Ranking EVERY Zelda Game Based On Story 

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Hard disagree how can we all be forgetting the true masterpieces of the cdi games

Yeah obviously

​@@desertrat166 I disagree though the gameplay is one of the finest in the industry the divide it puts between the perfectly rendered cutscenes makes it's story feel like a secondary factor but with links crossbow training you feel the story while you play in every action the weaves you a tapestry of elegance that can't be found anywhere else so I think the cdi games are just below this masterpiece

@@demonicdimentio2533 lol omfg that almost killed me you have officially made my day 😂

because it is.

We need a Zelda II remake

It’s seriously underrated. Also closest Hyrule has ever felt to being a kingdom.

'Cuz it is

@@MedusaLegendnormally i’m all for remakes remaining untouched from the original gameplay and story, but i think this one REALLY needs a nerf

I thought navi went outside the temple of time to wait for link, figuring he could handle himself for two minutes. I thought he'd be able to go back to the forest and live out the rest of his childhood. By 17 i realized my naivette and finally began to understand how sad the ending really is. I felt so bad for him. He had changed too much to go back and for years i thought navi died between oot and mm. Until i saw a comment comparing her to a spirit going into the light, and it all made too much sense not to be true.

that’s the funny thing about zelda games, you play the games when you’re younger and you never actually realise your purpose. upon revisiting them when you’re older you get to experience a whole new depth to the games

True

I think OoT is the quintessential zelda story. Without it the timeline falls apart and most of the other stories crumble apart. However, I do think Wind waker is a close second. Twilight Princess is a close third. They are all pretty close imo. I think if they remade it accordingly and updated it. The premise of Link to the Past, has the potential to be #1.

Agreed, that is the true genius of that game.

The 1st time I played Twilight Princess, when Midna was on the brink of death; I was SEETHING & Crying @ the same time FUMING w/ MALICE towards that Twili CLOWN Zant!!! If the Devil doesn't make things bad for him, I hope I GET TO!!!!!

​@@ZeldaSam1that's a mood. They do such a good job getting you attached to Midna up to that point, and then boom! I am now maximum motivated to put my sword through his face.

i need a sequel to the links ranked :(

fr bro

It will not happen but I would love it too

I wanna see midna again

We need it

I used to have a big stack of various game manuals by my bed and would sometimes read one before going to sleep.

There's a reason why reading the manual on the way home was an integral part of our game experience back then.

A lost art

True. People forget that those old cartridges had like less data than a single pixel has these days. Data storage is quantum leaps above what it was back then. All of the pixels in the first games could fit into Zelda's hair tie in Tears of The Kingdom.

Absolutely. The manual was the owner way for the creators to push their vision onto the gamer. Not only would they outline the story, they were usually packed with artwork to give the player a sense of the creator's vision. They were trying their best to fully pass their vision to the gamer using incredibly limited hardware compared to today.

I think he ranked Link’s Awakening’s story way too high. #7 is crazy. I’m still in the midst of playing TOTK but ranking it above that story is crazy. I wouldn’t even put it above A Link to the Past or the Oracle games. Y’all are looking too much into its story. It’s just a dream/illusion, why do we feel guilty about making it disappear? It’s trapping you. The game never made me feel guilty.

​@@badmeetsevil6163 It's subjective. I think it is deeper though. However I certainly would put it above ToTK. TOTK story was such a major let down

@@-Pleiades0 hmm I see a lot of ppl putting TOTK’s story above BOTW though. I haven’t finished so I can’t say so myself but surely TOTK’s story is a lot more detailed than Link’s Awakening? Like I’d also put A Link to the Past over Link’s Awakening in terms of story. Link’s Awakening is just another Super Mario Bros 2 imo.

