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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Minish_Cap
Twelveth. Man.
I think that the last game in the series I played was the fourth game, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, from 1993, 11 years before that.
EDIT: I did get the early version of that cartridge which had a neat screen-warp bug where if one hit Select just as one was transitioning across screens, once could skip across the entire screen and break the game in interesting ways, get into areas that one wasn't supposed to be in yet.
For anyone who hit the series much later, a timeline with YouTube playthroughs to see what they're like (excluding remakes on later systems):
The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo Entertainment System, 1986
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Nintendo Entertainment System, 1987
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, 1991
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Game Boy, 1993
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Nintendo 64, 1998
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Nintendo 64, 2000
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Game Boy Color, 2001
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, Game Boy Color, 2001
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, Game Boy Advance, 2002
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, GameCube, 2002
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, GameCube, 2004
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Game Boy Advance, 2004
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii, 2006
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Nintendo DS, 2007
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Nintendo DS, 2009
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Wii, 2011
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Nintendo 3DS, 2013
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, Nintendo 3DS, 2015
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo Switch, 2017
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo Switch, 2023
There might be someone one here who has played through all of them, though if I had to bet, I'd guess not. That's a pretty large library.
I've played most of them, and minish cap is definitely the best imo. The music, story, world, and nostalgia were all there for me. I also think LOZ was at its peak in the 2D era.
Also special mention, crossbow training for wii is C tier and LOZ CD-i is definitely A tier because Morshu
Thank you so much for this!
My first Zelda was... the original Zelda. Man I'm old. :)
So far I've played: 1-5 (Link's Awakening on Switch), 9, 12, 16 (Switch), 19. So I've played almost half. I thought BotW was meh, so I'm thinking of going back and playing some of the games I've missed (I bought Skyward Sword and Link's Awakening after TotK released). I never had an N64 (played Ocarina of time on a friend's N64), Game Cube, Wii, or Wii U, so I skipped those (I switched to XBox around that time).
I'm thinking Majora's Mask and Wind Waker next. Any thoughts?
Ikr? The last Zelda I played before TotK was one (or two?) on GBC with seasons and time manipulation and I can‘t remember a thing about them other than the mechanics being great… So I guess they’d make an amazing „second“ playthrough?
I remember a lot more about A Link To The Past, especially being extremely anxious back then about the thief that lurks on the way to the Master Sword…
TotK didn‘t blow me away as much as it blew away critiques. There‘s just so much empty space between points of interest… I haven‘t given up on it though. Keeping it spoiler free, I’m at the part where I gotta look for someone specific down in the Abyss which is a bit daunting since it‘s big, dark, and full of enemies (I know you haven‘t played it, I‘m just rambling, apologies).
That's how I felt about BotW, so I didn't bother buying TotK, I figured it was more of the same with the tool-making gimmick added.
TotK is wildly different for a game made with the same engine and sharing many core mechanics. Just my opinion, but the different powers really add a ton, to say nothing of the verticality of it.
IDK, I've never really been interested in the powers in Zelda games, I'm more interested in the dungeons, puzzles, and bosses. I'm not really into sandbox games generally, I love puzzles and combat.
I'll probably play it eventually, just not super interested in it right now. My kids would probably love it though, they love sandbox games.
ToTK is way more about the puzzles than BoTW was. Figuring out how to put together a device to solve a given puzzle is a huge portion of the game. That's what I mean when I say the different powers make it a wildly different game. Ultrahand alone is the source of hundreds of puzzles way more entertaining than the whole "pick up the out-of-place rock to find a korok" type filler that BoTW has.
Huh, maybe I'll like it then. But "everyone" seems to love BotW, and "everyone" seems to say "if you like BotW, you'll love TotK." So I'm skeptical.
I much preferred Skyward Sword and Link's Awakening, so I'll probably go back through the Zelda games I missed (Game Cube and Wii eras) before playing TotK. But I'll recheck the reviews again the next time I get a hankering for a Zelda game. Thanks!
Oh man, if you haven't played Wind Waker, make that one a priority.
Having beaten both the original and the HD version, the HD version is better because the original version of collecting the triforce shards towards the end of the game is a slog and the HD version cuts down on that tedium quite a bit.
I wish they'd remaster for the Switch, but maybe I'll just fire up an emulator instead.