The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is one of the most famous games in the series, and these parts of the game show why.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword may not be the most popular game in Nintendo’s most famous series, but it has a great story that helps explain where Hyrule, the Triforce, and other things came from. Skyward Sword may start off slowly, but once the story gets going, it’s hard not to be interested in the characters and world.

Skyward Sword is the first game in the series, which is one of the most interesting things about it. It does a great job of telling a story that stands on its own while also giving more information about the Zelda universe. Skyward Sword is full of surprising moments that fans still talk about years after the game came out.

Zelda’s Thousand-Year Slumber

Link has spent more than half of his journey looking for Zelda. After beating The Imprisoned for the second time and going back in time inside the Sealed Temple, he finally has a chance to find her. Finally, they have a moment of peace together, but it doesn’t last as long as either of them would like.

Zelda uses this time to explain what she did to stop Demise from coming back to life and to tell Link that his adventure is not yet over. She eventually turns into crystal to help keep Demise locked up, but their sad goodbye gives Link the drive he needs to complete his destiny.

Sailing The Sand Sea

In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, you could sail across an ocean like a pirate. Surprisingly, that idea is brought back in Skyward Sword for a fun trip through a sea of sand. Link gets a robot to help him look for one of the Sacred Flames, and the two of them sail from port to port looking for a certain boat.

It’s a short section, but after running around for the first half of the game, it’s a nice change of pace. Even though your ship doesn’t talk to you like the King of Red Lions, you can still shoot at enemy ships with its canon.

Koloktos

Some of the most memorable bosses in video games are from the Legend of Zelda series. The bad guys at the end of each dungeon in Skyward Sword might not be the most interesting, but the fight with Koloktos in the Ancient Cistern is easily one of the best in the series.

This machine with many arms looks very scary, but it’s a lot of fun to fight once you know what to do. When Koloktos’s arms have been taken off enough times with the whip, it will grow legs and start chasing Link with a giant sword in each hand. Then, you can use the whip to remove its arms again, take its weapon, and give Koloktos a taste of its own medicine by killing it with the huge blades.

Ghirahim Is Demise’s Sword Spirit

Ghirahim is Demise’s right-hand man. He keeps showing up to stop Link from moving forward. In Skyward Sword, you have to fight him three times. During the last fight, Ghirahim finally tells you that, like Fi, he is a Sword Spirit who lives inside Demise’s blade.

One of the most surprising things about Skyward Sword is that Demise has a Sword Spirit to help him, just like Link does. Ghirahim’s true form is definitely his hardest, but if you’ve already beaten him, it won’t be as hard as Demise.

Zelda Confronts Groose

Characterization of Zelda is one of the best things about Skyward Sword. In the first few hours, her interactions with Link and the other people of Skyloft show how funny, brave, and wise she is. You also get to see her make Groose look bad in public, which is one of the funniest parts of the game.

Groose and his goons steal Link’s Loftwing and hide it. When the young hero finds them, they make fun of him. Zelda is the one who finally stops Groose and tells him to stop messing around. She then sends him away. In almost every other game, Link has to save her, so it’s fun to see her stand up for him.

Saving Levias

In Skyward Sword, you’ll spend a lot of time riding your Loftwing from one place to another. However, one of the game’s last bosses turns your feathered vehicle into a very powerful weapon. One of your last tasks is to call Levias so he can teach you the Song of the Hero. Unfortunately, the giant whale is now controlled by a parasite called Bilocyte, so you can’t call him.

To get Levias away from this evil creature, you’ll need to fly around him and use your Loftwing to attack the eyes that stick out from his body. After running around for hours, this fight is a huge surprise and a breath of fresh air, like sailing the sand sea. Unfortunately, it’s the only aerial battle in Drive Mad game, which is a shame.

Groose Tags Along

Groose is one of the Zelda characters that doesn’t get enough attention. At first glance, he might look like the town bully, but if you look past his awful pompadour and rough exterior, you’ll see that he’s just trying to fit in.

He wants attention so much that he jumps from Skyloft to follow Link on his adventures, but he doesn’t have the right tools to land safely. Groose finally grabs Link and lands safely next to him after yelling for a while, but the relief doesn’t last long. Grosse is attacked right away by a flock of tiny birds, which makes him panic, but Link is able to calm him down in the end.

Impa Reveal

Link and Zelda are helped by strange women who seem determined to lead them to their fates. One of them watches over the Gate of Time in the Sealed Temple, and the other follows Zelda everywhere she goes to protect her. One of the last things that happen in Skyward Sword shows that both of the main characters are actually Impa from different times.

In their last goodbye, Zelda gives Impa one of her bracelets to remember the time they spent together. After Link, Groose, and Zelda use the Gate of Time to go back to the present, it doesn’t take long for Zelda to notice the mysterious woman wearing the same bracelet. You might have guessed this twist, but it’s still nice to see the two meet again after so long.

Fi’s Farewell

Sword Spirits might not look like the most lively or active creatures in Hyrule, but they are very loyal to the person who uses them. Fi doesn’t show much emotion during your adventure. Most of the time, she just tells you what your next goal is. However, it turns out that saying goodbye is harder than she thought.

After Link defeats Demise, Fi tells him that it’s time to put the Master Sword back where it belongs, along with her spirit. After saying goodbye in a pretty cold way, Fi comes back one last time to say thanks for the memories and for letting her feel happiness, which she thought she could never feel.

The Wing Ceremony

Skyward Sword gets a lot of praise for how it shows the relationship between Link and Zelda. Instead of following the usual patterns, the game quickly surprises you by having you spend the first couple of hours with Zelda and seeing how close she is to Link because they were childhood friends.

Link and Zelda get to spend some time together on top of the Statue of the Goddess after Link gets his Loftwing back from Groose and wins the race. The conversation is funny, and it’s nice to see these two have a moment of peace before the story starts to move. The Wing Ceremony is the quiet before the storm, and it does everything right to set up the relationship between the two heroes.