Twilight Princess is forever ruined by Skyward Sword.

There's the problem. If you swing like crazy, it's not going to be fun. Why would you even do that? You don't do that in real life if you use a sword, do you? If you slow down and properly plan and aim your strikes, you'll have a much more interesting time.

Except obviously I didn't. There is NOTHING more interesting about deliberately NOT winning the fights in the simplest and quickest way possible.

This is also a reason why I can't stand to watch people play this game on Youtube. It drives me nuts. Those movements aren't even natural.

None of the movements are natural. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say sword fights don't consist of waggling your arms in front of you, attempting timing or otherwise.

Swordplay has 9 basic strikes that Skyward Sword utilizes. You're missing out on more than half of them.

Haha no. There is no different between vertical up-down and vertical down-up. It's being seriously forgiving to even considered swinging in different angles as different "techniques".

Or this. If you limit yourself and actually try to have some fun, you'll have more fun than you think.

Except, obviously I didn't. They couldn't make a balanced system, ripped out all progress of the combat system from previous games (Twilight princess built on Wind wakers, which built on Ocarina/MM) to add... swinging your arm a little at angles.

(Incase this isn't obvious, I think SS is the worst 3d console zelda game, and you're not going to be able to change my mind on that)