What is your favorite Zelda?
 

It's that time again boys and girls. With Twilight Princess settled in everyone's mind now, possibly your opinions have changed, or perhaps you don't give two charred dodango corpses about it. That's cool too. Vote for your favorite Zelda game and tell the world where you stand....or just the people on this forum....I'll shut up now.

Nothing can ever play like Ocarina of Time. I could play that game forever. I've played it so many times, I don't even have to think about playing the game anymore. I just let my hand patterns play the game for me. It's just the most memorable game for me.

I guess you kinda saw my decision coming a mile away, but I stand by it. Best Zelda ever.

I'm not at all familliar with TP yet (or half of the GB games), so my vote goes to A Link To The Past (SNES version cuz I don't approve of playing a 6-button game on a 4-button system).

Dit to the tizzo.8)

My problem is I like different elements from each Zelda. I like the epic feel and story of OoT, love the style of Wind Waker, and enjoy the more complex puzzles in Twilight Princess.

If I had to choose, though. The Wind Waker.

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I go with Twilight, because it honors my former favorite, Ocarina for reference, in subtle (and not so subtle) ways, yet it kicks it's ass in every department I could ever want. It offers a cinematic feel, plot twists, amazing music, and character endearment previously unknown to the series, all the while preserving the original feel and maxing it out in every possible aspect. I can't possibly think of anything I could ever want from a game that Twilight doesn't offer, which is why if the game is indeed the last of it's style, I'm glad it went out on this one.

And Midina is the best sidekick ever, bar none.

It was a toss up between OoT, and TP...

Thats not to say I didn't love the **** out of WW, cause I did, it's easily in my top 15 games of all time.

But I voted TP.

Voted Link to the Past. No other Zelda game even comes close to how great it was IMO.

I've retracted my dislike of the Wind Waker and have come to this thread with a good answer.

I liked OOT and Link To The Past the best. I didn't play Zelda for too long, but I enjoyed OOT alot. The fight with Ganondorf, the challenge in the Temples, and that Master Quest thats out on Gamecube. Makes for some challenging gaming.

It was so hard to pick 1.. There was soo many excellent games on the list however OOT is the one I picked. Despite the graphics now, the game is still a masterpiece. Link to the past was my 2nd pick. Twilight princess is good but it didn't feel like the "best" zelda game ever.. It is excellent but it was overhyped thinking it was going to be the best...

For me it's a tie between LttP and WW but I voted for WW.

I firmly believe every game on this list is a true example that good gameplay and good story will always outlive graphics. LttP and OoT prove this now, and I believe TP will join them.

My Favo Zelda is:
Zelda XI: Twilight Princess
So I'm voted that :P

Link's awakening all the way, baby. It's one of those three Gameboy Games I just couldn't stop playing (The others are Tetris and Mario 2). But this Zelda is just godly. And it gets even more fun when you have the L2-sword.

Too bad I don't have a Gameboy anymore.

Link's Awakening was actually the first Zelda I ever played so it will always have a dear place in my heart.

I have so many memories tied to playing the original Legend of Zelda its hard not to pick it...its still a game I play from time to time...

WW is a very close second...I LOVED the style and gameplay of the game like no other...

I love both NES ones, but Zelda II will always be my favourite. I really don't know why, probably because it took me forever to actually finish... but screw that maze palace and those damn Moas. I don't know why so many people dislike this game.

I think everyone knows my favorite is The Wind Waker. Yeah it has its flaws, but the sheer love that went into this game is just amazing. Games like this one are why I play video games.

Second is Ocarina of Time. It hasn't aged too greatly, but it was a masterpiece for its time.

I always thought the game has aged very well (especially in comparison to, let's say Mario 64). The controls feel a bit clunky compared to WW and some of the graphics are just horrible but overall it's still a lot fun to play.

As much as I love Twilight Princess, I'm going with ALttP. I still remember the sense of awe I had after I killed Agahnim for the first time and got tossed in to the Dark World. Come Ocarina, I expected something like that.

And the items! Christ, the first time around I must have spent days trying to find the Staff of Bryna... or digging up the Flute and calling the chicken.

This was also the first Zelda that I dug everything out of. Every heart, every bottle, every item, every upgrade... I sunk months into the game with no help aside from a quick glance from a little black book it came with.

Yeah, perhaps not the best choice of words on my part. My point was that the game does feel dated - Which of course is logical as it's almost 10 years old (Damn, time flies).

Okay since, I own all 11 games mentioned.I personally, prefer Zelda 3 because of the gameplay it's playing Zelda 1 all over.The music, is good since it's used in several games after.The Fairy music theme is in several games.So is Ganon's theme.The Hyrule Castle music.Get master sword music, first used in Zelda 3.
My second game, is Zelda Twilight Princess.

This thread is from 2007. Kinda funny to see the OP calling Wind Waker the most controversial Zelda of them all. Things sure have changed in the past 19 years :lol: Nowadays, surely that title belongs to Skyward Sword or even Majora's Mask? I mostly hear/read praise for Wind Waker nowadays.

