Best Zelda games
 

Fact: Zelda fuhking rules.

1. A Link To The Past
Has to be the record for most time I've spent with a game in my life. Basically Zelda III was my freshman and sophomore years of high school. I'd rock it every Friday night religously while rockin' a cassette boombox full of my homemade hip hop mixes. (y'all remember cassingles??) This game is still amazing to me now. It's a 2D masterpiece. Epic. Brilliant.

2. The Legend Of Zelda
Less story than above. Less graphical jawdrop inducements. But still a vast and incredible game that came out EARLY in the 8bit NES lifespan and created a very high bar in which games struggled to compete with. Plus, that ish is hard.

3. The Wind Waker
Unbelievably huge map. Great story. Lush graphics. Beautiful sound and score. And characters that actually feel human. Perhaps my favorite game of whatever console generation GameCube is considered.

4. Link's Awakening
I think there's a colorized version now, but I had the original GB cart back in the day. Hard to believe that the style and complexity of a game created for SNES (see my #1 above) could be applied to an 8bit pea-green and black handheld and be so great.

5. The Adventure Of Link
Oft-considered the worst in the series for being a side-scroller. But it's actually a terrific game, especially if you got sucked in back when it was originally released. A huge game... and a super-hard game! Plus, there was that jumping downward stab move.

For me it'd be:

1. Ocarina Of Time
2. A Link To The Past
3. Wind Waker
4. Link's Awakening
5. Majora's Mask

Ocarina of Time changed my lifeeeeeeee.

A Link To The Past is a masterpiece... Wind Waker is great until you need to collect pieces of the triforce.

oh and my top 5 is nearly the exact same as syrfox's

Link's Awakening was easily the best.

man i want to play this game again!

1. Ocarina of Time - Impossibly amazing game. I've played through it 3 times. Just so perfect!

2. A Link to the Past - Groundbreaking when it came out, even playing through it today (I played through it again 2 years ago), it still hasn't lost any of its charm.

3. Majora's Mask - This game is so dark! While at first, the "going back in time because the moon is going to fall!" gimmick kinda of annoyed me, it ended up being really brilliant, and though there aren't many dungeons, the dungeons here are amongst the longest and most difficult of any Zelda game.

4. Twilight Princess - People will scoff and say this one was too easy, but man... I dunno. It was so fun! Just FUN. Yeah, the puzzles weren't that great, and I was never stuck at any point in the game, but... just so fun. Those magnetic boots? Man...

5. Wind Waker - This one is pretty easy too. I loved the sailing, that was my favorite part. In fact, the game is completely perfect until the end when you HAVE to get the giant fairy wallet (after finding the "bigger" fairy wallet, so you can upgrade to the giant one), then get THOUSANDS of rupees so after you find the triforce maps you can pay tingle to transcribe them so you can sail around and get all the triforce pieces. Jesus, that part took hours, and though I love sailing, it felt tedious, tacked on, etc. The rest of the game's absolutely brilliant.

6. Minnish Cap - Brilliant and often overlooked game with the hardest Zelda endboss ever. I never beat him actually. I want to make a note here that, since we're discussing handheld Zelda games, I played through part of Phantom Hourglass and that one was by far the easiest Zelda game. Way too simple. No heart pieces!

7. Zelda II: Adventures of Link - NR pretty much nailed it above, but this one isn't without flaws. It's EXTREMELY difficult, frustratingly so (and I'm a good gamer; I've beaten every Mega Man game, for example!). But it's not without its charms.

8. Oracle of Seasons/Oracle of Ages (counting 'em as one game) - Impossibly beautiful and epic game(s). Gotta give credit to Capcom (!) for not ruining the spirit of Nintendo's development (for example, I was thinking at one time, I'd run across Ryu or something just sitting at a bench).

9. Link's Awakening - I don't remember much of this one, I played it on the SUPER GAME BOY back in the day, I remember being frustrated with it at first since but it ended up being the first Zelda game I really got into. Just brilliant.

10. Zelda - This one hasn't aged all that well, but it's still an extremely clever and brain-bending game.

That's probably my top 10.

The fact that Link's Awakening managed to use the lamest copout ending ever, without feeling like you were cheated speaks volumes about how good it was.




It was all just a dream...

Ocarina of Time. That's all you need.

Ocarina of Time
Wind Waker
Twilight Princess (beautiful looking)
Majora's Mask
the first one

this chick loves the triforce

Between this and the Zelda/rap mashup thread, I'm busting out my Zelda Collectors Edition. There goes the rest of my day.

i just started playing phantom hourglass...man...i hate that when i want to move left or up all i see is my fist covering the screen...stupid design...im selling my ds...ive played 4 games and none are up to my standards i guess

but fucking yay zelda...
1. ocarina
2. twilight
3. waker

I never finished Twilight Princess. Am I a bad person?

