Ranking EVERY 3D Zelda Game WORST TO BEST (Top 7 Games!) 

Haven’t watched yet, but I disagree wholeheartedly

Made it to him saying ORCarina of Time and immediately got pissed. 10/10 video.

My wife couldn’t withstand how you say Orcarina and not Ocarina 😅

Majora's Mask is my favorite by far. I love the creepy and melancholy atmosphere, detailed world, well written stories, strong world building, fleshed out characters and good dialogue, it's originality, it's challenge, having the best side quests in all of Zelda, having the best town with Clock Town, having good dungeons overall, and having some of the best music. I like how it deviates from the repetitive formula of "go into forest temple, then fire, then water, etc." I like the time system because it adds so much depth to its characters, world, and stories. Also, playing as a deku, goron, and zora is just awesome.

This is exactly why I’m hoping they port Twilight Princess and Wind Waker over to the Switch. I need to play them so I know where they stand for my tastes

Nice list. My favorite part was listening to your well thought-out thoughts and opinion. Here is my list (and reasoning): 7. Skyward Sword (An excellent game held back by major pacing issues) 6. Tears of the Kingdom (In some aspects TotK is the greatest game I ever played, but for every great thing there was an aspect of the game that didn't set well with me. My biggest issues were the story, world building, being able to break puzzles too easily, excessive context sensitivity, and too much time having to scroll through menus) 5. Breath of the Wild (Overall I felt it was a more consistent experience than TotK. One of my favorite games to casually speedrun and pull of random tricks for the heck of it. Depending on the day it this could be #3, but I put it here mostly cause I think there is a lot of room for improvement for the open air Zelda concept. I'm looking forward to where the series goes next) 4. The Wind Waker (Great art direction, great story, epic finale, and wonderful music. Biggest thing that hold it back is that the end of the game feels a bit unfinished. For such a vast over-world, there really should have been 2 or more dungeons in this game) 3. Twilight Princess (A solid adventure that captures the hero's journey. Biggest thing holding it back is the game is a bit too easy for being a "dark" game. I also feel aspects of the game are much cooler in concept than they are in actual gameplay. Despite these issues, I can't ignore the epic feelings I get when playing this game) 2. Ocarina of Time (A the perfect depiction of the hero's journey in a video game. Has a solid balance of adventure, exploration, story, and gameplay. Not to mention this game is the reason why I'm such a video game fanatic and led me on the path on making my own video games. My life wouldn't be the same without this game) 1. Majora's Mask (While Oot was the game that started my passion for video games, Mm was the game that made me realize the limitless potential of the medium of video games. This game is so immersive and despite all of its flaws, I think its very flaws are the reason why I love it so much. I wouldn't change it at all)

TOTK kinda ruined BOTW for me. I don’t see a scenario in which I’d play BOTW over TOTK. Both great, but why go back?

Woooo finally a Zelda ranking from Jonathan!!

Orcarina?

I honestly dislike BOTW and TOTK. Especially TOTK put 10 hours and dropped it. Twilight Princess is the best in my opinion.

Ocarina of Time was way better than BOTW and my first Zelda is BOTW. I only played these two.

You should rank all the God of War games, you haven't done that ranking ever before

Ah yes, Orkarina of time, what a classic 🔥🔥🔥 Jokes aside great video, I do think I would’ve put MM higher tho, I get its placement, but I just love the creepy, depressing vibe of it, so unique.

You know a series is really high quality when a ranking list can be completely different from yours and still be 100% valid

I really love them all, but majora and botw is my favourite :))

