Best Zelda Games?

[Wisenheimer]

Don't forget the Zelda games for the CD-i. Man they are awful.

I think there are only two Phillips CD-I emulators of any worth out there, and neither can play the Zelda games right.

 

[Another World]

definitely check out a link to the past. its on snes and gba.

All zelda games are worth playing except Zelda 2 for NES.

i recently played through zelda II. while it is a bad zelda-themed game, it is an excellent action-adventure platforming game. it is extremely challenging. it merges multiple genres. with a script rewrite and some sprite hacks (to remove zelda references), it would be a much better game.

-another world

 

[Arras]

I'd say for 2D play either A Link Between Worlds or Minish Cap first - both are great games and both are good ways to get into 2D Zelda. For 3D Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess are my favorites. That said Okami is a lot like Zelda and on the same level of quality (I'd say it surpasses OoT myself and the art style is amazing), so you should consider that game too. There's a Wii port but if you have a PS3 you may want to get the HD version on PSN.

 

[orcid]

Well, personally I didn't like MM much either but I know for a fact that people exist who would bully you out of this forum for your post.

I know that many people really love this game and this is the reason I tried the game several times, but it`s really not the typical Zelda game. I think if you like one of the Zelda games you will enjoy the other games (besides MM and Zelda2), too, although you might love one more than another. But MM stands out positively or negatively.

 

[WiiUBricker]

I know that many people really love this game and this is the reason I tried the game several times, but it`s really not the typical Zelda game. I think if you like one of the Zelda games you will enjoy the other games (besides MM and Zelda2), too, although you might love one more than another. But MM stands out positively or negatively.

Which is possibly the reason why MM 3D hasn't been released.

 

[SLiV3R]

All of them besides the ds zelda games

 

[Patxinco]

Two words, Water Temple. That was the most frustrating experience ever, especially going back and playing it on an emulator, where it crashes a lot, even on Nintendo's official emulator.

True, that was just the craziest thing in the game, many times i have thrown the controler in that temple, i'm suprised that still works ^^

 

[Ace Overclocked]

Twilight Princess all the way man!

 

[FAST6191]

Apologies if someone else mentioned them but hey.

RodrigoDavy's categories seem reasonable, though "Traditional 3D" for N64 Zeldas has triggered my "bloody hell you are old" reflex.

I am mainly here to mention thanks to hackers the nonsense that was badly touchscreen driven DS stuff was replaced with wholesome buttons, for the most part anyway (there are still a few puzzles). There were many great uses of the DS touchscreen but those games were not one of them.

Also on the subject of hacking there have been some great hacks for the SNES Link to the Past ( http://www.romhacking.net/?page=hac...gory=&perpage=20&title=&author=&hacksearch=Go ), the main forerunner being http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/197/ . The "link gets laid" hack for the non DX version of GB Zelda I am also duty bound to mention.

If you are going to suffer the N64 games then do it on an emulator with texture replacement and a good controller.

My general opinion is in 2014 all but the pre DS handheld lines (increasing the include the DS stuff if you hack the controls) are probably not worth the effort if you are looking for gameplay (there are quite a few games like the modern zeldas on every platform that matters), possible slim exception for wind waker but I would be tempted to get a version that skips a lot of the triforce fishing parts. If you are studying a bit of gameplay history then go for it I guess.

 

[Depravo]

My personal favourites are Link to the Past and Wind Waker.

 

[Sparks43]

For anyone who is interested there is a couple of links to zelda podcasts that myself and a couple of other retro lovers created a couple of years ago.

Had an absolute blast making them and hope you enjoy.

As for the OP i would start with LTTP then Link between Worlds




http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-episode-7-the-legend-of-zelda-series-part-1/

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retropodcast-episode-8-the-legend-of-zelda-series-part-2/

 

[GamerzHell9137]

There's no " Best Zelda game " cause some of them like Wind Waker and some not.
I'm not a fan of it nor i'm a big fan of Zelda but the ones i liked were the DS Zelda games and Minish Cap.

 

[cateater1]

Play The Minish cap. fairly short but a quality title for the GBA.

 

[mkdms14]

I think there all good with the exception of those 3 abomination that we shall pretend never happen: Wand of Gamelon, Faces of Evil, and Zelda's Adventure.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Twilight Princess, the one true god.

 

[The Catboy]

It's hard to say which one is the "best" since all of them are pretty amazing and worth playing, but personally I love Wind Waker, A Link to the Past, and Majora's Mask.

 

[GHANMI]

There's no " Best Zelda game " cause some of them like Wind Waker and some not.
I'm not a fan of it nor i'm a big fan of Zelda but the ones i liked were the DS Zelda games and Minish Cap.

I was amazed in the beginning by the graphics of Wind Waker, but when I actually played it, it felt so irritating. So much wasted potential!
If you're familiar with Hyrule Historia, this game was not only missing four dungeons (Third Pearl, Fire, Ice, Magic Arrows), but there was a whole explorable Old Hyrule at one point, which may explain the eight Tingle quests, a filler to replace the missing original content (the book mentions a fisherman that transport you to/from Old Hyrule, plus the HUGE detailed Old Hyrule overworld.)
This game (and it's HD port, which only streamlined it, not without cutting even further content: a Tingle quest across dungeons) reeks wasted potential.
The obvious cuts, the dungeon design (for five dungeons plus a handful of Ice and Fire rooms) was very sub-par for the series, and the whole Tingle mess was just the icing on the cake.

Which is a shame, because I wanted so badly to love that game beyond its amazing art direction.
But that's expected as the result of rushed development. They wanted to make a Wind Waker 2 at one point, and even acknowledged the lack of content in the game, but that project got fulfilled as the Twilight Princess we know now; and part of what made it great it had literally all the genius that was originally planned for Wind Waker.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Zelda 1, Minish Cap, Oracle games, LTTP, Link's Awakening, Majora's Mask, and Twilight Princess were the only good Zelda games IMO. Rest were pretty crap or just downright boring really.

 

[lampdemon]

+1 to Majora's Mask(best IMO) and Twilight Princess GC(Wii version is inferior), for 2d zeldas, Link's Awakening and Oracles games.

 

[gamefan5]

Played all zelda games and all are worth to play (barring cdi games)
The ones I actually detest are the DS iterations. I particularly prefer the old games due to their difficulty. Other than that, I loved all zelda games barring the DS ones,