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What's Your Fave Zelda Game?

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  • Wheres the Oracle of Ages/Seasons love?

    For me, sure there's a huge nostalgia factor. But riding a fucking boxing kangaroo makes up for all of it. How could you not love the kangaroo?
  • Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time are tied for this. Majora's Mask is a very close second.
  • First is a two-way tie between OoT and ALttP. Link's Awakening is a close, close second.
  • I've actually never played a Zelda game before, nor MegaMan come to think of it. I guess I've always been a sega fanboy.
  • Definitely OoT because it gave me that awesome feeling inside, a good number of times. Where your entire body revels in awesome and shouts 'FUCK YES!', that feeling.

    And then at the end how Zelda is telling you(Link) to go home, to wake up or something alone those lines. While at the same time it feels like she's telling RL you to leave this whimsical dream world and take your experiences with you.
  • And then at the end how Zelda is telling you(Link) to go home, to wake up or something alone those lines. While at the same time it feels like she's telling RL you to leave this whimsical dream world and take your experiences with you.
    That sounds very profound.
  • I am in the very tiny majority that did not think that Ocarina of Time was the best Zelda game ever, I would rank it down in fourth place after Link to the Past, Twilight Princess, and Oracle of Seasons/Ages.
  • edited December 2008
    For me:
    1. Zelda 1
    2. LttP
    3. OoT
    4. BS Zeldas (look them up, they are kick ass)
    5. Season/Ages
    Post edited by Coldguy on
  • 4. BS Zeldas (look them up, they are kick ass)
    I thought the BS Zeldas were lost, never to be played again. I'm going to have to get get in on some of that action.
  • 4. BS Zeldas (look them up, they are kick ass)
    I thought the BS Zeldas were lost, never to be played again. I'm going to have to get get in on some of that action.
    Nope and Nope.

    When it comes to the Stellaview, you just have to know where to look...
  • Update: BS Zeldas on an SNES cart

    Also you can download the roms here too, enjoy.
  • My fondness for Zelda II knows no bounds.

    Y'know, I just tried playing Zelda II again the other day.

    My hatred for that game knows no bounds.

    Also, my skill at that game definitely knows bounds. Very very small bounds.
  • So, I'm slowly but surely going through Ocarina of Time for the first time.

    That music is so damn catchy. I'm now whistling various themes and making up songs to said things. Mostly songs about my cats. I like Saria's song. Too bad you don't have more options for different notes. I was trying to do the warp whistle song from Super Mario 3, but couldn't.
  • Too bad you don't have more options for different notes
    In the original you could hold down L/R while playing to get different notes.
  • Honestly, I kind of like Wind Waker. I was never big into Zelda as a kid, so my first real play through was Wind Waker. Also, I have a fondness for that style of graphics.
  • edited August 2011
    I haven't actually played a Zelda game all the way through...or even an appreciable amount of time.
    Post edited by George Patches on
  • edited August 2011
    My boyfriend has only played Twilight Princess, the shittiest one of them. Wanna get him to try Wind Waker. Any tips on how, and any suggestions on a different starter-Zelda?

    Edit: To stay more on topic, Majora's Mask is my favorite.
    Post edited by Aria on
  • There is not enough Zelda 1 playing going on here.
  • My fondness for Zelda II knows no bounds.

    Y'know, I just tried playing Zelda II again the other day.

    My hatred for that game knows no bounds.

    Also, my skill at that game definitely knows bounds. Very very small bounds.
    Zelda I challenged and scared me, but once I'd beaten it, I had built a base of skills which prevented it or future similar games from similarly challenging or scaring me. If Zelda II had been another Zelda I, it would have taken Zelda C levels of challenge to elicit those same feelings.

    Zelda II was a whole new ballgame. It was an evolution of the story, but more importantly, the game challenged and scared me despite my Zelda I mastery.

    Zelda III was a great game, and it challenged me. But, it didn't scare me: Zelda I had zebra storytellered that out of me.
  • edited August 2011
    There is not enough Zelda 1 playing going on here.
    Zelda III is better.

    But Zelda I is still a great game.
    Honestly, I kind of like Wind Waker. I was never big into Zelda as a kid, so my first real play through was Wind Waker. Also, I have a fondness for that style of graphics.
    Wind Waker isn't the best representation of the Zelda gametype, but goddamn if I didn't love it.
    Post edited by TheWhaleShark on
  • There is also not enough portable Zelda going on here. Awakening, Ages, Seasons. Get on that shit.
  • I have never played a Zelda game all the way through, but everything I've ever read/heard/seen about Majora's Mask fascinates me.
  • That music is so damn catchy. I'm now whistling various themes and making up songs to said things. Mostly songs about my cats.
    OMG I do this too! My favorite is singing Zelda's lullaby with the word "Staaa-bu-saaan" over and over. >^-^
  • I've only ever played it at a friend's house, but I really like Majora's Mask.

    Blast mask + shield = infinite explosions
  • edited August 2011
    Link's Awakening for me.

    It's all about the story and the subtext. Link washes up on a deserted island to find Princess Zelda, only she's not Princess Zelda at all but Marin, a common town girl who's the exact duplicate of Zelda. This seemed like such a great idea for me. Here was Link's best chance to actually end up with Zelda and not be shooed away in favor of some foreign prince. Combine this with the collecting of instruments, fun/complex dungeons, mini-boss and boss battles, and a fetch quest that wasn't actually boring. I loved it, ... and then it tore my heart out, ... and I loved it even more.

    Also, that song. To this day I'll pull it up on Youtube just to hear it. Remixed or in the tinny original, it's great.
    Post edited by FarliamentPunkadelic on
  • It's all about the story and the subtext. Link washes up on a deserted island to find Princess Zelda, only she's not Princess Zelda at all but Marin, a common town girl who's the exact duplicate of Zelda. This seemed like such a great idea for me. Here was Link's best chance to actually end up with Zelda and not be shooed away in favor of some foreign prince. Combine this with the collecting of instruments, fun/complex dungeons, mini-boss and boss battles, and a fetch quest that wasn't actually boring. I loved it, ... and then it tore my heart out, ... and I loved it even more.
    Marin isn't princess Zelda. She's Malon, the girl you see living on the ranch in many other Zelda games. You know, daughter of Talon. Talon who is Mario and his evil farmhand Luigi.
  • The point is, Link's Awakening does not get nearly enough love on the internets.
  • edited August 2011
    There is also not enough portable Zelda going on here. Awakening, Ages, Seasons. Get on that shit.
    Link's Awakening is one of the few games that have really disturbed me, but looking back, I'm not sure if that's because of the actual game, or because I was young and used the "Map trick" so often it gliched the game something awful.
    Marin isn't princess Zelda.
    Malon didn't exist, as a character, at that point. She was introduced in OoT. He also straight-up calls her Zelda at one point.
    Post edited by Neito on
  • I can do perfect runs of Zelda 1 (I tend to keep my skills up by streaming myself playing it online), however for the ones I keep going back to I would point to the portables (Awakening, Seasons/Ages combo) for some reason they focus more on tighter game play that makes going through them more enjoyable at times.

    As for consoles I go Majora's Mask, LttP, and OoT when the mood strikes.
  • I've been playing Ocarina of Time again and I now only hear these versions of the ocarina songs now when I play them.
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