1000% Objective take: 1. Ocarina of Time 2. Breath of The Wild 3. Twilight Princess 4. Wind Waker 5. Tears of the Kingdom 6. Majora’s Mask 7. Skyward Sword Explanation: 1. OOT, Innovated many things in all of 3D gaming, cutting edge, world building, a lot of content for the time. No major flaws, especially by 1998 standards. 2. BOTW: Brought exploration back to the series, the physics/chemistry engine is super polished . The attention to detail is really nice, it cuts down on other stuff to focus on gameplay. DLC was great too. 3. TP, pretty much OOT on steroids. For 2006 and stuck on gamecube file size, it is a great game. The early game is only a flaw on replay, and it has the most enemy variety in any 3D zelda game. Hyrule field being emptyish is probably due to the file size sadly, the other main flaw. I hope they make a sequel like in the Wii U tech demo. 4. WW, it has many highs and solid design. The balance between exploration and the traditional zelda formula could be better than BOTW. The main issue is the cut content, like the Nayru pearl dungeon and the dungeon for its sage. 5. TOTK pretty much a better botw in every way but exploration, you kinda of know whats around every corner. Even in the Sky/underground its pretty much all similiar. 6. MM, it’s one of my favorite games but as a Zelda game it has some issues. 4 temples is too little, if they added 1 more dungeon to the Deku/Goron/Zora areas you go back to in the final act it would have been nice. The 3DS version is too bright, has the wrong link model, ruins Zora mask and the bosses. The N64 version framerate is too low, saving is not as pickup n play. 7. SS for coming out in 2012, a year after Skyrim it looks and plays like a joke. Probably why they 180’d to BOTW after. It felt like a last gen game at launch, with the back tracking, easy combat, padding and backtracking. Compared to TP its a step back.

MM is my favorite. It's unfortunate to see it so low.

Here is mine: 1. Ocarina of Time: It had a great story, setup world building, brought almost everything like items from 2D Zeldas. Then, which was rare for Nintendo is actually innovated tech how combat works, loading in zones, camera, switching to first person to aim, cutscenes all really had no ground rules. 2. BOTW: Innovated on open world format, the physics + chemistry engine is super cool, exploration is actually rewarded and cared for. 3. Twilight Princess: by 06 standards the game felt like a modern experience with the gameplay, story and length. Dungeons are great, its pretty much a more polished OOT and deserves a sequel. It was held back a bit by the gamecube disk size, hyrule field could have had more stuff. It is kind of the worst timeline of gamecube file size but Wii tutorial in the beginning taking too long (which is only an issue on replays). 4. Wind Waker: Imo it has the best story of the 3D games. Its a great game, brought the exploration aspect back to the series. It just has too much cut content like the Nayru pearl dungeon and 1 more after the earth/wind dungeon. The OG sailing can get a bit annoying and the Nintendo Gallery quest is annoying. 5. TOTK: Honestly its better than BOTW in many ways, but the main thing that got me was exploring the overworld was boring since you kind of know whats on the other side of the horizon. I definitely played this Zelda the most though. 6: Majora’s Mask: Its a bit short, the 3DS remake is a bit meh/too bright + worst bossrs and the N64 version framerate dips more and the saving is not as pickup/play. It needed more content only 4 dungeons is kinda sad. They should have added 3 more dungeons revisiting the Deku/Goron/Zora areas and leave stone tower for last. This is one of my favorite games of all time time, but as a Zelda game its not the best. 7: Skyward sword. - Too little content in the sky - Wii version had ugly brown filter - Too much back tracking - for 2012 standards it felt like a joke compared to games like Skyrim or even Twilight Princess. Felt like a last generation game at launch.

Breath of the Wild's story being basic is what I liked. It was well implemented in tandem with the gameplay. The gaps between gameplay and story were pretty big so keeping it simple was perfect.

Here’s my mega hot take. Tears and Breath would be bottom of my list. Yes great games but I don’t enjoy them at all

This is definitely a game series that has a lot of passionate fans with extremely different opinions. It’s interesting how someone else can have an amazing experience with one of these games, while someone has the worst experience with that same game. Here’s my ranking: (worst to best) Skyward Sword Twilight Princess Tears of the Kingdom Majora’s Mask Breath of the Wild Windwaker Ocarina of Time I can certainly understand why TOTK is towards the top of a lot of people’s lists. For me personally, I really did LOVE the game when it first came out….well, after the first six or so hours getting used to the crafting. But, I found the game to be increasingly more tedious and frustrating as I continued past the 25 hour mark. While the story is loads better than BOTW, it’s still told in a fractured format. The dungeons were disappointing, the crafting was tedious, and the world felt like a retread after a while. Again, I get why people love it! But, for a lot of the reasons people love it….I just didn’t enjoy most of it. I will replay BOTW over and over again before I feel the need to put my self through TOTK again. Skyward at the bottom is mostly just the controls/gameplay. The story is one of my favorites. Twilight Princess is somewhat boring to me. I have a hard time replaying this one. For the top two, I can go back and forth on it. Some days I feel Windwaker is my favorite….the next, it’s Ocarina.

