/v/ - Video Games

Every Zelda on GB/GBC/GBA is great.

Zelda on DS sucks and it's a waste of time, you should rather play both Tingle games instead the second game got fan translated recently IIRC

I really liked Oracle of Ages but I couldn't bring myself to finish Seasons.

The DS games are alright, but not great. They both use touch controls which are a bit awkward. There are hacks for bother games that make it so you can play with the d pad and buttons instead but I'm not sure how well those work.

>>16717301

Spirit Tracks is very comfy

>>16717301

Link's Awakening is great, I like it the best out of the 2D Zeldas.

>>16717301

I personally think the Gameboy games are the best games in the series. If i had to rank them it would be: Oracles>Awakening>Seasons

>>16717330

Looks like you’re going to be pretty happy in about a month then.

>>16717301

Spirit Tracks is great all except the flute sections.

>>16717318

Minish Cap has only 4 mcguffins to get, 5 dungeons to get them, and then it's off to the endgame.

Where it shines is that the areas outside of town are practically dungeons on their own; getting through the swamp requires a good amount of maneuvering through its mazelike structure, the death mountain analogue has lots of up and down as you piece together the path and assemble the tools to scale it, etc.

The kinstone fusing is a cool mechanic on its own but it takes away from some of the appeal of exploration in Zelda games, IMO; all too often you fuse a kinstone to reveal a secret and think to yourself "but I was just there"

The DS titles would have been immensely better if they hadn't forced you to use the stylus for basic controls. Granted some of the special items would have required them anyway, like the controllable boomerang, but forcing it for every little thing is absurd.

The controls still feel of waggle in Phantom Hourglass but are much more responsive in Spirit Tracks

bonus points to Spirit Tracks for being the only 100% canon Zelda title where you can control Zelda herself

However, there are patches to both DS games to make them play with the Dpad and face buttons. See below

Phantom Hourglass not-shit hack (there's an older D-Pad only hack. This is better):

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2248/

Spirit Tracks not-shit hack:

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2235/

>>16717352

>romtrannying

Is there really no better site?

>>16717357

oh for fuck's sake, is everything the tranny boogieman now?

No, there is no better site than RHDN for mass repositories of rom hack and translation patches

>>16717352

The only real issue with being able to use the D-pad is that the games were immensely dumbed down in order to make playing them with the stylus manageable, and it shows while playing in a less retarded way. It's still the better choice if you're going to play them.

All of them. Play all the mobile games; they're of consistent quality. If you want a ranking:

A Link to the Past > A Link Between Worlds > Minish Cap > Phantom Hourglass > Oracle of Seasons > Oracle of Ages > Spirit Tracks > Link's Awakening

The DS games aren't all bad. The puzzle design in Phantom Hourglass is excellent, despite the few gimmicky microphone puzzles. Spirit Tracks biggest flaw is blowing on the mic to play the flute. A Link Between Worlds was way better than I expected, but the dungeons were too short by design.

>>16717301

all of them are good

The DS ones, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks, are about as shit as Wind Waker. Don't waste your time.

Link's Awakening is great, Oracle games are pretty good as well. Minish Cap is fine. Never played LBW since I didn't like LttP.

Links' Awakening

oracles

minish cap

phantom hourglass is shit. Spirit tracks is ok, but not a must play

Oracle of Ages/ Seasons + Link's Awakening. The rest are all subpar.

I will say that I feel the Oracle games sort of get a free pass sometimes though. They pulled some bull shit.

>island trading to unlock dungeon 3.

>Goron dancing

just 2 examples from ages.

Both games make you follow a straight line a lot and railroad you with some bull before you can continue.

>>16717301

> I’ve heard mixed opinions about the DS games.

Irredeemable trash. No wait, the music is actually really nice, just listen to the soundtrack. Minish Cap was not bad, but it's overall pretty forgettable, play it if you nothing better to do.

