Thread 11898906

what's the best Zelda game?

>>11898906 (OP)
Retro? Twilight Princess

Most of the /vr/ ones are so good that it's hard to decide

Majora's Mask but every Zelda game is good

>>11898918
this desu

>>11898906 (OP)
There's a variety of strengths
Zelda 1 is the most mysterious, despite what people say its very playable blind and lets you use your curious mind to grasp the world (the bombable walls are all in conspicuous places)
Zelda 2 is a cool game to try but it isn't one of the greats imo. You need to look things up constantly. Its fun to get good at the battle system and the spells are neat.
ALttP stepped up the production value, art and music were thrown into the forefront, the game still has some mystery, the puzzles got a little more sophisticated and neat gimmicks were introduced
LA is a step back from ALttP imo, it went for charm, reminds me of pokemon and thats not a terrible thing
Ocarina is ALttP on crack, the music is loud, the characters are cool, the dungeon gimmicks are refined and varied- It's a step back from Zelda 1's obscurity, the puzzle-action genre; a step forward for the character-adventure genre
MM steps towards Zelda 1 yet again while retaining most(not all) of Ocarina's power. It's a more challenging game, a less comforting game. One of the top surreal gaming experiences
Oracle is pretty similar to LA superficially. The spirit of the games are quite different. Oracle took more risks mechanically.
WW was a blast to play as a kid but they kinda dropped the ball on finishing it. They didn't put much care into making it fun for older players.
TP is quite good. It has the variety of OoT, the scope and vibrant characters from WW, it doesn't feel unfinished but it doesn't really feel revolutionary. They did a great job bringing old Zelda up to new tech and fixing old mistakes but it didn't have much spark

MM == OoT > Zelda 1 > ALttP == TP > Oracle == Zelda 2 > LA > WW

>>11898934
You forgot Minish Cap. There's also FSA but I doubt a lot of people care about it honestly

1, 2 and LA

>>11898938
I like Minish Cap. It feels on equal footing with ALttP a lot of the gimmicks in that feel like DS-era Nintendo which I have a lot of nostalgia for
>FSA
Not a legitimate zelda game

>>11898934
>You need to look things up constantly.
good post and all, but come on now

>>11898946
Zelda II was not properly translated. It isn't a practical game to play blind and that is an important metric for me. It's the reason I thought Elden Ring was mid

>>11898906 (OP)
can't go wrong with NES, SNES, original Game Boy, and I don't care which one in particular is the best because you just play them all anyway
can go wrong with the rest, but whatever, it's Zelda they're all gonna be basically pretty good

>>11898950
agreed on the metric but
well listen anybody who thinks I'm gonna have an extended argument with somebody who says "mid" has got another think coming let me tell you

>>11898954
Okay but are you saying you can beat Zelda II without looking things up? I find that hard to believe desu

>>11898961
You sound like a zoomer. The majority of kids who played it in the 80s managed it fine

>>11898906 (OP)
All retro Zeldas are good other than MC and TP. I think OoT and MM are the best, potentially the greatest games of all time. LA is the best 2D Zelda

Okami

>>11898968
Zelda 1 actually signifies where to bomb the walls using patterns in the topography, you can beat the game in a reasonable amount of time by wandering around the world map.
You can't say the same about Zelda II. It takes an unreasonable amount of time to find the unsignified progression requirements. Maybe if you were a little kid with unlimited free time and you could call up Bobby from down the street who secretly owned the guide book but claimed he didn't use it.
Either way I still hold the obscurity against Zelda II and I don't care about your old school gamer cred
>>11898972
>other than MC and TP.
What's your issue with these two? did you forget to add WW to this list?
>>11898983
Shut up lol

>>11898950
>>11898961
I don't even know what you're referring to. Zelda 1 is fine blind but if you said you needed help deciphering Grumble Grumble or Secrets Where Fairies Don't Live I'd have to say okay, fair. But Zelda II? I don't even know.

