The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, launching on July 16, will include a variety of "quality-of-life enhancements" on top of sharper imagery, according to Nintendo. Though the company is remaining vague, some of these will focus on one of the biggest complaints about the original title – its tutorial system.

Skyward Sword HD was announced during E3 2021 and is one of two scheduled releases to mark the 35th anniversary of the Zelda franchise, the other being a limited-run Game & Watch system with several of the earliest titles preloaded. The original Skyward Sword was a Wii game shipped in 2011 and the previous flagship Zelda until Breath of the Wild arrived in 2017. Breath of the Wild 2 is expected to tie into Skyward Sword, since the two share aspects like floating islands.

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Skyward Sword HD's enhancements include "refinements to player tutorials and general guidance throughout the adventure," Nintendo says on a product page highlighted by NintendoLife. That's most likely a reference to Fi, a character integral to the game's plot, but who in the original version was known for pestering players when it wasn't needed – even sometimes spoiling puzzle solutions or warning about controller battery levels. Nintendo is presumably toning down the character or offering a way to shut off unwanted messages.

Link Plummeting in Skyward Sword HD

Other features of the remaster will include better performance, refined motion controls suited to the Switch's JoyCons, and a new buttons-only control scheme - something necessary for the Switch Lite, as well as probably matching industry trends. Motion technology was a selling point for the Wii but has since fallen out of favor except with VR headsets, where it's both more immersive and intuitive than it is with consoles. Gamers have complained about the motion interfaces in both Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess, and rival technologies like Microsoft Kinect and PlayStation Move failed to catch on at all.

Rumors have claimed that remasters of both Twilight Princess and The Wind Waker are coming to the Nintendo Switch, possibly even Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. All of these would seem to conflict, however, with an E3 statement by Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma, who indicated that no further 35th-anniversary projects are planned. It could be that updates are in the works, but not shipping until 2022 or later - in which case they might be timed with Nintendo's widely-predicted "Switch Pro" console. That hardware is expected to serve as an interim refresh, adding a 7-inch OLED display and 4K output when docked.

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Sources: Nintendo (via NintendoLife)