Anyway, I'm one of those that never really took to Wind Waker, but my problem with the game was never with its cel-shading graphics. I just really dislike that game's pacing and being a little too easy. The ocean as a overworld wasn't to my liking either. And I hate the Triforce quest.

Ocarina haf the most votes in the poll... back in 2007 lots of people still considered OOT the epitome of Zelda and possibly gaming as well. Myself included. Many of us were teenagers or young adults at the time and still had our childhood memories of OOT intact.

Twilight Princess as the possible successor to the throne that Ocarina sits on is also rather amusing. TP was indeed the newest game at the time and it had a lot of hype for it. Some loved it. Others not so much.

No one could have predicted Breath of the Wild and its big change of formula for the series 10 years before the fact.

No Phantom Hourglass even though it came out in 2007? Interesting. Spirit Tracks came out in 2009. I'd say those DS Zelda games are more controversial than Wind Waker as well..

People were pissed about Wind Waker. With Ocarina of Time it seemed like we were moving toward a somewhat more realistic looking Link and a bit more "grown up"... then Wind Waker drops and it is all toony and like for little kids.

Those aren't that controversial because nobody played them.

Don't know about favourite but Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are probably the ones I've devoted the most time to.

After my first post in this thread from 19 years ago, I played the two DS games, Skyward Sword and A Link between worlds. The latter was the only one I enjoyed.

Yes, I remember very well. But, again, that's just the superficial aspect. I actually think the cell-shading in WW has a lot of charm. My problems with the game have nothing to do with its graphics.

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Lis...tendo_DS_games

Nobody? Phantom Hourglass sold nearly 5 million copies worldwide. Spirit Tracks nearly 3 million only. But nonetheless, it's a bit of a stretch to say no one played them. PH's numbers are on par with Link's Awakening on the GB/GBC, and ST's numbers are just a million lower than the Oracles of Ages and Seasons games combined. Would you say no one played those Game Boy Zelda games either?

Well, if we're going down that road then NES Zelda is up there for me as well since I've played it a lot as a little kid. But it's not among my favourites anymore, no.

I tried to play Spirit Tracks... but using the DS stylus to move Link instead of the ****ing D-pad? No, thanks.

A Link Between Worlds was fine. But I got done with it in a week or so. Don't have much desire to replay it ever and it was somewhat similar to ALTTP, anyway.

I haven't played Skyward Sword, and I'm not sure if I want to play my brother's Wii copy of it or if I should just buy the HD remaster for the Switch instead, if I do decide to play it.

Also, confession: Am yet to play Twilight Princess.

That's kinda my point, just because I've invested more time into those games does not mean I like them the most. BotW I've most likely just played so much because of how huge the game worlds are, had they've been smaller I might not have played them as much.

Although I do know I've played OoT and MM so much because I've actually replayed them several times over. OoT I did own as a little kid but I didn't play MM until I was a teenager, so the former I may be more nostalgic for while the latter I must have gotten into after my gaming tastes got refined.

My favorite Zelda game was called "Shadow of the Colossus".

I know the game's title, obviously, but I haven't played it and I have no idea what it's like. I guess it's similar to Zelda? But how so? I mean, Okami gets called a Zelda clone sometimes, but I think that's a little unfair. Okami is inspired by Zelda to some degree? Sure. But different enough to have its own identity and the game being a very different experience from Zelda.

Shadow of the Colossus has the spirit of a Zelda game in essentially every way that counts except for "small enemy combat". The main character and the girl he seeks to save might as well be Link and Zelda themselves, and the world is epic beyond belief. The camera and scope really deliver on that world as well.

The game has a very dark turn at the end, and I think the best way to frame it is that "Shadow of the Colossus" could be called a LOZ game in much the same way that "Brightburn" was a "Superman" movie. Not necessarily because of "dark overtones" but more because of the implied DNA of the whole thing.

Basically it's clearly not, but it is.

Interesting. Sounds like a good game. And it seems it had a remaster in 2018 but it's a PS4 exclusive. A console I don't own. The only Sony console I own is the PS2.

Apparently, Dark Souls is heavily inspired by Zelda as well.

No idea what Brightburn is.

Shadow of the Colossus is a PS2 masterpiece. If you have an upscaling HDMI cable on your PS2 (most of us do now if you still own the system) then the original game would still look great.

Riding around the world on the horse is a ton of fun, but when the Colossus climbs begin it goes over the top. It's a very good game. If you ever see it for the PS2 try it out - it was very popular so it can usually be found cheap at the resale stores.

Or just pull it into an emulator and crank it to 3840 x 2160.

I've been experimenting with several games on PS2, PS3, and 3DS emulators lately and getting great results in HDMIng them to the big TV from my laptop with the settings kicked up.

Oh that's pretty cool.....

I believe you guys it's a good game and all but I'm not sure i'll ever get to play it. My backlog is big and new games keep coming out. I can't play every single great game that's been made. ;)