Nintendo Life's Zelda game Rankings

>ALBW up high
I like it. TP should be higher though.

It's worse m8. Check again.

Who the FUCK made this order
And where the hell is #1

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I love how this list reveals that "Nintendolife" had no friends. Also their opinion is shit, like always.

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Where are the oracles at yo

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that's some /vr/-tier shit.

Anyone got an official timeline with Breath of the Wild in there?

BOTW is number one, you should have known that by the fact that it was the only 3D Zelda not in the picture

Fucking Skyward sword at anywhere but last yes, even behind the CDI games

absolute garbage

>dude let's put super old games at the top just because they are "classics" and "revolutionary"

hate this shit

a wooden club isn't a better weapon then a mace just because it innovated over fists

a link to the past is the greatest zelda game, 3d was a mistake

Assmad TP babby detected
SS is a 9/10 in every aspect except the horrible backtracking & gameplay, but even then it still shits on BOTW & TP

>a wooden club isn't a better weapon then a mace just because it innovated over fists

If people prefer the club, the maces must be pretty fucking shit.

Four swords adventures is awesome fuck this gay earth.

The desert and the Buddhist temple dungeon are 9/10. But you can't tell me the game is. It actively hurts me because of Fi. If she was muzzled I'd agree with you

TP is too low.

>TP lower than half that list including WW
>BOTW first
Nah it's shit

Seems like a list from someone who likes 2D more than 3D Zelda.

Top Tier
OoT
MM
Zelda 2

High Tier
Oracles
Zelda 1
ST
ALBW
ALttP

Mid Tier
WW
MC
PH
SS
BotW
LA

Low Tier
TP
FSA
This is fact.

>Top Tier
>Zelda 2
...You win this round.

>shitting on the DS zeldas

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No.

Just rerelease Ancient Stone Tablets already

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Of the core Zelda titles, the two DS entries are by far the worst. Minish Cap is the worst of the 3 Capcom Zeldas. Four Swords style shouldn't even be considered. I'll give it some points for realizing Skyward Sword is better than Twilight Princess.

Ocarina is still the best Zelda game though.

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>Who the FUCK made this order
>10 > 11 > 9
Thankfully not you.

Botw doesn't even belong in the top 3.

Masterpiece Tier
>Ocarina of Time
>Majora's Mask
>Link's Awakening
>Breath of the Wild

Great Tier
>Oracle of Ages/Seasons
>Wind Waker
>Link Between Worlds

Good Tier
>Link To The Past (fuck you LBW is better)
>Twilight Princess
>Skyward Sword
>Zelda 2

Eh Tier
>Minish Cap
>Zelda 1

Bad Tier
>Phantom Hourglass
>Spirit Tracks

Who Gives A Shit Tier
>Hyrule Warriors
>Four Swords
>Four Swords Adventure
>Triforce Heroes
>Link's Crossbow Training
>CD-i shit, you memeing fucks

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Swap Wind Waker and ALBW and its good.

Ocarina of Time is overrated and was surpassed in every way by every subsequent game.

LBTW doesn't deserve anything that high. All it's high points are literally copypasted from Link to the Past, except the game is significantly uglier. I LOVE Link to the Past, but LBTW is a cheap piggyback recycled from what was originally a LTTP remake.

Seething MM Cuck

Yea I love the classic memorable dungeon with green walls and dungeon with blue walls but sometimes a puddle

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very solid top 10, all good games but Spirit Tracks, BOTW and SS

surprisingly based list

BotW
LA
OoT
OoA
ALBW
LttP
OoS
MM
WW
TFH
HW
MC
TP
AoL
ST
LoZ
FSA
PH
SS

Skyward Sword better than Wind Waker?
Fuck no

It's basically random to random

>Minish cap
>Not first
Very, very shitty taste

It is. Accept it

Get rid of Spirit Tracks, Four Swords and Skyward Sword

Replace with the Oracle games and the original Zelda.

then no

Skyward Sword was shit, shouldn't even be on a list.

>all of these nostalgiafags

Objectively speaking BOTW is easily the best Zelda game ever made. Imagine if you were a kid and BOTW was your first Zelda instead of OoT, you would have been far more impressed.