Guy who lost his mirror? It's right next door. Find Bagu and Error? They won't shut up about who they are. Z2 is also pretty linear and you can't do dungeons out of order or miss one of multiple dungeons items like Z1. I guess if you didn't have a manual it'd be hard to know what A and B do on the overworld?

>>11898991
NTA but I think that Zelda 2 is more often than not less cryptic and unforunately
>>using patterns in the topography
not everyone has revelations about bombable walls and burnable bushes like you do anon. Then there are also walls that you can go through but those are at least somewhat alright (after you first learn about their existence that is) because at least you don't have to waste bombs. Also dunno if you've played it but the second quest is straight up impossible without a guide if you aren't autistic. Though I still remember one anon here who was bashing his head against a wall trying to finish it without a guide, blogging about his adventures as he went and he eventually succeedeed.
This game is still one of my absolute favorites but I admit that I had to look up stuff from time to time

>>11899002
I honestly can't remember the details. The game is chock full of "go here- talk to this person- after you get this" - it pretty much happens at every new area. getting the lightning magic requires you have a all of the magic capacity upgrades, which is unexplained and necessary to beat the game

If you are just reading events from the walkthrough obviously its going to seem obvious, but each event is incredibly specific and not natural and often you have no indication of why you're supposed to do that. I remember distinctly there are hidden tiles huge forests where your movement speed is lowered that you must find to progress.
Is the fact that you need to crouch under the table to find the mirror in manual? That is an unsignified mechanic imo
Casting the jump spell to get up to the church got me too I must admit that one was on me xD
>Grumble Grumble or Secrets Where Fairies Don't Live
Both of these are riddles that specifically try to get you thinking

>>11899013
>the second quest is straight up impossible without a guide
The only real trick that wasn't already in 1st quest is the part where the NPC says Go To The Next Room and you have to go to the next room

>>11898906 (OP)
The Hyrule Fantasy for Famicom Disk System

>>11898946
>>You need to look things up constantly.
>good post and all, but come on now
Experienced players lose sight of what it's like to play a new game, what to expect from it, what are the possibilities.

I played a metroidvania, and I knew going in that the ending is based on completion rate or something. That's already a huge change in perspective.

Still I ran into obstacles. I tried finding alternative ways, keys, abilities, equipping different shit, returning every once in a while.

After exploring every other bit I googled it. I had to grind 1 hour for an ability, and the other one was locked behind what I thought was the last boss.

Concerning zelda, I looked up a thing in zelda 2 because I got bored of wandering. Dropped it afterwards though.

>>11899049
Oh and the thing I looked up in zelda 2 was a house in a forest

>>11898991
You sound like you've never played an old game before. Yes, many games used to be rather cryptic. This is /vr/

>>11899053
Seeing gaming as a medium learn how and when to signify progress mechanics is something I love about playing old games, its like seeing a toddler learn how to walk for the first time.
Cryptic elements are like a spice. A little bit goes a long way towards making your game stand out as a bold uncompromising experience.
You can see a lot of games in the 90s have a naive approach to their puzzle solutions, if I can't progress after 2 or 3 sittings I'm probably going to play something else or maybe even go outside or something. If I really enjoy the game then I'll look it up.

>>11898906 (OP)
Oot and it’s not particularly close

>>11898906 (OP)
Ocarina of Time, which just so happens to be the first Zelda game I ever played.
No actually I had Zelda 1 & 2 on the NES, but OoT was the first one that I actually enjoyed enough to play to the end.

>>11898906 (OP)
1 or OoT. I wish Wind Waker was finished so I could include it in this possibility.

>>11898906 (OP)
1. A Link to the Past
2. Link's Awakening
3. Ocarina of Time
4. Breath of the Wild
5. Twilight Princess
6. Skyward Sword
7. Tears of the Kingdom
8. Adventure of Link
9. The Legend of Zelda
10. A Link Between Worlds

>>11899139
>posting nu-zelda
>putting it ahead of zelda 1
>not including Majora's mask
You're a nasty little scumbag you know that?

