Your Most Favorite Place in Zelda Games!

[ShadowMidna]

My favorite places would be Zora's Domain, Kokiri Forest and Hyrule Field in Ocarina of Time.

 

[Jupiter]

The mountains, LoZ
The Dark World, ALttP
Temple of Time, OoT
Snowpeak Ruins, TP

 

[marttorn]

Ow! The difficult choice between something out of OOT and something out of TP.

I'd say... Hmmm.... Well, my Wii is kind of messed up, graphically. There's white lines and streaks all over the screen, which distorts the beauty of TP a lot.

My beloved Nintendo 64 has no such problems, so I say the marketplace from OOT. Both past and present versions, actually, that really adds to my fascination of it, the contrast between a happy little market and a zombie-infested hellhole.

 

[athenian200]

LoZ - Level 9, Death Mountain

It was the most complex dungeon in the game. It had Patras, and more than one hidden item (Red Ring AND Silver Arrows). It was kind of fun to fight those things after I'd mastered all the other enemies in the game.

AoL - The Town of Kasuto and Hidden Town of New Kasuto

This was the most complex part of the storyline in that game, people actually being driven out of a village by monsters and creating a new, hidden one. If you accidentally find Old Kasuto first, the old man tells you "This town is dead. Look in the woods..."

ALttP - Kakariko Village

This was a very interesting town. Merchants selling bottles, people calling the guards on you, a sick person giving you an item, the guy with the overgrown lawn, the running man you have to catch with the Pegasus Boots, other people giving you help and various indirect leads via their story, etc... it felt like a real place, almost.

LA(DX) - Animal Village

This was another interesting place. There was a goat writing letters, and all the animals wanted to hear Marin sing. It was funny in that quirky way you just don't find outside of Nintendo games.

OOT - Gerudo Desert/Spirit Temple

This whole area was fun. It provided a new game area late in the game, that you actually had to go to as a Child, when you thought you'd looked just about everywhere in Hyrule. You actually have to escape from jail in Gerudo Fortress if you get caught, but you can take out the guards from afar (much more interesting than the Hyrule Castle version of avoiding guards). It opened up two new mini-games, you had to use the Hookshot more than you ever thought possible to cross the desert, and you get to solve puzzles using the Mirror Shield. You have to solve the Spirit Temple in two stages, and you get to meet Iron Knuckles at a point in the game where they're still pretty scary (unlike in Ganon's Castle).

MM - Ikana Canyon

Aside from Clock Town, this area has the most intricate NPC interaction. The stuff with the composers Sharp and Flat is kind of heart-wrenching, and all the things you can do with Captain Keeta's mask are rather interesting (as is the story behind Captain Keeta himself). There's also something profound about how the king of Ikana begins to realize that pettiness tore his kingdom apart, and teaches you the Elegy of Emptiness. It's also really warming when you heal the cursed man from a Gibdo state, and his daughter tells him he was just having a nightmare. And let's not forget that this is the place you, along with Kafei, follow Sakon to in order to retrieve the Sun's Mask. That's an exciting moment. The last thing, I guess, is how you can make a Garo appear by wearing the Garo's mask, and how they all "die without leaving a corpse."

OOX - Zora's Domain

I don't think I've ever seen a completely underwater town before in a Zelda game. The puzzles surrounding the Library and King Zora are a lot of fun to solve, IMO. I usually hate water levels in 3D Zelda, but this 2D game pulled it off nicely.

WW - Hyrule Castle

I'm not sure what it is, but as soon as I unfreeze the place, look upon the Hero of Time statue, and start fighting Darknuts and Moblins, there's this vague sense that I've "come home." The game goes from feeling like a LA-type experience where Link adventures in some place other than Hyrule... to actually feeling like you're in Hyrule.

FSA - Desert Temple/Pyramid

I mostly like this area because it provides the major plot twist in what seems like it's going to be a very straightforward game. You see the impression of where Ganon took the trident and became evil, probably for the first time. You find out that you not only have to beat Vaati, but Ganon as well. I'm also amused by the Zuna who gives a not-so-subtle hint by saying he wishes he could "fly like a Pegasus."

TMC - Royal Valley

I like this area because you can find the ghost of the former King of Hyrule and gain information from him. Getting the key from Dampe and getting it back from a crow is pretty interesting as well. The sign maze is pretty well-done, too.

TP - Arbiter's Grounds

It's a very satisfying area. You have to bust open gates with those Warthog mounts to even get in, narrowly escape being burned up by King Bulbin, and you get to solve some really interesting Spinner puzzles (you even have to beat the boss with the Spinner!). I just love using that Spinner, it really feels like a Zelda item even though it's new, and I hope they bring it back. The chandelier puzzles, knocking Scarabs off yourself, fighting ReDead Knights, and tracking down the four Poes aren't exactly boring, either. Not to mention that it's book-ended by the most revealing cinematic sequences in the game... the events following the Lakebed Temple, and the story behind the Mirror of Twilight. The whole game just seems to finally come together here.

I'll have to list some more once I play PH and ST...

 

[Mehzmerize]

I really loved a lot of the islands in wind waker, I felt like I could jump into the screen and move in there lol

 

[Starchain1]

Mine is the Lost Woods imagine all the hidden things among the trees

 

[Skull Kid]

There are many songs out there that everyone likes these are just a few that are on my mind.

MM....Stone Tower

TP.....Lake Hylia

Ocarina of Time........Over World Theme

<Zelda for Ever>

 

[yann]

The Lost Woods in OoT, I could just put Link in there and leave him there so I can listen to Saria's song.

 

[Speham]

Well, I do not know my favorite place.
But ABSOLUTELY not the Shadow temple from Ocarina of Time.
My least favorite place is where I end up after my emulator is done with fu**ing up my save in the original Legend of Zelda

 

[vatti]

My favorite places are the shrine where you get your zora armor in TP, and also Zora's domain in TP. I know, I LOVE THE ZORA'S!

 

[yotam]

I love both Dragon Roost island and windfall island...
Dragon Roost island because of its music... Its just so great!
and windfall island because it have characters that you can really connect to and wonderful side quests, the island feels alive.
these to places just make me smile...

 

[yotam]

I love both Dragon Roost island and windfall island...
Dragon Roost island because of its music... Its just so great!
and windfall island because it have characters that you can really connect to and wonderful side quests, the island feels alive.
these to places just make me smile...

 

[yotam]

sorry... I didn't meant to send it twice, i had errors.

 

[StrangeWig]

I think the most beautiful place is the big empty field with that single tree in the center inside the moon in Majora's Mask. I lost my breath when I first saw that!

But putting that aside, picking a favorite place is just too hard!

 

[TheSerpent]

MM: inside the moon, stone tower temple, clock town
OoT: gerudo valley/ gerudo fortress, hyrule castle
WW: hyrule castle, dragon roost island, forsaken fortress