It is the best Zelda game ever made. IMHO.

which is a shame- zelda II introduced me to gaming. I was a zelda fanatic. I’ll never give up my nintendo power collection, in large part b/c of the fantastic zelda comic in about 10 issues of them.

but after TP I really feel like zelda didn’t keep up with the times. Storytelling has become a huge part of how I experience games. jade empire was a blissful gaming experience. Right now, i am only starting vampires: the masquerade, but the interactivity and constant story connection is great.

Zelda has such a rich universe to draw on. I really think the formula does need to be overhauled. Over the last generations, gaming has brought us so much closer to the story, and zelda hasn’t kept up with that pace.

still.. maybe i’ll give wind waker a try… though i hear there’s a lot of fishing at the end….

The Wii really does have a much better game line up. You have to remember that this in the space of 1 year. So with that in mind I think its a great list.

If you didn’t have dungeons and blocks and boomerangs and bombs and arrows, it simply wouldn’t be a Zelda game.

What disappointed me about TP was that it didn’t sustain the strokes of design genius that have kept the same old formula feeling fresh. It’s actually something I personally feel Phantom Hourglass has achieved amazingly well, making it one of my picks for most underrated game of the year.

It felt like Nintendo had split the developers into separate teams and told them to each make a dungeon and put it all together at the end, thus breaking the clever integration of items they had before. And where the story of say OOT slowly rises to a malevolent crescendo by the end of the game, TP starts incredibly atmospheric with an engaging twist, and then gets progressively sunnier (literally) and happy-go-lucky, until it races you through a tour of the old dungeon and puzzle types for an all too soon end. As if they made the game back to front.

What annoyed me was the potential was AND STILL IS there for my favourite game of all time, and all it would take is some cleverly editing of the order and integration of the game (and a rewrite of the towns-people characterisation).

Perhaps in a Twilight Princess Master Quest.

I have to disagree with you, Blake, on your opinion about Twilight Princess, though. While it could have been a lot harder (it was far too easy), it was still a great game that I have enjoyed playing through a second time thus far.

But we’re all entitled to our own opinions.