+ to the Past
- to the World

Assuming those are the only two left and MM and OoT are dead.

Having played LTTP after ALBW I honestly can't understand why anyone would think ALTTP is better.

It doesn't have its own identity, it's just Zelda with very basic dungeons. It's a very poor man's MP2 (if that even makes sense lol). The dark world is a joke and doesn't feel dangerous at all (same for ALBW in this regard). This game has no atmosphere or decent story to fall back on. It's not bad by any means, it's just your ordinary Zelda game. I guess this game did a lot of the tropes of the Zelda franchise first and that's why it feels so ordinary to me. It's the most recent Zelda game I've played.

THANK YOU...

ALBW is an easy version of ALTTP. Not to mention that Lorule is a dumbed down version of the Dark World, just like TP is from OoT.

That's why everyone knows ALTTP enters on the top of the series while ALBW ends just like another good game, like TWW.

+ OoT
- Link to the Past

I died more in ALBW than ALTTP. Both dark worlds suck and have no redeemable qualities imo.

That's because you played first ALBW, which is easy. ALTTP is not hard when you already knew basically all the tricks because ALBW just copy pasted. Anyway, Lorule is a dumbed down not only on how easy is to travel the overworld compared to the Dark World, but having to use the portals to go and return from Lorule was cheap. ALTTP was a SNES game an you can use a mirror in every part of the world.

That's actually very annoying. The portals encouraqge exploration, I like that much more. And the few things I didn't like in ALBW were taken straight from ALTTP (the ugly enemy designs). Everything I liked about ALBW was brand new (paint wall mechanic, dungeon puzzles, maiamai collection,item upgrades).

how did the original The Legend of Zelda do so poorly :O

Because it aged poorly. It's like saying the original Metroid is the best.