>>11899145
>Majora's Mask
hate it sry

>>11899152
Low Wisdom

>>11899152
Based

>>11899152
>>11899159
Samefag

>>11898906 (OP)
>best Zelda game
Not retro.

>>11898906 (OP)
BOTW.

Out of the /vr/ stuff? The original.

>>11899194
No way there are two people on /vr/ who can't appreciate MM, that's just not a reality that I can accept

>>11899212
I'm one of them, I respect the game but I don't really like it. It's my least favorite /vr/ Zelda along with Oracles

>>11899194
not saying you're samefagging but surely you're aware how easy it is to spoof (You)s?

>>11899212
>>11899229
>one of them
I meant like one of the people on this board who don't like MM so that makes me the third one I guess

OOT>MM=TP>LttP>2>1>LA>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>WW

This is the only correct opinion and I wont hear otherwise.

>>11899238
>MM=TP
>TP>LttP
schizo ranking, you just threw darts at a board.

>>11899238
The Capcom Zeldas are so bad I forgot to even include them

>>11899238
>>11899250
Mentally deranged

>>11898968
>The majority of kids who played it in the 80s managed it fine
The majority of kids in the '80s got the Power, Nintendo Power, and nobody was autistic about "you didn't beat it if you read a guide".
Kids looked things up back then.

>>11899286
Nintendo Power literally did not exist where I live, we managed to beat games no problem

>>11899286
for real one of the selling points of magazines were tips and guides and there was entire hotlines dedicated to helping you if you got stuck in a game.

>>11899293
Do Americans really?

>>11899298
I'm french also you weren't born

>>11899292
>Nintendo Power literally did not exist where I live
Neither did where I live and kids still read videogame magazines for guides and tips
Unless you live in a contry with zero literacy or where the publishing industry is decades behind the curve you had a NP equivalent

>>11899298
As said before, kids weren't autistic about "you didn't beat the game if you used a guide or cheats"
The Game Genie was a hotseller

>>11899305
>>11899307
I have no memory of reading magazines and certainly not guides until well into the snes era.
Also France is a shithole
>publishing industry is decades behind the curve
Probably this
>>11899315
No idea what you're talking about

>>11899305
>also you weren't born
Damn

>>11899316
>I have no memory of
You individual experience is meaningless compared the factual reality that can be easily and empirically proven with ease.
Guides and cheats were omnipresent in videogame culture back then

>>11899316
>his country didn't have video game magazines in the 80s
>calls france a shit hole
i don't even

>>11899324
>omnipresent
Clearly not

>>11899325
To be fair, I would definitely rather not have video game magazines than be French.

>>11899325
To be honest any place with a critical mass of French people is a shit hole

>>11899328
>>11899329
>triple down
I accept your concession that you live in a shit hole that didn't have video game magazines in the 1980s. Now shut the fuck up and let superior civilizations talk.

>>11899327
Sorry, present everywhere outside your fourth-world country which is a very real place and not a strawstate that you just conjured in your mind and still have not named because you need something to "win" this retarded discussion

>>11899335
You are mentally ill

>>11899336
Name you country that had no magazines about games back in the '80s, I dare you

>>11899336
you admitted to growing up in an illiterate shit hole, how some fucking humility

>>11899336
>I grew up in a country with no literacy
>Everyone else is a retard
What did he mean by this?

Americans can't beat games on their own, how sad

1st Zeld best Zeld

If you prefer Link to the Past, then you are wrong. I respect your preference. But you are wrong.

>>11899342
Yes, only your shithole were people can't even read is the Videogame God Country

Zelda CDI unironically had the largest cultural impact of any Zelda game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R--jGkng8To

Zelda 1 is as close to the platonic ideal of an action adventure game as it gets.

