10 Subtle Differences between Zelda Skyward Sword HD and the Wii version - Part 3 

Update: We can confirm that NPCs animations are still there! But they are much harder to spot. See how they work in Part 4: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n2Pc1pXDrWE.html

The NPC missing animation was one of the subtle changes I immediately noticed. More specifically the baby crying every damn 15 seconds

"In the Wii, the rain particle effect is not very noticeable..." Me: There was rain?

Wow I can't believe they removed the vendor animations! I can't imagine it would have been much more work to keep that. This is such a great series though, thanks for all of your work!

I actually never thought it rained in skyward sword except like once due to how hard it was to see XD glad the fixed it!!

I did notice that the Bazaar sounded more quiet than usual.

2:43 The line being "But there's no time to admire it!" isn't technically a Wii-to-HD change, it was always like that in the North American version of the original release. The European Wii version changed that line to "But now is not the time to give it a close examination!", but it seems they didn't carry over this line change for the European Switch versions (Among presumably other line changes, such as Fi's line about the oral tradition being unreliable)

I vividly remember seeing Bertie soothing his child when at the cauldron during my HD playthrough. I believe the vendor animations are simply not as common and will not occur when you're too close to them. The only reason I believe Nintendo would make this change is to keep the characters lively without distracting you from your shopping spree

00:33 Didn't know you could do that. Destroying the spitted freballs with the sword. Would like to see a video with these type of small details.

The Bazaar vendors' animations being removed is kind of a change for the worse. I wonder why they did that.

In all of my playthroughs I always thought that the fps drop when activating time shift stones was intentionally done for effect 😂

I liked the way the background looked with the cezzane effect more. I always loved skyward swords art style, and that was a big part of it for me.

Nooo I’m actually so sad about them removing the npc animations 😭 Bertie soothing his baby was always my favourite, I thought it was so cute. This is the only change I’ve found in the HD version that I’m not happy about ☹️

I definitely feel like I've seen all the vendor animations in the HD version, as it's the only version I've played

It's such a shame that the watercolor effect was more or less removed in HD since it looks gorgeous in HD on Dolphin. I guess that Ninty assumed that people would think it looked blurry or something and they may have been correct but that's sort of the point.

The idle animations are still in the game, it seems they simply changed the frequency at which they occur.

I miss the bird feather save files

Pretty sure I’ve seen the vendor animations in the HD version. They may just be less frequent?

Good recopilation, I'm impressed with these changes :o

Great video, really detailed and interesting. It makes me happy that they bothered to pay attention to cleaning up the text :)

I thought something seemed off when I never heard the baby at the potion shop crying, I wonder if they took out the animations because playtesters thought they were annoying?

I swear I have seen the animation of the potion guy in the bazaar in HD. But I just checked and they really are not there. Maybe they happen only at some point in the story for some reason? (bug?)

The last one makes me angry.

I don’t think they removed the bazaar npc animations entirely, but made them a lot less frequent. I swear I heard the baby giggling at some point, but then when I went back to see, and waited, it didn’t happen again so idk.

@ 2:58 when it’s described as “not the time for a close examination” I immediately think that implies that in many if not all other instances Link acquired an item, and a description of how it worked would follow, that this was the result of at that moment Link sat down and figured out how his new toy worked .

How do people notice something as small as "hearts sink more slowly in lava"?

Noticed a lot of people pointing out that they have seen Bertie's animation that was supposedly removed, and I have an answer for it. Some of the animations that aren't viewable in the bazaar might still be viewable in other parts of the game. For example, Bertie's animation with his child can be seen in his house at night. I don't know of the other animations being somewhere else though :/

I love this series!

I was waiting for the baby and dad to start there animation for like ever. I can’t believe they would remove that.

When I played pre-update the vendor animations were still available at least for the man and child, I was farther away from them though.

Every time I hear that theme song or see the loading screen it makes me want to cry

5:35 I feel like Lanayru Desert was the worst backdrop to show that effect off. I could barely notice a difference.

Turns out the Bazaar animations DO happen, they're just absurdly rare for some reason. Rupin's sigh is definitely gone though, or at least unused.

