Ocarina of time's pacing, music and temples >>>

Other Zelda games may have the sound effect, but it does not replace an audio channel in other games. It actually cuts off part of the music. It sounds horrible.

Artificially lengthening the game the way Zelda 1 does it is not in any way conceivably better than foregoing those systems. There is no perspective from which starting you with full health after a death does not improve this game immensely. There is absolutely no reason for the rupee system to even exist, and if it must exist then the rupees should be more common or the items should be more affordable or for the love of god there should not be random NPCs who reward you for exploring and finding them by emptying your wallet. What an absolutely garbage design choice.

Actually, they're relatively easy to remap to standard controller (there's a special edition of Dolphin for MotionPlus), and aside from drawing parts (which would be really easy to alter for gamepad in the future), it's mostly easier to play that way...so I can see them rereleasing it at one point without motion controls, plus uping res to 1080p really does miracles for this game.

Were getting to a point where games look so good that even in 20 years they are still gonna look good.  No one is gonna look back at The Order and say wow that game is ugly now.  Because of that Zelda U is the answer.

The three that will age the best are Wind Waker, A Link to the Past and Minish Cap. The worst ones will be the N64 twins and the original one.

A Link to the Past aged the best, it coined the Zelda formula for the next 20 years and it's the only one that truly perfectioned it in my opinion.

Twilight Princess aged the worst.

A Link to the Past is a timeless classic, it's already over 20 years old but still looks great and plays perfectly.

For the best aged, A Link to the Past easily.

As for the worst aged, I'd have to say Zelda II.

Fixed it for you.

And imo Twilight Princess will age the worst. It was completely underwhelming from a visual standpoint even day1 because it is and will probably be the only Zelda that looked worse than its predecessor. It was all blurry and foggy and grey with bad textures everywhere and was the first Zelda to introduce that crap bloom that made the blurryness even harder to handle.

It also has very bad pacing, is empty, tries to hard to be OOT2,  has semi useless epona, no holes to discover etc. Worst race in Zelda history (ugly nude chickens...), repetitive music, forced wolf gameplay where the wolf has no skill progression = the first time you play wolf link he has basically the same skills he has in the final boss fight.


Games that will age well.

 I guess A link to the past because its still one of the best designed 2D games. And still looks fantastic abd still feels fresh.

SS below Zelda 2!? O_O
I know that much Zelda fan's don't like it, but come on...
Any way, i don't want write the worst, but for the best:

1) 64 style (Majora; Ocarina)
2) Wind Waker
3) Skywars Word