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Finally an accurate difficulty tier list written by someone who actually played the games. We need more games like Majora's Mask and Oracles not in regards to difficulty, but they have far less in common with other Zelda games then the other Zelda games have with eachother. Playing the other games back to back can make them feel formulaic, but these games are just downright unique underappreciated masterpieces.
Because they are a quantity over quality channel that has figured out the algorithm to make sure that their horrible shitty videos get in front of your face to maximize profit for the corporation than actually good videos by independent creators who are trying to make a living. Like who the hell QA'd this video and said "Yeah, the map is the correct screen to show in this 3D Zelda game". Someone who has less understanding of videogames than your boomer grandparents.
@@andrzejstrzyzewski7461 I just don't like the emphasis that its hard cuz it turns players off. I want another sidescrolling zelda with the down thrust bounce. Shovel Knight almost cut it.
Only bottom screen footage for the Spirit Tracks portion of the video and the gameplay for Four Sword Adventures was from Four Swords. How did no one catch this?
It's not really difficult but it does have a learning curve like how Elden Ring has a learning curve. In Elden Ring, your loadout, character stats, strategies were your difficulty slider. Same is true of armor, weapons, and your Zonai contraptions in ToTK and knowing how to execute various combat techniques. If you play the game like a regular hack n slash and don't think about how you approach encounters then yeah, it'll be somewhat relatively more difficult. (i.e: Railing the Water Temple boss with a Zonai Firetruck). Given that most players just ran a hoverbike and flying deathstars and others didnt, mileage will vary. Though it's no surprise people will find this game to be easier than BoTW which had a far steeper learning curve which at the top looks like a Devil May Cry game with high range melee tracking and speed hacks.
The desert temple and boss is harder than anything in BotW. Everything else is too easy. Everything can be bypassed or cheesed with the right tools. BotW had more challenge overall and the puzzles of the 4 beats were mostly more difficult.
19. Four Swords 18. A Link Between Worlds 17. Spirit Tracks 16. Four Swords Adventures 15. Tri-Force Heroes 14. Twilight Princess 13. Minish Cap 12. Tears of the Kingdom 11. Wind Waker 10. Phantom Hourglass 9. Breath of the Wild 8. Skyward Sword 7. Ocarina of Time 6. Link’s Awakening 5. A Link to the Past 4. Oracle of Ages/Seasons 3. Majora’s Mask 2. The Legend of Zelda 1. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link You’re welcome. No one else posted this, so I decided I would.
Wait what? First off, the OBJECTIVE top 5 are Majora's Mask, the NES games, and the Switch games. No other Zelda game even comes close to those 5 in terms of difficulty. So why are the Switch games so low? Second of all, in what world is Spirit Tracks easier than Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass? Third of all, why are the Oracle games ranked together? Ages is WAY harder than Seasons.
@@gamingkingwarrior2644 I personally found Majoras mask harder, not due to the time controls, but the first 3 days in Majoras mask is way harder than the water temple ever was. Goodluck finding what you need to do without a guide, it’ll take days. Other than the water temple and shadow temple ocarina of time is fairly simple, closer to 4-5 imo though.
When you stay on top of 100%ing Majora's Mask, the combat can be a cakewalk, but trying to get every piece of heart and mask is challenging in its own right.
Since I saw the concept arts of Kotake and Koume in the Master Arts, and made brief appearances as cameos in Tears of the Kingdom cutscenes, I feel Twinrova boss is one of those missed opportunities that could’ve made the story better. Either to be a better boss battle for Link in the Spirit Temple… or to be a challenge for the playable Princess Zelda before she, Rauru, and the Ancient Sages made their pre determined confrontation with the Demon King.
Look, Wind Waker is my favorite Zelda game, but there's no way in heck is it that difficult. It is way easier compared to half the games before it. Even my best friend, who hasn't played a single Zelda game, has been able to make it to the Earth Temple without a single game over. Closest he even came to a game over was the Forbidden Woods boss, and even then he still had 2 Fairies. Probably the only difficult thing about it are the sidequests, and even those are optional.
Right it was my first Zelda game on GameCube and I finished it as 13 year old that didn’t have a lot of experience in video games. I did struggle through bits but I was a 13 year old with minimal experience playing video games lol
@@Cheyennney 13 years old is quite a lot for wind waker ngl I played It at 8 years old And I managed to beat It even if I struggled in some parts especially in the wind temple
In what world is TP easier than SS? SS is more of an interactive story - Fi holds your hand the entire way. The only thing making SS more “difficult” is using the wiimote. But I bought TP on the Wii and learned the wiimote controls - not difficult, really.
