Switching to motion controls didn't work this time

[brightknightie]

I was really looking forward to playing more The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Saturday night, but when I finally had all my immediate obligations taken care of and could settle onto the couch with my Pro Controller and some fizzy water that evening, I ran into another apparent glitch with the port. This one, I could not troubleshoot my own way out of, not with the help of the entire internet. I tried all the settings and configurations that I know. Pro Controller v. Joy Cons. Motion controls v. button controls. Docked v. handheld. I did that section of the story over and over. (I can't go back to a save file before the section, because SkSw only has one manual save file and one auto-save file, unlike more recent games.)

I think I'm very nearly at the point of either contacting Nintendo support or giving up and, either way, feeling rather ill-done-by. But as there isn't a wide outcry about this across the internet, either it's just me, or it's a fresh new glitch in the Switch 2 port, and not enough people have played it yet to get it out there. SIGH. I will try Google Gemini before fully surrendering; if the information is out there, it should be able to deploy it.

If you're interested in the glitch and where I'm stuck... I cannot get "drawing" on the gate to the lake of the Water Dragon to work. I can access the scenario, but the blue "ink" that is supposed to come from the sword tip just won't trigger.

Update: Yep, the problem was me, not the software or the hardware! :-D