm slightly past the point where this happens but I think I'm good.

I did Volcano-Forest-Desert because I needed to go to the volcano for a side quest.

There are dragons in this game?

@Legendary said:

Patch it

Oh snap.

SPOILERS!!! Jeez

If only the Wii was an actual video game console, they could patch this.

This is why i made a copy save file after every session

@Mr_Faraday said:

Welp Skyward Sword cant be in the running for GOTY anymore the games not perfect. :/

Yeah, just like Skyrim this game can´t possibly be GOTY, right? Because it has some bugs.

So yeah, Game of the year is going to... wait, it can´t go to any fucking game released in the history of forever. They all have bugs. Jesus Christ, people are reacting to some titles this year as if they had never seen any bugs in their lives. Guess that happens, cause most of these people seem to be 12 years old and their only experience with videogames prior to this generation was fucking swiping the screen on their Iphone.

@Jethuty said:

slow news day?

Must be, if we're down to reporting video game news on a video game website. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

@Superfriend said:

@Mr_Faraday said:

Welp Skyward Sword cant be in the running for GOTY anymore the games not perfect. :/

Yeah, just like Skyrim this game can´t possibly be GOTY, right? Because it has some bugs.

So yeah, Game of the year is going to... wait, it can´t go to any fucking game released in the history of forever. They all have bugs. Jesus Christ, people are reacting to some titles this year as if they had never seen any bugs in their lives. Guess that happens, cause most of these people seem to be 12 years old and their only experience with videogames prior to this generation was fucking swiping the screen on their Iphone.

I think he was joking because of that stupid thread that's been going on in the forums about Skyrim.

And then there's that dragon that flies backwards yo.

@Superfriend said:

@Mr_Faraday said:

Welp Skyward Sword cant be in the running for GOTY anymore the games not perfect. :/

Yeah, just like Skyrim this game can´t possibly be GOTY, right? Because it has some bugs.

So yeah, Game of the year is going to... wait, it can´t go to any fucking game released in the history of forever. They all have bugs. Jesus Christ, people are reacting to some titles this year as if they had never seen any bugs in their lives. Guess that happens, cause most of these people seem to be 12 years old and their only experience with videogames prior to this generation was fucking swiping the screen on their Iphone.

If a game's not perfect, you shouldn't call it perfect...

@ShaggE: Glitches in Zelda? I come to Giant Bomb to see what Kim Kardashian is wearing, not this balderdash!

I didn't see anything in this article that indicates a spoiler. Perhaps everyone that says "SPOILER!" is just a whiny bitch?

Isn't this like the third Zelda game of late to do basically this?

Twilight Princess had a bug exactly like this, right?

Patch? in a Nintendo game? This is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

@AuthenticM said:

If only the Wii was an actual video game console, they could patch this.

Yea. Too bad the NES, SNES, GENESIS, SATURN,N64,PS1, PS2, XBOX, CDI,JAGUAR,GAMECUBE, DREAMCAST etc. arn't real consoles as well right....

@ShaggE said:

@Jethuty said:

slow news day?

Must be, if we're down to reporting video game news on a video game website. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

sure, the only piece of news that day was a bug in a Zelda game.

slow news day?

I so hope I don't mess up and come across the glitch.... and I would be the one that would do it too. = - /

@Jethuty said:

@ShaggE said:

@Jethuty said:

slow news day?

Must be, if we're down to reporting video game news on a video game website. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

sure, the only piece of news that day was a bug in a Zelda game.

slow news day?

Yeah, a game-ending glitch should be left for the players to discover themselves. What was Patrick thinking posting this and helping people out? This is almost as bad as the time he posted about Skyrim's patch being broken! I mean, who cares, right? Not like any of us PLAY these things...

I believe I've run into another Game-Breaking error in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, but i would like some kind of confirmation before starting my game over and thus loosing 20 Hours of gameplay. Has anyone out there run into the following:

After leaving the Isle of Songs for the first time, I was told to travel to Faron Woods for the first trial in the silent realm. After finding the sacred butterflies and using the harp to open the gate I jumped into Farore's Silent Realm. I didn't complete the trial and had to leave the game so I exited the realm and used a nearby save-point. A day later i jumped back into the game to complete the trial only to discover that the gate to Farore's Silent Realm no longer exists. The butterflies are gone, my ability to track it down with dowsing is gone, and the game will no longer progress.

Did I break the game? Do I have to start over? Or will completing some side-quest open up the realm again? Inquiring minds wish to know!

Thank you so much! I was within like 5 minutes of possibly doing that.

Nintendo, patching a game?
 
Does this game even install on a Wii? Do ANY Wii games install data?

@mewarmo990 said:

Nintendo, patching a game? Does this game even install on a Wii? Do ANY Wii games install data?

No, they don't. You forget, the Wii has like 512 MB of internal space. Not that that's an excuse for the lack of patching, but...Nintendo is retarded. They keep gimping themselves with stupid decisions to lag behind technology that end up making serious problems for them later (DS only able to access WEP networks, Wii has limited processing power and can't run modern games, etc.)