A missed opportunity was mentioning the master modes from each game while most admittedly only beef up damage "Ocarina of time Master quest" was special since it changed the following: 1. Enemies Ai gets double damage output and strike faster with quicker cooldowns 2. Dungeons get revised and cryptic layouts (I'm not joking as some dungeons are impossible without help if you're coluor blind to white and grey) 3. Enemy power creeping from early to late game is much faster since you run into L1 adult game enemies as early as the first dungeon and spawn numbers are greater with areas in the dungeon that were once safe are now not 4. All bosses from the midway point onwards get their "unique" skill guaranteed to be selected at least once whereas in the base game you had to be really unlucky for bosses to select their most punishing talent move as an option. Note. (Talent moves are unique attacks that Bosses can pick that don't allow the player to damage them in any way requiring them to be stuffed out before starting or blocked) 5. Items in chests were all moved to a new location in the dungeon and you can't entirely trust the map since there is a major bug with it in 2 of the adult dungeons where the chest indicator will tell you the correct floor but lie about the room which will leave new players potentially lost for days 6. Finally minigames and quests with timers now have stricter deadlines since the seconds tick faster. As for the other issues in the video I am afraid on your part to put it bluntly that you're video quality control here was sloppy at best as you showed the wrong games and didn't show off the proper gameplay for newer players when the game was correct in spirt tracks I am saying this from experience since I think you also overestimate the challenge it is to work with other people since although in terms of layout and on paper "4 swords" is an easy game. However in practice that couldn't be any further from the truth since some people even friends prefer to work against you rather than with you for their own enjoyment. Leading you to spend hours dragging their dead weight bum around. DISCLAIMERS: 1. For all fans of their respective entries at the top I am not trying to underrate them since in their own rights they are consistently tough as nails means they don't even need a max mode for max enjoyment says it all. 2. For the creators of this video my criticism is not a personal attack on anyone it is only meant to be constructive and accurate so you know what needs fixing for the future
None of that footage for FSA was actually from that game by the way. Also, you /could/ have up to 3 friends on GameBoys but you didnt /have/ to like you did for Four Swords. FSA had a single-player option from the get-go.
Would’ve been nice of Nintendo to give us the master mode and a Twinrova boss battle in Tears of the Kingdom if not for their decision to cancel their DLC plans.
@@just-Boldi There are concept arts that shows some interesting continuity that would of help better the story and gameplay in the Master Work but was cut off.
I remember when I was playing A Link to the Past on my WiiU virtual console, I died a LOOOOOOOOT of times. I think the thieves' hideout was the dungeon where I died the most, probably around at least 20 times. Anyway, I still completed that game and it was a very good one.
Ngl I was surprised to see totk ranked as easier than botw. For me, it comes down to a few things: the enemies are tougher, the start is slower (it takes longer to get paragliding, and it also takes a long time to acquire lots of zonai devices and monster horns to make ultra hand and fuse really good.), Champions abilities were miles stronger than the sages, and there were many glitches in botw that you can use to max out hearts and stamina, along with getting the master sword early, and also duplication glitches that I found easier to do on botw.
Was surprised to see Majora's Mask placed where it was. Ppl always treat the three day cycle as some sort of massive time crunch, which, esthetically, it is, but you aren't supposed to do everything in one cycle. You should be doing each respective zone in its own three day cycle, lessening the overall constraint of the three days.
You were not the only one. That’s why future games are getting away from the completely open world. The experiment didn’t work as well as they liked so Nintendo is returning to a more original game format.
I would say that ocarina of time and majora’s mask are both difficult because of the controls… especially when you play them through Nintendo Switch online
Does this include the 2nd quest in the original Zelda? I found that more difficult than the Adventures of Link. I’m on my path to solve every Zelda game, but I have the hardest 2 out of the way.
Zelda II isn’t to bad if you do 2 things. Grind for about an hour early on and level up to like 4 on life, magic, and attack. Lotsa ways to do it quick like kill the skulls in dungeon 1 for 50 xp and they respawn. Then when you go for the hammer grab the doll and use shield on every screen with the axe guys. As soon as you get the hammer you can get downward thrust and the game is very manageable until the great palace. FYI the remastered game that dropped 2 years ago is such a phenomenal upgrade. The QOL things that were added makes the game very enjoyable
Zelda 2 becomes easier once you know how and when to level, and how to fight the enemies. I just got to a point where I can no death through death mountain. I leave parapa at 3-4,1,2, no grinding, which makes death mountain not so bad.
Wind Waker was my favorite Zelda game growing up because it was the most perfect easy going learning experience of a Zelda game that there can possibly be and was the first Zelda game that I beat on my own as a result. It's BY FAR the easiest 3D Zelda game.
I remember beating Wind Waker the first time. Loving it. But realizing i had no idea what happens when you die. So I tried to drown myself but with all the hearts I had, that was taking forever. So I eventually gave up lol
This ranking is lame! Have you played the games? Or just tell people what they expect to hear! I have played all Zelda games multiple times and from the 3D ones TOTK is definitely the hardest if you wish to-maybe no puzzle wise but combat wise for sure. Have you managed to get to the final boss without tackling any of the other bosses?! Far harder than BOTW. The game is easier if you farm but if you don’t level up armor and try to speed run, the game offers far more challenge than any other.
hearing about puzzles and stuff while staring at the map of spirit tracks is pretty funny ngl, ah yes... this puzzle i remember this puzzle the map puzzle
I think difficulty depends on if you are fighting or puzzletype. I hated BOTW and ToTK as I HATE fighting. I died several times in the beginning, because I'm really bad in it and I play Zelda for riddles, exploring areas and finding stuff to upgrade. So I never finished both games because I lost interest. On the other hand I found OoT and Majora's Mask easy/ very balanced because you don't have to master fighting/fighting is easy. It's all about puzzles and I'm good in this part. I loved the Biggoron Sword, because it was the perfect weapon for people who are not enjoying fights. Links Awakening was so much easier than Skyward Sword or Twilight Princess too, if you are a Zelda Veteran. I think Skyward Sword/Twilight Princess/Wind Waker are challenging in there own ways and it depends a lot on the player's style.