@@badmeetsevil6163 yeah. It has to do with the depth of the story though. You're right, TOTK story is better than Link's awakening, but Link's awakening does have a deeper untold story. TOTK has a great story as well, it just seems sort of like a copy and paste of botw hoping to have the same impact on the gaming industry as botw, but instead becoming too disconnected through the open gameplay to the point where all linearity of the story telling is basically non-existent. I will say it has an amazing ending though so that does help boost its place on the list. So yeah, I suppose it should be placed higher than LA, but it's still a B- tier story for a game with S-tier gameplay. There's such thing as being too open though and I hope the Zelda team realizes that. I would still put botw over TOTK though due to it being such a game changer and creating a whole new way to tell the story through an amnesiac Link regaining memories. I wish the story was more prevalent in the gameplay though. TOTK tries to fix that but ultimately feels like an extension to botw and falls short due to the lack of an interesting cast. The story or characters for that matter for TOTk just seem lazy and like they were created last minute and the story was thrown together last minute

@@badmeetsevil6163Links awakening makes me feel things though. Totk doesn’t really.. I couldn’t even feel invested enough to beat it despite how much i enjoyed playing

I agree that I loved the story, but the style of the game deters me from ever replaying it. The reason I love BoTW and ToTK is that they're HEAVILY rooted in exploration, and taking your time to immerse yourself in the game. MM is the exact opposite of that, giving you limited time to figure out where you need to be going, otherwise you need to reset the counter and lose numeric inventory. The game does help you out along the way with the backwards song of time and owl statues, but it's just not what I want out of Zelda. Honestly wish they had a mode where the timer was removed, and you could play the game at your leisure.

It actually made me sad to know that you can not save the Deku Butler's son.

@@nahor88 I felt the opposite. I felt MM did exactly that. I explored freely in Majora's Mask - I was ENCOURAGED to explore. I was fully immersed in the game. I felt the opposite with BOTW. The people were frankly boring to me. The villages were small and shallow and lacking personality. The only thing to discover were shrines or the kokori. I quickly felt he world was empty and void.

@@DenverShoemaker31234 Skill issue. People want their hands held these days so think as little as possible.

Oddly, I think that's why I didn't like it and never finished it. The time element made me on edge the whole time, feeling up against a clock (HATE that in games; sets off some serious anxiety, even if I know the consequences are relatively minor), and that I wanted to save everyone and you literally can't. Even if you 100% the game, you only saved them in one timeline to...abandon them in the next as you try to save someone else. Something about that always hit me wrong, I guess.

Yet it doesn't have much "pressence" over the course of the gameplay as we spent more than 80% of the game's lenght sailing from island to island and completing dungeons with very small stretches of cutscenes in between making the narrative barely memorable in turn.

​​@@javiervasquez625That's not limited to Wind Waker unfortunately. Almost all the Zelda games have this problem except for TP, OoT, Link to the Past (and its 3DS counterpart) and MM, since the story has a lot of physical elements in place to warn you of the consequences of fulfilling your quest. One of the things that does make Wind Waker much better though is that it's really two subplots meshed into one: Saving Aryll and annihilating Ganon. It may not directly impact the gameplay, but the first part doesn't take away from the story design, but rather enhances Links motives to take down Ganon.

@@javiervasquez625 The beginning intro gave a pretty clear image of how the story unfolds and it’s one of the greatest intros and cut scenes of all time. Explaining the great flood and how evil rose again in the land of Hyrule but the chosen hero never returned so the people had to put their faith in the Gods. The Gods giving them hope as they would have them climb the highest mountains and reach the highest peaks so that the evil that Ganon bestowed on the land can be washed away. Generations later evolution would take its place and species would turn into other species and the great kingdom of Hyrule lays hidden away at the bottom of the ocean which becomes a legend and a tale for future generations and it would only be recovered and found again by the hero of winds. The flood itself can be compared to the flood in biblical times and the hidden Kingdom of Hyrule can be compared to the lost city of Atlantis. It’s the overall symbolism for me that makes it such a deep game. The fact that it was unfinished as well and there were supposed to be two more dungeons is what makes it even more interesting and mysterious. If I could describe wind waker and this version of Ganondorf in just one word… it would be loneliness. This version of him shows the most human side of him and how he is basically a lonely man that has absolutely nothing left to lose.

