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With the release of a new Zelda game, it's time to update my list. 1 - A Link to the Past -- (The most perfect entry in every way) 2 - Ocarina of Time -- (Has lots of great memorable locales) 3 - A Link Between Worlds -- (Very accessible game with lots of player freedom) 4 - The Wind Waker HD...

For your 3DS, I would get both Ocarina of Time 3D and A Link Between Worlds.

To be honest, my first impressions of the series (well before I became a fan) were negative. I found Wind Waker's Forsaken Fortress (the 1st dungeon) so difficult and frustrating, I gave up on the game until 6 years later. If only I knew the rest of it was so good!! I found Twilight Princess...

Look at the first 10 full games in the series: LOZ, AOL, ALTTP, LA, OOT, MM, OOA, OOS, FS, TWW. 8 widely acclaimed highly influential titles and only 2 duds. Since then, the series has gotten inconsistent (some really good, and some not so good) and none of the later Zelda games had the same...

It's not a bad game, but it's certainly not in my top 10 either. To best summarize it, I think TFH is the best of the worst Zelda games. I don't think TFH even touches LOZ, ALTTP, LA, OOT, OOA, OOS, MM, TWW, TMC, TP, SS, and ALBW. At the bottom: Four Swords was a sandwich short of a picnic...

I kept my expectations low (with a little window of hope it would surprise me). For the most part, it was what I expected: a game that's decent but isn't up to par with many of the other Zelda games.

10 changes: 720p and improve textures Save statues Make the opening tutorials skippable Fix the Tears of Light quests Populate Hyrule Field Make the character animations better Tighten up the late-game statue quest Hero Mode available from the beginninjg Epona dashes faster when no enemies are...

Just a wishlist. Choose your background/items design between 1 or 3 games: Legend of Zelda (NES) -- You can pick from a variety of colors to change the dungeon color.. A Link to the Past (SNES) - Choose from "Skull Woods", "Ice Palace", "Tower of Hera", "Desert", "Swamp Palace", "Turtle Rock"...

That it wasn't just a series of rooms, but a whole large atmosphere.

Shield & Sword Dungeon (OOS) City in the Sky (TP)

I'd rather play the game myself.

The Zelda games generally have a timeless quality. Twilight Princess trying to go full large realistic overworld before the technology was realistically there made it age (as least in terms of its overworld) poorly. It was great looking for 2 years. But that's not the metric a Nintendo game...

I loved Wind Waker and liked Twilight Princess, but I don't necessarily agree. Bigger doesn't mean better. In Ocarina of Time, areas were small, but each area felt completely unique and full of personality. I'd rather have a half-cup of orange juice than a full cup of orange juice that's...

I love Skyward Sword personally, and it's in my top 5-6 Zelda games. But I'm going to play devil's advocate and list reasons why some people don't like it. Linear level design Sky overworld is mostly empty Fi (and other dialogue) constantly interrupting you Not a wide array of items Motion...

I resent both Four Swords games because multiplayer is practically not feasible. Adventure of Link is also frustrating to play. There's a difference between challenging and cheap.

Skyward Sword's controls were really fun and immersive. That said, I don't want every future Zelda game doing it. If every future Zelda game had full-on motion controls, Skyward Sword wouldn't be unique anymore.

Odolwa = worse ; the fight was more linear Goht = good ; i liked the additions Gyorg = way better ; actually playable Twinmold = way worse ; actually unplayable

It's a good Zelda game and a bad Star Fox game.

Sometimes I don't think this generation knows what it means to work on problems rather than to completely throw them in the garbage. When there's a problem in a relationship, standard advice is "oh, dump him/her". What's wrong with just working with Aunoma to get a better product rather than...

Probably 2/3 of the people who bought the Wii were buying it as a casual entertainment product (like a Karaoke machine or a pool table) rather than a dedicated gaming device. So, in a way, it was an illusion. I was wrong in saying that 100 million people would honestly consider buying a...

True. It's easy to sell 10-30 million copies on the Wii, but only if you're a party game. By 2011, the Wii was collecting dust. Maybe Skyward Sword would have done better to have been released in 2010 (say they cut out some of the fluff), before the wave of influential games in 2011.

4 million sales is pretty good but there's no reason that a major title from a significant franchise on a system with a 100 million player install base couldn't reach 10 million.

Aunoma did say that he realized players enjoyed being lost and wanted to emphasize less linearity. That's why ALBW was one of the least linear entries in the series and Zelda U is heading that direction as well. Why even be worried based on what we've seen from Aunoma in the past 2 years?

He gave us much of Majora's Mask and Wind Waker. Twilight Princess was purely fan service - he didn't want to make that game to begin with. I will agree that that Skyward Sword (which I loved) and the DS games had some misdirection. The common complaint at the time, keep in mind, was that...