Merry Christmas! Cage

I will forgive you for putting Skyward Sword bottom because you played the Bamboo island theme in the background.

I have the same top 2. Great list!

Could not disagree more. Or well, I guess I could, cause I also rank Skyward Sword last, but man we have different taste: 7. Skyward Sword 6. Tears of the Kingdrom 5. Wind Waker 4. Breath of the Wild 3. Ocarina of Time 2. Majoras Mask 1. Twilight Princess (best game ever made)

Been playing videogames all my life and TotK is literally the first game that made me feel like a kid since i was a kid almost 40 years ago. TotK blew BotW out of the window for me. Sure it used the same freaking map so you knew roughly were everything was but honestly there was nothing really to explore in BotW. What is behind that hill? Most likely nothing, more grass/hills/lakes, maybe a c/p enemy camp with useless weapon. The most interesting thing to find in BotW were the towns and the shrines.

You earned yourself a New subscriber. Great content. My favoritt game is skyward sword. Miss the old zelda formula

7. Skyward Sword 6. Breath of the Wild 5. Tears of the Kingdom 4. The Wind Waker 3. Twilight Princess 2. Majora’s Mask 1. Ocarina of Time Breath of the Wild might be the most overrated game of all time. Tears is better in every way, but the 4 I have in front of it are better. Wind Waker is significantly better than Tears and it being number 4 is not a knock against it.

7. Twilight Princess 6. Majora’s Mask 5. Skyward Sword 4. Breath of the Wild And then my top 3, Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, & Tears of the Kingdom… move and shift around a bit.

Good list

1. TP 2. OoT 3. MM 4. WW 5. SS 6. BOTW

W list. Only thing I would personally change would be Majora’s mask and Oot placement

I was gonna dislike 👎🏼 this video becuz you ranked Majora's Mask so low, (when it should objectively be in #2 place) and I hate BotW and TotK....but since you gave Ocarina the crown 👑, you regained some of my respect. 👍🏼

SS>OOT=TOTK>TP>BOTW>MM>WW

Genuinely surprised that so many people loved Majora's Mask. I enjoyed it but I wouldn't play it again. To me it was alright

The Very Underrated Skyward Sword 🗡️ > Wink Waker, TOTK, BOTW, Majora’s Mask in that order

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You should Rank every Pokemon games!

Wind Waker was my first Zelda game as well back when it came out on the gamecube 😊.

Skyward >>>>> twilight = majoras >>>>>> windwaker > ocarina of time (i havent played the switch 3d zeldas yet)

I just started the video and i thought if skyward sword is not last i will close the video and you did put it in last place so i really respect your listing

For me BotW would be number 1 if it wasn't for TotK, now it's either number 2 or it's tied for number 1 with TotK, I think they're both pretty much on the same level.

I love the water temple 😂

wish I had been able to experience peak nintendo 64 and gamecube games

"What will be Spider-Man 2" My lord Johnathan, when did you record this? Lol

When i get home from work ima go into my cave😂

What comes next for the legend of Zelda ? Maybe a remake or something ?

Good ranking but i'd put MM much higher in my cave. Merry Christmas.

Cave. It’s really hard to rank them but I guess my favorite is Majora‘s Mask. I’m a sucker for Groundhog Day stuff. Ocarina was my first and it blew me away too.

Nice list! Heres my ranking 7. Skyward Sword 6. Breath of the Wild 5. Ocarina of Time 4. Majoras Mask 3. Wind Waker 2. Tears of the Kingdom 1. Twilight Princess

I love all these games so it feels hard to rank them but for me it would be 7. Majora’s mask, 6. Wind waker, 5. Skyward sword, 4. Ocarina of time, 3. Twilight princess, 2. breath of the wild, 1. Tears of the kingdom

Forgot to put TOTK last

Nice & fair list. Majora's Mask is my #1. I know the 3 day cycle might lead to an bit of a pressure and I get it if your not the patient type of person. But if you know exactly how to manipulate time and know exactly where, what & how to do it, than it's not that bad. In fact, it's alot of fun. Combined with the Mask you can collect and what I think it approves from OoT like the overworlds, dungeons, challenge, story, characters, atmosphere, soundtrack, etc., I personally believe to be an superior game. Some might disagree. But that's how I feel.

