User:VicGeorge2K9/My thoughts on the Zelda games

These are my thoughts on the games that I have played in the Legend of Zelda series.

The Legend of Zelda
This is the first Zelda game I played. I wouldn't say it's the best, but it's a good start to the whole series. I didn't like the directionless feel of the game and having to "enemy grind" your way into buying some necessary items.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
This was an interesting experiment in doing a Zelda game as partly a 2D side-scroller, and it almost works, but I didn't like its RPGish leveling-up elements.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Not a bad improvement over the original game, as it's entirely story-driven. Its difficulty is its main drawback for me.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
This game is actually fun, not as difficult as A Link to the Past was. I liked how SNES-like the graphics in this game were.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Now this is truly worthy of being called The Legend of Zelda. Excellent graphics for its time, plus the story seems to have twists and turns along the way. Challenging but not very difficult.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
An excellent follow-up to Ocarina of Time. A shorter main quest padded up with a lot of side quests to gain masks, plus there's a three-day time limit to deal with where saving means resetting the time loop.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Excellent cartoon-style graphics (maybe it should look more like a cartoon), but all that sailing got monotonous.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Excellent graphical follow-up to the Nintendo 64 Zelda games. The only problem I have with this game is its difficulty.

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Not a bad return to the style of the 2D top-down Zelda games. I liked using the steamboat more than I did the sailboat in The Wind Waker. My least favorite part of the game is the Temple of the Ocean King: a lot of annoying repetition and a time limit.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Traveling by train is rather challenging, but somewhat more controllable than the steamboat in Phantom Hourglass. Also there's no hourglass to deal with in the Tower of Spirits and you get to start off on different floors.