17th February 2010, 8:42 PM
I'm also one of the very few who liked sailing in Wind Waker. I also think I enjoyed Phantom Hourglass significantly more than Spirit Tracks, though yeah, it wasn't one of the greatest in the series either way. Link's Awakening is a damn good game. I need to give it another shot soon as I never actually beat it back in the day. I had played about three quarters of it back in the late 90's and for some reason I just stopped then. I also need to pick A Link to the Past back up as I never quite completed it either. I've given up on the NES Zeldas as they're way too hard for me (especially since I'm playing on a computer) and they're underwhelming compared to subsequent installments. Sure, I appreciate them for their innovation and whatnot, but the sequels are just vast improvements.
I didn't mind the story of Twilight Princess, but yeah, it was no Ocarina of Time for sure. The gameplay is magnificent, though, and the environment is probably the best we've seen in the series (rivaled by Ocarina of Time; Twilight Princess just barely wins for having superior graphics, an advantage of being made eight years later for a more powerful system; nevertheless, Ocarina was beautiful for its time and even holds up well by today's standards graphically). Ocarina of Time simply had the best story, one of the best environments, and it introduced the gameplay mechanics of the 3D Zelda era. It's just simply a classic in every sense.
Majora's Mask is heavily flawed, yet still enjoyable. The save system is a pain in the ass (though I found a loophole to make it slightly less annoying: before you load your saved game, if you're afraid you'll screw up, copy your saved game file to the other file as a backup) and the time limit can get frustrating as well. It sometimes gets annoying having to relive the same events over and over. Those flaws aside, it's pretty enjoyable and has some of the hardest boss battles in the 3D Zelda era. (I fucking hated that fish from the third temple.)
I need to check out some of the Zelda games I missed. I've never played the Oracle games and I've barely touched The Minish Cap. From what I heard, Four Swords/Four Swords Adventure isn't really worth looking into unless you have someone to play it with. Then there's these things:
![[Image: zelda_cdi.jpg]](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zelda_cdi.jpg)
No thanks. :)
I didn't mind the story of Twilight Princess, but yeah, it was no Ocarina of Time for sure. The gameplay is magnificent, though, and the environment is probably the best we've seen in the series (rivaled by Ocarina of Time; Twilight Princess just barely wins for having superior graphics, an advantage of being made eight years later for a more powerful system; nevertheless, Ocarina was beautiful for its time and even holds up well by today's standards graphically). Ocarina of Time simply had the best story, one of the best environments, and it introduced the gameplay mechanics of the 3D Zelda era. It's just simply a classic in every sense.
Majora's Mask is heavily flawed, yet still enjoyable. The save system is a pain in the ass (though I found a loophole to make it slightly less annoying: before you load your saved game, if you're afraid you'll screw up, copy your saved game file to the other file as a backup) and the time limit can get frustrating as well. It sometimes gets annoying having to relive the same events over and over. Those flaws aside, it's pretty enjoyable and has some of the hardest boss battles in the 3D Zelda era. (I fucking hated that fish from the third temple.)
I need to check out some of the Zelda games I missed. I've never played the Oracle games and I've barely touched The Minish Cap. From what I heard, Four Swords/Four Swords Adventure isn't really worth looking into unless you have someone to play it with. Then there's these things:
No thanks. :)