I think it will be released on the Wii U and then ported over to the NX a year or two later.

How would I know?

The author of the article had a few good points in his article, but really just resorted to using buzzwords, sensationalism and personal attacks in order to gain attention. "Perhaps we should just be thankful that Link doesn’t speak, because if he did we’d hear him call Ganondorf “******” more...

I don't think Zelda is racist, but I do think media in general goes along with cultural conventions with certain racial subtexts to them. I think there's a lot of subtle stereotyping that lots of decent people go along with because it seems natural and they don't examine it. It's not because...

If they start developing it late 2017 after Zelda U, and it takes 3 years (as a side project), it'll be released 13 years later (later than Wind Waker HD).

Save-anywhere wouldn't be a good idea because you can just abuse it to avoid dying. Agree. They should make it after Zelda U. Agree. TP is a game of big scope which has a lot to improve on. SS remake could actually happen now ; HD visuals and some surgical fixes is all it really needs...

You said it perfectly, MW7. TP does have better dungeons, but almost everything in between them is forgettable. Skyward Sword may not have as good of dungeons, but it's a more well rounded game overall.

MK8 and SSB4 did a lot of good for the system, but an entire system and an entire marketing strategy can't rest on just 2 hot games.

I agree with you. If Skyward Sword were released with the Wii in 2006, it would have been seen as a hallmark game. So, in a way, Twilight Princess was a better release for its time than Skyward Sword's was for its time. But in absolute terms, to say Skyward Sword was worse than Twilight Princess?

I agree. I revised my list, so that you can still save via menu while also having statues. My issue was that if a player combs through a large area but doesn't reach a temple or new area yet, then they start all the way back at the beginning.

IMO, No. But of course, I personally do not like Skyrim (even though I can objectively say it's a good game for the majority of gamers). The attention to detail, immersion, emphasis on player freedom and ambition are all things that are praiseworthy, and as principles should be emulated in...

You couldn't run in at all Twilight Princess. Skyward Sword gave you the option to run, but limited it so you couldn't use abuse it in the action bits. Which is better than not having it at all.

Displayed in 1080p on Nintendo's next gen console. All blurry/low-poly textures are redone Characters and cutscenes are entirely re-animated Soundtrack is redone with a live orchestra Save/checkpoint statues available throughout the overworld A save statue will be available near the mini-boss...

Actually, I remember Bioshock Infinite being delayed from holiday release to winter release of the next year. And that game got lots of praise. It got lots of attention and discussion because not much else came out that month. Skyward Sword was so neglected, especially for a major title in...

That's the problem, and the reason why Twilight Princess tends to get a pass on its mistakes. While Skyward Sword has been judged from a contemporary perspective, it's been 8 years since most people have played Twilight Princess.

That's both an asset and a problem for Twilight Princess. Skyward Sword's overworld was designed to be an abstract series of individual levels which coalesce into one experience (like scenes of a movie). Yes, TP's overworld is realistic looking but it's every bit as disconnected as SS's...

Changing the seasons was a more original colorful idea, but I felt the time traveling mechanic in OOA was better executed.

2 more months would at least be enough time to do the following: Remove the "you just collected this artifact" notification Remove Fi's "your battery is running low notifications" Make Fi's hints optional rather than imposed on the player Allow bird statue to bird statue warping Add a few more...

except their last two releases were in competetive years

2011 was a competitive year with so many acclaimed games: Portal 2, LA Noire, Uncharted 3, Gears of War 3, Dark Souls, Skyrim, Batman and so on. 2012, however, was a much less eventful year. If Skyward Sword had been delayed 2 months, it would have won dozens of game of the year awards and the...

Graphics - SS SS's abstract art ages better and is more unique for the series. TP's art is a rehash of OOT and MM. Sound - SS SS's sound gets the full orchestral treatment whereas TP's is mostly poorly synthesized sound loops. Overworld - SS SS's ground world may be small but each area is...

The Wind Waker got the re-make first because it was easier to remake. Twilight Princess has larger areas and a much more diverse set of textures, and it's probably best to wait until technology can handle a re-make of that sort before making one.

The original Zelda was designed and fine-tuned with a 2D art style in mind. And not everything about the game could translate well to 3D. It may look aesthetically unpleasing (walking through a labyrinth in 3D - unlike 2D - will make you nauseous). And due to the increase of space due to a...

Maybe, but it certainly wouldn't have been Wind Waker. Plus, GCN-level unstylized water graphics for an entire overworld wouldn't have looked that good.

I think every series has its flaws, but you'd be hard pressed to find a series that's bigger, more ambitious and more consistently good than Zelda.

In terms of exclusives: Gamecube > SNES > N64 > Wii > Wii U > NES