Nintendo Power Skyward Sword Blowout Spoilers!

Ready to be spoiled with Skyward Sword information? Well if you’re a subscriber to Nintendo Power you would know that the next issue is set to release on October 4th, but it seems that we got some scans a bit early. These scans that were released over at Zelda Dungeon Forums gives us a good bit of information which you can find out right after the post jump, so if you want to be spoiled keep on reading. We shall update this post as more information on this comes in.

Here’s the information that you seek at this point, again this contains heavy spoilers so turn away if you don’t want to be spoiled

- Ghirahim seeks to revive his master.
- The headmaster of the Knight Academy Link goes to is named Gaepora.
- Gaepora is Zelda’s father.
- Gaepora laugh like this “Hoo hoo hoo”, which seems Owl like.
- Zelda wakes up Link one morning to show him her dress for the Bird Riders ceremony.
- Noticing how lazy Link is about his flying training, Zelda pushes him off the edge of Skyloft.
- During the “date” after the competition, Zelda is trying to tell something to Link she’s been meaning to tell him for a long time, but is interrupted by a tornado.
- Link has premonitions of a black creature that shallows Zelda.
- During the attack of said tornado, Link is saved by his bird, which are called Loftwings.
- Fi appears in Skyloft after the attack and Link chases her all around Skyloft to the Goddess Statue.
- The Sheikhas Stones are back.
- The Eldin Volcano’s dungeon is NOT the Fire Temple, it’s the EARTH Temple.
- The bullies are named Groose, Cawlin and Stritch. Groose, the red-haired one, has a big crush on Zelda.
- Other characters includes Pipit, a senior student and bird expert. And Fledge, a nice guy but kind of a wimp.
- Link’s sword is referred to has the Goddess Sword and appears to be its official name. It is no longer called the Skyward Sword.
- The Earth Temple’s boss full name is: “Pyroclastic Fiend Spaldera”.
- Bird statues are the only means of saving in the game. There will be bird statues mid-temple and before bosses. You can freely warp between bird statues you’ve activated except the temple ones
- The bullies are named Groose, Cawlin and Stritch. Groose, the red-haired one, has a big crush on Zelda.

Gameplay details:

- Night/Day transition does not occur in real-time. Link must go to bed and choose to get up at night or at day.
- Monster appear during the night. Cats become aggressive. The cats are apparently the freakiest enemies you’ll encounter.
- The HUD can be customized. Standard, Light and Pro. Standard shows the full controller overlay and button functions, Light only the buttons and Pro is almost completely clean.
- The only way to save your game is with the birds statues. They are pretty much everywhere, including mid-dungeon and right before boss rooms. From the Sky you can return to the last activated statue.
- Almost everything in the environment can be interacted with.
- The Sword Beam is called a Skyward Strike.