7. Skyward sword 6. Majoras mask 5. Tears of the kingdom 4. Ocarina of time 3. Twilight princess 2. Wind waker 1. Breath of the wild

Hope you do a movie tie in games because there remastered the thing game

when ya gonna do the xeno games? 👀

Sometimes the difference between a successful channel and an almost successful channel are the small details.That is also true for everything you do in life.

Dude take my like! Finally a Zelda ranking post 2017 that doesn't have BotW (or TotK) as #1! (such overrated titles.)

For me the list is 7) The Wind Waker 6) Twilight Princess 5) Ocarina of Time 4) Skyward Sword 3) Breath of the Wild 2) Majora's Mask 1) Tears of the Kingdom

I adore TOTK. It’s a beautiful masterpiece. But BOTW Got me into Zelda and will always have a special place in my library

For me its like the following: 7. TP 6. SS 5. WW 4. TOTK 3. MM 2. BOTW 1. OOT

TLOZ: Ocarina of Time is the Only Zelda Game That’s an MasterPiece for me

Skyward sword is last by a distance the rest is personal preference. I’d go 1. Twilight Princess 2. Wind Waker 3 Ocarina of Time 4. Tears of the Kingdom 5. Breath of the Wild 6. Majoras Mask

7. Skyward sword 6. Ocarina of Time 5. Breath of the Wild 4. Twilight Princess 3. Wind Waker 2. Tears of the Kingdom 1. Majoras Mask

Of the ones I've beaten so far, which is not much 😂 3. Ocarina of Time 2. Tears of the Kingdom 1. Breath of the Wild I've played a bit of Majora's Mask and Wind Waker, and i think if I'd finished them, they would be in 1 and 2. I'm more of a 2D zelda guy, ive beaten all of em, saving 3D ones for later haha

I was terrible at the original Legend of Zelda and Link to the Past, and I thought for the longest time I thought that I hated Zelda games. Then I played Ocarina of Time and had a blast, and I eventually came to realize I just suck at the 2D Zelda games as though I grew up in a cave or something, and I've enjoyed all the 3D Zelda games. My rankings are somewhat different though. 7. Skyward Sword 6. Majora's Mask 5. Wind Waker 4. Breath of the Wild 3. Tears of the Kingdom 2. Twilight Princess 1. Ocarina of Time

So bread of the wilds number 4 out 7 ? That is controversial!

I agree with Skyward Sword being at the bottom. SS is a great game, but it pales in comparison to the rest of the 3D Zelda games.

1. Breath of the wild 2. Twilight Princess 3. Wind Waker 4. Ocarina of time 5. Tears of the Kingdom 6. Majoras Mask 7. Skyward Sword

My Top 7 7. Minish Cap GBA 6. Skyward Sword 5. Breath Of The Wild WiiU/NS 4. Ocarina Of Time N64/3DS 3. Wind Waker GC/WiiU 2. Majora’s Mask N64/3DS 1. A Link A Between Worlds 3DS

Idk what was more egregious… Majora’s Mask at second to last or the ORCArina of time. 😅 but FRFR MM is my favorite of the 3D games. MM is objectively not “the best” but it’s my comfort food of video games. (Btw new video idea, your top 10 “comfort food” games)

My ranking and rating of the 3D Zelda games is: 1. Ocarina of Time - 9/10 2. Breath of the Wild - 8/10 3. Majora’s Mask - 8/10 4. Wind Waker - 7/10 5. Twilight Princess - 7/10 6. Tears of the Kingdom - 6/10 7. Skyward Sword - 6/10

Now I can see why you put SS at the bottom. I never realized how stacked the 3d zelda games werw

Not finished Skyward Sword (2 attempts - broke wrist when first came out and then moved house with the Wii packed up in boxes on 2nd attempt). Not finished BotW or TotK. Got 30 hours in on both of them and lost interest. I’m not an open world guy it seems. 4) The Wind Waker 3) Twilight Princess 2) Majora’s Mask 1) Ocarina of Time

Old Zelda fans coping hard in the comments putting TOTk right below OOT lmaooo. Solid list. Mine is: 1.OOT 2.MM 3TOTK 4.BOTW 5.WW

Can’t wait for you too re emerge from that cave man! Love from England!

