You should try Alundra..the overworld traversal isn't as brilliant as ALttP's, but its dungeons and boss battles are tougher. The story is also probably the best seen in a 2-D Acton RPG. Working Designs use to do incredible translations of Japanese scripts.

On to King's Field...Its influence is more heavily seen on the Elder's Scrolls series IMO. I am glad, this was brought up. Had Zelda been a 1st person action adventure  as Miyamoto first envisioned, then I believe the King's Field influence would have been more valid. However the only way this would stand to be a truthful thing (KF's influence on OoT) is if Link would have been confined to the castle (as also Miyamoto and his team discussed in the early stages of development) and it would have all taken place in first person. In other words KF, was more of a dungeon crawler in first person that played eerily similar to the ES series (once they made their jump to 3-D). I just can't see where there are any substantial similarities between the titles, except that they both have dungeons (in the case of KF's it was all dungeon traversal.)

Obviously the game evolved into gigantic undertaking featuring a breathing living, world with a real time day/night cycle, and adjacent areas. Real times changes in weather, and fast paced 3rd person combat with Z targeting were unheard off before Ocarina of Time did it. If we want to get picky The Granstream Saga has a claim for the first game to have 3rd person action oriented combat in an Action RPG, but its system was fairly primitive and clunky in comparison to Zelda's. GTA, Shadow of Colossus ( I didn't even get to mention OoT's seamless integration of Horse riding into its world), and even the Elders Scrolls, took a lot from it. The Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn didn't really reinvent the wheel in the gameplay bases that Ocarina set first. Mario 64 was the ground breaking 3-D experience that really set the a new standard in 1996, but Ocarina has a strong case for being the second one to do so 2 years later, and its influence is more widely felt in today's open world games than of any other title of the era. 

Go back to the Pre Dreamcast era....do you remember how clunky 3-D adventures used to play before OoT? Some people complained about Zelda's Controls and "Clunkyness" ( I totally disagree), but do you guys remember the Tomb Raider games?

You should try Alundra..the overworld traversal isn't as brilliant as ALttP's, but its dungeons and boss battles are tougher. The story is also probably the best seen in a 2-D Acton RPG. Working Designs use to do incredible translations of Japanese scripts.

On to King's Field...Its influence is more heavily seen on the Elder's Scrolls series IMO. I am glad, this was brought up. Had Zelda been a 1st person action adventure  as Miyamoto first envisioned, then I believe the King's Field influence would have been more valid. However the only way this would stand to be a truthful thing (KF's influence on OoT) is if Link would have been confined to the castle (as also Miyamoto and his team discussed in the early stages of development) and it would have all taken place in first person. In other words KF, was more of a dungeon crawler in first person that played eerily similar to the ES series (once they made their jump to 3-D). I just can't see where there are any substantial similarities between the titles, except that they both have dungeons (in the case of KF's it was all dungeon traversal.)

Obviously the game evolved into gigantic undertaking featuring a breathing living, world with a real time day/night cycle, and adjacent areas. Real times changes in weather, and fast paced 3rd person combat with Z targeting were unheard off before Ocarina of Time did it. If we want to get picky The Granstream Saga has a claim for the first game to have 3rd person action oriented combat in an Action RPG, but its system was fairly primitive and clunky in comparison to Zelda's. GTA, Shadow of Colossus ( I didn't even get to mention OoT's seamless integration of Horse riding into its world), and even the Elders Scrolls, took a lot from it. The Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn didn't really reinvent the wheel in the gameplay bases that Ocarina set first. Mario 64 was the ground breaking 3-D experience that really set the a new standard in 1996, but Ocarina has a strong case for being the second one to do so 2 years later, and its influence is more widely felt in today's open world games than of any other title of the era. 

Go back to the Pre Dreamcast era....do you remember how clunky 3-D adventures used to play before OoT? Some people complained about Zelda's Controls and "Clunkyness" ( I totally disagree), but do you guys remember the Tomb Raider games?

I feel like OOT is very similar to ALTTP.  Breath of the Wild is more similar to the original Zelda.

This is 100% correct. Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess followed the 'Link to the Past' formula, while Breath of the Wild was clearly emulating the original. Zelda II, Majora's Mask, and Skyward sword all did their own unique things and Wind Waker was kinda half-emulating the LTTP/OOT formula, but without any of the second world/timeline/world hopping. 

I love it. My PERSONAL Rankings for the mainline/console games: Link to the Past > Breath of the Wild > Wind Waker > Twilight Princess > Legend of Zelda > Ocarina of Time > Majora's Mask > Link's Adventure > Skyward Sword.

(The idea of a linear Zelda could be good, I just think the balance was off, the characters were poorly written, the story was earmarked for Link to speak/have personality but just didn't, the handholding was TOO much for TOO long, and the motion controls just didn't work. I was having to stop and fix the sync every 5-10 minutes and even then it just didn't work. an early dungeon had you rotate your sword tip to make three eyes dizzy at the same time. I knew what to do, I did it, but it didn't work. I googled it to make sure I wasn't missing anything, I wasn't. I watched youtube, they did the exact same thing I did; it took me half an hour of drawing circles with my wiimote before it worked. That was when I mentally checked out, though I did make it 15 hours or so into the game.)

Loved Skyward Sword.  I think the dungeon design is the best in the series.  Ancient Cistern and Sandship are especially brilliant. Also features the best boss fights.  And I think the items are the most fun to use.

The handholding is a thing, but really not enough to bother me.  And as for the motion controls, I really never had an issue, aside from the occassional need to recalibrate it.  Worked fine and made the combat more engaging.

I prefer the 3D entries to the 2D games, but among the 3D ones, my favorite is generally whichever one I played last.  Each of them is excellent

This is 100% correct. Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess followed the 'Link to the Past' formula, while Breath of the Wild was clearly emulating the original. Zelda II, Majora's Mask, and Skyward sword all did their own unique things and Wind Waker was kinda half-emulating the LTTP/OOT formula, but without any of the second world/timeline/world hopping. 

I love it. My PERSONAL Rankings for the mainline/console games: Link to the Past > Breath of the Wild > Wind Waker > Twilight Princess > Legend of Zelda > Ocarina of Time > Majora's Mask > Link's Adventure > Skyward Sword.

(The idea of a linear Zelda could be good, I just think the balance was off, the characters were poorly written, the story was earmarked for Link to speak/have personality but just didn't, the handholding was TOO much for TOO long, and the motion controls just didn't work. I was having to stop and fix the sync every 5-10 minutes and even then it just didn't work. an early dungeon had you rotate your sword tip to make three eyes dizzy at the same time. I knew what to do, I did it, but it didn't work. I googled it to make sure I wasn't missing anything, I wasn't. I watched youtube, they did the exact same thing I did; it took me half an hour of drawing circles with my wiimote before it worked. That was when I mentally checked out, though I did make it 15 hours or so into the game.)

Loved Skyward Sword.  I think the dungeon design is the best in the series.  Ancient Cistern and Sandship are especially brilliant. Also features the best boss fights.  And I think the items are the most fun to use.

The handholding is a thing, but really not enough to bother me.  And as for the motion controls, I really never had an issue, aside from the occassional need to recalibrate it.  Worked fine and made the combat more engaging.

I prefer the 3D entries to the 2D games, but among the 3D ones, my favorite is generally whichever one I played last.  Each of them is excellent

Yeah I really liked Skyward Sword as well, largely also thanks to its great level design (Sandship and Ancient Cistern were standouts for me as well) and motion-plus-powered swordplay.

About my only problems with it were that I found it visually underwhelming and hated the repeated Demise fights.