Kudos for giving Seasons top billing over Ages. I don't know if people realize this, but those games work on the same principle as the original Resident Evil 2.
Just got done playing Majoras mask for the first time and I have to say it was the hardest game I’ve ever finished. The three day cycle added urgency but I think the game itself was going to be difficult no matter what even without that
Is there a glitch or something. When you showed 4 swords adventures it showed footage from regular 4 swords, and when you showed spirit tracks it showed just the map portion of the screen.
7:14 i have no idea why everyone says the final fight in TOTK was “hard” and “like an elden ring boss” i made so much gloom resistant food and i didn’t even need any of it. like it was disappointingly easy
I personally found totk fight against ganondorf harder that botw fight against ganon because in botw there is only two waves and the divine beasts take a decent amount of his health while in totk there was many waves of monsters before even getting to ganondorf and then there is a couple different stages of ganondorf before getting to the final wave
@@alex_whitney it was much more difficult than breath for sure… but that’s because half the dudes health literally got drained before the fight even started. The hardest part of tears for me was just trying to conserve my weapons against the hordes of monsters so i’d have some when i got to gannondorf
I have to say the hardest Zelda games for me anyway were majoras mask simply for the 3 day cycle plus you got to do so much back and fourth to get all the masks, twilight princes for the puzzles and wolf link stuff you have to do and breath of the wild fir how long it is and how time consuming stuff is
Hi, I began with the 3rd and I found it much more difficult than Majora's Mask, witch I found only a bit harder than OoT. Now I've heard of Zelda 2 and it's apparently the hardest.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link was the first game I owned in the series and the first to beat as well. Yes, the game was hard and I remember using the Nintendo Power magazine to assist with the dungeons. Everything else was on me. :)
Obviously the OG NES games would top the list. Due to the limited tech the only way to keep players invested back then was to make the games hard otherwise they would be over in like 5 minutes.
@@andrzejstrzyzewski7461 Yeah but the difficulty of the game is one of the reasons. Even normal enemies could take several hits to take out. As technology got better and games could be more expansive they could afford to tone down the difficulty or at options for it.
I have to admit: My first time with Breath of the Wild was very, VERY hard! I had more trouble with it than with most of the others, because I had to learn how to survive/get stronger... But the more I played it, the easier it got...
This seems way off from my own experience; I'm curious what others think. I thought ALttP was far more difficult than the Oracle games (the Oracle games were my first 2D Zeldas, so it's not that ALttP prepared me for those), mostly because of how often enemies blocked attacks and how specific your attack angles had to be. BotW felt pretty difficult too because of how weak Link was offensively and defensively compared to even standard enemies at the beginning of the game.
Did anyone got frustrated while fighting the Shadow Ganons or Queen Gibido from Tears of the Kingdom? Either I'm one of the few who thought they were tough or I'm that bad in video games. :(
I love Wind Waker and Twilight Princess but in no way would I describe them as difficult! Breath and Tears are the only Zelda games where I've died multiple times 😅 Surely that counts for something.
The easiest Zelda for me was the snes link to the past. I have beaten that one more times than I can even remember which really shows how much fun it is to replay. One of the, if not the absolute best Zelda game of all time!
The fact the Oracle games aren’t number 1 is appalling just facing the bosses in Oracle of ages and the constant backtracking in seasons puts them in the top 3 but you include 100%ing it’s not just the top of the list but is rank 0 in difficulty now don’t get me wrong I often gush about these in most Zelda videos across TH-cam but that’s because they are the ONLY games I couldn’t beat till adulthood and the stories have a lot hidden that you’d need to talk to a lot of npcs to even get a part of the story and the terrifying bonus dungeons makes them pretty scary and tough as for replacing the #4 spot I unfortunately have to replace them with the CDI games specifically the wand of gamelan
If you take account for Zelda a link to the past that you can do the wall glitch you can beat that game in the first 5 minutes making it the most easy game of all.
BotW makes it easy to be overpowered and that hearty durian grove in Faron Jungle gliding down to the Plains Hinox removed from TotK crystalizes that point for me. TP is harder than SS. Hands down.
Ranking WW harder than TP? TOTK and BotW I can understand, you can make those games fairly difficult to play. SS can be tough for some because of the motion controls, but WW's tedious mechanics doesn't make it "hard" by any stretch.
Botw was revolutionary. It's #1 for me. Top downs were and still are terrible. Couldn't stand them when I was playing them on Nintendo and super nintendo. Puzzles were infinite, dynamic movement, great characters including npcs , awesome weapons perfect graphics and epic sound quality.
