First game was grea.  Well ahead of its time in so many ways and it introduced so many things into gaming which we then took for granted.  Hasn't stood the test of time so well for mt though.  I think it's mainly that has too much randomness.  I wouldn't call having to bomb every bit of wall to find the entrance ingenuity nor great design.

Any Zelda list without Phantom Hourglass and Link's Awakening is incomplete and invalid.

robio said:

Any Zelda list without Phantom Hourglass and Link's Awakening is incomplete and invalid.

Phantom Hourglass is on my Zelda list....dead last!!

Lawl, you want a top five 3D Zelda list? Ok. Note that it won't have either of the DS ones on it, since I haven't played PH and I don't really care much for ST.

1. Skyward Sword

2. Majora's Mask

3. Ocarina of Time

4. Twilight Princess / Wind Waker

So, I recently beat SS, and I'm pleasantly surprised that it overtook MM for my favorite Zelda. It doesn't contain everything that caused MM to top my list for so long (mostly the emotional elements of MM related to character interaction), the controls were plenty frustrating, and Fi was annoying, but otherwise, it's a fusion of so many fun things that I can't help but love it; plus, it has a super-hard Hero Mode difficulty that is beating my tail (4-5 deaths as of reaching the third dungeon). I haven't been challenged like this in a Zelda game since playing ALttP. Unlike the other 3D console Zeldas, there's never a time when I feel like I'm doing nothing in SS -- even flying between islands in the sky is more fun than running everywhere or riding Epona -- can you dive while riding a horse? I don't think so. Not unless you want Epona to dive into a lake, and I'm not sure that would be a good thing.

I had to put OoT above TP simply because the former is a better video game, plain and simple. I've probably gone on a TP rant here before (several years ago...), but even though it's kind of an OoT 2.0, it wasn't such in all the ways it should have been -- most notably, difficulty. The dungeons were really good, though, at least the later ones.

WW is another one that lacks difficulty, and we all know it's weird about dungeons because it wasn't baking in Nintendo's oven long enough. The third pearl didn't have a dungeon for it and the stupid Triforce fetch quest was put in instead of 1-2 more dungeons at the end. I have it tied with TP because they are good for different reasons: WW was more fun for me to play, I think, while TP had a more satisfying narrative experience, I guess you could say.

If all the 3D series entries were on the list, ST would be at 5/6 (depending on how a person subjectively numbers things when there are ties), and PH would be at 6/7, the latter being for no other reason than the fact that I haven't played a lick of it and don't plan to unless I can find it really cheap -- HA (plus, it seems to be the most disliked 3D Zelda in general)!

Yodariquo said:

Hey we all have our top 5, that's boring.  BOTTOM 5 ZELDA TIME...

Would have been so much more epic had you started with "Hey, listen!"

Playing Anarchy Reigns... well not playing it anymore. I'm done and very disappointed with it. So now I've moved onto Persona 4. Starts up really slowly compared to Persona 3, but things are starting to get good.

If you liked Persona 3, 4 improves on it in pretty much every way conceivable! As for me:

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**Better than Valkyria Chronicles? Could be!**

**This should look familar to fans of the previous game, and it should make you very, very happy!**

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I've been playin':

phantom_leo said:

If you liked Persona 3, 4 improves on it in pretty much every way conceivable!

This is an accurate statement.