I Ranked Every Mainline Zelda Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- The eternal question, what is the best Zelda game? The answer to that is obviously obvious, it's... your favorite one! Yay! But is it really that simple? Let's find out! I respect everyone's opinion, but you shouldn't respect mine so please tell me how much you hate my taste in Zelda games if possible!
I sure love using tons of hashtags! Just as much as I love Zelda!
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Subbed for Nia reasons, stayed for zelda reasons.
First thing (to lessen the blow): I always love when a new content drop hits. I admire your work ethics and how often you actually upload (for edited, scripted content).
And now... time to drop the bomb.
Being a Sony kid I never really played Zelda games. Even when I started emulated various consoles or got a Wii I didn't feel like playing them all that much. I remember borrowing Twilight Princess from a friend thinking "okay, let's give it a shot" and then... well, while the 2-3 first hours were really fun and felt like something different (one thing I have to say is that the world building and the sense of adventure in these gamesare outstanding), I... didn't feel like continuing.
Years later I tried the original one, 2, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, just to tried to understand them more (as I like "studying" games and building an opinion). I finished 1, 2 and Majora's Mask.
The original is a timeless classic and still a very playable game. It was so ambitious, clever and full of mysteries, that no wonder that it was so highly regarded and was a foundation for one of the biggest gaming (and cultural) franchises.
...which is probably why 2 wasn't as well regarded (well, THAT'S saying it lightly, I suppose). The whole change was... ambitious? It was a really interesting experience and I had... fun! And hey, it led to many other games influenced by its gameplay! ...but yeah, it's... okay at best. Still, I love how they tried to be really experimental with it (for better or worse). At least it went better than Simon's Quest (which is... strangely similiar to this game come to think of it)! ...or with Digimon World 2 (though, that game was screwed by undercooked and STRANGE design decisions).
Ocarina of Time... hm. I can see why it was so beloved (one of the highest rated games ever made), but... when I played it... it was a slog. And an unfun one. I finished the Water Temple and that was it. I did it. I didn't need to play more.
Majora's Mask, while on paper VERY similiar to Ocarina of Time... was amazing. I guess the more "concentrated" and trippy setting did it for me. ...dungeons were really fun too, and so was the game being built around "sidequests". It was truly great and actually made me want to return to Ocarina of Time and give it another go. I quickly sobered up, though.
Always wanted to play Wind Waker, but somehow I never did. Well, a man can dream that it will be released on the Switch once (messages in the bottle gimmick in the WiiU version was extremely cool, though)!
...Zelda's design (and character) from Skyward Sword was... top tier. Not gonna dig my grave any deeper.
...also... quite BOLD statement about cutest witch. I mean... I suppose you had a slight memory loss moment and forgot about our-queen-and-savior Witch Princess (...with Metallia being a close runner up)
Tiers are fun! Basically a bunch of mini reviews that show author's preferences and let the audience know them better. Wouldn't mind seeing more of 'em in the future. But I'm at the point that I would pretty much gobble any of your content I guess.
It was a good watch, even if 90% of my LoZ knowledge comes from YT and reading stuff on the Internet. Even if I'm not personally engaged in the series, it's always fun to see someone being passionate about it.
Oh. And the original Darksiders is THE BEST Zelda game.
...sorry for this comment's quality - I accidentally refreshed the page while being 90% finished with my original one and it was all GONE, forcing me to start over again.
Unforgiveable, not even the compliment can save this sin... thank you though! Understandable though, not everything can vibe with everyone, even though in my mind I always think Zelda has kinda something for everyone, even if most of them are fairly similiar to each entry.
I once played Simon's Quest for a scrapped video about the NES and I blame the AVGN for giving it such a bad name, but is was even worse when he reviewed the N64 Castlevanias. I played them with zero nostalgia a couple of years ago and expected total trash because of his video on them but they are actually... really good. I know his reviews shouldn't be taken too seriously and Simon's Quest isn't a masterpiece at all but I was actually surprised by how much I still enjoyed it, even if it was actually pretty damn cryptic at times.
But I just can't get into Zelda 2, every time I try it it just ends in despair for me. Even if I would use save states I wouldn't enjoy it, probably even less then. Feels like the kind of game that people love for the challenge mostly and taking that away would ruin it in a way... Still a bit mad that Digimon World 2 never had an European release because maybe I would have developed a love for dungeon crawlers like that if I played it as a kid... or maybe I would dislike them even more.
