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There are relatively often threads around here dealing with most and least favorite Zelda games, what aged well and so on, so here's something slightly different.

I am Zelda fan and I got both of my sons hooked on it, so now they are big Zelda fans as well. We played through all 3D Zeldas (expect for MM), so I figured let's see how they rate them.

On two separate occasions, I gave them a task to rate Zeldas, first time to rank them from 1 to 5 and second time to give them score from 1-5. On both occasions, results were very similar.

My older son's (8) ranking:

1) Skyward Sword
2) Twilight Princess
3) Ocarina of Time
4) Wind Waker
5) Majora's Mask

My younger son's (6) ranking:

1) Wind Waker
2) Skyward Sword
3) Twilight Princess
4) Ocarina of Time
5) Majora's Mask


This topic is something that is probably, due to specific criteria, better suited for a much larger forum, but I would love to hear about this from other people who have kids or young siblings/niblings that are Zelda fans as well.



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Skyward Sword is pretty up there. I'm guessing Nintendo's attempt to introduce a new audience to Zelda somehow worked, at least with respect to impressing this said audience.



You should have started with the 2D ones!



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I understand their rankings completely, mine are 

1:Twilight Princess

2: Majoras Mask/3D

3:Ocarina Of time

4:Skyward Sword

5:Wind Waker



97alexk said:

I understand their rankings completely, mine are 

1:Twilight Princess

2: Majoras Mask/3D

3:Ocarina Of time

4:Skyward Sword

5:Wind Waker

SS over WW? Whaaaa-!?



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KLAMarine said:
97alexk said:

I understand their rankings completely, mine are 

1:Twilight Princess

2: Majoras Mask/3D

3:Ocarina Of time

4:Skyward Sword

5:Wind Waker

SS over WW? Whaaaa-!?

Haha well, i do love all zelda games and the 3D zelda games are almost equally good, but i enjoyed skyward sword way more because i dont see much flaws in it, not in windwaker either, its just i like the envoirments more in skyward sword



Wind Waker is number 1? good, that kid has my approval.
I guess they liked Skyward for being pretty linear and easy and Majora's time mechanics must have been somewhat frustating for them.



97alexk said:
KLAMarine said:

SS over WW? Whaaaa-!?

Haha well, i do love all zelda games and the 3D zelda games are almost equally good, but i enjoyed skyward sword way more because i dont see much flaws in it, not in windwaker either, its just i like the envoirments more in skyward sword

Wind Waker didn't have too much water for you did it?



My niece and nephew didn't actually rate the games, but they said Twilight Princess is their favorite, followed by Skyward Sword and then, the DS games. I think it largely depends on which games you grew up with. A Link to the Past is still my favorite and A Link Between Worlds is my new favorite, simply because of the nostalgia. And I absolutely love the other games.

My partner's kids have never played a Zelda game in their life. They love Minecraft and Candy Crush, though. It's all about mobile gaming for them. Ugh, gross.



It'll be awhile before I figure out how to do one of these. :P 

HoloDust said:

I am Zelda fan and I got both of my sons hooked on it, so now they are big Zelda fans as well.

Good on you for introducing them to Zelda btw.