IGN's list is better
> 1. Ocarina of Time
> 2. A Link To The Past
> 3. Breath of the Wild
> 4. The Legend of Zelda
> 5. Majora's Mask
> 6. The Wind Waker
> 7. Link's Awakening DX
> 8. A Link Between Worlds
> 9. Oracle of Ages
> 10. Oracle of Seasons
> 11. Skyward Sword
> 12. Twilight Princess
> 13. The Minish Cap
> 14. Adventure of Link
> 15. Spirit Tracks
> 16. Phantom Hourglass

If i was a kid discovering Zelda with this, i would wonder if they hate creating dungeons or civilisation. Or wonder why every bit of the world that seems interesting to explore has actualy nothing of interest going on.

BOTW is a fucking piece of shit Ubisoft clone that fails at every aspect except Graphics & sheer scale. Only Zelda game that's worse is Twilight Princess

I don't know. Open world games have been a thing for a long while now. That takes a bit of the shine off.
Ocarina was doing things that nobody had seen before.

Objectively any top 10 zelda list that doesn't have the Oracle games is garbage. Not saying they're the best but not including them is ridiculous

Nah ALTTP is super forgettable in every aspect compared to the rest
You can always tell it's someone blinded by nostalgia when it's marked that high up on a Zelda ranking

This list is great. NO BOTW which makes it 1000x better.

>Ocarina was doing things that nobody had seen before.

This has been disproved countless times. All of the "innovations" that OoT gets credited for were stolen from previous games.

Only thing good about SS was the visual style. Everything else, EVERY SINGLE OTHER ASPECT OF THE GAME has something horribly wrong and/or tedious about it.

>combat is janky and relies on janky motion controls
>story is the most forgettable in series history (SS Zelda is a babe tho)
>flying is janky and relies on janky motion controls
>exploration basically isn't a thing, all the ground areas are just extended dungeons and the sky area has like 3 islands with anything on them
>every time you start the game up again you have to sit through a 2 minute mini-tutorial every time you pick up any item
>fi constantly interrupting you with paragraphs of useless info
>items are more lock-and-key than TP and half of them use janky motion controls
>game just reuses the same 3 areas multiple times and is otherwise full of padding
>bosses all have terrible visual designs and are all easy as fuck
>fucking forced stealth segments
>janky motion controls

Wrong, those games were objectively garbage & nobody remembers them. OOT is officially credited by the entire gaming industry as the most influential game ever made behind Mario 64 for it's sheer impact on Modern gaming. Everything has copied from Mario 64 & OOT

I don't think anyone will accept a list with the most recent zelda entry at the top since recent event favoritism is a thing. we'll see if this list changes in another zelda game or two

BOTW is number one.

>this is what OoT fanboys actually believe

Pretty sure everyone remembers Tomb Raider.

Yeah, but it did all of them in one game and far more competently than any of them.

>DS Games above any other title ever
>Screenshot for LTTP is a shitty filtered emulator
Their opinion is worth less than garbage.

>"ALTTP but again" that high
>Minish Cap that low
>DS games above anything

No, BOTW is the best pretty easily. Just the scale of this new Zelda alone makes it really good, but everything on top of it makes it the best.
It's not your typical zelda and it strays from a lot of its own rules, so you all hate it and non-stop bitch about it. It is amusing though.

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No they don’t, everyone lists near the top of “Games that aged like shit” lists. It’s a complete afterthought that nobody cares about

Rankings are on top of the images

>Skyward Sword, Minish Cap, Spirit Tracks, Phantom Hourglass AND Four Swords Adventures above Twilight Princess
What? The only one of these who even comes close to TP in quality is Minish Cap, and that's one of the LOWEST rated on the list. I haven't seen ANYBODY thinking Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks are good, and the only ones who think Skyward Sword is better than Twilight Princess are numales with a hardon for wagglan gaemz.

>Just the scale of this new Zelda alone makes it really good
TP did the same shit for its time and people still accepted how fucking empty it was.
>strays from a lot of its own rules
Doing this alone doesn't make the game good.
>I haven't seen ANYBODY thinking Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks are good
PH is pretty mediocre outside some of the later dungeons, but ST is great through and through.

Nah, the size of the world and everything to do makes it incredible. There's countless albums of beautiful views of the game. The geography isn't boring either, every biome and environment are superb.
Plus muh soundtrack. Game's just good. Breath of the Wild was the only zelda I couldn't get bored of.

>There's countless albums of beautiful views of the game.
It's a fucking game mate, not a natural landmark.

Sure it isnt. But the fact that it still has such good geography makes it that much better.

>There's countless albums of beautiful views of the game. The geography isn't boring either, every biome and environment are superb.
Visuals really don't matter one way or the other.
>Plus muh soundtrack.
It fades into the background most of the time and the few times it doesn't it's shit.
Also, none of what you said includes anything about the game itself. It's fine for it to be your favorite, but don't act like the shit it gets isn't justified.