@@ShadowWizard224 Okay... it's still a SINGLE CUTSCENE at the very *start* of the game before we proceed to ignore such a plotpoint for the following 5 or so hours collecting the pearls and doing the Tower of the Gods before we finally get to meet Ganondorf for like 5 minutes worth of cutscenes and then we waste ANOTHER 5 hours awakening the Sages so that at the very end of the game we get to see the main villain for the last time in this timeline. Very underwhelming after hours and hours of boat sailing and dungeon completing if you ask me.

@@javiervasquez625 Ganon isn't the story. He's just the villain behind things. The hidden presence. Just like he is in every Zelda game. But in Wind Waker, you have all the other characters and story along the way that's much more compelling than anything in the others. There's always more story and narrative to find throughout even the optional islands.

Unfortunately it is. For me, Spirit tracks is way better than Ocarina of time.

Yes! Even after years, I looove to play it.

@@JarumaruKnox spirit tracks has and always will be my favorite zelda game

Wow, thats surprising for me. I won't try to change your mind, but I really hated it and I played each and every zelda title. Being a train diver is so lame compared to other installments xD and I really hated how repetitive and annoying using the train was. Felt tedious after some tours for me. And sadly each temple just had thematic skins and not really thematic mechanics :-( No offense though, I know it is subjective. What did you like so much about it? Or was ist just released in some special time so you could play it a lot as kids?

@@stefansunnick4690 spirit tracks was probably the first video game i ever played, so it will always have a special place in my heart

call it a tear of the kingdom for fucks sake

@@aboutschween It's called Tears of the Kingdom because of the Dragontears though. In German the Secret Stones are referred to as Mystery Stones.

they arent the mention tears though, the metons tears are the big huge tears we collect from the crying dragon @@aboutschween

fe8 reference

But then we wouldn’t have gotten to hear “Secret Stone? Demon King?” like thirty times…

Agreed, many zelda games, while I love their style and stories, make me feel like I dont need to replay it, and there isn't much of a point when I know everything that will happen. But Twilight Princess, even knowing the story and the outcome and the twists, will always feel much more, and I will always feel drawn to playing the game and experiencing the story over and over, rather than just reverting to watching someone else's play through or waiting to get to one point in the story i like. Twilight Princess' entire story is the part i like, and each small part of it gets me hyped for what comes next. The cozy feeling you have starting the game, talking to the village folk, playing the goat mini game, and then getting thrust into the dark twilight, and then actually venturing for yourself outside of Faron woods for the first time, it's all exciting and wonderful from each turn you take

Even before you discover exactly who it is, the fact that nobody ever entertains the notion that it might not really be Zelda when the Yiga Clan exist, an antagonistic faction whose whole deal is disguising themselves as other people and who disguise themselves as Zelda specifically multiple times throughout this very game. Realistically speaking when someone is acting weird, evil, and out-of-character, "it might be a Yiga impostor" would probably one of the first thoughts people would have. But no, they're just like "Wow, it sure is weird how Zelda attacked the Zora and keeps leading us into traps. Wonder what's up with that."

They wrote themselves into a bit of a corner with the way they did the dragon tears. The fundamental design principle of the game is that you should be able to do anything at any time after you get off the Great Sky Island. If they wanted the story to have more impact, they probably shouldn't have unlocked the tears, or at least blocked some of them, until after the Hyrule Castle sequence. But that would break the rules, and it would really suck to either have the geoglyphs have no tears until later in the game, or have them appear in places the player had already been. I found all the tears in order by starting with impa's quest and then going to the ancient temple where you can see the map of them and the proper order. I consider that to be best case scenario when it comes to experiencing that part of the story with no outside input or guides. However, I did all that before storming Hyrule Castle and completing all the newspaper quests, so I still felt like it was dumb that nobody knew that Zelda was gone. (The newspaper quests are less of a problem since you do them for a reward, and it kinda makes sense that they would be grasping at straws like that) I told my friend to find the first 12, but skip them and watch them after Hyrule Castle, then find the 13th one, and that helped his experience a lot, but that's a lot of restriction for a game as open as totk

​@@kiptheott5932 Yunobo of all people actually figures this out to my knowledge.

