Gaming Favorite Zelda Game

[LoneTecko]

[SIZE=2][COLOR=DarkGreen]Anyone a Zelda fan?, What's your favorite Zleda game ever, and do you like or dislike the new lookin Zelda game for the gamecube?, if so why or why not?.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Shinmaru]

If anyone wants to post about the new GameCube Legend of Zelda game, there is already a thread for it [b][url=http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?t=39540]here[/b][/url]. However, I'll leave this thread open and change the title of it to "Favorite Zelda Game". Surprisingly enough I couldn't find a favorite Zelda game thread in Play It.

Anyway, I'll likely be back here later spreading the gospel of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. ;)

[Foshi Foci]

Personally, The Ocarina of Time is my favorite, but it is not the best. The Wind Waker is the best. I chose TOOT because it was the first 3D Zelda adventure. An amazing, revolutionary game; this is a prime example of great game making. The new Zelda game with the mature graphics is using the same engine as The Wind Waker so it should translate well. It is looking like its going back to the TOOT style of game type.

[Shinmaru]

Okay, now I have the time to make a decent reply.

As I mentioned earlier, I think that the best game in the Zelda series is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. In fact, I think that it is the best game that I've ever played. There's no such thing as a "perfect" game, but I'll be damned if A Link to the Past doesn't come [i]real[/i] close to perfection.

First is the gameplay. A Link to the Past isn't radically different from the two Zelda games that came before it in this department; A Link to the Past is to The Legend of Zelda as Super Mario Sunshine is to Super Mario 64. However, everything in A Link to the Past is evolved far beyond what was presented in the original game and Adventure of Link.

The learning curve of the game is flawless. The game eases you into things, and amps up the difficulty when the player is able to handle it. This is what makes Zelda games in general so amazing, to me - each dungeon is almost always just enough for a player to handle without getting too frustrating. Each of A Link to the Past's levels is like this. Most of them can get very tough, but not so much that it becomes detrimental to the overall experience of the game.

The dungeons are amazing, and easily the best dungeons in any Zelda game. From the lowly beginnings of the Eastern Palace to the insanely complex, intricate layout of Turtle Rock, the dungeons of A Link to the Past are some of the most clever that I've ever seen. In true Zelda fashion, the puzzles in each dungeon make great use of the different items that Link procures throughout his adventure. Many of the puzzles in A Link to the Past are very inventive mind-benders that give you a very good sense of satisfaction when you solve them.

The bosses in the game are also the absolute best in the Zelda series, and maybe my favorite set of bosses in any game ever. The Light World bosses can be tough, but they can't prepare you for the bunch of absolute bastards that you'll come face-to-face with in the Dark World. The Dark World bosses are big, fast, powerful, and incredibly intimidating, exactly what I think that bosses should be. They all have distinctive patterns that you can exploit, but taking advantage of them is an absolute *****. There are so many obstacles thrown your way during these fights that it's tough to even stay alive, much less beat the bosses.

No Zelda game since has come even close to equalling the Link to the Past bosses. Ocarina of Time's bosses look cool, and they're fun to fight, but they're all pansies. Majora's Mask's bosses are a tough fight, but A Link to the Past has more of them, and the final boss runs rings around Majora's Mask's final boss. Like Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker's bosses are way too easy. The GB/GBA games have come close, but I don't think that the handhelds can replicate the experience that the SNES could offer. A DS Zelda game could be potentially amazing in the boss department, however.

The atmosphere for the boss fights is very involving, as well - the boss fight music is fast-paced, intense and it really gets the blood pumping. I daresay that [i]nobody[/i] could make it through the boss fights in A Link to the Past without getting some sweaty palms due to nerves. Zelda games are always great for atmosphere, and I would say that the succeeding Zelda games are at least A Link to the Past's equal when it comes to atmosphere in boss fights.

A Link to the Past is also innovative because of its dual worlds concept. I don't think that it had been done before, but even if it had been, I doubt that it was pulled off as well as A Link to the Past does it. Certain actions done in the Dark World affect things in the Light World, and vice versa. It's a formula that has since been done in many other games since, more recently in Metroid Prime: Echoes. Not quite as innovative as something like The Legend of Zelda, which established its own [b]genre[/b], or Ocarina of Time, which actually made fighting in 3-D [i]easy[/i], but it's nothing to scoff at, nonetheless.

