DS Daily: What's your least favorite Zelda title?

to me twilight princesess was the worst becuse it was such a flop. this game was just attempting to accomplish what ocarina of time did. therefore its just a clone

Wind Waker.
Never liked sailing in that game.

To me it was Four Swords, because the idiotic system where one has to use a gameboy advanced with that cable-thingy in order to play it with your friends. Why not just make it so it works with ordinary gamecube controllers? A little different design on the game would solve everything, or do splitscreen. Sheesh..

"Wind Waker.
Never liked sailing in that game."

Ditto.

A Link to the Past is probably my most favorite. A combination of awesome gameplay and nostalgia put it at the top of my list.

Oh, and who could forget that craptastic crapathon that was Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

I threw up in my mouth a little just mentioning it...

My least favorite Zelda game is... for now two that I haven't played. Oracle of Seasons etc because since I have never played them so far I can't feel bad about not liking them as much. But I hear they are pretty solid. I guess the false three Zelda games for CDI

Majora's Mask was tedious and boring. Different, but still tedious and boring. It's the only one I never finished.

I'd say it's a tie between Zelda II the bastardation of Link and Majora's Mask...eh, Majora's Mask.

I actually really love Zelda II, and always will. It also has an incredible theme tune. The one I found most disappointing was OoT. Sorry, fanboys. The move to 3D didn't excite me. It bored me. The graphics were dull, and it took forever to do ANYTHING. So I quit it.

MAH BOIIIIIIII

...'Nuff said.

It's gotta be Majora's Mask (not saying that MM was bad...). Whereas Ocarina took Zelda and made it fresh and lively again, MM took Ocarina and just redid it.

So, jeah, it was good...it was just rehashed.

I like the tunes in Zelda 2 a lot as well. Rockin' ol' school synth and adventure music! Never really played MM too much so far so that is one too then.

Assuming that the CDi games don't count here...

Four Swords Adventures. They took Four Swords, a decent multilayer game, and made it bad and boring somehow. I don't know specifically why I didn't enjoy it, but I didn't enjoy it one bit.

Zelda II: Adventures of Link was also a disappointment.

Four Swords for the GBA.

I absolutely loved Four Swords Adventures, though. I just didn't like the GBA version because you couldn't solo, and it was almost impossible with two people playing. @_@

every zelda game is a sheer masterpiece of awesome, so none.

Minish Cap.

Minish Cap is the beginning of the the Zelda series and one of my favorite games. Twilight Princess is the worst.Maybe because I just played Okami I was not feeling it.Okami to me is a great Zelda tribute game.Zelda II is a great game , too bad people cannot see beyond the graphics.

wait a sec....................did sum1 just dis oot.
and praise zelda 2 in its place?onepointfivevolt...
.........YOU are error

I personally can't play anything other than the handheld ones now. I enjoyed OoT when I first played it, but I've got this thing about games and books. Unless theres higher difficulties or something else to gain from replaying, I just don't replay them. I enjoy the handheld ones, mainly because they are portable. I've only ever finished OoT, MM, WW and MC. Thats it. And I've never replayed any of them. I feel stupid for it too.

Much like with Metroid games, my least favorite is the original. It just seems very... spartan, compared to everything that followed it

(of course, i'm not taking CDi into consideration at all)

my favorite is either OoT or the Windwaker

Four Swords is an absolute blast if you have four people together. It's great fun. By yourself... probably the weakest game. For me though, Majora's Mask was the first Zelda I didn't beat and totally flip out over.

Four Swords Adventures and Link's Awakening are the only Zelda games I've never played, so I'm leaving them out of my judgment. In all honesty, of all the Zelda games I've ever played, my least favorite was Majora's Mask. It's not wrong for a game to depart in some significant way from a franchise, but when the departure kills the spirit of the game, that's when the line should be drawn. A timed game runs so severely counter to Zelda's core concepts of adventure and exploration that I couldn't endure it. Admittedly, I loved the overall darker feel, but it just wasn't enough to overcome the unenjoyablness of time limits.

Probably Majora's mask. It is the only console Zelda game I never even cared about owning. I've pre ordered and bought every console zelda game since Zelda III (even four swords for the GC) except for Majora's Mask. For some reason the game never was a big deal to me and I have no idea why. My best friend is a huge Zelda fan and even he didn't buy it when it came out.