​@@CheeseOfString Honestly, considering how much flavor text is implemented for the smallest of environmental changes, the simplest thing they could have done is have Link go, "Yo Zelda's safe but not at the phone. I think you can call off your troops." And then have each faction just go "All right, we'll just dedicated some manpower to figure out what's going on with this fake Zelda and spread the word thx k byeee"

Yeah it keeps getting overshadowed by its big brother Ocarina of Time, and its little brother Tears of the Kingdom. It's the middle child of the series.

@@AquaQuokkaOcarina if Time was the peak gaming had looked like, and played by a landslide when oot came out. It is in every list of most influential games of all time. Anyone who grew up in the modern era, or old school gamers who can put rose tinted lens to the side, will tell you that Majoras Mask is the better game.

@@matt6619 Oh by all means is it a different, impactful experience. Better gameplay, better sidequests, and a more impactful experience.

I grew up in the modern era and I’d say Ocarina is better than Majora. Better main story, better dungeons, more iconic. Both are great games still though.

@@senordivinebeast646 Yeah both have their pros and cons. Neither is objectively better, but each has their merits.

Yes! It's my personal favorite main story wise. I just love how expressive and real Link is in it, and the genuine romance Link and Zelda have. And we of course have Groose! He deserves S rank all by himself!

Groose is my favorite glow up!! 🎉

I skipped both gamecube and Wii so when I bought Wii U I played through Wind Waker HD and Twilight princess. but didn't get very far in Skyward Swrod. I think I would enjoy the Switch HD version more and might pick it up if Switch 2 is backwards compatible. It's just too bad with Nintendo you end up rebuying the same games multiple times and sales barely exist...

@@KildalSC ýeah, but if you do end up playing it, I highly recommend playing with motion controls, at least to start. They are really fun when they work.

More than 95?????

You couldn't have said it better. 100% agree

Dang, that hits deep for me!

This made me cry!

_"A hero can save everyone, but who will save the hero after?"_ That's when _another_ Hero comes along to save the one in need as seen with the Hero of Twilight learning the ways of the sword from his ancestor and so "healing his regrets" in Life. Goes to show that even in death a Hero can be saved by another.

I highly disagree. Of all 3D Links - and that includes the one in Majoras Mask somehow - OoT Link has the least personality, character or even a proper motivation. Like why did he leave Kokiri Forest? Because the Deku Tree told him so. Most dialogue options are yes/no and he always keeps a stoic face. And last - thats just a personal opinion - he has a voice that makes me want to rip my ears off. So why is MM Link better? Because his motivation, which is getting his property back and doing a favor for the Happy Mask Salesman who will in return lift the deku curse, so he plays along. His body expression is also better. The relief he showed when the curse was lifted, the waving of his hand when he met a Great Fairy, for example. By no means am I implying that OoT is a bad game, as it has my absolute respect, but it comes short on some aspects, like a reasonable protagonist who in this case is bossed aroiund by others without hesitation and its too strong focus on dungeons. I feel like the overworld segments are a bit underdeveloped, which shows itself particulary intense in the first half of the adult section. There does not much happen betwen the Forest and Fire Temple except for a short interaction with Darunias son and the obligatory Sheik encounter, and not even an interaction between the Fire Temple and the Ice Cave. It would have been better if Link met Ruto somewere inbetween and they both work together to find a solution for freeing the Zora, instead we meet her already inside the Water Temple, which shouldn't even work as the door was shut ight until Link hookshot it.

Yup

Not much in recent years considering their lattest 2 titles.

