Every 2D Zelda Game Ranked
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Welcome to MojoPlays, and today we’re ranking every top down entry in “The Legend of Zelda,” from worst to best! If you’re looking for Link’s 3D adventures, be sure to check out our other list ranking those. Our list includes “The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks” (2009), “The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass” (2007), “The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons” (2001), “The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds” (2013), “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past” (1992) and more! Which game do you think best represents 2D “Zelda?” Share your thoughts in the comments!
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Which game do you think best represents 2D “Zelda?” Share your thoughts in the comments!
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The Legend of Zelda Spirit Track is the Best 2D Zelda game! 🚂👻
Link’s Awakening has one of the best stories in the entire franchise and A Link To The Past has amazing music and introduced the iconic Master Sword.
A Link to the Past
I just loved the Oracles of Ages and Seasons. But the Oracle of Seasons more, as you've stated. I've played every game in the gameboy because it has an emulator using a PC and we only had gameboys back then. It's the only game that I really liked, story, variety of equipment, characters, places, etc. I've played minish cap, link to the past, ocarina of time, etc. but I still loved the oracle series more. 😅
Minish cap is basically a playable fairy tale, and is holding the taste of time pretty well
Im surprised the Minish Cap is so high, it is my favorite GBA game i ever played.
Yeah I really love it and since Nintendo has stated they're never going back on the open air formula I pray they one day team up with a 3rd party to make a more classic Zelda once again and considering the obscene amount TOTK has sold it's likely our only hope of a more old school Zelda.
The more i play A Link between Worlds the more i realize it's far superior to Link to the Past.
Glad to see Minish Cap made it so high on the list. It's my favorite Zelda game next to A Link To The Past.
The game is criminal unappreciate.
Thank you for put the Minish cap high on the list, its so unappreciate and one of my favorite Zelda game.
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Who cares? Play what you like. If you need someone to validate your opinion, then it's worthless.
It’s disappointing that we only got one of these remade on the Switch -especially with how good Links Awaking remake turned out. Ages, Seasons, Link to the Past could all use some modern improvements.
Ages and Seasons needs it more.
Link to the Past I'm good on as ALBW was close enough in style but with a new story. I wouldn't deny a remake but that settles me.
Oracle games however would have been great in the LA style. Unfortunately with Capcom owning them I don't see it happening
@@DemonKingNemo Capcom does not own the rights to the Oracle games. Nintendo does.
@zachtwilightwindwaker596 oh interesting. Heard that was the reason why Oracle/Minish games weren't touched. But I looked into it after your comment and now yeah I'm surprised they didn't remake them as a bundle. Seems silly to only do Links Awakening
@@DemonKingNemo I think they've been training Grezzo to become the 2D Zelda team.
While Oracle of Age and Oracle of Season have been brought back to Nintendo Switch, I would like them had similar remake treatment as Link’s Awakening.
Yes, and Maybe the third story which was cancelled at the time. The name title together should be called the Oracle Chronicles.
@@mattiasolsson1523 If there is a third game, hopefully we get to see more interactions with Link and Zelda since she gives him a smooch at the end of the game.
@@mattiasolsson1523 I don't see a third game happening since scrapped ideas were probably put into the other two.
With a third new Oracle
With a third new Oracle
This really just convinces me that nintendo should make a new 2D Zelda
Guess what. . .
I need to finish Link's Awakening
If u can play the switch version dude go for it so good
lol wild that u can say that lol
Nintendo needs to make Zelda a companion character again since Spirit Track.
four swords adventures is such an underrated game
Truly. I know the setup was a pain, but playing with friends was a blast. I feel like everyone ranks it based on single player though.
Still have my og setup from back in the day and play it with friends or family every couple years. 1x Wii, 4x GameCubes, 4x controllers, 4x Gameboy Players, 4x Gameboy-GameCube Link cables, 5x tvs. So glad I have the setup so people can actually experience the game the way it was meant to be played.
