Tag: Worst Zelda

Almost as divisive as The Wind Waker, the game we’re examining this week is a Zelda title that inspires partisanship amongst the fandom. There are those who will insist that Majora’s Mask changed Zelda in all of the right ways for the better and that no game since has bested it, but there seems to be an equal side who feel that Majora’s Mask strayed too far from the familiar formula for the worse. Like The Wind Waker, this game…

While I feel it doesn’t need mentioning, I will nevertheless point out that there is no such thing as a “worst” or “best” Zelda game due to the fact that we each of us has a different idea of what exactly the Zelda recipe ought to be; my “best” might be your “worst” or vice versa. Also there’s the simple fact that even the lowest ranked Zelda game is considerably better ranked than most other games. With that out of…

Over the past month or so I’ve focused each week on a separate Zelda game, culling together comments and forum posts to present a variety of perspectives as to why it may be that Person A might feel The Wind Waker is the best in the series but that Person B might feel it was the worst. Despite feeling that I’d made this thesis clear not only in the inaugural post, but also in the opening paragraph of each subsequent…

Let’s begin with a quick reminder that these “Why [x game] is the Worst Zelda” editorials are not written from the perspective of my own opinions, but instead cobbled together based on opinions and direct quotes found both in the comments on these editorials as well as the forums. The purpose of this series is not to show that any particular game is actually better or worse than any other, but instead to show that each of us has a…

First of all, let me reiterate (as I do in each of these editorials) there there is no such thing as “the worst Zelda”–just as there is no such thing as “the best Zelda”–for the very good reason that there’s no real way to evaluate these games in an unbiased way, thus one game might be Player A’s “best” while that same game might be Player B’s “worst”. Case in point: A Link to the Past. When I wrote the…

I can hear the shouting and pitchfork rattling already, and this editorial hasn’t even yet begun. I can also already hear some of the more reasonable ones saying: “Wait a minute, didn’t you say A Link to the Past was your favorite?” Why, yes, I did. And while I thought I’d made this crystal clear in the inaugural post as well as in the beginning of the previous one, it would seem I need to reiterate the thesis of this…

In the introductory editorial in this series, we discussed how the best/worst Zelda game is often different for everyone, and that many times (though not every time) this is informed by something as simple as the first Zelda game played. Not that your first Zelda game is always your favorite, but that it sets a mold for what you feel a Zelda game should be. Of course there is no such thing as a “bad” Zelda game, because the one…

What do you think is the worst Legend of Zelda game? Let’s pretend those CD-i games don’t count, then seriously, what is the worst Legend of Zelda game? Often times we’ll hear Adventure of Link get thrown in with that conversation, but I personally hold that up as one of the better games in the franchise. To me personally, I’ve have to say Four Swords Adventures, especially if you are playing it in single player mode. The folks over at…

This listing below was found over at Official Nintendo Magazine and in my opinion is one of the worst Top 10 Zelda lists I have ever seen in my entire life. The listing was presumably based on what readers viewed as the best Zelda games of all time and as a hardcore Zelda fan, it just flat out makes me angry seeing this listing order. The miserable list can be seen below… 10. Oracle of Seasons/Ages 9. Phantom Hourglass 8….

Just the other day I was looking over at GameRankings.com, a site that offers links to all the various reviews of a particular game, and it combines them to form an aggregated score. In particular I was looking to see how the various Zelda games racked up against one another, and the results I found were a bit surprising. It was no shock that Ocarina of Time topped the list, but how the games fell in line afterwords, was a…