@@javiervasquez625 - You're not wrong!

@@javiervasquez625 the stories of both games are stellar along with the stories that side quests have to tell, with even better gameplay. You’re gonna have to explain what about them you’re claiming to be bad.

@@alexanderwilliams644 Zeltik's video and the many comments here pretty much share my personal opinion regarding the narrative of Tears of the Kingdom. Read some of them and you'll know what my stance regarding the story is.

I feel sad for the original 3 games so underrated I do get why the second one is not recognized though 😂 it’s terrible But LOZ and ALTTP their story’s might not shine but the games are Amazing they fit together so well as well

​@@dailthegoat799True, those two games might as well be creator of LOZ series

I heard another youtuber mention how he felt her little motif at the end of the intro was just a hint to her immense importance and impact within the story

TIL people don't know the difference between plot and story

@@TheEtherny cool

​@@TheEtherny🤓

I like how the title "Majora's Mask" tells you (once you have context) the twist upfront. The mask by itself as part of the title also leans into it. Sure you learn early about the mask, but the other half of the truth? The mask of majora is another way to say the same thing.

There’s also just so much symbolism and details to unravel from the story it’s incredible

Same, my favorite is Twilight Princess as well, although something I’ve noticed is that once something is your favorite not only can you acknowledge it’s greatest strengths, but you’re also bound to notice how it can be improved upon, for me the only ways I’d want Twilight Princess to be improved would be giving Princess Zelda more development and giving her a more fleshed out relationship with Link, and still giving Midna the same major role, something akin to what happened in Skyward Sword, also design wise I think Skyward Sword and the Link Between Worlds Smash Bros. Ultimate Princess Zelda designs are my favorites, so I wish she looked more like either of those designs, aside from that, it would’ve been cool if we got a dark link battle, especially since they even got featured in a cutscene in the game itself, and we never get to fight one of them, come to think of it a dark link battle would’ve been a great final challenge for the cave of ordeals in the Gerudo desert, as well as making the boss battles a bit more difficult to make it feel more rewarding to defeat them after an already epic battle with an epic soundtrack in the background, (the second phase of Morpheel in the Lakebed Temple doesn’t even attack you which is kinda lame) Also making the overworld feel less empty, especially with Hyrule field. I could probably think of other things, but I just thought I’d at least mention all of the above.

Love twilight princess

TP on top!!

Same ❤

Agree

Hmmm. groose’s character arc in that game is kinda lit

Skyward Sword is definitely my favorite story in a zelda game but it's not my favorite Zelda game. I absolutely hated the motion controls and to this day, it is the only game where I ever raged at the controls so much I broke a controller. Even with the abhorrent controls, the story was so good that SS is my 3rd favorite Zelda game

​@@dmrjr132the remake on switch has non motion control options if your willing to try it. If it's already your 3rd favorite it may be worth getting

Skyward sword and Twilight princess are my Favorite too

I love Skyward Sword, too. It's actually a real Zelda game.

Agree! But Chrono trigger was more of a team up rpg where orcarina was our solo journey as link so it was more personable.

I don't think it helps a lot, it doesn't help at all most of the time, but rarely it helps. Not fully tho. It doesn't fix the fact that you have to watch the almost same exact cutscene 4 times, doesn't help that it's painfully obvious that Zelda is 'fake' (especially if you have seen the corresponding geoglyph cutscene, which the correct order doesn't help you with except if you deliberately sleep on them on your FIRST playthrough, when you have literally no idea). For this story to work on a first playthrough the stars have ti allign in some borderline impossible way and even still, the cutscenes at the ends of the 4 (Not you, Mineru) dungeons suck.

