It's my personal favorite Zelda game
I beat SS, and just so you aren't full of "LOL UR JUST MAD CUZ ZELDA IZ AWZUM", I have fucking 3 hearts tattooed onto my left arm in representation of my childhood. Don't want to hear "Well, you probably just hate Zelda" or some shit.
My personal favorite will always be Link's Awakening or Ocarina of Time.
I didn't THOROUGHLY enjoy Skyward, kind of like how I didn't really like the minish cap.
If you want me to be completely brutally honest, I don't care enough for any new Zelda games. Never have, never will. I gave up at Twilight Princess. By far the WORST Zelda game (minus the DS adaptations) that I had EVER played. In fact, if I had to say something, Wand of Gamelon was a better fucking game than TP
I think your being a bit harsh on TP, it wasn't the best, but it was ok, but worse than Wand of Gamalon? (TP on the Gamecube was the first Zelda game i ever played)
Well, okay... Twilight Princess was equal to the DS throw-backs. I despised them all, never again shall I ever play a fucking DS game unless it's Ocarina of Time on the 3DS *which I bought purely for OoT, and beat with the 3 heart challenge on my first playthrough for shits and giggles*
The point being, it was a HORRID game. Skyward sword wasn't that bad, but it wasn't amazing either. I'd say it was on the level of The Minish Cap for me, which wasn't bad either, but some parts were just a struggle to get through. The difficulty wasn't the issue, it was the gameplay mechanics and the sluggish behavior of the story progression.
As a whole, I felt that the older generation of Zelda games were much more time-consuming along with more rewarding as games than they are as of now. I actually ENJOYED Wind Waker in SOME aspects, but since it was a change, I disliked it as a kid. I went back, replayed it, beat it, and I found an all new respect for it. Probably because with anti-aliasing, the game is an amazingly sexy adaptation. That being said, I'm disappointed that nintendo has never bothered with anti-aliasing with their consoles. It makes games so much more.. uhm, unappealing?