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bigtakilla said:

People say that about FFVI and FFVII.

Thing is on Meta it will never be beaten, as far as sales it may never be beaten (it isn't now), as far as top 10 lists it is usually at the very top.

You can't worry about a difference of a couple of points on Metacritic; I doubt any developers do. Every 3D Zelda is in the 90s, an impressive feat.

My own theory: Ocarina is in the upper-middle of most Zelda fans' lists, but it is often at the top and very, very rarely at the bottom. Zelda fans can't agree on what goes above and below it, only that it's great. So if you get three fans together their lists may look something like this:

A:
1 - Majora's Mask
2 - Wind Waker
3 - Ocarina
4 - Link to the Past
...
10 - Twilight Princess
11 - Skyward Sword
12 - TLOZ (NES)

B:
1 - TLOZ (NES)
2 - Link to the Past
3 - Ocarina
...
9 - Majora's Mask
10 - Wind Waker
11 - Twilight Princess
12 - Skyward Sword

C:
1 - Twilight Princess
2 - Ocarina
3 - Skyward Sword
4 - Majora's Mask
5 - Link to the Past
...
11 - Wind Waker
12 - TLOZ (NES)

And so on. So they can't agree on what goes "first" or "last", but since they can all agree that Ocarina is among the best (and since non-diehard Zelda fans involved in the process all nod vigorously and say Uh huh yeah Ocarina da best), they put it on top. That's just how I perceive it to be, because the Zelda fandom is split a dozen different ways and have strong feelings about which games are the best and which are the worst. I rarely see Ocarina at the top of personal lists of the best Zelda games nowadays.