Yeah, the first dungeon really feels like a nod to older games, while also showing that it's something else entirely. It's also interesting that it's a "water temple," but not really. Everything in the game screams that it's a Zelda game, but different, and it fits really well.

So far it's not my favorite, but it feels really good coming from Breath of the Wild.

I'm still probably going to prefer ALttP, Minish Cap, OoT, and TLoZ, but I'm glad SS exists. Now I need to pay the rest of the GC and Wii games.

My problem with Skyward Sword from what I remember was that each enemy needed to be hit in a different specific way, so each individual enemy was a mini puzzle in itself. At the time I wasn't interested in something like that and I missed being able to just run up to a few baddies and slash through them. Plus, I didn't have enough room to properly use the wii mote plus and it kept desyncing every minute. I should give the remake a try.