So which Zelda games are worth playing?

So which Zelda games are worth playing?

All of them.

None of them.

You can skip four swords and DS games, rest is good.

all, but cd-i

Everything from Oot onward
Lttp and everything before it is clunky garbage not worth wasting time on

None except cd-i

skip the first 2
4 swords
the new multiplayer 3ds one. too laggy

LTTP, maybe OOT
that's it

nigga first two are legit two of the best games in the series

I would put the DS ones above Triforce Heroes.

If i were to skip just one Zelda it would be TH, but even that got nice music and MUH CROSSDRESSING LINK for the fags who like that shit.

All of them if you're a zelda fan. If not, play these:
>link to the past
>link's awakening
>ocarina of time
>majora's mask
>oracle of ages
>oracle of seasons
>wind waker
>twilight princess
>link between worlds
>breath of the wild

Note: Playing the Oracle games linked AND unlinked is a must (Meaning two playthroughs per game), it was NOT a minor feature but HEAVY storyline changes and even influenced what items you had.

ALttP, LA, OoT, MM, Oracle, Wind Waker, Minish Cap, TP. Those are the ones I played at least. DS ones can be skipped, you're not missing much, also Four Swords, though it does wrap up the storyline put in place by Minish Cap.

If you only want the essentials, then
>Legend of Zelda
>A Link to the Past
>Link's Awakening
>Ocarina of Time
>Majora's Mask
>Wind Waker
>Minish Cap
>Twilight Princess
>A Link Between Worlds
>Breath of the Wild
The Oracles, DS games, and Skyward Sword are also options if you really need more Zelda.

Yep, the oracle games are some of the best Zelda games made and people rarely mention them just because they aren't 3D zelda games

all of them except zelda 2

God I hate the Toon Link aesthetic. People were right back in 2003. Why did Nintendo want to push it so much?

You could argue the DS games can't be skipped. LBW is fucking great. Phantom hourglass is pretty good. Spirit tracks and triforce heroes are alright

tfw toon link is one of my favorite links. He's a link with actual emotion instead of blankly staring at things like the other links do

This is a blue board user! MODS.

Because the "realistic" games that immediately pre and proceeded wind waker look like absolute fucking garbage

You do realize the first two includes Zelda 2 right?

You're saying Zelda 2 was good, do you understand that?

t. shitter

It was easy to animate and therefore cheap, it isn't rocket science user.

And people don't really talk about it, but im pretty sure when people think about how the goddesses look outside of the GOLD STATUE form they automatically think of the Oracles, so it was probably more influential then people think, and the oracles were good designs so who can blame em.

STs main draw is that it actually had Zelda and Link as a team, and a great fucking OST, but that goes without saying.

Legend of Zelda, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild

in that order.

ALttP
LA
OoT
MM
OoS/A
WW
TP
ALBW
BotW

i had a lot of fun playing zelda 2 savescumming and following a 100% walkthrough.

way better than the first one imo

>tfw nobody even remembers FSA
Truly some of the best shit if you've got 3 buddies

All of them.

The first two are great in their own ways but can understandably be frustrating. LttP is the first game that doesn't feel horribly dated.

I guess you could skip the DS ones (not ALBW, the Toon Link ones), the multiplayer ones, and SS.

You can have emotion without turning the character into a fucking Nendoroid.

Wow, it's almost like early 3D looked like shit. The DS games that use the cell-styled designs are ugly too.

Why do people like Twilight Princess?

Not a fan of the 3D ones, but as far as 2d Zeldas play A Link to the Past and the ones made by Capcom

Just play a link to the past and ocarina of time,
everything else is just a rehash,

hell, even oot is a rehash, but at least it's 3D, so that's something

Zelda 2 HD remake when?

I wish the train riding was more involved desu. I wish we had to shovel some coal or flip more switches and gears. The train riding was so bare bones it killed me. At least you could explore and choose where to go in phantom hourglass but ST was literally on rails

3 buddies and 4 GBAs, and 4 GCN-GBA Link Cables, shit was expensive, also you know...
>Sup Forums
>Friends.