Nah, everything about the game is pretty top-notch. Even the incessant bitching about weapon durability. It encouraged creative use of other weapons and environment. Excluding the first hour of the game, at what point are you running out of weapons?
Visuals do matter, almost every promotional image of BOTW has a large landscape in the background.
The soundtrack is good. Towns and Bosses were really good. Also having BOTH the best Hyrule themes in the series.

>Nah
Yah, the game was a shit Zelda, but a fantastic Ubisoft title and I give Nintendo kudos for that.

>everything about the game is pretty top-notch.
>simple repetitive enemies
>very little variety in said enemies
>flurry rush
>overly simplistic shrines
>dungeons boil down to a single obvious puzzle
>dungeons are all copy paste including bosses, none feel unique
>rewards for exploration get worse the longer you play the game
>final boss is easy as fuck and completely anti-climactic
>story is practically nonexistent
All of these things are littered throughout the game and bring it down.
>It encouraged creative use of other weapons and environment.
Not really because of things I already mentioned above.
>The soundtrack is good.
It would be if it were noticable.
>Towns were good
The characters were basic as fuck and added nothing. Look at MM if you want a good town.

No. OoT is still the best 3D Zelda, with MM being runner up. And the GB/GBC Zeldas are far better than ALttP.

OOT > ALTTP > WW = MM > TloZ > Awakening > TP > SS > ALBW > BOTW > Shit > Everything else
This is objectively correct

>9/10 except for the horrible gameplay

why did someone apply a filter to this image

>And the GB/GBC Zeldas are far better than ALttP
I hope you're not talking about the Capcom games, they're mediocre at best. Most of the assets were ripped from LA without alteration, and the new sound tracks are pretty awful

LttP was amazing in its day. LA merely tried to recreate that, in monochrome, which detracted loads from the experience

If it's not top-down perspective then it's shit.

Except for BOTW, its bretty good.

Link's Awakening is a much better game than ALttP. Both Oracle games, while not as good as LA, are better than ALttP. ALttP is barely better than the DS games.

TP is better than WW so that's wrong.

based broholint

Every other 3D Zelda is better than WW.

>Zelda 2 is worse than shit
Shitty underage taste.

Botw just goes way at the bottom of a combined timeline. It exists to end the timeline autism.

No seasons or ages?

I'll never understand the hate for Zelda 2. It's such a good game.

>Spirit track and Skyward Sword above Twilight princess.
It's almost as if they didn't play the games and just went off what they heard was good.

It was just too different from the original. I'm sure if it came out in the mid 90's on the GB, the reception would've been a lot better.

imagine placing twilight princess behind skyward sword and FSA

>WOW THE NEWEST ONE IS DEFINITELY THE BESS
uh huh suuuure

Both of the DS Zeldas have so much downtime (Especially Spirit Tracks) that it almost ruins anything outside those sailing/driving sections.

>timelines combine

explain how

I know, TP is fucking horrible

Cope more, you heard them TP is fucking garbage & worse then any other Modern Zelda game

Nah, it's better than WW because it had a more cohesive plot, pacing, dungeons, bosses and story. WW had none of that was clearly falling apart by the final act. Sure TP has the bug hunt/wolf section, but it has the rest of the game to make up of that. WW doesn't, it just finished off with you getting strong armed into shilling money to buy charts instead of a new dungeon or quest.

ST is actually good though, no one has ever pointed out anything bad about it but the touch controls which aren't even an actual issue.

> Plot, Dungeons, Bosses, Story
All of this was fucking horrible in TP, which is why everyone hates it & always lists WW as one of the best games ever made

Almost perfect but Link to the past should be great tier

Not him but WW is garbage. Even Star Fox Adventures was better.

The timelines don't combine, it's just that BOTW takes place so fucking long (10,000 years) after any other game that which timeline it's in is irrelevant, since fucking anything could've happened in that timespan.

>doesn't argue or must a proper argument
>relies on others to make for the obvious flaws in the game
The sad state of WW.

BOTW, AlttP, Los, Aol, Oracle games, LA.

Fuck the rest.

>it's just that BOTW takes place so fucking long (10,000 years) after any other game that which timeline it's in is irrelevant, since fucking anything could've happened in that timespan
>SS and it's lore is still canon
worst part of all this

Nice samefag cope

COPE

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>Twilight Princess at the end
What literal retard made this
Even the order is all fucked up

No it didn't. Shadow of the Colossus had a better overworld than twilight princess despite even more empty than TP

The world in BOTW isn't empty so I don't understand your point

Except for the fact that Ubisoft games don't even have puzzles?