Have you played these games at all?!!!! Placing Phantom Hourglass and Wind Waker above Tears of The Kingdom and BOTW above it as well?!!! Just because you can avoid a lot doesn’t mean it’s easy, on the contrary TOTK has Lynels, Gleeoks, king Gleeoks, Shadow Ganons,…… Combat wise, TOTK has the most challenge. BOTW has only one tricky fight, and that is in Gerudo Desert, and then the last DLC fight, and the only real challenge is to complete the MasterSword Challenges(DLC) which is not mandatory. Plus in TOTK you can’t skip to the main boss so easily like in BOTW because then the hoard fight before Ganon, without any hero help is quite hard. Older 3D Zelda has very dull enemies that are far simplistic so you should make it clear, whether you judge combat, bosses or dungeons.
I've always played The Legend of Zelda games since Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess on Nintendo Wii my childhood's first Zelda games, Ocarina of Time and A Link Between Worlds on Nintendo 3DS, The Windwaker HD and Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Wii U, Link's Awakening Remake and Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch the hardest Zelda games for me have been Ocarina of Time and Botw, but hard dosen't always mean bad game because hard games can be good too like Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are hard Zelda games, but the masterpieces and can't wait i'm so excited for The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom (The Legend of Link Zelda's Awakening for me because it's about playing Zelda to save Link and the same have art style like Link's Awakening Remake) and it's coming in september 26 2 days before my birthday september 28 now I know what to play in my birthday yay! 🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🥂🎁❤️🔥
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Weird to only show the Top screen in Spirit tracks and not gameplay.
Finally an accurate difficulty tier list written by someone who actually played the games. We need more games like Majora's Mask and Oracles not in regards to difficulty, but they have far less in common with other Zelda games then the other Zelda games have with eachother. Playing the other games back to back can make them feel formulaic, but these games are just downright unique underappreciated masterpieces.
Where’s Majora’s Mask?
For me hard is skyward
Zelda 2 is the hardest by far.
Okay, two things. You showed the wrong screen for Spirit Tracks and you showed the wrong game for Four Swords Adventures!
Yeah, this channel and WhatCulture are prone to mistakes at least with some part of their video game vids...
It's Watchmojo lmao. At this point it'd be weird if they didn't make this mistake
I was gonna point this out thanks
Because they are a quantity over quality channel that has figured out the algorithm to make sure that their horrible shitty videos get in front of your face to maximize profit for the corporation than actually good videos by independent creators who are trying to make a living. Like who the hell QA'd this video and said "Yeah, the map is the correct screen to show in this 3D Zelda game". Someone who has less understanding of videogames than your boomer grandparents.
@@civilwildmanwell I don’t see other people making as many mistakes and inaccurate information lmao
I'm pretty sure everyone knew Zelda 2 would top the list being much harder than the other games.
And that's why I loved this game so much
@@andrzejstrzyzewski7461 I just don't like the emphasis that its hard cuz it turns players off. I want another sidescrolling zelda with the down thrust bounce. Shovel Knight almost cut it.
I really liked the idea of the side scrolling mixed with top down, but it was just too hard.
Only bottom screen footage for the Spirit Tracks portion of the video and the gameplay for Four Sword Adventures was from Four Swords.
How did no one catch this?
yeah what if someone had never seen ST before..theyd be confused
i've never played spirit tracks and i was confuse why the gameplay was like that
Lazy money grabbing video. At least pretend like you’re trying. /:
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Surprised to see TOTK rank low since I feel it's somewhat harder than BOTW, which already is more difficult than past 3D Zelda games
The final boss was harder than BOTW
It's not really difficult but it does have a learning curve like how Elden Ring has a learning curve. In Elden Ring, your loadout, character stats, strategies were your difficulty slider. Same is true of armor, weapons, and your Zonai contraptions in ToTK and knowing how to execute various combat techniques. If you play the game like a regular hack n slash and don't think about how you approach encounters then yeah, it'll be somewhat relatively more difficult. (i.e: Railing the Water Temple boss with a Zonai Firetruck). Given that most players just ran a hoverbike and flying deathstars and others didnt, mileage will vary. Though it's no surprise people will find this game to be easier than BoTW which had a far steeper learning curve which at the top looks like a Devil May Cry game with high range melee tracking and speed hacks.
Botw and Totk are easy to play. They’re only difficult to master. The old Zelda games on the NES are hard to play.
Let s be real here folks Watchmojo doesn t know what its doing
The desert temple and boss is harder than anything in BotW. Everything else is too easy. Everything can be bypassed or cheesed with the right tools. BotW had more challenge overall and the puzzles of the 4 beats were mostly more difficult.
19. Four Swords
18. A Link Between Worlds
17. Spirit Tracks
16. Four Swords Adventures
15. Tri-Force Heroes
14. Twilight Princess
13. Minish Cap
12. Tears of the Kingdom
11. Wind Waker
10. Phantom Hourglass
9. Breath of the Wild
8. Skyward Sword
7. Ocarina of Time
6. Link’s Awakening
5. A Link to the Past
4. Oracle of Ages/Seasons
3. Majora’s Mask
2. The Legend of Zelda
1. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
You’re welcome.
No one else posted this, so I decided I would.
wind waker is WAY easier than tp, totk is harder than botw, and link's awakening is very easy
Wait what? First off, the OBJECTIVE top 5 are Majora's Mask, the NES games, and the Switch games. No other Zelda game even comes close to those 5 in terms of difficulty. So why are the Switch games so low? Second of all, in what world is Spirit Tracks easier than Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass? Third of all, why are the Oracle games ranked together? Ages is WAY harder than Seasons.