Is Skyward Sword emulatable? Or is it too reliant on motion controls to be enjoyed without a Wii controller?

That is what I said yes.

Wasn't that game able to be played single player though?

I'll list the bad ones
>adventure of link
>skyward sword

haven't played
>phantom hourglass
>spirit tracks
>link between worlds

>Twilight Princess
Opinion discarded!
Respectable list otherwise.

True but honestly the whole wind waker aesthetic just clicks really well with me. I just "get" that game. I might sound like a weaboo but it totally captured what I thought it might be like to sail with the one piece crew

I never played a zelda game

Not baiting or lying the games never appealed to me.

fpbp

>haven't played LBW
get that shit now. Great Zelda game. Obviously I don't wanna overhype it but it's good

Absolute essentials:
ALttP
LA
OoT
MM
WW
BOTW

Add TP and SS if you want to go a little deeper.

You need to play the following:
>Zelda II
>Skyward Sword
>Spirit Tracks
>Tri-Force Heroes
>Hyrule Warriors
Skip the rest, they aren't good and nobody asked for them.

Everything after the Oracle games is overrated trash loved by hipsters and dildos.

The first 8 games are legitimately good games that were actually original and pushed the franchise forward.

>You're saying Zelda 2 was good, do you understand that?

Not the same guy, but I agree with that.

80% of the complaints are about it being too cryptic and/or hard. It was also hated on for "breaking formula" and that's really weird. Not being hard enough and sticking to a worn formula make up most the complaints about Zelda today. Thankfully we got Breath of the Wild now.

Zelda 2 was good, are you high?

IIRC it was actually emulated pretty soon after release, rather easily at that, but im not sure if you actually needed a actual Wiimote at the time or not, i think you did.

Basically if remember shit right SS ran on Dolphin, but Dolphin needed you to set up a Wiimoteplus to your computer or some shit.

Yeah, but it was heavily marketed as multiplayer to the point that where i lived the idea it was MULTIPLAYER ONLY was ruling the street, FF:CC had the same issue.

If you put link's awakening on there, you need to put the oracle games. They might as well all be one 3 part huge game considering they're so similar

>ALttP
>not the superior LBW

>Zelda 2 is bad
This is why I hate Nintendildos

how could you do this?

I'm all for this, but that image posted is kind of.. um, terrible looking? There are ways to go about this and MUCH better styles this could work in. Pic related.

there's a reason they never made another sidescrolling tloz

>there are people on Sup Forums old enough to have played Zelda 2 when it came out

Geeze. I've only played these games since I was at least 10. Except for Wind Waker, I played that one younger.

I'd say they're all worth a go even 2. Which ones you'll like is pretty difficult to guess though.
I'd say try:
TLoZ if you're into old school games and making your own maps and notes
Link's Awakening if you want retro but a bit less of challenge
Twilight Princess for 3D adventure(maybe OoT if you're ok with N64 looks)
and finally Breath of the Wild if you want something modern and don't mind going back after it

What game is that?

A linkt to the past.
Everything else is literally trash

>That pic
we need more zelda games like those

Start at the beginning and watch as a series about non linear exploration and challenging combat becomes a series about overly long boring texts and cutscenes with some damn fine puzzles.

>linked AND unlinked
What?

Same reason Metroid is dead and Splatoon is flourishing.
Because dildos are pedos and casuals, big surprise there.

I don't think the Oracles games are nearly as interesting as the ultra-quirky LA. It also established the more character-driven stories that would become common later. I'm going to be very honest, I find the Oracles games boring (and Minish Cap), but LA was charming.

ALttP is possibly the most important game in the series. All others after it based themselves on its structure, more than on LoZ. Although LBW in some ways is a middle ground between the usual zelda formula and BotW's open-ness, it still feels very derivative. Also, out of curiosity, which game has more content and lasts longer? I get the feeling it's LttP, but it's not like I've actuall compared the two in that way.