I hope they add an option to turn on the objects from far distances painting effects

Hey all, I already pretty much knew they were still there, but just incase, to rule out any false memories, I checked the bazaar animations in SS HD. They’re still there! None have been removed. I’m not sure if they altered how often they appear, but they appear. I noticed walking around and talking to people around the area inside would seemed to make them pop up more, I think? Or maybe it was just a coincidence, but either way, I got ALL of them to trigger and even saved the clips of them. So I can confirm, they’re still in the game.

The screen zooming out into the map was a nice detail

I'm 100% sure I've seen that father-son interaction on switch

I’ve seen the vendor animations in the hd version. They probably made it less common.

They quit the vendor animations? Literally unplayable

I wonder why the bazarre felt less lively than in the original...

they also made it so that rupin doesn’t sigh when you turn away from him. I miss that

The file thumbnails are nice, but I miss the bird feather designs

3:42 the dialog is a reference to a secret room in link to the past (look it up for more info)

I *thought* something was off about the potion maker! I used to remember hearing her call out during my runs through. Wonder why these animations were removed

In the HD version, the animation with the baby crying in the Bazaar was not removed. It's still there. I've never played the Wii version, so everything else is new to me.

Another change I noticed is the Bokoblin's tightrope death animation. In the orginal Wii version if you shot a Bokoblin with a slingshot while it's on a tightrope you can see it fall down to its death. In the HD version however, if you shot a Bokoblin with a slingshot while it's on a tightrope they just die instantly. Although the sound that the Bokoblin makes while falling can still be heard in the HD version despite the animation changes.

Removing the subtle shop-keeper animations is unforgivable.

2:44 That was a regional difference, in the American Wii Version, it says "No time to admire it" while in the European Wii Version it said "No time for close examination". That was during the time when Nintendo's English translation teams thought it was a great idea to have different English translations depending on where you live instead of using the same English translation in both regions. It uses the American version in that line in the Switch version. I guess they learned their lesson not to do that stupid move again.

I just wish they had made new textures and a new light shade, a few texture was remade, but in general they are the same, also the shade could be a little more like Wind Waker remake, but that's fine

7:50: Those animations are still in the game. Atleast when I played it

I'm glad it was a fun game, some line missing an exclamation point or a missing animation doesn't "change the game for the worse" for me. I'm pretty sure that doesn't change the outcome nor make any insane changes to the game that render it unplayable. I think people are just over sensitive for no good reason.

Why did they take out the animations?! D: I felt like something was missing when I was playing but I couldn’t figure what. And that’s it! It bring so much character and the switch can handle it so I can’t figure what reason they’d have for removing them.

Hunh, I didn't even notice the NPC animations were removed. The Bazaar didn't feel as lively as I remember, I guess that's why.

I honestly never realised the animations were gone other than Bertie's.

Your videos are brilliant. Thanks for all the effort!

I do remember the baby crying in the HD version, but I only heard it once but did not see it. Peatrice is also different in the HD version. If you opt not to be her boyfriend, she will ask if you came to see a woman more beautiful because her heart was broken instead of going back to the way she was at the beginning. I also liked that in Skyloft you can see Loftwings flying in the sky randomly, not possible in the Wii version due to technical limitations.

im pretty sure a speedrunner said link jumps slightly higher in the HD version but I'm not certain

There are many more dialogue changes, not to mention other languages and the respective changes they got!

I think there was either an update at some point or you were not there long enough at the Bazaar because when I first went into the Bazaar Bertie's baby definitely cried

I'd forgotten, but I can _feel the framerate drop_ from the Wii timeshift stones _in my bones._

For speedrunners, these text changes makes a huge difference, because the less amount of text there is to render, the better, so when you pick a different language to run the game in, that text will be shorter compared to English.

