Anime Which is the best Zelda game?

[Whiny-Butthurt-Liberal]

It's an oldschool JRPG series with a lot of strong entries. But which one is the ultimate Zelda that puts the others to shame? YOU DECIDE!!

Only doing the most well-known games, if your favorite is ultra-obscure, you can file a complaint to the conductor.

P.S. There is no such thing as a kc option. kys

 

[Hobo Elf]

None of the above.

 

[Night Goat]

Alternate title: what's the first Zelda game you played?

 

[buru5]

None of the above.

These are the best 2D Zeldas easily.

Twilight Princess is the best 3D Zelda game in the classic style. It does everything the past titles do but better, and the swordplay techniques were a blast to collect and use. Shame that hasn't been in later games.

 

[taxalot]

They are all very different games, somehow. It really is down to personal taste, except Zelda 2 for the NES which is abysmal.

 

[buru5]

They are all very different games, somehow.

No they're really not. They have slight differences, but really they're all the same shit based on the same tired formula not counting maybe BotW.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Majora's Mask was pretty different from the usual formula. It had a few traditional dungeons but that wasn't the main aspect of the game at all.

My favourite Zelda game is the very first one, but that's unquestionably nostalgia. It was cryptic and mysterious and offered an entire new game once you finished, with different dungeon locations and layouts. That blew my mind at the time.

The blueprint for the modern Zelda is A Link to the Past, but I'm not too crazy about it. I think my second favourite Zelda is Link's Awakening, the Game Boy game. That was awesome too.

 

[buru5]

Majora's Mask was pretty different from the usual formula. It had a few traditional dungeons but that wasn't the main aspect of the game at all..

It has the same basic mechanics, used exactly the same assets as Ocarina of Time, used the same collection gimmicks that are present in all Zelda (to an extreme degree). It had the same basic Zelda puzzles and mini-games present in all 3D Zelda games, but wrapped it up in time limitations that were really just a continuation of OoT's time manipulation idea, and it was ultimately arbitrary as a "challenge" factor for exploration/dungeons as you can slow down time to an absurd degree via songs.

Not that it's not a great game, it's just not a huge departure imo. It expands on a lot that OoT did, and does some things much better.

 

[Hyperion]

I've actually got an unopened Master Edition of Breath of the Wild behind me, but no Switch yet (don't even want it yet till more things come out). I'm curious to hear about the love for BotW. Is it because it's fresh on the mind, the honeymoon phase isn't over, or is it legitimately THAT good?

 

[Whiny-Butthurt-Liberal]

is it legitimately THAT good

Yes.

 

[DragoFireheart]

My top four (five) order:

Breath of the Wild
Majora's Mask
Wind Waker
Link to the Past / A Link Between Worlds

I used to like Twilight Princess more but god that opening intro drags on. It has lost its luster over time but still has some of the best dungeons in the series.

Skyward Sword, outside of shit like the Philips-CDI games, is my least favorite. Controls are terrible and it has too much back tracking.

 

[buru5]

I've actually got an unopened Master Edition of Breath of the Wild behind me, but no Switch yet (don't even want it yet till more things come out). I'm curious to hear about the love for BotW. Is it because it's fresh on the mind, the honeymoon phase isn't over, or is it legitimately THAT good?

It's better than any of that JRPG trash you play so yes.

 

[abnaxus]

 

[Falksi]

Haven't played that many of them, but Link to the Past still stands head & shoulders above the rest I've played, especially the uber disappointing Occarina of Time.

Will have to play Majoras Mask & BOTW though.

 

[Vorark]

Okami.

 

[Talby]

Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Link to the Past.

Poll needs Zelda CDi kc option.

 

[hackncrazy]

Two weeks ago, I'd say BOTW and ALTTP shared the first place, but now that I've played A Link Between Worlds, I must say that this one takes the cake easily. It takes everything that ALTTP did good and enhance even more: The combat is even better, the dungeons are extremely well made, getting closer to the 3d ones in terms of creativity, the boss fights are fun and, mainly, the non-linearity makes everything fresh.

I really can't see how Nintendo can make a game better than ALBW.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

No Link's Awakening, what is this faggotry. It's my most replayed 2d title...but that's probably because it's kind of short. I'll probably play Link Between Worlds soon-ish, waiting for an used copy to show up at a decent price.

I'm very happy with what they did with Breath of the Wild. If they make a BotW with proper dungeons instead of those morrowindian tiny shrines, it might become goty all years.

 

[hackncrazy]

If they make a BotW with proper dungeons instead of those morrowindian tiny shrines, it might become goty all years.

I agree 1000000% with this. I mean, it's nice on BOTW when you enter a dungeon for the first time and see how it is. But then, after you realize that all of them are pretty much equal and even play the same way (with only physics based puzzles), it becomes very underwhelming. But Nintendo is on its way to make better Zelda games, BOTW showed that they at least will (at least I hope) stop with the extreme handholding.

 

[DragoFireheart]

If they make a BotW with proper dungeons instead of those morrowindian tiny shrines, it might become goty all years.

I agree 1000000% with this. I mean, it's nice on BOTW when you enter a dungeon for the first time and see how it is. But then, after you realize that all of them are pretty much equal and even play the same way (with only physics based puzzles), it becomes very underwhelming. But Nintendo is on its way to make better Zelda games, BOTW showed that they at least will (at least I hope) stop with the extreme handholding.

Noobs still bitch about BoTWs durability system.

Gives a me boner every time one of them moans about it.

 

[ManjuShri]

No Link's Awakening, what is this faggotry. It's my most replayed 2d title...but that's probably because it's kind of short.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/157222444?t=02h57m25s

 

[Rivmusique]

Playing Minish Cap atm, this "kinstone" shit is just horrible. Put all those neat little treasures that are just off the path behind vines/whatever until the player talks to villagers at random until he can match a stone and watch a cutscene that puts a flashing marker on the map. NOW you can get your 50 rupees, well done. Also, the Cap comes straight in with the navi nonsense nearly every time you meet a new monster, can we not have a second to work this out ourselves? I like the look of a lot of it though, especially when you're small. And the new music tracks have been neat, but when you get back to an area with classic Zelda tracks they feel weird. May end up dropping this.

Anyone played Minish Cap, Link's Awakening, LTTP and Oracle of x? Thinking of giving Oracle a proper go, but if you tell me it's closer to Minish than either of the others, forget it.

 

[Ivan]

I grew up on Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, but Breath of the Wild really blew me away. It felt like those games but with more Gothic elements.

 

[Ash]

Have played:

Zelda 2, Links Awakening, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time.

Links Awakening and Link to the Past are probably just as good as one another, that being very good.
Zelda 2 and Ocarina of Time are also probably just as good as one another, that being not very. Or OK I guess, some things about them just really ground my gears.

Oh, I also played Minish Cap, but not for long enough to have any valid input.

 

[aweigh]

i am triggered by the OP calling the zelda series "jrpgs".