lets settle this once and for all. ocarina of time or twilight princess?
>>724448340Both, with Majora’s Mask in the middle for good measure. Makes a fun fuckin’ trilogy.
>>724448340>8.8
Ocarina PrincessTwilight Time
>ocarina of time>vs>the game that wishes it was the ocarina of time
>>724448760>Twilight TimeI know what you are
>>724448820/thread
>>724448340Twilight Princess is the worst game in the main series.
Ocarina's the better all-rounder but Twilight's extraordinarily polished in the areas that it clearly puts effort into - dungeons, swordplay, world aesthetic, etc.
>>724448340OoT
I've actually been torn on this question myself for a few days on which one I would recommend to someone who had never played an LoZ game before.OoT>Completely representative of the baseline of the series, and shows off the dynamic of Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, and the Triforce.>Little vanilla in terms of content and not terribly interesting these days.TP>Incredibly unique fantasy story with a really cool world that feels like its actually populated while having some of the best dungeons and characters in the entire series>If you removed Zelda, Ganondorf, and rename link, the game unironically has a strong argument that it could have been even better than what it is; Wholly unrepresentative of the Zelda series.
>>724451262TP's the easier starting point but if that's the problem then just shove WW in the idiot's face. I think anyone who actually has hope with vidya should start with ALttP or OoT, and I say this as a TPfag. I love what makes that game unique, but it doesn't really scream "essential first entry"
>>724448340Is this even a question? TP is worse than OoT in every way that matters. A more interesting question would be OoT vs MM, or WW, but TP is easily worse than any of those
>>724451391Oh I'm thinking about for recommending for a woman. For a non-woman I hand them Adventure of Link on a physical cart and stop talking to them until they come back a man.I'm also kinda split between ALttP vs OoT for the 3D elements, but I dunno how well top-down 2D is looked at these days.
>>724448340MMAlso the first 4 hours of TP makes it unplayable.
>>724448340TP because manga by granny cougars was great
>>724448340OoT, TP does shape up once you enter Lakebed though. But the start is a big demerit IMO dess.
>>724451530>Oh I'm thinking about for recommending for a womanWind Waker.
>>724451883I feel like TWW is better played after OoT.
>>724448340TP is OoT but worse, however a worse version of OoT is still better than most zelda games
>>724448340TP if you want a perfection of the Zelda formula.OoT if you want a nostalgia trip.
>>724448340TP is the third worst 3D Zelda game after SS and TotK. OoT is either the best or second best, depending on your tastes
>>724448340It's all been downhill since A Link to the Past
>>724448340A Link to the Past.
>>724455550isnt that 2d
>>724457412Yep, and it's better for it.
>>724448487that's just one of the timelines
TP is ugly, art direction sucked, they incorporated semi-realistic elements into the deformed characters. Ugly tint, ugly bloom, looks like brown shit, terrible blur.The worst offender are the controls, they feel like on-rail games, there's not much freedom in movement, feels like QTEs for the most part. Like the camera lock-on and snapping, feels like there's auto-assists. There's no sense of wonder or exploration in TP. It just feels video-gamey, like each cells are just video-game stages. Imagine ALTTP, OOT, and MM AND WW having more sense of wonder and exploration despite being older and "less advanced". There's no feeling of happiness, or that melancholic, happy/sad nostalgia inducing feel. It just feels dreadful and bleak, not lore-wise, but you IRL playing it, because it's just fucking terribad.
>>724448340Replayed them both (OoT 3D and TP HD) last year. TP aged a lot better, outside of some overworld areas looking a bit barren it could easily pass for a modern game. Whereas OoT has a lot of retro jank and the only parts I enjoyed are the dungeons. There are some really quaint design choices, like Navi being excessively annoying and giving a tutorial for opening a fucking door (in the Deku tree dungeon), but then providing 0 hints when actually needed (e.g. how to enter the Jabu-Jabu dungeon, very few people are going to figure it out).My main beef with TP is it's just too easy, most enemies only hit for 1/4 of a heart and you start stacking them very early on, and potions and fairies are very plentiful, making it almost impossible to die. But the HD version thankfully has a hard mode + an extra hard mode if you have a Ganon amiibo.
>>724448340It was already settled. TP is okay but OoT is a million times better.
>>724458837>OoT is a million times betterOnly if you have nostalgia for it, but that's what all these threads boil down to, aka which Zelda game you bonded with as a kid.Same with the Persona threads, the first one you played is the GOAT even if it was objectively dogshit like P3 FES.
>>724448951This anon sums it up rather well. OoT is the better package overall, but severely dated by today's standards - while TP has incredibly highs, bogged down by horrendously tedious lows.
>>724448889Nah, that's ToTK and it isn't even close anymore.
>>724448340replayed both recently like other anons, and whilst I prefered OoT, TP has grown on me a lot since I played it last. The worst part about it is that every fucking chest is 50-100 rupees, and it makes exploration feel meaningless in a game with 5-piece heart containers. the dungeons are really enjoyable and wolf link really isn't a big deal (the lightbugs area easy as fuck).the weakest part of the game are the characters outside of midna, shad's team (still needed more screentime but they were cool), telma and Colin. very good game, I was too harsh on it
>>724458915I have no nostalgia for any Zelda game since I never owned any as a kid, and played them all as an adult. Twilight Princess is the best 3D Zelda but 2D Zelda is inherently better anyway.
