Twilight Princess is the Best Zelda Ever?

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Our friends over at ZeldaInformer.com lay out a strong case for Twilight Princess being the greatest Zelda game ever. What do you think?

Twilight Princess is one of the most critically acclaimed Zelda games in history, but is also the one that possibly created one of the most disappointed fan bases in recent memory. Everyone pretty much felt before Twilight Princess came out that this was exactly what we wanted. Unfortunately, for a great many, they were wrong. Apparently, it’s true that none of us ever know what we truly want until we get it. However, I cannot deny as I stand before you today, that Twilight Princess was indeed the best Zelda game ever. Before you decide to gather the masses and burn me at the stake for witchcraft, hear me out.

Let us first throw out all the numbers, and by numbers I am referring to sales. If one was to base this purely off that, Ocarina of Time is still the best game, with Twilight Princess coming in right behind it (it may possibly surpass OoT in sales eventually). Naturally, sales is not a good barometer for what is and is not a great game, considering plenty of games never sold well and were purely amazing.

Of course, lets assume you really want some numbers, because that is just the sort of person you are. Lets ignore, for a moment, the 30 or so awards Twilight Princess won in 2006, including, but not limited to, best graphics, best musical score, and best story. Let’s throw those aside for a moment. What about the Review scores? MobyGames, a site that averages out review scores from all the major media outlets, has Twilight Princess tied at 96/100 for the number two game of all time, the highest ranking Zelda title in terms of review scores. As I stated just a little bit ago though, numbers are not the way to measure things out. Heck, if it was, the fact that is the best selling game of all time in the PAL region (which is most the world except the United States and Japan) would be enough of an argument. However, as I said, numbers mean little. Lets get to why this game really is the best Zelda ever.

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  • Ellie

    I might add most of your points are invalid.

    1) As you mentioned, “numbers mean little.” So why bother mentioning them? The fact that Miley Cyrus albums cd sell more than decent albums is by no means an indication that Miley Cyrus is an excellent artist. Same with Twilight Princess. it was GOING to get bought, because of the title it bears.

    2) This game was a LAUNCH TITLE. One of the reasons it won best graphics was because it was one of the only games out at the moment with decent graphics.

    3) I must concede. Midna was kickass.

    4) The story was… not so much engrossing as it was repettitive. Orcarina of Time was much better, hands down.

    5) Musical Score? Wind Waker and Orcarina were better.

    6) Boss Battles? REALLY? Those were so easy, when i beat a boss, I was always wondering if there was going to be a part 2 of the boss…

    All in all, the reason Twilight Princess is bashed so much is not because of a “thirst for more” but because it tried to stick to a tried and true formula, but missed the mark and lacked what players wanted from another “mature-ish” Zelda game.

    My 2 cents. Peace.

  • http://wiinintendo.net/ hattrick

    Please note that this was not written by WiiNintendo, as the above posts suggests. This is merely a quote from another article from ZeldaInformer.

  • http://twitter.com/lewisanddavid Lewis and David

    Eh? Seriously? Twilight Princess was easily my favourite Zelda game, and also the first I played. Now I've played pretty much all of them. TP will remain top of the list for me, always I think, but that might be due to my obsession with wovles.

  • Spookypete

    ocarina was my favorite, but i feel that the story in this was a personal best. i loved this game. i like puzzles and this one sure had them. – i was extremley happy :)