@@leviwarren6222 That sounds very expensive. I'm surprised you could play it that way.
12:36 Fun fact: This was the game that got me into the Zelda franchise to begin with and my very first Zelda game
The only reason Four Swords Adventures was so low on the list is because the writer never played it, likely at all but definitely never with three other people
I’ve played and 100% every Zelda game including FSA. Granted I did it solo but it def is where it deserves. Best multiplayer but that’s about it. Most of the puzzles were bland, combat was a null issue and honestly left no real impact. TFH and FS were at least hair pullingly irritating at times to remember, and while there def was fun missions, we are still talking about a series like the Legend of Zelda with literally no bad games, therefore the meh games end up being very low on the list
After playing the Minish Cap for the very first time on NSO last year, it is hands down my favorite Zelda game! I don’t understand why it’s not talked about as much. Such a great game 🙌🏾
So there’s leaks of a 3DS Zelda game remake, and please tell me I’m not the only one who wants it to be A Link Between Worlds and not another Ocarina of Time HD?
Link between worlds is a top tier Zelda game!
Yeah that game needs another more accessible release
It's actually a new game with Zelda as the protag.
Also, Triforce Heroes' final boss is practically impossible solo or with online randos. You need direct cooperation and communication with others to beat it.
I think I know someone who beat it solo. He felt like hell afterwards though!
I did it. There was a level that was impossible without help.
MojoPlays, you should definitely rank every 2D Sonic the Hedgehog game in a future video.
Yeah.
Well i gotta admit, i have a soft heart with oracles since it's my first zelda game and a game i played a lot and beat only once when i was a kid. I feel brainy when i get the puzzles done since YT ain't a thing that time. My 2nd pick was awakening then minish cap or link between worlds.
My first Zelda game was A Link Between Worlds. Such an amazing game.
I waited anxiously for this video
I had no expectation when I first started up Link between worlds, my god, that game is amazing, 100% Masterpiece, if you're Zelda fan and never played it, please play it, it's Soo good
My favorite game of all time will always be Minish Cap. Also Four Sword Adventure deserves more love. I absolutely loved playing that game as a kid.
to me I would rather put Spirt Track higher than Phantom Hourglass just because of lots of reasons why like I kind of love the game’s art style more I feel like it is a lot more polished than Phantom Hourglass and I of course love the game’s music more and I love than you can unlock and have Link actually wear his own train engineer outfit later on in the game and how you get to team up with Zelda making Link’s relationship with her more meaningful and how it builds up more on NPCS whole interactions you can actually make them happy and more things to add how in actually one of those Zelda games where you can actually do all the boss fights again without restarting the profile file again
and also I love all the characters and NPCS a lot more than all the ones in Phantom Hourglass and also because Sprite Tracks is the first Zelda game I played after that was Phantom Hourglass and is the second Zelda game I finished after I finished Phantom Hourglass first
and also I haven’t played Link to the Past yet so to me I would rather say A Link Between Worlds more and I would put Link Awakening first place if we’re counting the 2019 switch remake separately than the switch one would be first place and then the two original ones on fourth place
Link’s Awakening is severely underrated and I’m glad it got a remake for switch
Minish Cap is probably my favorite 2d zelda game although the og NES title is probably a close second.
No argument from me for 1 and 2.
Most feedback I’ve seen rate seasons over ages but I preferred ages myself tbh. Both awesome though!
I love 2D Zelda because of how gracefully the visuals age to go along with the great gameplay. This is especially true of A Link To The Past. The game is over 30 years old for fuck's sake and yet it still looks and plays beautifully.
Very solid list
Since RUclips became a thing this has gotta be the first top 10 list I agree with 100%!
my favorites are Minish Cap and Links Awakeining. But these are also the only ones I finished. I played the NES and SNES ones but never cared to finish them
A link between worlds is my favorite.
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I think the first two Zelda games are the worst.