To be frank, the portable games are not as good as the home console ones, but if I had to pick, I would choose Link's Awakening and Oracle of Seasons. Oracle of Ages has that shitty dancing mini game you cannot skip and I never got past that (Seasons has a dancing mini game, but it's really easy and you can even skip it if you exploit the detonation time of bombs).

The DS zelda games are good, but people ignore all of the good things about them because M-M-MUH EXPLORATION!!! despite them being just as linear as almost all of the other games in the series.

There's a single track for all of phantom hourglass's dungeons. No it's not very good. The content IN those dungeons is also bad enough that the highlight of the game is that place you backtrack to after every new item you get.

>>16718098

As someone whose only mobile Zelda was Minish Cap, I'm curious why you put Link's Awakening below the DS Zeldas. In general I've heard it was better.

>>16718719

I avoided them because toon Link looks Cal arts levels of stupid.

>>16718838

It is better, he just has shit taste.

>>16717337

Except that it looks like some shit chinese knock off mobile game.

>>16717352

I'm sure the faggots that bitch about the touch controls never played in the actual hardware. There was nothing wrong with them.

>>16718945

Considering Nintendo’s work with Tencent recently you might not be to far off

>>16718945

Not really.

>>16717301

Link's Awakening is fantastic and is a must play. I liked Spirit Tracks because of my train autism, but admittedly it's not a very good game. I think A Link to the Past got a GBA port, though you'd probably want to play the SNES version. A Link Between Worlds is a spiritual successor to the former and I enjoyed that one a fair amount. There's also Four Swords, which is meh, but it's all dungeons which is the reason I didn't drop it like Minish Cap. I haven't played the Oracle games or Phantom Hourglass.

>>16718969

I played spirit tracks on original hardware. It isn't that bad, but at the same time you get a vibe that they dumbed down the game as a whole to make the touch screen controls work.

ALBW was shit tier. Sloggish gameplay, stupid ass writing, and cringey characters.

>>16718838

It aged horribly. Gameplay is clunky, and it didn't compare to other Zelda's (aLttP) that came out in the same era. I can't wait for the remake to make it a more modern experience.

>>16721512

they aren't really any worse than OoT's, besides OoT having more cute girls to fantasize over

>>16721530

That and they don't look like they have down syndrome.

>>16718098

Shitty opinion.

If you're gonna play a Zelda game make sure to not collect any hearts, the games are piss easy if you collect hearts and the action just becomes pointless.

Stay at 3 hearts the whole time.

>>16719295

Try playing it with this hack http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3597/ it really improves the experience.

>>16717301

Oracle of Ages and Seasons are the best two Zelda games ever made, whether 3D or 2D. The DS games are rather shit, however.

All the anons ITT who attempt to have an opinion on this matter without having played the Oracle games are faggots who need to die. You can safely disregard their opinions and (lack of) taste.

>>16731361

I'd say the worst part has to be the flute bullshit but other than that it's very good

Each portable Zelda is worse than the last. That said, they're all still pretty good except for Triforce Heroes, which could have been good if they just let you control it single player like Four Swords Adventures.

Link's Awakening and both Oracle games are excellent. Must plays even if you aren't a fan of the series. Four Swords isn't even a full game but it's pretty cool if you can find someone to play with. I know there is a single player one that was released for DSi for a limited time, I don't know if there is any way to still play that. Minish Cap is pretty good but I don't get people saying it's the best. The GB/GBC games are much better. The DS games are fine. You'll get used to the controls in a couple minutes and then they're pretty cool. Link Between Worlds is good but too short and easy. The easiest Zelda game by far. Triforce Heroes is shit because it's basically impossible to play single player or even two player. You could play original Four Swords two player, you didn't need all four. You could play Four Swords Adventures single player and it was great. Why they ruined Triforce Heroes like this, I will never know.

>>16736433

>I know there is a single player [Four Swords] that was released for DSi for a limited time, I don't know if there is any way to still play that

I downloaded it to my 2ds forever ago on freeshop, so there's doubtless a .cia floating around somewhere

Links Awakening, Oracle of Ages / Seasons are the best.