Yeah, it feels like these people are out of touch with their audience lots of times and it’s almost like they haven’t even played the games.
makes no sense how majors is 3 but ocarina is 7
@@gamingkingwarrior2644 I personally found Majoras mask harder, not due to the time controls, but the first 3 days in Majoras mask is way harder than the water temple ever was. Goodluck finding what you need to do without a guide, it’ll take days. Other than the water temple and shadow temple ocarina of time is fairly simple, closer to 4-5 imo though.
Why did you only use the lower screen map footage for Spirit Tracks? Tf? Also, Spirit tracks is more difficult than Phantom Hourglass.
Did nobody take a look at the video before uploading?
Disrespected, i like Spirit tracks more than phantom hoursglass.
Spirit tracks is my fav Zelda❤
Mojo plays. Should be Mojo diesn't play. I don't think whoever writes these plays any of these games.
Difficulty is relative. Everyone experiences difficulty differently.
@@collinhalverson4681 I did not mention anything about the difficulty. Just the way they talk about the games.
The biggest challenge with 4-sword was finding enough friends to join.
Jesus chrisy, wtf is that Spirit Tracks footage.
the twilight princess placement is a sin
Its not the hardest, i never died in the game.
@@mattiasolsson1523 didnt say it was the hardest
It’s really not. It’s an amazing game but this is ranked on difficulty not quality
@@boombazookajoey again, i never said it was the hardest
@@Super_gamer50555then why complain seriously
Zelda 2 The Adventure of Link earned the top spot. That game makes anything from the Dark Souls series look like a walk in the park.
When you stay on top of 100%ing Majora's Mask, the combat can be a cakewalk, but trying to get every piece of heart and mask is challenging in its own right.
Even with a walkthrough certain sections were difficult.
@nanoo4141 The Stone Tower in general was a fun challenge to overcome and very rewarding.
BOTW and Tears are tough. As is Phantom Hourglass.
BOTW is not that tough, only the first few hours.
Botw and totk are pretty easy
I remenber Zelda 2 being so difficult that i have to Watch a guide to Where i supposed to go.
in the early 90's there were no guides or you didn't know about them. I loved this game because it was so hard. Dark Souls of my childhood 😂
@@andrzejstrzyzewski7461clearly you didn't know about them. They came in book form.
Um Mojoplay why did you show gameplay of Four Swords when talking about Four Swords Adventure?
IKR?
I was confused by that too
Since I saw the concept arts of Kotake and Koume in the Master Arts, and made brief appearances as cameos in Tears of the Kingdom cutscenes, I feel Twinrova boss is one of those missed opportunities that could’ve made the story better.
Either to be a better boss battle for Link in the Spirit Temple… or to be a challenge for the playable Princess Zelda before she, Rauru, and the Ancient Sages made their pre determined confrontation with the Demon King.
Triforce Heroes as single player was a nightmare. That bird boss on the seesaw was grim.
Look, Wind Waker is my favorite Zelda game, but there's no way in heck is it that difficult. It is way easier compared to half the games before it. Even my best friend, who hasn't played a single Zelda game, has been able to make it to the Earth Temple without a single game over. Closest he even came to a game over was the Forbidden Woods boss, and even then he still had 2 Fairies.
Probably the only difficult thing about it are the sidequests, and even those are optional.
Right it was my first Zelda game on GameCube and I finished it as 13 year old that didn’t have a lot of experience in video games. I did struggle through bits but I was a 13 year old with minimal experience playing video games lol
@@Cheyennney 13 years old is quite a lot for wind waker ngl I played It at 8 years old And I managed to beat It even if I struggled in some parts especially in the wind temple
@@faresktari8977 it was my first game on my first system - I got it for Christmas. I didn’t have a system to play at 8. But good for you :)
The Spirit Tracks footage tho lmao
You placed Twilight Princess as EASIER than Skyward Sword?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is true, i agree with that.
Skyward sword is easy
Twilight Princess is easier.
In what world is TP easier than SS? SS is more of an interactive story - Fi holds your hand the entire way. The only thing making SS more “difficult” is using the wiimote. But I bought TP on the Wii and learned the wiimote controls - not difficult, really.
@@traviscunningham7062The Cave of Ordeals alone is harder than anything in Skyward Sword.
A missed opportunity was mentioning the master modes from each game while most admittedly only beef up damage "Ocarina of time Master quest" was special since it changed the following:
1. Enemies Ai gets double damage output and strike faster with quicker cooldowns
2. Dungeons get revised and cryptic layouts (I'm not joking as some dungeons are impossible without help if you're coluor blind to white and grey)
3. Enemy power creeping from early to late game is much faster since you run into L1 adult game enemies as early as the first dungeon and spawn numbers are greater with areas in the dungeon that were once safe are now not
4. All bosses from the midway point onwards get their "unique" skill guaranteed to be selected at least once whereas in the base game you had to be really unlucky for bosses to select their most punishing talent move as an option.