i do agree the dungeon cutscenes are repetitive, but as for the tears quest, i did them in no particular order and got "spoiled" abt halfway through them, and i still found the story to be very compelling and emotional. zelda hasn't made me cry since twilight princess, but the final tear leading into the master sword pull had me ugly crying. up until this point, skyward sword had my favorite story because it finally felt like zelda was more than an afterthought despite her being the titular character. totk (and botw before this, although i think botw's story is only good bc of what comes after) blew that out of the water for me, because zelda wasn't just a key component to the story-- she WAS the story. link is just an observer to it, and the person who stays by her side to support her through it. i personally don't mind disjointed story telling (im pretty used to it, being a comic book reader) but i understand why it throws people off. but if you look at what the story is and what it's doing, i think it's hard to argue that there's been a game in the series that lives up to the name "the legend of zelda" more than the wild duology. an argument could be made for SS and some days i might agree with it, but ultimately i feel that since SS does a lot of telling instead of showing when it comes to zelda's story, it falls flat in that aspect.

I still dont understand why the tears didn't just unlock the memories in order, regardless of which tear you found. It made sense for the memories in BotW, as the location was relevant to the memory itself, but in the sequel this wasn't the case. Seems like a really easy fix.

So, have linearity in order to tell a linear story. Which Totk lacked completely.

​@@mehfaceI guess it's because each geoglyph represents the memory, and that's a cool visual detail, but honestly they could have found another way.

I agree. As it was more technology based why the story was more minimal within the games, the manual added a lot of context. But apparently I'm one of the few kids that read the manual to get that information, which is why those 2 have more nostalgia for me personally. Just like how it added more context for the Mario series, with Toads being transformed into the blocks, and Bowser needing to appear on Peach & Bowser +8 (JK!). When Bowser had 7 kids originally, and then seemingly an 8th in Bowser Junior.

For the time, yes. With modern Zelda, no.

Eh, Final Fantasy 1 only came out one year later and it has much more story than Zelda 1. Zelda 1 literally has as much story as Super Mario Bros.

@@hist150project5 Probably, but Zelda (especially in the eyes of all the various developers over the series) was never about the story. So they could have put more story in - but for all we know there was a limitation to not overwhelm the adventure. It could be hardware based as perhaps they wanted to do it a certain way, but then scrapped it. What I'm saying what was there was still a good story. It didn't help that there were numerous translation issues and more NOA inventing parts of the story. I liked what was there, could there have been more? Probably. But it wasn't the primary focus and more about the adventure, as it's been the case with many of the Zelda games.

Actually it had the worst story. Worst plotholes, characters, and ending

@@clonetrooper2003 Good for you.

@@roxlife8173 what

Yeah, ToTK had bare bones that was in much need of some meat.

@@clonetrooper2003 You heard me.

When I started this video I said to myself "I'll be really disappointed if Link's Awakening isn't within the top third" and sure enough, that's basically exactly where he put it.

I haven't played Link's Awakening, though I do know the story very well. Seeing the end cutscene with the seagull still manages to gut punch me.

Should've been a touch higher imo

Err I think you guys are looking too much into the story. It’s just a dream…nothing more. Why feel guilty about destroying an illusion that’s trapping you? Game never made me feel that way. I wouldn’t even put it above The Oracle games or A Link to the Past, yet alone TOTK! #7 is crazy.

@@badmeetsevil6163 have you never been emotionally impacted by a dream?

I was telling my son this the other day. It’s my favorite Zelda game, and my favorite game period. In the surface it looks simple, but there’s such deep dark undertones. It’s fantastic with the juxtaposition.

Top notch work on this man, really elevated the video. Two of my favorite creators.

Yeah BOTW's story was lit. A nice risk Unlike its sequel

​@@clonetrooper2003TotK's story is also awesome. It's got a ton of great highlights too. BotW's is much more consistent though.

