When people say Zelda is more consistent, what they mean is that it is more of the same. And you have to ask yourself - how can a game with combat mechanics from the pre-2000 get good scores when games like Demon's Souls exist? Just look at the combat in Skyward Sword for instance and that game came out in 2011.
And music-wise, so many memorable FF ones while LoZ has one in my opinion - Song of Storm which was copied from a better, existing song.