Add to that the solid graphics, great musical score (though the N64 and GC Zelda games top it pretty easily), perfect controls, great selection of weaponry, epic layout, and lack of annoying side characters (:p), and you have my favorite Zelda game.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be waiting for Desbreko to come in here and try to outgeek me XD

[Dragon Warrior]

Not only is [b]The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX[/b] the only Zelda game I bothered to complete, but it was also the most fun, in my opinion. It may be like all gameboy Zelda games where you simply find eight thingies and there's really not much to it, but isn't that most Zelda games? It's only now with the new Zeldas for Gamecube that they're advancing with new features (such as Four Swords Adventure). [b]Link's Awakening[/b] was also the first game I got for my Gameboy Color, so it's pretty old, but priceless.

It also contained a powerful storyline that I was very curious in. [spoiler]I was also eager to figure out how the Windfish looked. It was an awesome ending and I never expected it.[/spoiler] I definitely should complete more Zelda games, but this one is the apple in the oranges pile. :)

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[2010DigitalBoy]

While I have played, like, a buhmillion zelda games (out of the twelve that exist) but the only one Ive beaten is the Minish Cap. My favorite, though, has to be Ocarina of Time. I have watched someone play through this 3 times, and I never get tired of it. The story is amazing and really deep. The game is easy to learn, and easy to play, but not so easy that it stumps you. The only problem I have is that some of the puzzles are so [SIZE=4]CRAZY HARDCORE[/SIZE] that they are impossible without a guide.

[LoneTecko]

[COLOR=Blue][SIZE=2]I know I started this thread but I think I can say what my favorite Zelda game is.

I LOVE OCARINA OF TIME!!! In my way I thinks this is the game that lead me into Zelda games again I like all the zelda games now before I was a kid, and to stupid to not see the good values of a great game, but mostly I like Ocarina of Time for the stuff you get to do, Monsters are verry freaky looking, and to me I like two or three of the songs you get to play on the Ocarina the water song, and the forest one.

Also Four Swords Adventure is cool has a great style of old SNES, and bit of windwaker graphics This the Game I love to play all day especially the new option they added, MULTIPLAYER!.

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WindWaker, Minish Cap, and Link to the past are cool Zelda games that you can kill a few hours with.[/SIZE] :p [/COLOR]

[Che]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]I agree with Shin. [B]The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past[/B] is probably the closest you're gonna get to game perfection. (And no, Shin, I'm not going to try and out geek you. You pretty much said all there is to say about LttP.)

But my main reason being it's one of the two Zelda game I've ever beaten. I'm still working on [B]The Legend of Zelda[/B], I no longer own [B]The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time[/B] (much do my displeasure), [B]Majora's Mask[/B] was a complete failure for me (Though it was fun to just mess around then go back in time and mess around some more. I hardly ever got past the Wood Temple. And that's as far as I went with the quest; I just did little mini-games after that...), I haven't been able to get my hands on [B]The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening[/B], and the only other one I was able to beat was [B]The Wind Waker[/B].

But I take no pride in Wind Waker. I cheated. Often...

I also beat the two Oracle games, but, just as with the Wind Waker, I cheated, only worse. (>.> I have a problem with not cheating in games)

Anyway! A Link to the Past tickled my fancy, sort to speak. I started out, and I felt that I could dominate this game (just as 90% of the gamers do who also end up losing). I reached a lot of hard spots, but they were fairly easy to get out of. Days of my life and millions of my brain cells were used on that game (I dare not say 'wasted'. That would be horrible!) and, in the end, it was rather easy to beat, yet challenging at the same time. That's my official reason for absolutely adoring A Link to the Past. And the music (who can resist Zelda music?).

And as for the new Zelda game coming out: I can't wait.

I never wanted to get Wind Waker at first because of it's childish looks. I said that by making Link into a cell-shaded half-pint like that was murder. (And yes, moderators, there is a point to this.) But, as it turned out, the game play was beyond words. I fell in love with it.

My hope is that while changing the graphics to a rather more difficult teenage-style, Nintendo doesn't forget to put in that awesome Zelda gameplay we know and love.


Alright, I'm done now.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Well as everyone seems to be picking a different Zelda game, I'm just going to side with my own personal favourite, [B]Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker[/b]. One of the main things that attracted me to the gamne, and repelled others was the games cel-shaded graphics. I personally love them, I think they add a great whimsical element to the Legend of Zelda games, and also makes the game feel much more like the stories your grandparents would tell you about dragons and all that stuff when you were little.

