Mine would be Occarina of Time because it introduced me to the series.
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I played only Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, BotW and TotK. Among these, I must say TotK is my favorite.
All games are memorable in their own way but I’m a sucker for open world and immersive sim and TotK scratches all my itches. There are somethings I liked more on BotW (story/characters and dungeons) but the new toys and much expanded map more than makes up for it.
Majora’s Mask easily, followed closely by Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, and Twilight Princess.
The classic style Zelda formula (that was introduced in the OG Zelda and then refined to perfection in ALTTP and OoT) is perfect and didn’t need to be changed up.
Tears of the Kingdom is my favorite, and before that it was BOTW. Third favorite goes to OOT or ALTTP.
Either BotW or TotK. I believe those games are absolutely incredible. It’s designed so wonderfully! Everything in the game just makes sense.
Though I never fully played through them, OoT and MM have big nostalgia for me from watching my friends play them as a kid.
Twilight princess hands down. I adore that game
Wind Waker for me !
Twilight Princess.
I’m not that much into the gothic designs and the slightly edgy, or any of the wolf stuff, but the storytelling and the presentation felt like an actual epic. Lots of scenes like the first horseback field chase, the chariot defense, the bridge horseback fight, are so infuriating to actually play (especially the first time each), but they’re all so cinematic and fast while taking a big leap forward in the story, you get stakes, satisfaction, and awe, as you realize after the fact what just changed. And then the compilation of each combat types for the final boss for the final cherry on the cake, now that you can actually play it better, you’re right there in the movie for its climax.
And the boss fights like the fire temple and the argorok are very simple but really cool.
It’s basically Ocarina, and Ocarina was great, but everything in TP is enhanced, you take every aspect of it and you improve everything. Except Ocarina goes harder on the fairytale feel, while TP is a straight medieval epic.
In 2D, maybe Minish Cap, but LBW is to LttP what TP is to OoT, like, take a great classic and improve on every aspect of it.
BotW/TotK don’t make the top for me because I’m more into the immediate story, and those two are the type to hit harder the more you think about various aspects of it, rather than while you’re in it, it’s more of a melancholic slow burn for me.
To avoid recency bias, I’m going to not say Tears of the Kingdom and say Breath of the Wild, which is my all-time favorite video game. Not counting the newest game, my top 5 are:
- Breath of the Wild
- Wind Waker HD
- A Link to the Past
- The Legend of Zelda
- Twilight Princess
Ocarina was my introduction and has so much nostalgia associated with it that I’m not sure I can ever top it. BotW was my favorite experience since OoT, and now TotK might surpass BotW for me. Life is just so much different as an adult than it was as a 9 year old playing OoT with all of my cousins and friends… it’s hard to compare the experiences objectively.
Breath of the Wild. We themed our wedding on it.
Any photos to share? 🥺🥺
Not publicly, but I will tell you we bought a pile of silk stargazer lillies and hand painted all of them to look like silent princesses. All of the floral was otherwise white, so it was very striking.
Awesome 💕💕 any Zelda music?
Ocarina was my first and absolutely loved it and MM
I was always torn as to weather my fav was ocarina or breath of the wild - but now I’ll say confidently that my fav Zelda game is tears of the kingdom - I’m 90 hours in and feel like I haven’t gotten that far through the whole game but I’m having a blast ⚡⚡⚡
Tears of the Kingdom does have a nasty habit of sucking all of your time in exchange for fun. I’m amazed at how fun it is to play this game.
I finally finished the main story but still have SO much to do and every time I play, I look at the time and wonder how the hell it became 5am so quickly!
Ocarina was my introduction so it will always have a place in my heart but it has to be Wind Waker! Just, everything, the story, the aesthetic, the music, it’s all so perfect and gives me a warm happy place feeling. I wish so badly that it was more loved in the community (it received a lot of hate at the time) and I wish we could have seen the cut content and how different the story would have been.
Mine would be Links Awakening (the original one on Game Boy). It was the first one I played. As a portable Zelda game, it was awesome. The story was good and the game played really well. I also tried the DX version and that was great too.
Did you play the one on the Switch ? If so, what did you think about it ? I only played the new one on the Switch and it played very well, but I wondered what someone who played the original would think.
I never played the one on the switch. I played the game boy versions only. Even then, they were great.
a link to the past
i never got into the 3d Zelda games. after playing so long in 2d it just fundamentally changed things into a different game to go 3d. it doesn’t scratch the same itch
I’m in oldie, so my favorite would be a toss up between Link to the Past (SNES) or Link’s Awakening (Game Boy). I go back and play LttP every few years, but Link’s Awakening was my first. ❤️