Triforce Heroes is not worth playing alone. The single player experience sucks which is shocking since it was made after Four Swords Adventures. What the hell happened? Was it too much to have the doppels actually follow you? Online is great if you didn't have lag. I barely had a proper multiplayer experience. Does local multiplayer still work?
I hate Adventure of Link because it's too damn hard.
I place Spirit Tracks above Phantom Hourglass. Fuck the Temple of the Ocean King.
Ages and Seasons should be much higher on the list. Ages is better than Seasons.
Link's Awakening is not better than the Oracle games.
I think Ages and Seasons is the best.
In my opinion, 1st is Link's Awakening, 2nd ALTTP, 3rd ALBW, 4th Oracle of Ages, 5th Oracle of Seasons, 6th Adventure of Link, 7th Spirit Tracks, 8th Phantom Hourglass, 9th Minish Cap, 10th Zelda 1, 11th Tri-force Heroes, 12th Four Swords Adventures, and 13th is Four Swords.
Why so much hate for minish cap?
lol for a sec there I thought he was putting minish cap at the bottom.
Link in time my jam
Minish Cap deserves a high placement. Gameplay wise and aesthetics alone it is one of the best. Story wise maybe not the best but it is still top tier.
1) Oracle of Ages
2) Oracle of Seasons
3) Minish Cap
4) A Link Between Worlds
5) A Link to the Past
6) Link's Awakening
7) Four Swords Adventures
8) Four Swords
9) Spirit Tracks
10) Phantom Hourglass
11) Triforce Heroes
12) Zelda 1
13) Adventure of Link
Oh my god, finally a 2D Zelda Tier list that doesn’t massively meatride Minish Cap, I can’t believe it. It only heavily does it
For me, it will always be Link to the Past. That game changed me back then.
2d Zelda never gets enough attention it only has one remake and hasn’t had a new game in nearly 10 years
I'd switch places between Phantom and Spirit
I hope link between world n link to the past get remake for switch. Link awakening for switch is very cool
Minish Cap and A Link to the Past tie first for me.
I personally like Minish Cap the best, but that's because I get easily frustrated and can only handle the more difficult titles in short bursts. I think A Link to the Past is an objectively higher-quality game, if I'm being honest. But I enjoyed Minish Cap more.
the only games in the Zelda Franchise I don't enjoy due to it being multiplayer are: 4 Swords, 4 Swords Adventures, & Triforce Heroes; everything else I enjoyed
Links Awakening remake is the one for me
I still play minnish cap on my phone.
I get it, but it's always sad to see Zelda II that far down on the list. I think the combat is fantastic and it was a great sequel Even with all its differences
Myne is the minish cap
Not me learning you can dash to open bomb walls after 30 years and countless hours playing/watching aLttP 😅
Watchmojo nailing it putting Seasons over Ages.
Cool Video.
Ages is better than Seasons.
Zelda games is awesome
I'd shit a bird if we got another proper 2D Zelda game.
Guess what. . .
@@batmanbud2 what I miss?
Link to the past is great but I personally prefer Minish Cap
My Ranking from Worst to Best is:
Link Between Worlds
Zelda CDi Trilogy (Technically The Worst Games, but LBW infuriates me so much more for being a Top Down Zelda on a system able to do Full 3D like the N64 Titles, its lazy Stamina Meter, and a God Awful Story that retcons what was established in the ending of LttP and acts as if the Oracle Titles and Link’s Awakening never happened.)
Tri-Force Heroes
Four Swords
Spirit Tracks
Legend of Zelda
Link’s Awakening
Four Swords Adventures
Adventure of Link
Minish Cap
Phantom Hourglass
The Oracle Duology
Link to the Past
Spirit tracks is way better than phantom hourglass smh. Still loved it but not as much as ST
The Cdi Zelda games aren't even worth mentioning. LOL. Great list .
