This may get a little offtopic, but:

My favourite top 5 Zeldas:

1. LoZ: Link's Awakening - my first Zelda, first gameboy game, and I fell in love with it. It took me about 3 years to complete ;)
Since it was on such a small format, it was pure, compressed, purified Zelda injected into the cart. Hardcore.
2. LoZ: Majora's Mask - first Zelda that I experienced as a conscious, sentient person, rather than a forgetful child. Chilling, but massive freedom. It's quite unlike any other Zelda, whilst keeping to that world-duality (But with 3 days this time) theme that runs through Zelda.
3. LoZ: Oracle Series - like polished versions of Link's Awakening, these two games are like sex (am I allowed to say that on the forums? Don't see why not) on a plastic/metal circuit board. Mmmmm.
4. LoZ: Ocarina of Time - Of course, everyone's favourite. Since I grew up with this, I didn't properly appreciate it's genius at the time.
5. LoZ: Wind Waker/A Link to the Past - Battling for 5th, these were ace. Ace as ace can be. Well, ace for 5th.

Elation wrote:

Shades wrote:

Dont get me wrong, I hate how they went all wind waker with the new Zelda for GBA, the Minish Cap or whatever, I wish they would have stuck with Snes Zelda like graphics.

Woah, you missed out!

Minish cap was absolutely great, and brilliantly easy on the eyes, too.

Link to the Past's graphics were getting on a bit.
Why use old, 16-bit graphics when you have the colour, vibrancy and prettiness of the 32-bit powering the GBA?



Oh, and on the Zelda series getting too dark:

I do agree, however this new Zelda is looking REALLY dark and scary.

I believe once, the new director behind Zelda (Miamoto quit once Majora's Mask started up development, and it's not the same person now who picked it up then, either (I believe)), said "We want every Zelda game to be unique.".
So they're going the complete opposite direction for this new Zelda, and I feel it's a good thing.
Change is good, considering it's still going to have that Zelda mentality and functionality we all crave (and are slightly addicted to, don't try deny it).

Majora's Mask is my second favourite Zelda, and MAN did that give me nightmares.
That was so dark it was positively anti-matter. It was ACE.

No I didn't, I played Minishcap on my Xbox ;-)
It was a good game, but I didnt like the gfx

Why wouldn't Resident Evil work as a cell shaded game? Cell shading can very easily pull off a dark and dangerous world, look at Killer 7.

I'm glad. It looks cool. The last zelda was probably good, but the graphics were so terrible they hurt my eyes (And yes, I know they were meant to look cartoonish), but I hate cartoonish, bright graphics, as opposed to darker more detailed graphics. It gets me in the mood of the game better.

Link's Awakening was also my favorite one. I just liked the overall feel of that game compared to the others. It felt more like the way a puzzle game should, IMO.

I'm glad. It looks cool. The last zelda was probably good, but the graphics were so terrible they hurt my eyes (And yes, I know they were meant to look cartoonish), but I hate cartoonish, bright graphics, as opposed to darker more detailed graphics. It gets me in the mood of the game better.

Was the opposite for me :P. I didn't mind the the graphics but I couldn't stand the game. Took the worst part of Zelda 64 and made it much much worse. Not to mention the first dungeon was an awfully set up stealth type mission.