The style of the game was also quite different to the other Legend of Zelda games, the world that the game is set in seems to have a lot more going on in it that previous ones. I mean it genuinely seems on some of the bigger islands that you're dealing with a semi-realistic community, as echoed by the variety of different sub-quests you can do. Maybe I'm just imagining it, but the characters and the actual towns seemed a lot more animated than before, and I don't mean it in terms of graphics but in just terms of development. I mean Ocarina of Time has some great characters to it, but they were mainly just main characters and secondary ones seemed a bit cut-&-paste.

The game itself is smaller than say A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time, but to me anyway that never really bothered me, I was enjoying the story more than I was wondering how long it was going to go on for. I found the overall layout of the games dungeons to be excellent as well, well apart from the Wind Temple, but all the other dungeons and sub-dungeons were exceptionally well laid out. The game just seemed to flow from one segment to the next without losing focus, and although people complained about the length of time sea exploration took, I loved it, so relaxing and the added bonus of treasure hunting was just great.

To me The Wind Waker was the embodiment of what a Zelda game should have felt like, it felt like you were part of a story and that the story evolved, rather than revolved around you. A few complaints aside, it easily compares in style, substance and fun to every other Zelda game produced.[/SIZE]

[Samsara]

I have to go with [B]Ocarina of Time[/B] . I remember it as the first Zelda game I ever got a chance to play. I loved everything about it, the story, characters, gameplay, etc. It's also a game I could still pick up and play again today and still have just as much fun as I did then.

[Burori]

[quote name='LoneTecko][SIZE=2][COLOR=DarkGreen]Anyone a Zelda fan?, What's your favorite [U]Zleda [/U] game ever, and do you like or dislike the new lookin Zelda game for the gamecube?, if so why or why not?.[/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote]
Wait there's a Zleda game? They really changed the name's on it now lol. j/k.

Well the only true Zelda games I love the most is the original The Legend of Zelda and The Adventure's of Link. OL' School games whereas theses games you play nowadays are so easy a monkey can do it. But in the past forget it I am STILL trying to finish the Adventure's of Link...Man talk about challenge...Also I am refering to the Nintendo System ones. -_^ Now that is OL' school

[Tatsubei Yagyu]

Wind Waker was incredible because if the whole new level of emotion Link had. I remember when I first walked up to Orca, Link got a POed look on his face, and I thought, "That's sweet!"

Good Times... :rolleyes:

[Wayfarer]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=Blue]Well, I guess Ill be in the few, the proud, the Wind Waker fans. By far, this is the best, most refined, and best looking (yeah,I said it.) Zelda game ever made, but, seeing as most of these posts are real, real short, Ill elaborate on this.

Windwaker has amazing atmoshere, which can be attributed to the graphics (Links eyes are incredibly expressive, and the looks he gets on his face are amazing.) the desine of the dungeons, and the trademark vistas on the great sea. The scene where you have to race back to Outset Island...simply amazing. Now, the knock on WW was that crossing the Great Sea was boring, but I disagree. There was tons of stuff to do out there, like fight with passing ships and passing enemies, drudging up treasure, and, of course, trying to maneuver in the middle of a raging rainstorm, with a torrent of tornados on your tail. Oh, and not to mention the Song of Warping (Im not sure of its actual name.) which seriously cuts down sailing time. Wow, did I get off topic. Anyway, the game looks amazing, much like a living cartoon, and its very atmospheric.

The game upped the ante that OOC set by beefing up the combat (Its a lot more strategic, its faster, and it just feels smoother.) and by making the world a lot larger. It was like OOC, but it looked awesome, had better combat, and it had a much, much deeper story than OOC, even though it didnt have the big old twist that OOC had (Im sure most everone knows what Im talking about.) and anyone who complains about completely doesnt know what theyre talking about. It's surprisingly deep, easy to understand, and it just seems like more classic Zelda fare, even in the face of everything else.

Yeah, Im a big WW defender, because, well, its one of my favorite games, not in the Zelda franchise, not on the gamecube, but of all time.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[AlishaKitten]

My fav Zelda game has to be Zelda Wind Waker.

Are you talking if I like the look of Zelda Wind Waker? If you are then yeah I like the way he looks in Wind Waker then the original Zelda. I don't know he just looks cuter...