What's the best Zelda game then?

Sigh.

Anyway, I just finished Minish Cap, which was pretty awesome, although about half as long as I expected it to be. (It was silly of me to expect that.)

Windwaker is gorgeous, not just because the cel shading looks great but the music! The new tunes are lilting, sweet, seaworthy lovliness.

the water temple level = best use of "3D" I've encountered in a game.

It did do a number on my fingers on the DS, bah.

i love the way this game looks.

MY, WAS THAT REVENGE SWEET.

What I've played of Ocarina struck me as pedestrian and mundane, but Wind Waker is damn lovely because it's so twee and classic-looking. I think I mentioned elsewhere that the dialogue for WW was among the best that I've encountered in a video game. The final ending had me choking up!

TOTALLY. I always lose 80% of my health fighting those bastards, even with the bonus giant spin attack! And so then fighting vaati with fuckall health is hopeless :(

I am, I must add, pretty shite at eye-hand co-ord tho.

I'll try that tactic you suggest Tom, sounds like it might help.

If my hand doesnt fall of first that is - Ive been getting shooting pains in my right hand recently heh meep.

It's not a game you can come back to after a month, or even a week, because it takes about a day to remember what the fuck you're supposed to be doing. It is an amazing game though.

I accidentally wiped my Ocarina save, as well, just before I got to the end.

People can go on about Wind Waker being easy and simple compared to past Zelda's all they wish, but I can honestly say I probably haven't had such a pleasant experience just playing through a game hardly ever. I think it was one of the first times I played a game where everything seemed to fit, in a lot of ways. It was so totally immersive in a "oh, this is how games should look!" because it just seems so much more successful to create a world like that rather than one of giant people getting in tiny cars and driving around mini cities.

I hated the last boss of Minish Cap, it took me a while to beat him, and really infuriated me. I lent the game to a friend of mine once, and they got stuck on the last boss and asked me to try. Which was daunting, because after beating the game I'd been like "HA! I don't have beat you EVER AGAIN! YOU COCK!". I was drunk at the time, and couldn't remember what I was supposed to do, lost practically all my health on the first section, but still ended up beating him. It was my proudest gaming moment, and I in no way drunkenly re-enacted it whilst pretending to Link later on in the night.

In no way did that happen.

DS Zelda looks so pretty. I need to remember to stop leaving my DS at people's houses.

i also gave up wind waker earlier this year, due to i) annoying bugs like not recognising that i have the right kind of arrow to get to a particular island ii) annoyance at the whole pirate girl is zelda, is a girl, therefore is useless at everything bit. what with her saving yr ass several times before she turns out to be zelda. (which also = oh, didn't see that coming.)

How is Zelda/pirate useless at everything again?

Mind you I didn't see the identity of Zelda coming, they did quite a nice fake with the little rich girl there.

LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE PHANTOM HOURGLASS

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forthcoming on DS, with wind waker-style visuals (!!!)

Proceed to have Link beat the crap out of Zelda: "send ME all around Hyrule slaying monsters because you're always getting kidnapped and locked in dungeons! I'll show YOU who the beeyatch is!" *smack kick bash slash etc etc*

Oh, we did laugh.

x posts bcz i don't check this board v often oops.

Zelda 2 is massively underrated.

― Alex in Novosibirsk (ex machina), Tuesday, November 1, 2005 3:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ this dude knows what's up

replayed the first three zeldas this weekend and link to the past is apparently ingrained in my muscle memory now!? total cliche to bemoan remembering where all the keys in the misery mire are but then not remember w/e relevant to yr actual life but, still, true. kind of robbed the game of any feeling of real accomplishment like a doing a crossword puzzle with the answer key in front of you.

zelda 2 rpg elements are clever w/o being too much of a concession to what is a challenging action game. pretty genious level design too.

I loved having to search the map for hidden p-bags etc -- broke the tedium of level grinding

I'm playing through Zelda on the wii. Excellent game so far and I'm a little more than halfway through.
The epicness of flute boy on the classic SNES zelda game has yet to be recreated. I was like damn, the poor kid turned to stone and is doomed to forever be stone. They don't make those kind of subplots anymore. I will always say SNES version is the best Zelda release but the Wii version is definitely worth checking out. It trumps the gamecube and n64 links imo. Well, it barely beats Ocarina of Time and I never played Majora's Mask, but the boss battles are much more fun now.