Or 3. Since I'm already acquainted with the setting and characters, get my roomate or a friend to get through the intro for me.

Saying those are my only options is fairly short-sighted, is it not?

That falls under option 2.

i actually own PH, and i liked it a hell of a lot more than TP, i have the LE triforce DS. In my comment i was referring to the 3D zeldas.

I meant that Phantom Hourglass innovates. I'm glad that it was what you're looking for. Looking forward to Spirit Tracks?

 i am, but not enough to justify 34.99 for it, i'm cheap .

I'm in the TiT now. I absolutely love the idea behind it since, you know, it's that place after all this time. Would love to be able to look or travel outside of it to see that era of Hyrule.

Thinking back on Snowpeak, I love how all the dungeons have their own story behind them that aren't readily apparent in every case. It leaves me wondering who lived there years before it began to fall apart, and what all that artillery was doing there.

This is something I noticed in Ocarina of Time to a much smaller extent, too - particularly how the Forest Temple basically looked like a big-ass mansion or even a castle.

That's true. But the Forest Temple was one big psyche out so I never put much thought into what it might have been...you know, before the twisting corridors, lopsided rooms and monsters took over.

I'm gonna keep talking here because I have no Spirit Tracks.

One neat thing about this game is that each tribe in Hyrule, even each region, has wildly different accounts concerning their own history. I've already heard at least three conflicting reports of the origins of the Twili (one of which is certifiably true and one of which is certifiably false in more than one way)

I just did the Hidden Village.

My second time through the game and I didn't realize that it was OoT's Kakariko until someone told me. Or maybe I knew and forgot. But that doesn't seem like something I'd forget...