A lot of the text changes you mentioned only applied to the European versions of the HD and the original Skyward Sword because with the original Skyward Sword on Wii. Nintendo of Europe retranslated the entire thing to give it a more literal translation but in America the translation was more off probably due to censorship purposes or something like that but for every English version of the HD remaster is face off the American translation with the only text changes changing particular words as some words are spelled differently in different types of English Nintendo dude accommodate for that but all of the English text is based off of the American version

10 years later I can still hear Bernies child crying…

Everyone talking about the missing vendor animations and here I am sad about the save file being changed from something with personality to something boring

The whole FPS deal was not really a subtle change, it was CLEARLY noticeable for one and two it's not much of a change than rather the Switch is a much more powerful and capable system. As for subtle change #7 this was because originally during an age where HD become common for TVs and consoles the Wii was pretty much just a slightly upgraded Gamecube and thus was not able to produce 720p standard HD. To hide the lower 480 resolution the artists designed Cezanne Effect on the textures to resemble a painting (much like the ones French painter Paul Cézanne made) at a distance to give it more character as if you were looking a painting from afar but as you got closer objects became clear. With Full HD at 60fps from the Switch that effect was no longer necessary so obviously they removed it to a degree. You can still see it but it's at a much lesser extent.

Man, that's a real that the quest logs that used to be shaped like bird feathers have been replaced with generic rectangles, but, at least we got thumbnails now along with an additional 4th file! No idea why there were subtle dialogue changes such as with that one Groose scene, or even double-dashes replaced with single ones. I do love the aesthetics of the HD version more, even if the visuals sadly aren't as picturesque like before. I really don't see a reason why those unique animations with the NPC's were scrapped, it was really unique to watch. Oh, well, at least the game runs better now!

Didn't know it ever rained in the Wii version!

i could have sworn i saw atleast the baby animation once during my playthrough on switch version

I'm pretty upset about the blurry/painting effect on the background, it was one of my favorite visual things about the game, made the art style feel rather unique

The harp text in the original also said “but there’s no time to admire it!” I feel like that might be a regional difference, I’m in the US

i have to assume they removed the additional animations because of the baby crying every 10 seconds being really annoying, but it sucks that they had to remove ALL of the interesting animations? i don't see why they couldn't have just removed that one, or even just got rid of the sound effects or something

I'm torn between seeing the rain and seeing the vendor animations... Which version of the game is better?? Is there no ultimate edition with built-in amiibo fast travel, AND vendor animations? I'm going to lose my mind

The heart sinking in lava slower is probably an oversight due to doubling the framerate

I thought NPCs in the Bazaar had these animations on Switch too, I had already seen these (or at less some) Are these animations somewhere else ?

Hehe groose it's the perfect meme machine on skyward HD

okay but HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE OF THE MOON?

idk whether people have noticed... but Link has more polygons in his shoulders now xD

The 'theres no time to admire it' used to be a regional difference in the wii, between the Europe and USA version

I noticed the FPS drop as soon as I hit one of those time shift stones in the original

what i really miss the most is that artistic "cezanne effect" but i guess it's understandable why they'd want to remove it... (i still miss it though.) the mising NPC animations in the bazaar is bizarre though

I'm surprised Nintendo actually put some work into this port. Even if I don't agree with every change.

Me: “so why should I pay $60 for a remaster of a game I can buy for $10 on the wii and wiiu” Nintendo: “We replaced all double dashes with single dashes and rotated the moon 😊“

actually the last one is technically wrong. ive seen on multiple occasions the father taking care of the kid.

So Many Ads!! 》:-(

Do one video with diferences in hero mode and nornal mode pls

the price can be a bit exorbitant, but the changes are definitely good (in my opinion)

About the time stones.. i thought that was just how it was meant to be

I’ve…Seen all of those animations at the Bazaar within the non stop playing after its release. Just saying.

I didn't know it was raining inside the thunder head when I played it on the wii

i didnt know it rained at all i just tought it was only really cloudy

The ending card is the best

BIGGEST CHANGE is no auto centering & setting to neutral position when an aiming dependant item is taken out. People should message Tantalus in social networks so it can be added into a patch.

Some of these changes, especially the last one, make me sad :c

what was the point in changing the moon? tbh i barely even noticed it on the wii version lol

slightly more realistic lava! yay!

7:50 wtf... it's always one step forward and two steps backwards with you Nintendo uh?

I'm pissed about the vendor animations. No sense in that.

Is the moon rotated because you are looking at it from another perspective or time of day?

They should’ve kept the animations from the Npc’s

Rupin doesn’t sigh!