@@sylinmino i disagree. Totk’s story is a plot hole ridden, tonally offensive, character ruined, lore breaking disaster. I am willing to hewr you out tho

@@clonetrooper2003 I just don't think it's any of those. It has ambiguities and things left open but those aren't the same as plot holes. I wholly disagree it's totally inconsistent, to me it's got one of the most consistent in tone in the series. And I can't really think of a single character that it didn't improve even further from Breath of the Wild. Lore is also easily explained by it being a timeline reboot or a new kingdom far in the future (like Spirit Tracks). Is it perfect? No, it's got inconsistent delivery and I don't think the nonlinear telling was as clean as in BotW. But I think people are way too inclined to focus on the few flawed moments rather than the incredible moments outnumbering them. Example: people seem to fixate too much on the one minute "Demon King? Secret Stone?" , compared to the hours long epic arcs that come before them. Especially when the Gerudo and Rito Arcs are two of the best composed questlines and masterclasses in environmental storytelling in the series history.

@@sylinmino I can think of multiple characters they ruined. Zelda is a mindless drone, Yunobo is an idiot who fell for a puppet, and they shafted teba. And yes i do agree that sidon and tulins stories are goated but are ruined by the lazy ending cutscenes. The ending also breaks the games own lore in favor of unearned crap. Yes i do have better argumentation but unless you wanna read it it is pretty long

Its problems are too severe to be put in A tier imo.

@@ihatepie5937 These aren't objective lists, and even then if someone feels the good outweighs the bad then it's their perspective

Tier A for me too

Although the story wasn’t perfect it would have benefited so much if the geoglyphs simply presented the memories in the correct order, regardless of which geoglyph the player finds. That alone would have elevated the story

Tears of the Kingdom's story is A tier for me, too.

What I would do to Zant would make what Midna did ta him look like NOTHING MORE than a slap on the wrist!!! I'd make sure he'd be BEGGING ME for death's sweet release!!!!!

that "twist" is arguably the worst part of the game

True

Ultra L for not putting tp in a tier

:)

can you play midna's lament and post a video i would love to hear it

Agreed. Also, in my opinion, none of the Zeldas after it got close of nailing the unique atmosphere in the game, especially the first time of entering the dark world. Maybe Majora’s Mask, with its gloomy tone. I am very biased, as this my first Zelda (and the one I finished). And the look of link in the manual is still my fav and would be a perfect fit for a Ghibli adaptation.

thier is something about The Wind Wakers opening That made me uncomfortable. is the people of Hyrule Worshipping the hero of time infront of the triforce seemd to be very cult like.

Well of course you would because the sheep just tag along with the mindless herd.

@@netweed09 Fanboying, tch tch tch.

imagine getting that angry that somebody likes a game gfy​@@netweed09

@@netweed09damn people cant agree with others now?

@@Bakedcakeyyy Yeah, well barely 20 people lol. It's fine: you do you in your small corner of the interwebs. We Zelda fans will continue enjoying Our mercurial acclaimed bestseller.

agreed, thats why i like ww cus the characters felt like they had much more personality even tho they didnt even have voice acting, tetra is more memorable to me than most other zeldas

This is why the Skyward Sword (never played WW) characters are some of my favourites, they are all so full of personality and expression.

as someone who is also a sucker for art and design, seeing how unique and meticulously designed each character in games like ww and especially tp is is so refreshing - it gives us insight into their personality, what they do, where they're from, etc. - which is sadly missing in botw/totk with the mii generated characters as stable filler :/

It’s awesome to see you here. Love your videos!

Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, and Majora's Mask have the best stories in the Zelda series.

imo i think the storytelling method also affects the ranking - they both use the same open-ended storytelling method but it works better in botw's context bc we already know the outcome of the story at the start and the memories just add little extra context and fluff, as opposed to totk where we're actively trying to solve a mystery and the open-ended way of uncovering it could inadvertently spoil the whole game at the start.

💯

I feel you. It’s so powerful.

Yeah, I feel people are dismissing because it's not as graceful as BOTW's. It may be messier, but it's a lot more emotional overall.

I can relate to this.

Yet prior to that it was _already_ tradition to name the princesses Zelda in honor of the previous incarnations in past games all the way into the first ever Zelda who kickstarted the Royal Family's bloodline back in Skyward Sword.

