Ooo... lemme see.

Wind Waker barely edges out Twilight Princess for me - The only thing that keeps it from doing a triple backflip summersault over it is the fact that there was too much damn sailing.

I got really annoyed with having to boat for 5-10 minutes from one location to another all the time. Gimme a actual huge world in that awesome style... not just a lot of water!

I remember the first (spoiler) time when I went under water and saw Hyrule castle. I actually thought that I had to solve things there as well i.e. enter dungeons and stuff, man that would have been so cool!

Twilight Princess. WW was too short.

Can they tie?

They definitely tie. They're both great games and they both offer a lot to the player. I loved the sailing in WW and I loved the horseback sword fighting in TP.

windwaker by a mile, i still haven't finished twilight princess yet and i dont even care if i ever do

I preferred TP, for the darker story and performing actions with the Wii-mote. I loved Wind Waker until that bulls*** where you had to fish for the Triforce pieces.

Now that I think about it, WW is probably my LEAST favorite of the Zelda series. I was very unimpressed with it overall. It was short, the story was very thin for a Zelda game, and there were no real memorable moments from the game.

I say TP because it had more dungeons and temples. Other than that you can't go wrong. Nintendo does a good job of making each addtion different.

TP. Gameplay wise it's more or less tied. The real tiebreaker for me is the art style. Cel-shading, IMO is not appropriate for a Zelda game.

WW was 3D. 3D and cell shading are 2 totally different things. Cell shading is an art stlye. 3D is a perspective.