Skyward Sword Month

It's Skyward Sword month! Skyward Sword HD for the Nintendo Switch will be available next week, where this is Nintendo's "big" release for July 2021. As a perfect fit, the Pyramid calendar actually has the key artwork from Skyward Sword picked for this month, which probably was just lucky, but it is great nonetheless.

At the moment I'm currently revisiting Skyward Sword on the Wii (U) to refresh my memories of how the game used to play and look, so I will be able to make better comparisons to the HD remaster next week. But there will be a separate post about this coming up in the next days.

On July 16th Skyward Sword HD gets officially released, together with the themed Joy-Cons and the Zelda & Loftwing amiibo, and should entertain Zelda fans for a little while. For some it might only take the weekend, others might be busy for the rest of the month or even longer, where it really depends on how familiar you're already with the game and how much time you have.

If Nintendo were amazing, which they rarely ever are these days, they would repeat what was essentially the "Twilight Princess month" from 2016 and finish things with a free Skyward Sword Picross game for the Nintendo Switch. This could be part of MyNintendo or the Nintendo Switch Online service, it doesn't really matter, as long as it's a free gift of pixelated entertainment later this month. Do it, Nintendo!

Come to think of it, when Majora's Mask 3D was released in early 2015, there also was the "Majora's Mask Pack" as a DLC for Hyrule Warriors a couple of weeks before, which could get people in the mood to try the new remaster or vice versa. But this was always spanning two different Nintendo systems with the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS, where here you only have the Nintendo Switch (which is good). Still, a free game based on Skyward Sword could get people interested in buying the remaster nonetheless.