>fewer enemies yes but each enemy has more parameters to the point that they are far more complex and therefore have more depth than previous zelda enemies
>shrines serve well the lore of the game and a lot of the shrines serve as some of the best quests in the entire series
>the divine beasts all have different level design and layout so you're literally wrong
>story in zelda was always simplistic so i don't even see your point
>Majora's Mask had only one good town meanwhile BOTW has plenty of good towns

Garbage taste

Link's awakening is the bootleg version of ALTTP. It doesn't even feel like a zelda game with characters from different games being in there. It's fucking retarded.

t. nostalgia cuck

There is nothing unique that's spread out through the world for the most part so it may as well be empty once you've seen enough of it. Not even shrines do much to help this.
SotC is irrelevant, it's a completely different game with different mechanics and objectives.

It's a shit game, nobody unironically likes it outside this board. You will always see people listing it as one of the worst Zelda games

>It's a shit game, nobody unironically likes it outside this board.
Bullshit if I'd ever see it, it's a good game.

Let your nostalgia bias go, it was terrible

All this twilight princess hate.
Twilight princess and wind waker are the best zeldas, and pull off their themes perfectly.

Yet SotC managed to have a better overworld than the ugly garbage presented in TP

>graphic design is my passion

I unironically enjoyed phantom hourglass more than skyward sword. That game is absolutely fucking busted in just about every way that mattters.

TP was shit, OOT, WW, BOTW, SS, LA, Original, ALTTP & ALBW are the only good Zelda games

TP is literally just OOT with actually good dungeons

>it was terrible
If it was I wouldn't replay it once a year. Shit like Fallout 3 is terrible.

>each enemy has more parameters to the point that they are far more complex and therefore have more depth than previous zelda enemies
Within the realm of 3D Zelda sure, but that's not saying much since not a single one has had combat beyond the level of a young child.
>serve well the lore of the game
Their existence does, but the shrines themselves add nothing to it and what they have as a whole is minuscule at best.
>a lot of the shrines serve as some of the best quests in the entire series
Give specific examples.
>story in zelda was always simplistic
>Link's Awakening
>Majora's Mask
>Oracle of Seasons/Ages
>Wind Waker
>Minish Cap
>Twilight Princess
>Phantom Hourglass
>Spirit Tracks
>Skyward Sword
Every single one of these was either actually complex or had a bunch of complex elements revolving around the main story.
>plenty of good towns
Rito Village is practically empty, Goron Village is practically empty, Zora's Domain has a couple of npcs for the sake of Link's past, and Tarrey Town is gimmicky bullshit. The only passable one is Gerudo Village and even then, it just takes from what's been built in OoT and MM.

So literally not empty then. Good to know.

>WW
Do I have to bring the webm out?

What the fuck does SotC have to do with TP, retard?

And what does that prove? Stop acting like SotC and Zelda are even remotely comparable in terms of gameplay.

TP is a unmemorable piece of shit without a single memorable quality or worthwile aspect that makes up for all of the shitty stuff in it. Which is why it's horrible, it's a downgrade from WW & MM in every aspect. Largely due to the fact that it was originally designed as a WW sequel & the concept was scrapped halfway through to pander to the subhuman autistic Western Zelda fans. But after TP was such a failure in Japan they refused to acknowledge it & went back to the design style for WW & have stayed there ever since

>It's a shit game, nobody unironically likes it outside this board.
this board doesn't even like twilight princess as much as other 3d zeldas

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>it's a downgrade from WW
It's a finished game which is more than then about WW.

see

that Aonuma was a faggot who was holding zelda down. it's good that he's no longer involved in the actual development of the games

t. did not play skyward sword
But you should keep it that way. Just fix your opinion.

>Within the realm of 3D Zelda sure, but that's not saying much since not a single one has had combat beyond the level of a young child.
Ignoring Lynels and the Test of Strengths, this is a retarded argument because you immediately follow it up by arguing that previous Zelda games had anything but a shithouse story you manchild.

the sotc overworld was basically empty and still managed to be more compelling than the ugly and awfully designed TP overworld

WW's only flaw was being unfinished, if it was delayed for a year or two like BOTW it would be nearly flawless. Whereas Twilight Princess literally cannot be salvaged unless it's completely scrapped & redone from scratch

>Twilight Princess dead last
FUCKING BASED

ALBW should unironically be #1 because it's by far the smoothest/least clunky Zelda game. The controls are practically perfect and the game runs at 60 FPS. Yes, the second-to-second minute-to-minute experience of playing the game matters, a lot. It helps that the dungeons and items are solid and the story is simple but effective (following LA's example).