Note. (Talent moves are unique attacks that Bosses can pick that don't allow the player to damage them in any way requiring them to be stuffed out before starting or blocked)
5. Items in chests were all moved to a new location in the dungeon and you can't entirely trust the map since there is a major bug with it in 2 of the adult dungeons where the chest indicator will tell you the correct floor but lie about the room which will leave new players potentially lost for days
6. Finally minigames and quests with timers now have stricter deadlines since the seconds tick faster.
As for the other issues in the video I am afraid on your part to put it bluntly that you're video quality control here was sloppy at best as you showed the wrong games and didn't show off the proper gameplay for newer players when the game was correct in spirt tracks
I am saying this from experience since I think you also overestimate the challenge it is to work with other people since although in terms of layout and on paper "4 swords" is an easy game. However in practice that couldn't be any further from the truth since some people even friends prefer to work against you rather than with you for their own enjoyment. Leading you to spend hours dragging their dead weight bum around.
DISCLAIMERS:
1. For all fans of their respective entries at the top I am not trying to underrate them since in their own rights they are consistently tough as nails means they don't even need a max mode for max enjoyment says it all.
2. For the creators of this video my criticism is not a personal attack on anyone it is only meant to be constructive and accurate so you know what needs fixing for the future
I‘ve Never been 1 shotted as often as when i First Played BOTW. Felt ridicouslously hard, when i first fought a lynel!!
None of that footage for FSA was actually from that game by the way. Also, you /could/ have up to 3 friends on GameBoys but you didnt /have/ to like you did for Four Swords. FSA had a single-player option from the get-go.
Would’ve been nice of Nintendo to give us the master mode and a Twinrova boss battle in Tears of the Kingdom if not for their decision to cancel their DLC plans.
😂😂😂
Was there a plan for that?
They have said at the beggining the game is completed and there is no more to show
@@just-Boldi There are concept arts that shows some interesting continuity that would of help better the story and gameplay in the Master Work but was cut off.
I remember when I was playing A Link to the Past on my WiiU virtual console, I died a LOOOOOOOOT of times. I think the thieves' hideout was the dungeon where I died the most, probably around at least 20 times. Anyway, I still completed that game and it was a very good one.
I feel like you can't included the oracle games together when you include botw and totk together.
The spirit tracks one had me laughing “how did they not notice?”
Ngl I was surprised to see totk ranked as easier than botw. For me, it comes down to a few things: the enemies are tougher, the start is slower (it takes longer to get paragliding, and it also takes a long time to acquire lots of zonai devices and monster horns to make ultra hand and fuse really good.), Champions abilities were miles stronger than the sages, and there were many glitches in botw that you can use to max out hearts and stamina, along with getting the master sword early, and also duplication glitches that I found easier to do on botw.
Was surprised to see Majora's Mask placed where it was. Ppl always treat the three day cycle as some sort of massive time crunch, which, esthetically, it is, but you aren't supposed to do everything in one cycle. You should be doing each respective zone in its own three day cycle, lessening the overall constraint of the three days.
Thunderbird in Zelda 2 was difficult because you never knew which of his fireballs would actually damage you. A lot of them fell thru me harmlessly.
The way you say “werrel’d” for world is amazing
I don't like the fact you can go straight to Ganon in ToTk. Or Breath. It's pointless in a way. idk maybe it's me lol
You were not the only one. That’s why future games are getting away from the completely open world. The experiment didn’t work as well as they liked so Nintendo is returning to a more original game format.
@@spdrmn34 iHope 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yes it did. You just didn't know how to play it@spdrmn34
@@spdrmn34 gonna be more of a hybrid style, if Echoes of Wisdom is anything to go by.
Open world, but linear dungeons. Which is how it should be.
I would say that ocarina of time and majora’s mask are both difficult because of the controls… especially when you play them through Nintendo Switch online
I agree Majoras Mask is harder than Ocarina of time
If you’re going for 100% yes it is.
As a kid, I find Ocarina of Time the most difficult game i played. So I watched my cousin played it.
Does this include the 2nd quest in the original Zelda? I found that more difficult than the Adventures of Link. I’m on my path to solve every Zelda game, but I have the hardest 2 out of the way.
I admit, Twillight Princess do lack challange but makes up with impressive gameplay and world. Is still a superb game.
Skyward Sword was a improvement in challenge I think.
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You right, players can’t just swing the Wii remote crazy like it Twillight Princess. I like both games.
Zelda 2 - Dark Souls of my childhood
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Zelda II isn’t to bad if you do 2 things. Grind for about an hour early on and level up to like 4 on life, magic, and attack. Lotsa ways to do it quick like kill the skulls in dungeon 1 for 50 xp and they respawn. Then when you go for the hammer grab the doll and use shield on every screen with the axe guys. As soon as you get the hammer you can get downward thrust and the game is very manageable until the great palace. FYI the remastered game that dropped 2 years ago is such a phenomenal upgrade. The QOL things that were added makes the game very enjoyable
Zelda 2 becomes easier once you know how and when to level, and how to fight the enemies. I just got to a point where I can no death through death mountain. I leave parapa at 3-4,1,2, no grinding, which makes death mountain not so bad.
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Wind Waker was my favorite Zelda game growing up because it was the most perfect easy going learning experience of a Zelda game that there can possibly be and was the first Zelda game that I beat on my own as a result. It's BY FAR the easiest 3D Zelda game.
