What's the best Zelda game then?

??? The eventual fate of 95% of Hyrule isn't incredibly depressing?

http://www.dailygame.net/Articles/media/screens/zeldaww/zeldaww3.jpg

OMG

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 (!!!)

I'm voting for you in 2012, the world needs this powerful message NOW

I wd play this game
http://i.imgur.com/fG2zu.jpg

is skyward sword worthwhile? have been told that it has some of the best dungeons of any zelda game, but have also been told it doesn't match up to the other 3d ones in general

fwiw my favorite zelda games are link's awakening and majora's mask so i'm not necessarily looking for the same things out of a zelda game that all the LTTP&ocarina4ever people are

let's get it on:
ILX Plays: The Legend of Zelda for NES

Everyone familiar with Link to the Past should really give this a shot. It's loads of fun!

vt.alttp.run/randomizer

Basically, they've developed a way to generate roms (seeds) that randomly redistribute all of the progression items, and you have to figure out where to go based on what you have to work with. Having a complete knowledge of all chest and non-chest significant item locations is key to beating the seed. They also randomize the crystals and pendants, changing the order of the dungeons leading up to Ganon's tower. It's exciting to open mundane chests in Kakariko village with the possibility that you'll find the mirror or the hammer etc. There's a tournament right now in the community around these randomizers where people race the same seed and both have to figure out their route as they go. Gets pretty intense.

That's a url, by the way. Paste in your browser. Let me know if it doesn't make sense. I'm not a huge fan of the UI layout.

yeah randomizer hacks are all the rage right now for speedrun races, theres one for super metroid too

Sure is. I find the ALTTP one to be the most exciting, personally.

Damn I was sure this would excite someone. Assuming everyone's seen the post by now.

it sounds cool but honestly i kind of suck at zeldas in the first place, and then by "Having a complete knowledge of all chest and non-chest significant item locations is key to beating the seed" i knew it wasn't for me.

Well OK true that makes it sound daunting. It's also misleading, because it's no different than any other Zelda game that requires you to explore thoroughly. Also if you get hopelessly stuck you can check the spoiler readout if you want, which is handy.

I replayed ATTP about a decade ago, got about 2/3rds of the way through and had no idea what to do or where to go (old school lack of hand-holding) and dropped it. I probably wouldn't fare well with this

I watched a speed run with this hack, it was really exciting tbh

Well if anyone gave it a shot and needed a hand I'd be happy to help. Been a bit obsessed myself. Every seed is a fresh experience.