Link is pretty Tubular. 😊

1 twilight 2 ocarina 3 skyward ( on the Wii the motion controls actually made me feel like I was swinging a sword ⚔️🗡️) 4 tears 5 breath ( it improves wind wakers stealing enemy weapons I like taking enemies out with their weapons) 6 wind ( not a fan of cell shading and tingle) 7 majora ( reality has time limits and I play games to escape reality and have fun)

Nodded my head to pretty much everything you said, but completely disagree with your list. Just goes to show how great all of them are! For me it is WW up top, then SS, then MM, OoT, BotW, a big gap, and then TotK and TP at the bottom.

Heeeeell no! To number 6. very enjoyable video tho. As always ❤

I skipped totk as spoilers but cave

perfect sequel.. ok.

I freakin love TOTK but in my opinion BOTW is just slightly better. Oh yeah, Cave!

Don't play Majora's Mask on the 3DS. Sure there's a bunch of quality of life improvements but it's the Zora Link controls. Zora Link controls HORRIBLY. The controls are horrible in general. I'd rather have better controls than a no save anywhere feature. And the bosses? I hate them so much.

Actually I respect the hell outta your opinions and they are hot takes. I’m the same on Majora I love it but it just appeals as a side quest game and devoted full cycles of days for side quest tires. Anyways I agree and of course disagree but kudos

7. TotK 6. TWW 5. SS 4. BotW 3. OoT 2. MM 1. TP

Wind waker all day for me

Worst to best for me Skyward sword Twilight princess Botw Totk Ocarina of time Windwaker Majoras mask Which I hate motion controls, I don't like wolf link, I'm also not a big fan of my weapons breaking all the time, I don't like the stamina system, I do enjoy having multiple forms to play around with

I hate how “cloudy” and yellow twilight princess always looked. Nothing was ever clear and easy to see. It’s like I was fighting against the graphics in that game mostly. Hopefully they port it to Switch.

Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild have the best exploration, gameplay abilities, and fighting mechanics. Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword have the best dungeons and soundtracks. Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, and Wind Waker have the best stories. My top 10 characters: 🛡️⚔️ #10 Navi #9 Ghirahim #8 Zant #7 Fi #6 Revali #5 Groose #4 Urbosa #3 Impa #2 Sheik #1 Midna 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Bro what is that pronunciation of “ocarina”, there’s no “r” before “c”

1 oot 2 mm 3 ss 4 ww 5 botw 6 tp Haven't finished totk but it's on par with botw for me Ss and ww are also very close in my heart. But they do not come close to oot and mm

Respectfully I have never disagreed with a ranking more in my life for comparison my ranking is 1 BOTW 2 TOTK (there basically tied) 3 Majoras mask 4 Twilight Princess 6 Skyward Sword 7 Windwaker

Worst to best TotK=BotW

Loved the video, you genuinely have played through each game thoroughly and it’s interesting to hear someone talk about these amazing games with actual knowledge! I think ranking this will always stir up heated discussions but hey, that’s what having an opinion is all about! I’ve been playing games since 1992 (I was 3!) and I started with Zelda 2 on the NES. Ridiculously hard game (but not so much after replaying it so many times) but it made me fall in love with the series despite not playing the original Zelda. Ocarina changed my life when it came out, I’ve never played anything like it and the world felt so massive back then! So! Here’s my ranking: 7. TP 6. SS 5. BOTW 4. WW 3. OOT 2. MM 1. Tears of the Kingdom TOTK is single handedly the greatest game I have ever played. I think you placing it so high is proof that the game rewards you the more time you put into it. And effectively, it makes BOTW feel redundant despite it blowing me away when I first played it! Great list, my takes are probably completely different to everyone else’s but I love hearing what people think. These games mean so much to me, they are time capsules in themselves of just wonderful memories, even when things are tough in the real world. Thanks for the video, you earned a new subscriber ☺️

You put Skyward Sword last so we can be friends

Wind Waker is worse than skyward sword! Is that a hot take?

BotW and TotK shouldn't even be considered Zelda games. Fantastic open world sandboxes, horrible as Zelda games and don't feel like Zelda games like even a tiny bit. All the other games are great except MM which has just never grabbed me. Being stuck on a timer is just not fun to me even though i liked the darker aesthetic of it compared to OoT.

Not a bad game here but I will say BOTW and TOTK are the bottom of my list. They're fun but honestly I don't see my self ever returning to either of them.

you pronounced it like that to make the comment count higher, didn't you. 😏