Its main flaw is the derivative setting, and it's a damn shame that instead of rectifying that in the sequel, they're going BACKWARDS by doing a 1:1 creation of Link's Awakening.

Imagine being this retarded

>Whereas Wind Waker literally cannot be salvaged unless it's completely scrapped & redone from scratch
FTFY no need to thank me. TP only has issues its difficulty and pacing, the wolf parts slow it down and the special moves again render them useless. Meanwhile WW needs actual content instead of stretching the game and making it a slog.

user, I...

>No Zelda II
>ALttP that high
>LA not on the Top 5

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Its shit.

>previous Zelda games had anything but a shithouse story
The only ones you could argue are shit are TP and SS and even then, it's debatable at best.
SotC isn't built around exploration and discovery, it's closer to Monster Hunter if anything.

If TP was such a failure then i feel bad for almost every other Zelda game. Original release of OOT was about 7 mil sales, original release wind waker was about 4 mil, original release TP was about 8 mil. With the rerelease it's almost 10 mil, almost double of wind waker with both of that games releases, and just 2 mil short from ocarina in all of its releases.
Unmemorable is also just your own issue as i remember almost everything from that game. You also never addressed my point of the dungeons being better. Stop talking out of your ass.

> Not even trying to refute any of these objective points
> Cries & Seeths this hard
Yikes

>SotC isn't built around exploration and discovery
It is built around discovering giant colossi in the world which means it's built around exploration

>refute any of these objective points
>i-if WW h-had a year or t-two THEN IT WOULD BE GOOD
Some objective points lmao

>Twilight Princess
>below Skyward Sword

In fact,

>Skyward Sword
>above literally anything but the CDI games

The only Nintendo-made Zelda game I'd call actually bad.

>The only ones you could argue are shit are WW and SS
ftfy

>it's another lttp ot mm make it to top 4 episode
Always the same games that make it to top 4 fuck this list.

Your sword literally points out exactly where to go, it's almost as straightforward as just having a dot on a map. The bulk of the game is very obviously the battles themselves.

Wind Waker did Ganondorf's and the King's character better than every other one to exist in the series.

>doing a 1:1 creation of Link's Awakening
We have no idea if it's actually going to be 1:1. They are likely going to clean up some of the ultra-confusing shit in the dungeons to make it easier to follow, at the very least.

>without a single memorable quality or worthwile aspect
Now, that's going too far. There are some great items trapped in that shithole of a game, used in the second half of the dungeon you find them in and then never to be seen again.

Cope more, WW is objectively good which is why everyone like pic related considers it one of the absolute best in the series. TP is hated by journos & most normies refuse to play it because it looks like absolute shit

you can also choose not to use the sword and just roam the world looking for colossi

>hated by journos & most normies refuse to play it
>this is a bad thing

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seething

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Yes, of course you can choose to play the game in a different way than intended, speed runners do it all the time.

Wind Waker is full of filler and what is there is easy as shit. The only objectively good thing about it is the atmosphere.

it's hated by patricians like me too

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Where the fuck are the Oracle games and why aren't they rated higher than the DS travesty's?

it's loved by patricians like me too

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14. Link's Crossbow Training
15. Zelda's Adventure
16. Hyrule Warriors
17. Zelda II
18. Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
19. Twilight Princess (GCN)

shit list

>albw over awakening

really shit list.

see

you can instantly spot the adderall 8 year olds when they place botw above OOT or LTTP or MM.

>3DS game in top 5
>Wii game in top 10
Found the nu-Zelda fan

where are oracle of seasons and oracle of ages?

>albw above awakening

>spirit tracks > zelda 1 and 2

>botw best game

holy shit how bad can your taste be.

Oot is shit unless you're playing it at 60fps in citra with gyro controls in which case it's the best zelda

Botw >alttp > oot

I'm 26

The only thing I liked about BOTW was the combat, and the journey to the top of the castle at the end of the game. Those were the only two things that made me feel much of anything in that game. I would love another traditional Zelda game with all its dungeons, but with the more challenging combat of BOTW.

BOTW is essentially the opposite of my problems with other Zelda games. I always loved everything about the previous games except for the yawn inducing easy combat. When it comes to BOTW, I think the map is a waste of space and all 4 of the dungeons (not including the hyrule castle) are samey looking boring mini-dungeons.

You're fucking stupid