>>11898906 (OP)
LTTP

>>11899407
The game needs like two villages with NPCs. Zelda 1 feels really lonely and I don't think this was the intention

>>11899452
>Zelda 1 feels really lonely and I don't think this was the intention
I don't know man, shit's pretty fucked in Zelda 1
The Prince of Darkness had already attacked the kingdom and basically won, Zelda had to shatter the Triforce before her forces lost and Ganon's army took control of the land, Impa traveled over mountains and yet everywhere was full of Ganon's henchmen who almost gave her "a fate worse than death" (Impa was about to be gangraped to death, the manual implies) when Link saved her; people are so scared that they would rather live in caves underground and the very land seems to birth monsters.
It's a bleak situation, I don't think a village would make sense here

>>11899191
>BOTW
I got extremely bored with that one, I only had 1 dungeons left and I couldn't be bothered to finish it. Ended up playing DW8 Extreme Legends instead.

>>11899407
>Zelda 1 is as close to the platonic ideal of an action adventure game as it gets.
>>11899452
>The game needs like two villages with NPCs. Zelda 1 feels really lonely and I don't think this was the intention
Yeah Zelda 1 is too autistic. Swing sword, push block in cramped space

I really like the simplicity and extremely solid fundamentals of Zelda 1, but ALTTP just has far better dungeons, combat, artstyle, atmosphere, and boss design. I did probably enjoy Zelda 1's overworld more

>>11899371
Had the most likeable characters as well until the DS era Tingle games.

>>11899737
ALttP probably has the worst artstyle out of any Zelda game not counting 1

>>11899535
I played Botw with the expectations that they were finally doing my dream zelda game, but shit felt so barren, empty and pointless. I only beat the tutorial section of the sequel and got bored with it. Echoes of Wisdom on the other hand re-sparked my love of the franchise after the previous two games nearly killed it.

Of retro, I think Link's Awakening may still be my favorite. Ocarina I still say is a keystone coming of age adventure that is the gaming equivalent of whatever movie or book you feel a young boy leaving childhood should experience.

>>11899753
>I played Botw with the expectations that they were finally doing my dream zelda game
How old are you?

>>11899753
>I played Botw with the expectations that they were finally doing my dream zelda game
Me too
And they did
Then I played TotK and understood that it will never happen ever again

>>11899771
38. I remember when OoT and MM came out and loving both and talking to my friend about how Zelda might be in the future with an absolutely massive world comparable to something like Elder Scrolls 2/3 (though I also assumed it would be M rated and you would kill an enemy and their body would stay on the ground and decay over time)

Then they announced Botw and showed off they were actually going to go all-out and do a massive world to explore, and I was excited. Except, they seemed to forget the other things that made the past games worth playing, like actual dungeons, interesting villages to explore and talk to npcs in, items that actually matter and opened up new avenues for exploring and doing things. I didnt necessarily mind the idea of weapons that could break, but everything else just felt so pointless unless you were just playing for story bits or adjusting the games difficulty relative to your power level so you can go kill Ganon. I still cant fully believe that they looked at Zelda 1 and decided "yeah, this is pretty much the same thing as that" as far as game progression is concerned.

>>11899753
> Echoes of Wisdom on the other hand re-sparked my love of the franchise
Is it really that good? The game looked tedious as fuck in the trailer with that echoes mechanic and it's the first Zelda game I decided straight up not to play, TotK was also a massive disappointment. I had never been disappointed by a Zelda game before that not counting multiplayer shit

>>11899805
>38
No surprise

>>11899809
I was skeptical as well, but a guy I know who works at my local game store really sold me on it and even gave me half off of the price of the one copy they had. So I got it just because I thought I might as well at least try it, and it exceeded my expectations. Imo, it plays far more like Zelda 1 (and obviously the other older top down games), than whatever Botw/Totk were attempting. The echo mechanic seems tedious, but think about it this way, each item you copy, each monster you obtain, is like getting a new, unique item in the older games, and this time they are not (all) locked to specific dungeons. While the game does have an intro dungeon and a mid point dungeon, you are free to do the other dungeons after and between those points in any order and you can fully explore the world from the start, assuming you collect echoes that can help you reach those areas, and you can use them in different ways, not always one specific echo is the solution you need to reach something.

