Best Legend of Zelda game.

[UnKillFill]

So I've been replaying through old Legend of Zelda games, and I wonder... Which LoZ game does Kiwifarms as a whole think is the best? (Please defend your choice if you can)

 

[The Captain]

TP > BOTW > OOT

 

[frozenrunner]

I love or like all of the Zelda games except Zelda 2, so it's hard to choose. But Majora's Mask was such a refreshing change of pace for the series that I have to pick it. (I haven't finished Breath of the Wild, though.)

I thought I hated the concept of the repeated three days until I tried it and saw how brilliantly they executed the idea. The game was much darker and more bizarre than anything else in Zelda which I appreciated, and it was interesting how it took what you learned about the world in OoT and used that to subvert your expectations and create a nightmarish "mirror universe." All this from a game I thought was going to be a cheap reuse of assets.

In fact the only thing about MM I don't like is that it marked the first absence of a Kondo original soundtrack in a mainline Zelda game. MM's soundtrack is great, nevertheless.

 

[tofu dog]

This is a really difficult choice, but I went with OoT. Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but its place in the series was an important precedent for how they handled basically all of the following entries up until BotW (and even then, it's still somewhat formulaic once you get past the initial 400+ hours of awe and wonder.)

Then again, I really don't think I've ever truly disliked any of the games. OoT and MM hold a lot of nostalgia and emotion for me, and I thought TP was excellent as well. The whole series is very good at subtle references and call backs to the other games, which is a pretty good way to be, I think.

In regards to game play, though, I gotta give it to BotW. Link Between Worlds was also really fun

 

[Black Waltz]

I like all of them, but if I had to choose, I would go with Twilight Princess with Breath of the Wild being a close second.

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

Zelda 2 gets a bad rap. It's the most skill-based game in the series, and the additional mechanics make it the best 8-bit ARPG, bar none. It's also got a surprisingly coherent world, with things like unlockable shortcuts that make geographic sense, and NPCs that were (for the time) useful and interesting.

Objectively, there are superior games later on, but Adventure of Link has been near and dear to me my entire life.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

Skyward Sword, because it’s the only one I’ve played so far.

 

[Red Hood]

Link's Awakening is my favorite. Also maybe one of the 3 or 4 original Game Boy games I actually like.

Zelda 2 is also pretty underrated. Play it with an open mind and it's a lot of fun, not to mention a solid challenge with great dungeon design.

 

[vertexwindi]

BotW because I chug soy on an hourly basis.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Believe it or not I picked Oracle of Seasons. Both games from the Oracle series were fantastic. But I found Oracle of Seasons to be more fun because it blended more simple puzzle solving with hack and slash. Basically what I loved about the Game Boy Zelda games.

 

[ES 148]

Spirit Tracks is amazing in basically every way. Pure Zelda.

 

[RadicalCentrist]

MM > WW > LA

Prove me wrong.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Twilight Princess. Fight me.

 

[Nekromantik]

I picked Link to the Past because that's the first video game I can remember being hyped for before it came out. It's pure nostalgia. Link's Awakening would be a close second.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

OoT > A Link to the Past > Breath of the Wild

Although it's a toss up between OoT and ALttP for me.

The amount of stuff they pulled off with SNESs capabilities for ALttP and the "correction" in gameplay style after NESs awkward entry of Zelda II really makes it shine for me in the series.

OoT was groundbreaking though and I enjoyed it more than Majora's Mask. As far as I'm concerned, OoT set the gameplay formula for the rest of the series, including BotW.

BotW is a damn fine game, easily the most fun I've had playing any game since I dove into the Dark Souls series for 6 months.

 

[QB 290]

Minis cap is the one I enjoyed the most but I think the conventionally best zelda was spirit tracks. Breath of the wild gets the bronze medal because it is also fantastic

 

[XYZpdq]

LttP, Awakening, and the GBC games were nice. I don't think I finished the GBA one.

 

[NeoDelorean]

WW > BotW > LA

 

[UE 558]

You forgot Link's Crossbow Training

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Wind Waker is pretty much my favorite, but a lot of that is because it was the first Zelda game I ever played.