İ hope we get a legend of zelda oracle of ages and seasons remake also minish cap remake on switch just like we had on links awakening remake on switch as soon as possible
As much as I love A Link to the Past, A Link Between Worlds is FAR superior and you know it! The nostalgia bias of this video is so obvious! ALBW should've been number 1 because, factually, it is number 1! It's the close thing a real game with almost everything a true Zelda fan ever wanted. Two fun and enjoyable worlds to explore and the freedom to tackle practically almost every dungeon in any order. It may feel to some people like it's "just an ALttP remake", but it actually 10 times better than ALttP! ALttP also had big worlds to explore. However the Light World section and early parts of the Dark World section are incredibly linear! Something that many Zelda fans, including myself often didn't like about the older games as it severely kills replay value.
The fact that ALBW as WAY more replay value than ALttP alone is precisely WHY ALBW is, without a doubt, FACTUALLY, FAR SUPERIOR! ALBW is factually the BEST 2D Zelda game ever made and designed! The ONLY REAL reason so many "gamers" despise it so much is all because it's NOT painfully difficult enough! Sorry burst your bubbles, but that's NOT what video games or gaming is all about! Video games have been intended to be FUN and ENJOYABLE. There is NOTHING fun and enjoyable about dying so many times or struggling for HOURS, especially DAYS, WEEKS, or even MONTHS or YEARS, trying to solve one single puzzle! Challenge is a good thing, but NOT when it makes you want to throw your controller and rage quit! Same with linearity. Some linearity can be good. But too much linearity is a problem! Especially in the older Zelda games from ALttP to SS! This is why WW is by far the BEST of all of those games because there is much to explore in that game! The illusion of freedom is why WW is so much fun! In OoT, there a glitches that allow you to have some freedom. But that doesn't change the fact of just how linear it actually is at the end of the day.
I get a lot of people are sick of the barren empty open world format of BotW and TotK. But going back to straight up linearity is NOT the answer! ALBW is literally PROOF that a "traditional" style Zelda game does NOT have to be linear to be a good traditional style game. While TP and SS are proof that so much linearity in Zelda was a bad idea. The linearity of those games really gave "traditional" Zelda a bad name! It's a good thing that the games became more open again because, after all, that's literally how the series started and became such a huge hit in the first place! Mojo Plays said it themselves in this video, Zelda 1 truly is a very important game.
And that is WHY A Link Between Worlds is the BEST! It has both of what made both ALttP and Zelda 1 so great in the first by utilizing a mechanic that was actually introduced in a Japan only Zelda experience, the Ancient Stone Tablets. That all said, A Link Between Worlds should've been number 1 because, literally, based these opinions and facts I just mentioned, factually, it is! It was made purely based on what fans literally asked for and wanted! But yet, they favor the games that feel so much less like Zelda over the game that actually feels so much like Zelda. A case that all people really care about nowadays is realistic graphics and realism. Nobody understands what art is even all about anymore!😞
Zelda 2 bellow tacks and hourglass?!?!
My hottest Zelda take: it is more fun to play Zelda 1 for the first time today than Breath of the Wild
Links awakening is the goat
Can Nintendo please bring the 4 swords and 4 swords adventures on switch….
Minish Cap is a bit overrated, but still a great game. The Oracle games are underrated.
How spirit tracks is lower on the list then PH makes zero sense
Am I the only one who thinks Link's Awakening is better than A link to the past?
Owned both as a kid but always preferred the world of LA over ALttP
Minish Cap is the best
Link to the past should be high
Princess Zelda: Showtime!
If Zelda were to get her own, it should be something way better than that disappointment called Princess Peach Showtime! It should be a series were Zelda explores the lore of her kingdom history as an archaeologist/scholar like she was in BotW's memories and in the beginning of TotK. Where she studies actual literal Legends. And the series should be called The Zelda Legends. Sort of like how Pokemon has Pokemon Legends. Basically, Zelda getting the Pokemon Legends treatment. Zelda definitely needs this as this kind of series would help improve her character development and rep greatly! Bringing back the kind of linearity that nearly killed the series is the last thing we want! A canon spinoff game were the player still has some freedom to explore is much better for Zelda.
@@PJCVita92 guess what. . .