The only thing I can see people not really jelling with, is the combat. In some ways, I would say its also very similar to a monster catching game, because you will be unleashing your mooks to fight various enemies, but that alone can also be fun when you are unleashing a bunch of moblins to take on a bigger enemy. But dungeons and exploration are still fully in the realm of a classic Zelda experience. Bosses can also be a bit challenging, at least compared to the rest of the franchise.

If I had to recommend a /vr/ fag to try out one not-retro Zelda of the last 10 years, it would be Echoes. I hope the style of gameplay actually becomes its own spin-off series, or hell, I wouldnt mind them attempting to take the basic ideas and applying it to a large 3D world like BotW.

>>11899805
>I also assumed it would be M rated and you would kill an enemy and their body would stay on the ground and decay over time
Autism is a hell of a drug

>>11899839
Okay anon maybe I'll give it a go

>>11898906 (OP)
The first one.

>>11899751
Nah, it's great. Very clean, sharp, stylish, easily able to tell information at a glance. It's like a mix between pixelart and cel-shaded and has aged phenomally

>>11900047
>It's like a mix between pixelart and cel-shaded
I don't think you know what those words mean

>>11900082
It's something about the shading, or lack of. Or maybe it's just the way colors pop. Or maybe it's just the sharp, simple, clean edges. Or maybe it's the perspective. Or maybe it's the way the screen never looks cluttered and overly busy the way that many other games of the era do.

I don't know all the technical terminology, but either way, the artstyle looks fucking fantastic, even on modern displays. Just a timeless style that has aged extremely well.

>>11900082
he's just saying its more cartoony, which it is.

>>11898906 (OP)
1. Link's Adventure
2. Adventure of Link
3. リンクの冒険 (Rinku no Bouken)
4. Link is Adventurous
5. Adventurous Link
6. Zelda II - The Adventure of Link: Link, warrior without equal.
7. Battle of Olympus: Adventure of Orpheus

>>11899510
>English language manual
Not really worth anything

>>11899737
The combat and art style of ALttP are grotesque

>>11899145
>How dare you have a different opinion to me you scumbag!
Why are /vr/ niggers so fragile?

TP being retro makes me feel old

>>11900479
Link is adventuresome

A Link to the Past.

>>11898906 (OP)
>what's the best Zelda game?
Whichever is your least favorite, because you're a tasteless plebeian.

>>11900729
Fuck off retard. I just read some of the worst fucking takes here.

>>11901013
ALttP gets mogged by the GBC games, even Z1 is better

>>11901126
I love Zelda 1, but ALTTP is just an improvement across the board. About the only thing Zelda 1 does better is overworld exploration/sense of discovery.

how did they know, bros?

>>11901186
That I have amazing wisdom and power? It's well documented.

>>11901158
For me, combat and art style are the biggest downgrades from Z1 (and Z2 as well, for that matter). The multitude of items that are either functional double ups or otherwise useless is also not great

>>11901186
Zelda 2 had already been out for a year in Japan by the time Zelda 1 was released in the US.

>>11901282
NTA but I think the original Japanese version also says '1', I mean like the FDS version not the cart rerelease

>>11901284
Here's the ending screen from the FDS version. I can't read Japanese, does it say 1 here?

>>11901687
That's the first quest ending anon, you only get the 'wisdom and power' message if you finish the second quest

>>11901703
Oh, I didn't know, I've never beaten it.

>>11898909
FPBP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arEIvz_TaE4

OoT3D

>>11898909
FPWP

>>11899751
even from the first second you leave the house, this game just envelopes you in its atmosphere. The artstyle is incredible, even all these years later.

>>11907451
To me it's reminiscent of cheap chinese plastic toys, even the audio

>>11907454
you don't have a soul, Idk what else to say. the artstyle is extremely charming.

>>11907451
Link doesn't even looks like Link
What a failure

>>11907467
Nah, it's an artstyle for women and babies

A Link To The Past
Link's Awakening close second

>>11907482
Something you'll never have anything to do with, I guess that's why you're so bitter.

>>11907514
Incorrect. Sorry, baby boy

Ocarina is the only good 3D Zelda. The others have a bunch of tedious shit.

