Spoiler Best Opening Gameplay

[Conor]

What's your particular favourite?
the fast paced opening of Majora's mask, stuck as a deku, seemingly helpless to save the world?
maybe the slow paced, relaxed hour of the likes of twilight princess or the wind waker?
or do you like the open endedness of the first title in the series?
vote for your favourite and discuss why it stands out for you.
Personally I'm torn between the two n64 titles, though vastly different they both do what an opening should: hook you on the game.
PS:this is my first time trying to add a poll to a thread, if there's no poll here ol' Conor has n00bed it up again

 

[Cel-Shaded Deku]

In Ocarina of Time and others you have to watch what sometimes feels like hours of cut scenes and scroll through chapters of text. Sure, thosegames were generally better but in the Legend of Zelda you can start playing immediately. All you have to sit through is "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this." and you have your first sword. Why can't more games be like that? Or at least have skipable cut scenes like Twilight Princess.

 

[Conor]

I was more referring to the opening gameplay itself, I liked it in Ocarina of time, as after the long cutscenes are out of the way then it kicks off quite fast, the original Zelda did this very well I think, like you say, you can start playing immediately, it's very open ended and you can explore to your hearts content, twilight princess I wasn't a fan of, it starts of quite slow, with herding the goats, and going back and forth into faron woods, the cutscenes were nice the first time around, it's a good thing you can skip them, though.

 

[geek4887]

Well, Minish cap had all those scenes. but the opening story got me hooked and captivated, so MC will be my vote.

 

[AustinFox33]

Twilight Princess or The Minish Cap. Twilight Princess pulled off the small town start the best with Ordon, Ilia, the children, and the goat herding; but I really loved the idea of Link and Zelda being childhood friends and Link taking her on a "date" to the Picori Festival like in The Minish Cap just because its an aspect we dont really see much. This is one of the reasons I love the Skyward Sword Zelda so much.us

 

[surferguy7]

./Votes Twilight Princess

Yup, I said it, Twilight Princess has a fantastic opening.

 

[bulbasaur]

alttp. you wake up with a telepathic message from a girl you never met, watch your uncle die and then have to fight your way through Hyrule castle full of knights.

I think alttp has the most interesting story and immersive game play straight off the bat.