The only reason I have it is because it came in the collectors edition on the game cube and I haven't even loaded it up to play it. If I had a chance to play either that or the CDI zelda games I would probably choose the CDI games because of their pure awesomeness in suckage.

Majora's Mask I didn't like so much.

I loved Zelda II!!!

I also loved Castlevania II and Mario II. In some ways my favorites of each series.

You should've made a poll for this :)

My least favorite is Zelda II, because although it's a decent game, it really can't compare to the quality of every other Zelda title (IMO).

Next is the Wind Waker. I didn't like sailing and I really, REALLY dislike pirates (both kinds :)) Hopefully these factors won't affect my PH experience, which I'm loving so far.

Anyonne who said Link's Adventure just never played it through. Simple as that.

Majora's Mask was boring...not terrible, just really, really boring IMO.

Phantom Hourglass.

Seriously. The stylus controls are intolerable at times, especially during boss battles. I've never hated Zelda controls before. It's absolutely killing the game for me.

Twilight Princess is the one I liked the least...

Not that it was a bad Zelda game, I just wasn't as captivated by the art direction. It felt "dated" right from release, while my favorite, Wind Waker, had an art style that will look good forever, no matter what technical advances might come in future Nintendo consoles.

I guess it was Link's Adventure. It never felt like the original to me, and I couldn't get over the sidescrolling. We're not just talking about a secret passageway here or there, it was the meat of the game.

Granted, I have never played any of the 3d iterations.

Of what Zelda games I've played (all of them except the CD-i and OoA), my least favorite was Zelda 2. And yes, it was the style of play that turned me off. Not to say the game is bad, it just isn't as fun as the other games.

Four Swords Adventures is incredibly fun if you have more than 2 people. Two of my friends and I played it all summer and had a blast. The only game we've had more fun with was Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Hmmm, Four Swords Adventures will likely never be played again. I could never get four people together for that.

Zelda II is fun. But the maddening Ironknuckles and the occasional 'blind jump' makes it a chore.

The Oracle games were good, but the music in some parts was just torture, even for the GBC. I remember an underwater theme that forced me to turn down the volume every time I went through the area.

So yeah definitely Four Swords Adventures (should have been online anyway) followed by the Oracle games (the archaic hardware definitely justifies a remake somewhere down the line).

twilight princess.

absolutely awful, with the exception of the bridge fight with the goblin riding a boar, it was just suck.

you take ocarina of time, add in some shapeshifting from majora, and you get tp, just with sucky graphics this time.

5/10. i was bored 95% of the time.

Uhh, my least favorite... The Oracle set. It's two, but I didn't like either of them.

I'm in the minority here, I know. But Ocarina of Time. I never owned an N64, so I played it on the Gamecube, and was severely underwhelmed. Of course comparing it to the graphics of Wind Waker isn't fair. And I tried giving it a chance. But I feel that it became dated too quickly. Especially considering that I can download Link to the Past on the VC and enjoy it just fine.

I haven't played Zelda II, but I've seen screenies/vids, and It seems out of place. MM wasn't really that bad, I like the dark atmosphere and stuff, but it wasn't much in the sense of adventure. You felt you were in a big circle with a city in the middle...and that's good because that's how it WAS. However, the time elements, masks, and dungeons were pretty good.

My least favorite would probably be Oracle of Ages. I liked the minish cap, even though parts were tedious, it was pretty good. Ages had some glitches (which is why I never finished it), and it had a dull atmosphere. Other than that, I DID like it, because the dungeons were fun, so that goes to show that even my least favorite of the series was good.

The Oracle games actually. I just could not get into them for some reason. I have found that most of the people who hate Majora's Mask or Legend of Zelda II actually have never completed them. I have completed both and think that Zelda II is a bit under rated and could have used some more polish; but Majora's Mask was perfect and was the best infusion of horror into the franchise. It was also one of the most emotional ones in the franchise. Besides, Majora's Mask had more play options and DEPTH than Ocarina of Time.. despite having less dungeons. Remember that Majora's Mask had those three masks that change your form, each with their own moves, weaknesses, instruments, et cetra. The bosses were pretty tough, it also had the most bad-ass Link transformation ever in that final mask. It also had the most disturbing new "characters" like the Mask Salesman, Toilet Hand, Tingle, and that moon. The game was actually tense and the last "area" was more SILENT HILL than Legend of Zelda. The levels were brilliance that could not be denied, especially the dungeon you flipped over or the water dungeon. The water boss was that horrible fish. The water creature in Ocarina of Time has NOTHING on that damn fish. The game also features some of the most satisfying sub-quests ever. From shooting down aliens to reuniting a Father and Daughter. If you failed on those sub-quests, they even made you feel *really* guilty. If you've visited the farm after failing the alien shoot down... you know what I mean. Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time have their moments of sadness and terror; but they are not anywhere as cruel, and unforgiving as Majora's Mask is in that regard. Majora's Mask remains one of the more mature Legend of Zelda titles... ever.

