I haven't had any problems with responsiveness.... The jab is just really finnicky. Sometimes I'll do it perfectly every time, others it will turn them into slashes. The skulltulas were just a pain anyway.I haven't played the game very far yet, but I'm going to add my opinion here:
* The graphics:
- The good: typical Zelda style, much better than the dark style from TP IMO. Love it.
- The bad: looks very pixelated here like other people have mentioned.
* The controls:
- The good: they're really intuitive. If you've played a Zelda game before, you'll pick them up right away.
- The bad: some of them are really unresponsive, to the point of infuriating.
o Flying is a bad (like someone else mentioned, the first flying quest took me 5 to 10min). Sometimes the bird goes down while you want to go up and crap like that. I also don't see the added value of tilting your wiimote instead of simply pointing it to the screen to turn either.
o Slashing is easy but dashing your sword forward hardly works. The skulltulas hanging from a thread were a nightmare to kill, hell, I lost less health on the first mini-boss than on the skulltulas (which are supposed to be common and weak enemies). The best I've managed on a skulltula hanging from a thread is loosing 2 hearths, the worst is I managed to die on one. WTF?
o The beetle seems to turn kinda slow, although that might be intentional?
* No way to skip dialogs you've already seen (has been a problem in every Zelda game so far). Hint: hold down A to make the dialog appear slightly faster.
* You get the sword and shield quite early on in the game. No bullshit like in older Zelda games where you only get a shield in the 3rd or 4th dungeon or whatever. But why does your shield disappear when broken? I mean, I can understand it taking damage, but give me a broken shield with 0 durability then which I can repair instead of having to buy a new one. That's just bullshit. And why doesn't your shield auto-equip when you upgrade it? I upgraded my shield, and afterwards noticed I didn't have one equipped. I couldn't directly find a way of equipping it, thought it got broken, got quite mad since I had just upgraded it, went up to skyloft to grind rupees in the waterfall cave for a new one, only to find out it was still in my inventory. Well I was rather relieved to see it was still in my inventory, but still quite stupid I wasted the time.
* No way to load or quit the game without dying that I found so far (except resetting it)?
Anyone else having problems with unresponsive wiimote, and if you solved them, how? I'm sitting quite close to the screen, so that might be it
About your last bullet though, from the bird statue savepoints, there's the option of saving and quitting, which will take you back to the menu.