The Best Legend of Zelda

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

I wouldn't be able to make a list - save Ocarina, I've dingied all the Zelda games I've played because, truthfully, I don't think that they're that interesting. One of them - The Adventure of Link - is genuinely mince, down there with the likes of Altered Beast and Super Thunder Blade for being completely gash. One of the worst games I've played.

Zelda is the only thing that would make me buy a NX.

NGamer slammed that game for years! I remember Chris Scullion got arsey on his Twitter when I (jokingly) told him on the old NGamer website that he wasn't allowed to like it because he worked for NGamer and it was a magazine tradition to think that it was bollocks.

Adventure of Link is absolute gash.

It's a masterpiece compared to the CD-i games though and I should know as I've played one of them.

And in a surprising turn of events, with 75 last-minute points, in first place, it's... The Adventure of Link!

(forum burns to ground, natural order of things dissolves, the mutated form of Chris Scullion roams the wreckage, roaring/crying in madness and pain)

...I liked it a lot.

Number 10: Hyrule Warriors

Wii U, 3DS
20 points, 0 firsts
Yes indeed! The first game in GNamer's Top Ten Zelda Games is Hyrule Warriors, a spin-off crossover with Tecmo Koei's ubiquitous Warriors series.

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Yep! Not a ridiculous or inappropriate tie-in at all.

Yay, glad to see the "They Said"s being picked up by someone else!

Not a genre for me, but clearly very good for what it is.

Excellent start

Big thumbs up to that. Also, can we get a Hyrule Warriors tie-in with Link sipping on some Dr. Pepper or something now?

It'd be Sprite, wouldn't it?

Number 9: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

Gamecube (With GBA link-up)
23 points, 0 firsts
Next up, a masterclass in that GBA/ GC link-up that was such a prevalent, important trend in games. Now we just need a Wii U/ 3DS VC release...

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Aces! I too didn't think this would feature but I am very glad that it has; a riot of a game with the right players. It's too much to wish for an online version where the GamePad can act as your GBA, isn't it?

Shock result there, the DS one was alright but not a high scorer by any means.

I'll join in the astonishment. Don't get me wrong, I voted for this (at 8 I think), but I didn't think many others would. Glad it's got the appreciation it deserves, though: this is a top multiplayer experience, and not bad in single-player either.

May as well stop the list now to be honest before it derails. Glad to see FSA get some recognition!

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I'll join in the astonishment.  Don't get me wrong, I voted for this (at 8 I think), but I didn't think many others would.  Glad it's got the appreciation it deserves, though: this is a top multiplayer experience, and not bad in single-player either.

That's me, I played it first in Single Player and is one of only two 2D Zelda's I've finished. That it gets in my Top 10 sort by default due to the lack of 3D games and really good spin-offs, I enjoyed the short time with it as it can be done in one sitting. I have played in MP once and it was a right laugh and wouldn't mind seeing Four Swords NX in the future or some sort online multiplayer.

Yeah I know there's Tri-Force which i really should give a go even with strangers but Four Swords plays more like a traditional Zelda that's multiplayer then a dungeon challenge.

And someone else said it worked in Singel Player as well.

@Andy you know the one your on about is a different game and I very much it's going to place now as you think the last 8 will be the 5 3D ones, ALBW, LttP and Minish Cap juts in what order is the question.

But we haven't had Link's Awakening yet

I forgot about that one but what I know of the GNamer lot, I reckon it will miss out.

I hope Drunka shows all the placings at the end to see where the likes of Links Awakening placed.

Number 8: The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Game Boy Advance
24 points, 0 firsts
Better eight than never, a slick portable Zelda. It isn't just the console that shrinks down!

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I will stick up for the charms of Minish Cap all day long. Corking little (ha ) game.

Also, somehow knew who the 'They said' guest speaker was going to be.

Cracking game! Came all the way up at fifth in my vote. In my opinion, there's at least (probably only) one 2D Zelda to come that this is actually better than, bar the nostalgia value. One of the very best games on the GBA.

I think I'm starting to sound a little negative but another shock result for me. I hadn't realised that people thought of it so fondly, can't object to it though.