The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening.

I gotta say Twilight princess

It's not a bad game, on the contrary, but what hooked my in Zelda was the "wow" feeling & from playing OOT for the first time .... Twilight doesn't make me go "wow" ... it was too much like OOT.

I'm gunna have to say OoT. i know that many of you will not be happy to hear this, but i played WW before i played OoT, so my opinion is probably biased. anyways the action is slow, the dialog is slow, the story is confusing, and it just gives me a headache playing it. i like WW more because everything is smoother, the GC controller is much better, the action is faster, and i love the stylized graphics that they used. but my all time favorite is TP, mainly because of the more cinematic cut scenes and the captivating character development.

Zelda II is by far something I just can't get into and I keep giving up on it after the first dungeon, which is unfair, I know, but the change in style just irritates me, and it would irritate me even if it weren't Zelda. Heck, if there were a Zelda platformer that played like Super Mario Bros. I'd be incredibly satisfied. The gameplay of Zelda II is just tedious - I've never been one for most RPGs - and I fear that I will never be able to finish the game. *sigh* The combat just sucks, too. Still, I bought the GBA Classic NES port out of my OCD-level of Zelda completeness. I really wish they'd make a enhanced remake just so I can try again, though.

I gotta say that thus far, my least favorite has probably been Four Swords. Way too short for a Zelda game, and really, they just half assed it.

And for the record, I'm completely and utterly appalled that anyone could hate Ocarina of Time >.> And I'm not a fanboy, damnit, I'm a fanGIRL. *pimp-slap*

Adventure of Link. Way too different (not a bad thing, but not "Zelda"). Too difficult. Just weird altogether.

Four Swords (and FSAdventure) is very fun. A great game to play with friends.

CDi, etc. games aren't included here, of course.

"Minish Cap is the beginning of the the Zelda series and one of my favorite games."

- Jay

Uh, are you serious? Minish Cap is NOT the beginning of the Zelda series. The Lengend of Zelda from 1986 is. Anyway, my least favorite would be the Four Swords one. My favorite is OoT, then LttP.

@43

He meant chronologically placed in the timeline it's the first, which is only just a theory. It's backed up by a lot of evidence, which you can see in the gametrailers retrospective.

My least favorite(s) would be the Oracle games. Never found them interesting, just very bland.

Four Swords Adventures. First one for gba was fun but limited.. my friend and I thought this would be amazing, so we spent the $100 or so it cost to get the game and four connect cables. What a disappointment. Took a few hours to beat and they recycled lame bosses like crazy. Good think we had Crystal Chronicles to play afterwards, but that got dull quickly too... Stupid chalice.

Dude, you SUCK.

Four Swords Adventure RULED.

It is up there as a contender for the best Zelda game ever. Did you actually play it? With more than one person? It was bets with 3 but still excellent at 4 not as fun with 2 and 1 was quite good but not that great but with 3-4?

Man, after you play Four Swords with 3-4 people, no multiplayer game will ever appease you.

i have played few zelda games, and only one 3d title. surprisingly enough its the 3d one im not really fussed about. I'm not too hot on link to the past either. call me a heretic, but i prefer the capcom zeldas to TP and LTTP.

Fave one? links awakening. Perfect game, cannot fault it.

Well, I haven't played Twilight yet (soon, soon), or four swords or the pile of GB ones other than Link's Awakening (but im guessing they all play similarly). Of the ones I've played, I just can't get through Majora's Mask. That game puts me to sleep. Ocarina was good, but Majoras mask was just too gimmicky (in a bad way) for me.

Oracle of ages!!!
That one kicked ass!

OoT's Nintendo Final fantasy 7 ; it's way overrated. I fail to see what sets it above other Zeldas. It hasn't aged very well either.