There is no “worse” in the Zelda series 😊
can confirm, this list is not based.
Pretty good list. Only thing I disagree with is having the Oracle games ahead of the original game.
spirit tracks is ranked way too low down same with Phantom Hourglass
So glad Spirit Tracks scored on the lower end of this list. That game sucked in my opinion.
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Triforce Heroes is the one Zelda game made by Nintendo itself that sucks. Oracle games are byfar my favorite.
Also FSA is severely underrated. Not by you guys who made the video but in general.
Zelda II is a far better game than Phantom Hourglass, forced touch screen controls were the bane of far too many DS games.
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Bro the best Zelda game is links awakening no argument
obvious a link to the past right ? lol although i think its sequel is better though
A link to the past is so overrated its not even funny. Its objectively not a better game than half the games on this list. It is very much appreciated for pioneering so much to the zelda series, but that alone does not make it the best 2d game.
Minish cap was dull and repetitive 👉
Ds and 3ds Zelda’s are not 3d
???
I think we all saw that coming. I mean the whole list was rather predictable, but number one was obvious from the title
This list is some hardcore bs; ranking PH and ST anything other than bottom 3 with TFH is just ignorance but ranking them about AoL is outright blasphemy.
AoL is mid, plain and simple. TFH shouldn't even be counted. PH and ST get way too much hate.
@@batmanbud2 AoL is one of the best Zelda games.
Lay off the crack kid. PH and ST are garbage.
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Zelda II is the black sheep of the franchise for a reason. Literally every game that came after is LEAGUES better.
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
@@n1nj4l1nk literally everyone I know thinks this way. YOU need to lay off the crack.
@@batmanbud2 first, the CDI games are the black sheep and second some people don't like AoL because it's so different not because it's bad. It's a much better game than ST, PH or TFH. Shit even LCT is a better game than those three.
I LOVE Four Swords Adventures. It’s honestly one of the most underrated Zeldas IMO. Also Imhave to disagree and say Spirit Tracks is better than Phantom Hourglass.
I don't care what people say about it, Spirit Tracks will always be my favourite 2D game.
I like it better than Phantom hourglass also Zelda as a companion.
Not my favorite...but Spirit tracks is SOOO much better than people give it credit for....especially the soundtrack!
SAME
I've been interested of Spirit Track for a long time, it's so awesome!
my 2nd favorite after albw
I’m surprised many of fans had overlooked Zelda 2 - The Adventures of Link since this NES game show Link x kissed at the end of the game.
Boundary Break showed that it was just a friendzone hug.
I would have swapped Ages with Seasons as I preferred Ages. Don’t get me wrong Seasons is great but I’m guessing the writer still has an aversion to water temples/dungeons 🤨
The first Zelda game I ever played was 2D! Oracle of Ages. Never finished it though, I'm glad it's available on the Switch.
I haven't played all of the 2D games but A Link to the Past is my favorite for sure.
Ages was also my first. I think I finished it in a week or two.
Love the minish cap. It has such good mechanics and it even has a better "jump feather" from the one in Link's Awakening.
Spirit Tracks is the most underrated Zelda game. Having just replayed it too, it deserves its place up higher with the likes of Minish Cap & A Link Between Worlds. If it were remade with regular controls and a faster train, it’s top tier content.
Four Swords Adventures is also overlooked, but I’m glad it was at least placed above the other multiplayer titles. Not only does the game operate well in single player, but it actually feels like a full fledged Zelda adventure (with some short comings) whereas the other two multiplayer titles feel more like clunky spin offs.
i would have put ALBW first and ALTTP second though
Same but there next to each other on this list anyway so it's not a big deal. But link between worlds is a definite improvement to a link to the past in every way.
We should get a remake of both Oracle games, but bundle them together and give you the choice of which on to start first.
Drop Minish Cap down below the Oracle games and this list is pretty spot on.
Oracle of Ages is my favorite. The puzzles design around the time mechanic are crazy and quite satisfying to solve.