Favorite Legend of Zelda?

NecronCommander wrote: Believe it or not I actually think Wind Waker was the most solid Zelda game.  That would be followed closely, though, by Majora's Mask, A Link to the Past, and Twilight Princess. Unfortunately I've never finished Ocarina of Time because the three times I've done it I've gotten hung up on game-ending bugs.

I've beat that game like 20 times and never encountered any.


Edited by A Person - November 27 2010 at 12:09

Majora's mask because it remembers me so much.

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That's the first time when the owl appear in Zelda world (i think).

The only TLOZ game that I like less is Adventure of Link, the whole thing of playing like in a conventional adventure game doesn't fii with the saga.

Ocarina is the PERFECT Zelda game, Link's Awakening was the first TLOZ I played, it get me into the Zelda world, I love when you collect all the instruments to open the egg in the mountain, I always saved just before I did this part:

CCVP wrote: The lines are horrible, but who gives a sh*t about the text when you are busy being a 10 year old boy killind the motherf**king Ganon, destroyer of Hyrule. Seriously you guys.

Of course! The poor Japanese to English translation is just another treat for you when you go back and play in your late teens/ early 20's

The lines are horrible, but who gives a sh*t about the text when you are busy being a 10 year old boy killind the motherf**king Ganon, destroyer of Hyrule. Seriously you guys.

UndercoverBoy wrote: theteaclub_dan wrote: The first Zelda is great. It contains one of my favorite lines of dialogue... "IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYONE." I say that all the time. Also, don't forget "Buy Somethin' Will Ya" and "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."

Yep! Classics! My favorite though has got to be: "Ones who does not have Triforce can't go in."

TheGazzardian wrote: no joke, sometimes i go months between a gaming session these days

I do the same thing! I started a file in Chrono Trigger recently, and then got distracted for a couple weeks. When I tried to come back to it, I was like, "I have no idea what's going on right now."

VanVanVan wrote: I also enjoy that it's the one of the only games in the main series to go in a totally different direction than "Ganon kidnapped the princess."

Agreed! And you don't even miss that aspect of it because it's been done so much. (No disrespect to the other games.)

My vote goes to OOT - it was the first Zelda I played through completely (I played the NES original when I was 8 on a friends NES but never got far. I've tried playing it since - never get far now either xD). I have quite enjoyed a lot of the others - I've been playing MM for about a year now (no joke, sometimes i go months between a gaming session these days ) and I think it's just about as good. I actually love the way that they did the three days system and have been, in my head, trying to come up with a finite-time game design ever since the first time I played the game that would be fun without being frustrating. If you could save anytime like you could in OOT, it'd be a lot better though. Twilight Princess is also great fun. I've played most of the GB ones, beaten none of them but liked them all. I almost beat LTTP but I'm just not as good at the 2D ones as I am at the 3D ones it seems, I couldn't get past the last temple and just forgot about it after a while.

The first Zelda is great. It contains one of my favorite lines of dialogue...
"IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYONE."

Time to revive a 4 month old topic! But only because it is so dear to my heart...

I'm a huge Zelda fan, and I'm gonna go with Majora's Mask as my favorite. It's not the most popular, and I feel it gets overlooked because of the "play the same three days over and over" aspect. But the two main elements of it's greatness are the character development and the surrealist art direction. In fact, those aspects are done so well that I would consider Majora's Mask to be one of the main arguments for "video games as art". The terror of the townsfolk in Clock Town, healing the souls of the three mask spirits, the Kafei and Anju romance story... It's captivating and genuinely moving. And surprisingly in-depth.

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote: ^^ The quotability and hilarity of those cutscenes are endless.And I thought I'd just say Majora is one of the creepiest bosses ever.  The only boss that gives me a creepier feeling is Giygas off of Earthbound.

Yes!! Completely agreed. The whole end of Majora's Mask, with the four kids running around the tree... Awesomely weird. But yes, Giygas takes the cake. "I....FEEL....GOOD...." Craziest boss battle ever.