Actually I think that's what I'll do this weekend :)

or... I have my exams soon so I get a MONTH off. Now, usually you're supposed to study in this month but I just CAN'T sit in my house and study... I have too short of an attention span (though I can play a game until the end and watch 2 hour movies that have a slow pace hmm). So yeah, instead of studying and making sure I don't become a bum when I'm older, I think I will fully play through Twilight Princess haha. I'm not even THAT far into it... I got to the first dungeon after the wolf transformation and kinda ermm... forgot about it.

link got some damn fine legs.

not to derail, but what games? The DS is my favourite current gen system, and I'm having ridiculous fun with it. Also, invest in a flashcard (cycldods is the best right now) and just pirate the games/run emulators on it. More than worth your money then =^.^=

yeah, the ds is the best system ever, really.

A Link To The Past is probably my favorite. right next to Link's Awakening. I remember looking on the inside of Apple Jack cereal boxes for hints to Link To The Past hoping it'd tell me where the fuck i could find the hammer.

I downloaded Ocarina on the Wii and it's amazing how I'm played that game straight for hours.

final fantasy 4- was interesting for the first few hours, then became a typically tedious/redundant rpg...didnt finish it

new super mario-the most boring and uncreative level design ever...got to world 5, didnt finish

animal crossing-amusing for a coupole weeks, but i havent checked my town since december

phantom hourglass-in the first dungeon...generic beginning, annoying touch screen only controls have me rather pessimistic, though im definitely gonna give it more time

trust me...i really really want to love the ds..i was hoping it was gonna be super nintendo 2...its just disapointed me so far...i welcome any recommendations that you think will change my mind... im not into redundant or generic games and thats all ive really come across

Since I can't get Chrono Trigger for my super nintendo, I will get it for my DS. woo woo.

Contra 4
Peggle
Mario Kart DS
Castlevania: Order Of Ecclessia (only Metroidvania I've ever liked)
Ouendan (japanese version of Elite Beat Agents, much more fun though)
The World Ends With You
those are all decent to great reasons to own a DS

disgaea ds, the most addictive game ever if you haven't played any other NiS games.

haha, haven't seen this in like a year!

Oh dude, your town is going to be completely overgrown. Expect all of your cutest catgirls to hate you and move away.

That said, my favoite Zelda games are 'A Link to the Past' and 'Wind Waker.'

I started with the original on NES and while it's a classic and all much better has come out since. 'Ocarina of Time' was good, but as they were just breaking into 3-D gaming it was particularly ugly and the environments and enemies were sparse. I didn't die a single time on my first playthrough.

'Wind Waker' introduced an infinitely better combat system, which was further honed for 'Twilight Princess.' And hey, I actually died a few times playing both. I really liked 'Twilight Princess,' the only thing it lacked for me was some of the difficulty (mainly in its puzzles and earlier bosses.) But I guess that's in part due to the fact that they were using it to bring Zelda to a new generation of gamers. Also, being a Zelda completist I of course by the end of the game had all of the heart container pieces and four bottles with fairies in them, which makes getting a Game Over even harder. I like it when the game REQUIRES you to get all of these things if you hope to survive, rather than making things easier for you by getting them. The next installment will offer more in the way of a challenge, hopefully. I'm hoping for some insanely difficult boss battles, the ones in which the boss doesn't become easy once you figure out the trick to defeating them.

I never played any of the Gameboy or DS Zelda games, having never owned any portable gaming system.

There was a part in Wind Waker that was so fucking hard for me. The part where you had to use the leaf and hit the tornado thing to sail over the water into the next "level." I must've fallen a dozen times.

best invention:

That sucks. I just played through Chrono Trigger last week. Fantastic game. I got a Super Nintendo for free and an absurd amount of games with it. I just started Pokemon Blue again so I won't be able to play anything else for a while. That game is worse than crack.

Although, back on subject, Zelda is quite possibly my favorite gaming series of all time. I played Link's Awakening the entire ride down to New Mexico on the bus.

Metroid 2 thrown in for awesomeness + original cartridge fact

Metroid II is amazing, too bad the last boss is so damn hard :(

A Link To The Past was the only Zelda game I ever played to the end.

I remember being to young for the original Zelda and just watching my brother play it till I got bored.

zelda is probably my favourite game series

1. majora's mask
2. twilight princess
3. a link to the past
4. phantom hourglass
5. ocarina of time
6. wind waker
7. link's awakening

Zelda is my favorite series. Followed by Mega Man.

Metroid II is the only Metroid I really spent a lot of time on. I think the SNES one looks like crap. And I never played the GC one.

If you look at the releases, and especially re-releases (and backwards compatability)... then Gameboy Advance is one of the greatest systems ever.

Super Metroid is the greatest game of all time.

the first GC metroid game was great, the second one just seemed shit, i played about 2 hours and was bored the whole way through, didn't play it again after that.

Metroid Prime 1 might be my favorite game of all time, along Ocarina Of Time
I enjoyed Metroid Prime 2 as well, though it's not near the awesomeness of the #1, it's still really good (and it includes the best videogame music ever in Underwater Torvus)
Metroid Prime 3 is fantastic as well.
It'd be 1 > 3 > 2
But overall, 1 > all

That may be, but I never got past not liking the way it looked. Not sure why.

You're missing out!

The music in that game........ oh my god!

I'll check it out at some point then. My current "must get" is still pretty long.