>>11907494
LA is better than alttp in every way

Majora's Mask for being the only deep and mature Zelda. Everything else is for manchildren.

>>11907945
I mean, even OoT has a bunch of tedious shit. But it and BotW pretty much.

>>11909659
>tedious shit
What is tedious in OoT?

>>11909826
NTA but everything before Jabu Jabu, even on your first playthrough (I played through the series for the first time like 5 years ago)

>>11909829
Lmao. You either don't like playing video games or you don't understand the meaning of the word "tedious". There's nothing tedious about the child portion of OoT. Tedious implies repetition, something that is not really present in OoT unless you happen to suck really bad and have to keep trying parts over and over again. OoT does a good job of keeping things different. If you can make a case for it, I'd hear it, tho.

>>11911728
NTA you're responding to, but I loathe starting Ocarina of Time knowing it even begins with mindlessly collecting 40 rupees to buy the starter shield.

First. Every subsequent 2D release was a step down from the last. The Oracles had an anime tree mommy literally tell you where to go next, the one before it had a fucking owl, the one before that simply blocked everything off until you beat the only new dungeon you can access since you got past the last blockage and the one before that was more a Metroidvania than a Zelda. Only the original had proper exploration and skill-based top-down gameplay.
Fuck you.

>>11911791
>mindlessly
Then do it mindfully, anon.

>>11912026
I always experience the same thing playing Zelda and thinking, I think about a better game to play and I drop my personal rating for the game lower.

>>11911791
Then you should wait 10 years before thinking about replaying it.
T. Someone who dislikes the first hour and lost interest in the latter third of the game

>>11912185
In ten years there will be yet another better Zelda game available

>>11912245
True

>>11911791
Just tilt the cartridge slightly so you phase through the little fag blocking you from Hyrule Field.

>>11911728
>you don't understand the meaning of the word "tedious"
Yeah maybe I don't, English is not my first language. Let's just say I think the beginning of OoT is pretty damn boring, now this time I 100% chose the right word to describe how I feel about the first two dungeons of the game and also everything before the first dungeon

>>11898906 (OP)
4

>>11912585
>I think the beginning of OoT is pretty damn boring
Lol. That sounds better, but still a shame, mate.

>>11905637
Planning to play this after decades of not playing the game since being a child (but still remember a lot) should I or should I play one of those fancy pc ports?

>>11912585
The beginning of OoT takes like 5 minutes. Do you have adhd?

>>11905637
Yuck

>>11898906 (OP)
Majora's Mask is the GOAT. I really like ALttP, I prefer it over LA, which was ambitious but I just hate the GB controls, graphics and soundfont. OOT is just a straight up great game, but I don't have strong feelings about it either way. WW doesn't get enough love and TP is just horrible, no clue why people like it outside nostalgia or not having played any other Zelda.

ocarina
link's awakening
minish cap
mm
alttp
twilight
spirit tracks
botw
wind waker
skyward sword

>>11916263
>shitty cap that high
Stopped reading there

Consensus on Alundra? I've been enjoying it more than ALttP.

>>11898906 (OP)
As someone who has only played and completed the n64 ones what's a good zelda to get into the 2d ones?

>>11898906 (OP)
Minish Cap unironically

>>11917229
Oracle of Seasons. I'm actually hesitating recommending it because it's such a complete and well rounded game that most of the other 2D games will likely disappoint you after playing it.

>>11898906 (OP)
2

>>11917823
Too easy imo. LA is better overall

>>11916252
>no clue why people like it
Normies have a way of putting up with the most inane bullshit imaginable. It's really a super power. This combined with their "dudebro, yeah i love zelda" allows them to see everything they want through an filter not unlike rose-colored glasses.

>>11916252
People who are big into TP tend to be either people who played it as their first Zelda, fairly shallow people who just like the more realistic art style, or flat out sex perverts who have a thing for Link being turned into a dog, and straddled by a little dominatrix imp.

>>11917229
A Link to the Past

>>11918342
This anon gets it

>>11898906 (OP)
Ocarina. Majora and Zelda II are both very strong runner-ups.