@@javiervasquez625idek man zelda is confusing sometimes.

Good thing the games being fun to play is more important than the stories being good

​@@blues4509This. Absolutely this. I've always thought games are primarily meant to be played, so for me: Gameplay >>> Story A good story can really add to the experience, but it's just a bonus.

Yeah, it just feels so weirdly diconnected in so many ways. If it weren't for Impa's recap of the events of the Calamity you could almost argue that it had been retconned. I think the moment that kinda ruined the game for me was finding the hidden cave where the Shrine of Resurrection used to be and being so excited about what was down there... and just finding a hot spring and some Yiga. I was so excited to see how this iconic location from the first game had changed and the answer I got was "it's just gone now for no apparent reason." Made me feel like the game was calling me stupid for caring about the world that they me to care about.

To put it this way, it functioned as a sequel within gameplay. It felt like an almost completely different story wise.

What ''events'' of the 1st? Lol, are you kidding,, ''Destroy Ganon, a bunch of chasing down Zelda's diary notes if you even care for it - and figuring out to no reward or avail at all how a ''Calamity happened'' when it's basically ''Ganon controlled the Guardians - the end''? So what? Tears brought it all a New Race, new Timeline, Sages etc. Who wants to ''connect'' with a nothing Prequel?? Maybe you and you keyboard, but certainly not one _Mr Aonuma._

DING DING DING

@@netweed09 BotW had much better environmental storytelling and made you connect with the world in a way that TotK failed to do. It would have been nice at least if the story felt connected to BotW, but like the posters here said, it almost feels retconned. Like the story in TotK basically acts like BotW didn't happen at all much of the time, with the only real link being that some of the characters in that game are older now.

What I think happened with TOTK is that most of there time went in developing the gameplay and making it work on switch that's why they barely gave anytime to story and world building which is kinda proved by some recent interview of the director of the game where he literally says that the sheikah tech just disappeared one day I was more happy in thinking that it went back underground 🥲

@@Link-rz2ve ? Why, what did the 'Sheikah' tech do for Us - except rob Us of lively, themed Dungeons & replace them with boring, samey automatons?? Who _all_ got possessed, had their 'Champions' killed in them and,, well just generally failed and posed more harm to the Kingdom than Good?! 🤷‍♂ That's why the Sequel is called _Tears_ - because , the 1st game's 'story' was so thin, and literally a washout.

it was super obvious that she was the dragon and I feel like the game spoiled itself too early

Bro the story in TOTK was so ass💀

@@RNGuice Why is that

@@Wraggle3000 Cause the medium they used to tell it was very confused and nonsensical for starters.

i also wish we can explore the lands and kingdoms outside beyond hyrule.

But what would the actual gameplay be? Just going around, talking to people? Idk about you, but that sounds like an absolute snoozefest to me. I would be asking myself why they made me play through all of that instead of simply making it a cutscene lol. It gives off the same vibes as the sections in the recent Spider-Man games where you don't play as Spider-Man, ultimately, nobody wants that shit.

That’s what we need in a dlc

@@beaconary2597 but they"re not making any dlc for totk and they said they had no plans for it.

​@@itzriotplayz2377 I'm still hoping Aonuma and Fujibayashi lied due to NDA as there's a LOT that needs fixing in TotK regarding it's story and narrative.

Same! I feel like Zeltik appreciates the concepts a whole lot and not necessarily their plotting. That’s fine of course but it’s worth talking about what actually constitutes the story in Zelda games.

was obvious that he would put WW First, i knew it even before i pressed play lol

TotK is also higher on my list, honestly I enjoyed it more than BotW. Though, that's personal opinion of course. Both games are exccelent, I just think they suffer ever-so-slightly from growing pains - being the first open world Zelda games.

The games puts very clear the linear way you should find the memories and that's what I did. I knew from my experience in BOTW that finding the memories out of order would hurt my experience.