The dreaded Water Temple... It's actually not that bad on the 3DS remake because you can map the boots easily so you don't always have to menu in and out but in the original it's kinda unfun to a degree because of it. As a kid I never noticed it though and thought it's hard as hell. Now as an adult it's fairly easy but once you notice the unfun menu-ing it's just... meh. I think the PC port also fixes it, but playing OoT at an acceptable framerate shouldn't be allowed. People need to suffer through that!
Yeah, Majora's Mask is just that once in a lifetime achievement that can't really be created again. It's just so different from all the others that I'm a bit happy they never truly tried to made a follow-up to it because it could easily just fall flat and miss what made the original so good. A bit like what happened to the remake, even if I don't hate it.
I'm actually standing on the garden hose (how we Germans like to say) and can't think of the character you call Witch Princess... And I may have to drop a hot take and while I really love Metallia I always kinda liked the dog girl a bit more in The Witch and the Hundred Knight... When will they finally port the games or at least the second game to Steam or Switch so I can finally play the sequel?
I always see people say the first Darksiders is really just like the Zelda games but I have never tried it so far because I just really don't like the aesthetic of it... One day I shall play it though... It makes me a bit sad how little 3D Zelda clones we have. We have them en masse in 2D, but especially now with the Open World Zeldas lacking a bit in the dungeon department they could "easily" fill that void. Even if it's not easy at all to create such games but still! Someone has to try...
That's how life is sometimes... I always respond to comments through the notifications bell thingy and if I click anywhere outside of it it also just goes poof and disappears. I could easily avoid it by just commenting through the normal page but I like to live on the edge (And I hate clicking on my own videos because I do not like seeing the like/dislike bar because I cry myself to sleep whenever I see a downvote (even if I could just close my eyes when scrolling down)) Your comment was still plenty nice though!
@@Vanserchan Yeah, actually as ground-breaking and entertaining AVGN was (in the earlier days, now he.... is just a shell of his former self, being pretty much puppetered for money), many people STILL fail to understand that many of his reviews were overexaggerated and that not every game featured is actually bad. ...and how they started to mimic James, beating down on games that don't really deserve it. Like... do we really need that kind of gaming content (sure, some games deserve ridicule...)? Luckily, it's mostly phased out nowadays.
And yeah - while I CAN see why they didn't want to release DW2 being so close to the premiere of DW3... It's just stupid. Maybe they were really unhappy with the sales in the states? ...then again, DW1 sold better here than there...
Ah, by Witch Princess I mean a character from Harvest Moon DS. You know, the counterpart to the Harvest Goddess. I might be bit biased as I had a friend who looked exactly like her. And, I mean... another reason to buy PS4/5 I guess! Sequel is quite good, still liked the first one better but, eh.
As for Darksiders... I really encourage you to try it. The setting, world and lore are also REALLY great. And that's saying nothing about the gameplay. My biggest peeve with it is changing two of the horsemen for weird terms like Fury and Strife. ...I mean... what was so bad about Hunger and Conquest?
Thanks for responding!
@@Hodyna Oh, I was thinking of another witch from Harvest Moon, the one from Animal Parade on the Wii but couldn't remember if she was a princess or not. Maybe I should play a bunch of the DS Harvest Moon games, but then it will just make me kinda sad what the franchise became since I don't even really enjoy the Story of Season games either sadly...
As a kid and teen I was always wondering why the Digimon World games never went back to the first formula and just kept trying other genres. Which is kinda commendable but I think most people really just wanted gameplay like the first World again.
My top 5 🛡️⚔️🙏
#5 Breath of the Wild
#4 Link’s Awakening
#3 Ocarina of Time
#2 Majora’s Mask
#1 A Link Between Worlds
I mean this isn't the objective take or anything, but it's clearly yours, and I respect that.
(I'm guessing this is gonna be updated in September?)
I've only ever managed to play though that Betweens Worlds game and I resulted following a Guide after being lost for 3 hours on where I had to go mid way through. My experience with other Zelda titles has been worse so I ultimately concluded that it's not my type of games. Most enjoyable Zelda game so far to me has been the Hyrule Warriors game but that's basically just Dynasty Warriors with a Zelda skin.
Fun to see Nia being modded in. Looks so silly it's great.
I love Hyrule Warriors just for the fact they included one of my favorite underrated Zelda NPCs in there, Agitha! It's such a random pick for a game like that and whoever had the idea of including her deserves a nice life!
Finally someone with good taste!
Nooo, you're supposed to say my taste is bad?!