>>11918342
Played this series for the first time as an adult, in release order. Have beaten every game (except the latest one where you play as Zelda), most of them multiple times. TP is my favorite 3D Zelda and whenever people here shit on it I unironically just don't get it, like what is it about this game that makes you people think it's horrible? Everything that makes a 3D Zelda game great is there like what the fuck. I think it also has better dungeons and bosses than OoT. I agree about the character designs but the rest of the game looks really good and reminds me of Team Ico games which I also adore

>>11918547
I do agree that TP has great dungeons and bosses. What I don't like about it personally is:
>extremely linear like, literally go to the next map marker, then the next one, then the next one
>almost nothing to actually do outside of dungeons, Castle Town is huge but has nothing to do in it. I frequently maxed out on rupees and had nothing to spend then on
>Zelda completely lacks a personality and Ganondorf is obviously shoehorned in at the end. And for all the graphical improvements, Link just has a blank expression in every cutscene
>the absolutely GODAWFUL wolf howling, what were they thinking

>>11898906 (OP)
Probably the original.

>>11898909
Embarrassing.

>>11899238
Appalling.

>>11898906 (OP)
Four sword adventure

>>11918547
>waggle to press B
>mirror world
>no free camera like WW
>fewer item buttons than previous Zeldas
>intro section is long as fuck
I just can't even play it.

>>11918547
>Everything that makes a 3D Zelda game great is there like what the fuck. I think it also has better dungeons and bosses than OoT
Yep. If I had to play or recommend ONE zelda game, my pick would be TP. Never played switch zeldas though.

>>11898906 (OP)
not a retro one, that's for sure

Ocarina and it isn't close

I've played almost all up to TP, including Oracles and 2/3 of the CD-i ones (got them new, had a CD-i in the '90s).
I'd only replay aLttP and OoT they're both 10/10. MM has a great vibe, but I didn't really like the dungeons.

>>11898906 (OP)
The gameboy one

of the ones i've played:

1. A Link to The Past
2. Ocarina of Time
3. Link's Awakening
4. Zelda 1
5. Majora's Mask
6. Wind Waker
7. Minish Cap
8. Oracle of Ages

Ocarina. A Link to the Past and Majora's Mask are right behind it. Everything else is garbage.

>>11922515
>alttp
>good
Yeah, sure thing buddy

ocarina is heads and shoulders above every other title. wind waker WOULD be a contender if like others have touched on, it wasnt blatantly unfinished. I almost always struggle to actually finish zelda games, boredom sets in eventually but with OOT I was very hooked from start to finish.

Ocarina of Time is the best Zelda.

>>11922518
Literally one of the greatest achievements in gaming, fuck are you on about?

>>11922631
the current poser revisionism effort is to say alttp is overrated and that the 3d games are better in every aspect. They never even provide reasoning, like that anon just did to you. I don't think many of them have even played it.

>>11922637
LA is better than ALttP in almost every respect, especially combat and art style

>>11922695
this is bait. links awakening is a step down in specifically combat and art style.

>>11922701
Play both and get back to me. ALttP's combat is laughable

>>11922726
let me guess: zoomer whining about knockback

>>11922946
No, the dismal sword swing. Just atrocious

>>11923354
shut the fuck up you crybaby ass zoomer

>>11924958
LA came out like 3 years after alttp you schizo

Link to the past

Best Zelda game. Better than all other Zelda games.

The only Zelda game I played was Link's Awakening the Switch remake where do I go from here?

and it's not even close

>>11927062
to being the best one? yeah, you're right

>>11927039
I would try BOTW or TOTK (never played them myself)

OR

Take a glance at the different entries and pick the one that looks most interesting to you personally

>>11927095
>to being the best one? yeah, you're right
no wind waker is the best zelda game and it's not even close
>t. gamecube enjoyer some of the best games ever made re 4 and wind waker

>>11898918
only correct post in this shitty garbage thread

>>11927165
>correct
taste cannot be correct or incorrect only refined