Kojima was rocking the "nike presto racer x Acronym"..FIRE
I remember beating Wind Waker the first time. Loving it. But realizing i had no idea what happens when you die. So I tried to drown myself but with all the hearts I had, that was taking forever. So I eventually gave up lol
This ranking is lame! Have you played the games? Or just tell people what they expect to hear! I have played all Zelda games multiple times and from the 3D ones TOTK is definitely the hardest if you wish to-maybe no puzzle wise but combat wise for sure. Have you managed to get to the final boss without tackling any of the other bosses?! Far harder than BOTW. The game is easier if you farm but if you don’t level up armor and try to speed run, the game offers far more challenge than any other.
hearing about puzzles and stuff while staring at the map of spirit tracks is pretty funny ngl, ah yes... this puzzle i remember this puzzle the map puzzle
I think difficulty depends on if you are fighting or puzzletype. I hated BOTW and ToTK as I HATE fighting. I died several times in the beginning, because I'm really bad in it and I play Zelda for riddles, exploring areas and finding stuff to upgrade. So I never finished both games because I lost interest. On the other hand I found OoT and Majora's Mask easy/ very balanced because you don't have to master fighting/fighting is easy. It's all about puzzles and I'm good in this part. I loved the Biggoron Sword, because it was the perfect weapon for people who are not enjoying fights.
Links Awakening was so much easier than Skyward Sword or Twilight Princess too, if you are a Zelda Veteran. I think Skyward Sword/Twilight Princess/Wind Waker are challenging in there own ways and it depends a lot on the player's style.
Kudos for giving Seasons top billing over Ages. I don't know if people realize this, but those games work on the same principle as the original Resident Evil 2.
That dancing puzzle in Oracle of Seasons or Ages (I forget which) is brutal.
Awesome Video!
Just got done playing Majoras mask for the first time and I have to say it was the hardest game I’ve ever finished. The three day cycle added urgency but I think the game itself was going to be difficult no matter what even without that
I don’t think the fact that you can skip parts of BotW and TotK means they are easier games. They should be way higher on the list.
Is there a glitch or something. When you showed 4 swords adventures it showed footage from regular 4 swords, and when you showed spirit tracks it showed just the map portion of the screen.
I beat the original when I was 11 years old, completely on my own. Never beat the second quest though.
I knew Zelda 2 was going to be number before even clicking lmao that game was so cursed. I think I gave up during the thunderbird fight
I’ve beaten #1 and 2 for the podcast! Let’s go!!!!
PS: The rewind feature on Nintendo Switch Online is really useful…
I still play my copy of zelda 2 some times. I love that game!
I just picked up a copy again. Haven't had one since my collection burned up in a fire. Have you tried the fan remaster yet?
7:14 i have no idea why everyone says the final fight in TOTK was “hard” and “like an elden ring boss” i made so much gloom resistant food and i didn’t even need any of it. like it was disappointingly easy
I personally found totk fight against ganondorf harder that botw fight against ganon because in botw there is only two waves and the divine beasts take a decent amount of his health while in totk there was many waves of monsters before even getting to ganondorf and then there is a couple different stages of ganondorf before getting to the final wave
@@alex_whitney it was much more difficult than breath for sure… but that’s because half the dudes health literally got drained before the fight even started. The hardest part of tears for me was just trying to conserve my weapons against the hordes of monsters so i’d have some when i got to gannondorf
Ocarina ranked easier than a link to the past is wild
I have to say the hardest Zelda games for me anyway were majoras mask simply for the 3 day cycle plus you got to do so much back and fourth to get all the masks, twilight princes for the puzzles and wolf link stuff you have to do and breath of the wild fir how long it is and how time consuming stuff is
Hi, I began with the 3rd and I found it much more difficult than Majora's Mask, witch I found only a bit harder than OoT. Now I've heard of Zelda 2 and it's apparently the hardest.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link was the first game I owned in the series and the first to beat as well. Yes, the game was hard and I remember using the Nintendo Power magazine to assist with the dungeons. Everything else was on me. :)
#9 Breath of the Wild
Actual #1 Champion’s Ballad, Master Mode
Obviously the OG NES games would top the list. Due to the limited tech the only way to keep players invested back then was to make the games hard otherwise they would be over in like 5 minutes.
I had Zelda 2 memorized, and it still took me several hours to complete.
@@andrzejstrzyzewski7461 Yeah but the difficulty of the game is one of the reasons. Even normal enemies could take several hits to take out. As technology got better and games could be more expansive they could afford to tone down the difficulty or at options for it.
I have to admit: My first time with Breath of the Wild was very, VERY hard! I had more trouble with it than with most of the others, because I had to learn how to survive/get stronger... But the more I played it, the easier it got...
Finally a list where Zelda 2 deserves the top spot!
Seems like MojoPlays has a different perspective on quality of life vs difficulty
I'm genuinely shocked how high Phantom Hourglass ranked. I've found it by FAR to be the easiest Zelda game I've played.
