Which Zelda is the best?

[CorgiShinobi]

Majora's Mask is far from being the series' black sheep. That title belongs to Zelda II: Link's Adventure. "Black sheep" would mean it is frowned upon, so while a lot of people love Majora's Mask (favorite or not), Link's Adventure is the most controversial in terms of quality and design.

Majora's Mask is the black sheep from the point of view of people who started with Ocarina of Time, and there's quite a few of those.

I started with Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask is easily in my Top 5 (of Zelda). Yes, the first home console I possessed was a Nintendo 64. I played other consoles, but never thoroughly as they were in the possession of either family friends or distant relatives.

 

Majora's Mask is not the Zelda Black Sheep.

 

EDIT: If anything, Majora's Mask is unorthodox. There's always been a formula to the series, and a typical princess-rescue story. Link's Awakening broke the mold first in terms of story, but it played similarly. Majora's Mask was a completely reversed Zelda in a lot of ways.

 

I mean, you're in an alternate dimension, and the villain of all people is the Skull Kid? Hey, why's the Happy Mask Salesman so knowledgealbe, and... WTF? Why am I a Deku Scrub?! Oh, and I have three days until the moon flattens us...

 

OCARINA TIME POWERS ACTIVATE!

Edited February 12, 2011 by Atomsk88

[TCP]

I voted Ocarina. Though honestly, I love them all. I've spent more time playing Ocarina than any other game. Majora's Mask is a close second. I also have fond memories playing the GB/GBC games. The Oracle games are often over looked.

[Jackpot]

I voted Ocarina. Though honestly, I love them all. I've spent more time playing Ocarina than any other game. Majora's Mask is a close second. I also have fond memories playing the GB/GBC games. The Oracle games are often over looked.

 

I agree about the Oracle games. I really liked the game play for those games and it was interesting that Ganon was not the main villain, but rather people trying to revive Ganon. People always forget about OoS and OoA...

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

I chose Twilight Princess. Though it was slightly easier than Ocarina of Time (which wasn't a hard game to begin with), I felt TP had the most fully realized world. It was also fun and gorgeous.

[CorgiShinobi]

I voted Ocarina. Though honestly, I love them all. I've spent more time playing Ocarina than any other game. Majora's Mask is a close second. I also have fond memories playing the GB/GBC games. The Oracle games are often over looked.

 

I agree about the Oracle games. I really liked the game play for those games and it was interesting that Ganon was not the main villain, but rather people trying to revive Ganon. People always forget about OoS and OoA...

Well, if you beat both games, there was the secret boss Ganon.

[Jackpot]

I voted Ocarina. Though honestly, I love them all. I've spent more time playing Ocarina than any other game. Majora's Mask is a close second. I also have fond memories playing the GB/GBC games. The Oracle games are often over looked.

 

I agree about the Oracle games. I really liked the game play for those games and it was interesting that Ganon was not the main villain, but rather people trying to revive Ganon. People always forget about OoS and OoA...

Well, if you beat both games, there was the secret boss Ganon.

 

True, but he wasn't the main threat in the game. Although, that boss fight was a pain in the ass.

[TheFlyingGerbil]

I voted Link's Awakening. It was the first one I played and it was so different to anything I'd played before. I was just blown away that you were playing in a proper world. Don't know if I could say it is the best but it is my favourite.

 

Do you guys generally prefer the game you played first?

 

Joe

[CorgiShinobi]

I've thought that maybe that's part of the reason why I love Ocarina of Time so much, but I've played pretty much every Zelda game afterward. My Top 5 would be:

 

Ocarina of Time

A Link to the Past

Link's Awakening

Majora's Mask

The Legend of Zelda

[FMW]

No. My favorite is not my first Zelda game. My first was OoT, my favorite is Majora's Mask.

 

However, Majora's Mask is my favorite largely because of how it subverted OoT. It would be fair to say that which game I played first is heavily influencing my choice. If someone hadn't played a Zelda game before (in particular OoT) I'm sure Majora's Mask wouldn't be nearly as powerful an experience.

[Johnny]

My first Zelda was Zelda, which I hold as the low point of the series (excluding those Phillips CD-i games)

[Gyaruson]

No. My favorite is not my first Zelda game. My first was OoT, my favorite is Majora's Mask.

 

However, Majora's Mask is my favorite largely because of how it subverted OoT. It would be fair to say that which game I played first is heavily influencing my choice. If someone hadn't played a Zelda game before (in particular OoT) I'm sure Majora's Mask wouldn't be nearly as powerful an experience.

 

Absolutely agree. Fortunately for me, my first Zelda game was A Link to the Past, and then Ocarina, then Majora's Mask. You could not pick a better way to play those games. You get the brilliance of ALttP, then OoT comes along and you get a true sense of what the Zelda games have been trying to accomplish ever since the original, but then MM shows up and flips the whole concept of a Zelda game on its ear. That's why Majora's Mask is my favorite. Just when you think that the series couldn't do anything else to expand upon the gameplay, it practically reinvents itself and almost creates a new genre in the process.

 

Hooked with LttP, perfected with OoT, reinvented with MM.

[Thorgi Duke of Frisbee]

Ocarina of Time. I hated Majora's Mask. I loathe time limits from the bottom of my heart, and any game that tries to make me conform to a strict schedule can sod off.

[FMW]

Duke, I will not try to change your opinion. I think that the time limit severely limits how much fun a player can have exploring Termina. The traditional strength of Zelda games is that they present big worlds filled to the brim with joyous details and optional characters to discover. This game presented all that, but gave you a time limit thus limiting how much fun a player can have with the painstakingly created world. Forcing the 3-day cycle crippled the appeal a Zelda game traditionally holds.

 

Duke, have you ever asked yourself why Nintendo might have done such a hair-brained thing? I hated Majora's Mask when I first played it, and it wasn't until I was able to step away from how "fun" the experience was that I found any appeal at all.

 

I don't think Majora's Mask is a very fun game.

[deanb]

[Mr W Phallus]

Robin Williams named is daughter after Princess Zelda? What a legend.

[Slagathorian]

It was a toss up between The Adventure of Link (Its spelled wrong in the polls) and A link to the past.

 

I love them both, but my nod went to Zelda 2.

[deanb]

Expanding on the last post.

[CorgiShinobi]

Nothing against Robin Williams, but I still prefer this commercial.

 

 

[jayc4life]

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Nothing against Robin Williams, but I still prefer this commercial.

 

 

Nintendo has a direct connection to my heart strings, and, as a result, my purse strings. Must... not... buy... 3DS...