Oracles official art Link is the best Link.

There's one thing that's unclear for me about these charts. Which one means the better the game between "foaming mouth sparkly eyes" and crying sparkly eyes"?

And a very repetitive formula of rehashes until the series gets so lazy it throws all that out the window and just makes Skyrim with a Zelda skin to appeal to brain dead idiots. The Zelda franchise is dead, a doppelganger wears its corpse. May it rest in peace.

Basically, when you beat one of them you get a password you can use in the other one for a altered gameplay experience.

You could also do the linking via Link Cable IIRC, but i happen to know you gonna emulate anyway, so password for you.

Mind you BOTH games are "full length" for GBC games even without Linking so it isn't some kind of CUT CONTENT crap going on, just getting a lot of game.

There was actually even going to be third game originally but the linking gimmick would gotten too complicated, that's why there are 3 Oracles but only 2 games.

LttP has more content and is in general a better game with more involved and challenging puzzles. LBW's open world structure could have been great but they ended up only going halfway with puzzles in general - it avoids backtracking between dungeons, but it makes the game a cake walk.


>ALttP is possibly the most important game in the series.

To an extent, I'll agree.

>ALttP is the most important
>OoT is the most influential
>MM and LA:DX are the best games in the series.

I've never understood why you get the stepladder after the raft. Couldn't you just use the raft to cross the small gaps of water too?

They're two different games.

What's the third Oracle of?

>Ages
>Seasons
>???

Secrets

Should I emulate ALBW right now?

I think you should give the oracle games another playthrough. I'm not sure how you could find them boring. There are SO MANY little secrets and things to find in the world. The world feels really fleshed out. They're some of my favorite zelda games.

Secrets

Which basically translated into a "Cheat Code" system in-game.

The game however was supposed to be about colours, the colour cube puzzles originate from it before it was scrapped.

>ALttP is the most important for the Zelda series
>OoT is the most influential outside the Zelda series
Clarified. I mean, you could argue OoT is also the most influential inside the series, but OoT itself is a 3D version of LttP.

I don't think you even can. It was a 3DS game and as far as I know, 3DS emulation is still shit

>implying PH is better than ST

sasuga

OoT, as of TP and certainly as of BotW, has influenced more than ALttP has within the series, though you're right about it essentially be a remixed version of LttP.

The original version of that template didn't have hundreds of meaningless variants on the standard "this game is good" image. Then reddit got hold of it and ruined it by taking it too far, as they always do.

It's one of the games with higher compatibility. I checked once, it launched and looked fine.

Oracles are better than LA imo

The GBA version of Four Swords was not playable on your own

They're both shit desu

Turrican 2 for the Amiga

Well, we know who didn't have any friends to play 4 Swords with.

Honestly?

Not really.

It's definitely playable, but it's not great.

If you're looking for a GOOD 2-D Zelda, go play Awakening or the Oracle games (assuming you've played LttP of course). After those you can play Minish Cap if you still want more.

Don't get me wrong, LBW isn't a BAD game, it's just not reached any of the bars that any of the previous 2D Zelda's set.

Yeah but he said Four Swords Adventure, not Four Swords.

Am I in the minority by preferring aLttP over aLBW? I just think the aesthetic is more pleasing and gives it a greater atmosphere, and while Between Worlds has a lot of cools mechanics the dungeons get a little too convoluted for my taste. It's not a huge difference by I'd play Link to the Past over Between Worlds anyday.

>Optional tier
Four Swords Adventures, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, Tri-Force Heroes

>Essential tier
Everything else

Then yeah sure go for it. It's a great game. There are some timed puzzles though so don't get upset with the game if the emulation speed makes those frustrating

I wasn't aware there was a difference

Linked Ages is possibly better than LA. Base Ages is not QUITE as good as LA, but pretty close.

Seasons definitely isn't.

Together they're arguably better, but now we're comparing 2 games vs. 1.

(you)

All of them, except for the multiplayer ones. Those suck balls.

>TP better than MM

nice bait