This seems way off from my own experience; I'm curious what others think. I thought ALttP was far more difficult than the Oracle games (the Oracle games were my first 2D Zeldas, so it's not that ALttP prepared me for those), mostly because of how often enemies blocked attacks and how specific your attack angles had to be. BotW felt pretty difficult too because of how weak Link was offensively and defensively compared to even standard enemies at the beginning of the game.
Zelda 2 needs a total remake so more people can actually enjoy playing it.
If Zelda 2 is not number 1 on this list I’m moving to Canada. . .for some reason.
Did anyone got frustrated while fighting the Shadow Ganons or Queen Gibido from Tears of the Kingdom?
Either I'm one of the few who thought they were tough or I'm that bad in video games. :(
Queen gibdo is kinda challenging
Well for me those games are just fun not for challenge
Bcs nowdays i plays soulsborne and soukslike
This video was thrown together....
For me it was Majoras Mask due to the 3 day cycle and that Zora temple adjusting the water
That thumbnail, tho. That's Skillar's "Better Link" mod from Citra.
The hardest part of botw is not getting bored. I failed at that. Zelda 2 is not so bad once you learn how to level and fight.
Windwaker harder than totk? Madness
Agreed
any Zelda with a water dungeon is the hardest
I love Wind Waker and Twilight Princess but in no way would I describe them as difficult! Breath and Tears are the only Zelda games where I've died multiple times 😅 Surely that counts for something.
Lets go baby any zelda videos a good video
The easiest Zelda for me was the snes link to the past. I have beaten that one more times than I can even remember which really shows how much fun it is to replay. One of the, if not the absolute best Zelda game of all time!
The fact the Oracle games aren’t number 1 is appalling just facing the bosses in Oracle of ages and the constant backtracking in seasons puts them in the top 3 but you include 100%ing it’s not just the top of the list but is rank 0 in difficulty now don’t get me wrong I often gush about these in most Zelda videos across TH-cam but that’s because they are the ONLY games I couldn’t beat till adulthood and the stories have a lot hidden that you’d need to talk to a lot of npcs to even get a part of the story and the terrifying bonus dungeons makes them pretty scary and tough as for replacing the #4 spot I unfortunately have to replace them with the CDI games specifically the wand of gamelan
Spirit Tracks Tower of Gods is no Joke
If you take account for Zelda a link to the past that you can do the wall glitch you can beat that game in the first 5 minutes making it the most easy game of all.
What is that spirit tracks footage lmaoooo
idk why my comment deleted. and all i said was i've never played spirit tracks before and i was confused bc they used the wrong gameplay??
BotW makes it easy to be overpowered and that hearty durian grove in Faron Jungle gliding down to the Plains Hinox removed from TotK crystalizes that point for me.
TP is harder than SS. Hands down.
Ranking WW harder than TP? TOTK and BotW I can understand, you can make those games fairly difficult to play. SS can be tough for some because of the motion controls, but WW's tedious mechanics doesn't make it "hard" by any stretch.
To me, Wind Waker is the easiest of the 3D games: easier than TP and a lot more than TotK. But to each their own. 🤷♂️
Yeaaaa love Zelda II. That game is hard as fuck but so satisfying once beaten.
I died more in BOTW than any Zelda game. By far the most difficult
Honestly, if they doubled the length of Links sword the difficulty of Zelda 2 would half.
The real black sheep was Tri-Force Heroes.
Does BOTW difficulty count master mode?
Zelda 2 at number 1 is obvious.
Botw was revolutionary. It's #1 for me. Top downs were and still are terrible. Couldn't stand them when I was playing them on Nintendo and super nintendo. Puzzles were infinite, dynamic movement, great characters including npcs , awesome weapons perfect graphics and epic sound quality.
Have you played these games at all?!!!! Placing Phantom Hourglass and Wind Waker above Tears of The Kingdom and BOTW above it as well?!!! Just because you can avoid a lot doesn’t mean it’s easy, on the contrary TOTK has Lynels, Gleeoks, king Gleeoks, Shadow Ganons,…… Combat wise, TOTK has the most challenge. BOTW has only one tricky fight, and that is in Gerudo Desert, and then the last DLC fight, and the only real challenge is to complete the MasterSword Challenges(DLC) which is not mandatory. Plus in TOTK you can’t skip to the main boss so easily like in BOTW because then the hoard fight before Ganon, without any hero help is quite hard. Older 3D Zelda has very dull enemies that are far simplistic so you should make it clear, whether you judge combat, bosses or dungeons.
I think Breath of the Wild should be higher. The beginnning of the game is quite hard if you want to beat everything. Especially if you meet a Lynel.
I beat Zelda 1 in 08. It really is as hard as they say
I've always played The Legend of Zelda games since Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess on Nintendo Wii my childhood's first Zelda games, Ocarina of Time and A Link Between Worlds on Nintendo 3DS, The Windwaker HD and Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Wii U, Link's Awakening Remake and Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch the hardest Zelda games for me have been Ocarina of Time and Botw, but hard dosen't always mean bad game because hard games can be good too like Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are hard Zelda games, but the masterpieces and can't wait i'm so excited for The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom (The Legend of Link Zelda's Awakening for me because it's about playing Zelda to save Link and the same have art style like Link's Awakening Remake) and it's coming in september 26 2 days before my birthday september 28 now I know what to play in my birthday yay! 🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🥂🎁❤️🔥