#17 - The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - GameBoy Advance
This Zelda spot I could easily give to either this, Ocarina of Time, or Majora's Mask, I replayed Minish Cap recently, and I don't have more than 50 slots so is your turn.
I could say that this is like a Majora's Mask lite without the time limit, is a game that features 4 main dungeons, the 4th one also funnily enough one that I can consider among the best in the franchise, combined with a heavy reliance on side activities to fill out the rest of the adventure, the kinstone system itself is a bit more clunky, due to the ramdomization of which pieces you get, but the result itself is incredibly satisfactory, new treasures, a change in the environment, smaller new areas, upgrades to your arsenal, so much as to make the light arrows a really nice reward if you took the time to fuse specific kinstones in the early game, once you look back at the world filled out, is pretty cool, the characters and music is a mix of both familiar and new, the Minish as a new species are great, a really good original villian with Vaati, and good banter with an interesting companion in Ezlo, before Twilight Princess was a thing.
And the Minish Village will be forever in mind as one of my favorite themes ever.
