Which is the best Zelda of them all - rate your favourite!

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:39 am

A Link to the Past on the SNES. in my opinion the best game on the SNES and one of the big contender for Greatest game of all time.

then Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link, really fun, long and epic game for the NES, one of the best game of the console.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:13 am

Got the Gamecube Zelda Collector's Edition from a friend again, found my old save on a memory card. Just beat the Great Bay Temple tonight. These 3d Zeldas can be really frustrating, it took a lot of practice to get used to the controls again. I plan to see it through all the way to the end this time. On my N64 copy I was stuck at the fourth and final temple.

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:21 pm

That was very tricky for me, too, but in retrospect I think Stone Tower Temple is one of the best-designed dungeons in the series.

Anyway, I voted for Majora's Mask, but I've played through all of them except the recent handhelds. I have to give props to Adventure of Link, which was unique and lots of fun.

Right now I'm finishing up the Oracles games.

KyleRXZero · Post by **KyleRXZero** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:34 am

LTTP is my personal fave. I've played through that one a good bit. I personally prefer the old school Zeldas over the 3D ones. I had a blast playing Four Swords multi on the GC as well.

Impervious · Post by **Impervious** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:05 am

four swords was fun. except that it was one of the shortest multiplayer adventure games ever =\

...ah crap, gauntlet: dark legacy popped up in my head. now i wanna play.

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szycag · Post by **szycag** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:10 am

Hah! I'm to the Ikana Canyon or whatever already, and I just saved the zombie dad guy in the music box house, then I went back in and the girl was only sort of grateful to me, so I talked to her with the cursed mask on that falls off of the dad when you save him... she's like IT'S BEEN TOO MUCH ALREADY!! and the game throws me out of the house... I'm such a bastard.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:23 am

Glad to see someone's playing Majora - a bit of a shame you revisited the save file after all this time (kind of means you need to use some serious memory skills when it comes to the people of clock town) but if you're in Ikana, you're getting there now - plenty of suprises ahead!

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:37 am

I'm surprised how much was coming back to me actually, and I probably wouldn't have started playing again if I had to start from the beginning... I remember the game being really slow from the outset. The game only really starts picking up once you get to Snowhead and get the Goron powers. Rolling around Termina at full blast with the Goron is my favorite memory of the game.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:49 am

Yeah, there's a nice revving up into the Goron spin - it's an awesome game because you get to be so many cool things!

Impervious · Post by **Impervious** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:21 am

agreed to the game starting slow. kind of turned me off.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:54 am

Another vote for Majora's Mask, epic game with lots of places to visit. Needs another play from me sometime.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:00 pm

I beat Majora's Mask, I don't think I'd change my vote though. As cool as the premise is, sorry, I just still can't get over the execution. Having to play that damn song to make statues in the last castle got so aggrevating... oh and there's one part in the end game where you have to use Bombchus to blow holes in the ceiling... but you only get 10, and if you use them all (it's really hard to judge distance with them...) time to save, play the song of double time six times, then wait several minutes and do the mask trading all over again. It's underrated, and it's very refreshing for a Zelda game, but it doesn't stand up against 3 through 5.

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:44 pm

A Link to the Past on the SNES, closely followed by the very first one on NES.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:09 pm

szycag wrote:I beat Majora's Mask, I don't think I'd change my vote though. As cool as the premise is, sorry, I just still can't get over the execution. Having to play that damn song to make statues in the last castle got so aggrevating... oh and there's one part in the end game where you have to use Bombchus to blow holes in the ceiling... but you only get 10, and if you use them all (it's really hard to judge distance with them...) time to save, play the song of double time six times, then wait several minutes and do the mask trading all over again. It's underrated, and it's very refreshing for a Zelda game, but it doesn't stand up against 3 through 5.

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szycag · Post by **szycag** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:10 pm

Don't be bitter, I still loved it. I will say this for it, it is the most imaginative and thought provoking of all the Zeldas, it really sticks with you.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:37 pm

Nah, only kidding dude - you're entitled to your opinion of course and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I didn't struggle much with the mechanics and found the game challenging, but never to a frustrating point. I'm not sure why you found the bombchu bit so tough, but I'll agree MM is not as forgiving as some of the others in the series.

Unless you've collected all the masks though, you really haven't finished it at all - there's a surprising amount of game surrounding the collection of each one.

TLDragoon · Post by **TLDragoon** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:24 pm

I really can't decide.

I love Zelda 2. It's the first game I remember actually giving me that "epic" feeling. The journey too and through the final temple is still one of my favorite sequences in a game.

Ocarina of Time is one of 2 games that I can remember seeing and knowing instantly that I had to have it. While I can do without the droll of the first 3 dungeons, the Temple of Sand more than makes up for it.

Most people hate the sea in Wind Waker. I loved it. It captured this feeling of solitude that I had never quite experienced in a game before...in a good way that is. A lot of games with land feel barren unintentionally due to poor design, but using a vast sea intentionally brings forth a feeling of loneliness which is juxtaposed with the elation of seeing land on the horizon. Could have used less Tingle though (which causes me to curse Majora's Mask to this day for introducing him

).

TLB · Post by **TLB** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:23 am

Link's Awakening is amazing.

Seasons was pretty decent, but as a Zelda game...nuh. If they'd made it an original game, it could've been so much more...or less...

OoT...Grand scale, epic, and all that, but...I just wasn't motivated that much.

Majora's Mask...It's one of the most mindbending games I've ever played, but since my Gamecube died (WTF?!), unless I decide to shell out for it, I'll likely never play through it in its entirety.

Minish Cap, never got a chance to play.

Link to the Past was a damn fine game. But nowhere near the level of Link's Awakening. Well, NEAR it, I suppose, but...eh.

I plan on spending a weekend chillin' with my friend, listening to System of a Down, drinking something tasty, and playing Twilight Princess all night. Gotta get around to that one of these days. I don't like it especially, but hey, it's Zelda. Good games, mysterious and immersive atmosphere.

Wind Waker. Yuck. Not a BAD game, but just...not one I ever want to play again. In my life.

Ages sucked for a Zelda game.

I'm trying to remember whether I've forgotten any =P

Zelda 2...meh. Could do without.

So yeah. Zelda. Good ol' shit. I WANT TO PLAY MY CAVE GAMES! DAMMIT! *storms off in a stormy, dark huff*

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:29 am

I'll join the A Link to the Past fans in here with Link's Awakening a very close second.

Never got in to the 3D Zeldas...

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