/vr/ - Retro Games

The "Zelda cycle" as people imagine it doesn't really exist.
What kinda happened in reality is that, OoT and MM are still the best (3D) Zelda games Nintendo has ever made, WW was butt-tier awful for many reasons aside from the reactionary rebellion to its art-style (which, don't get me wrong, looks good but never synergised with the series); Twilight Princess was I think the best post-N64 attempt at a traditional linear adventure, but that's a heavily qualified accolade. Skyward Sword had a wonky art style (backgrounds, lovely, characters, mediocre to bad to with few exceptions) and was a weirdly bland and content-anemic to say it took 5 years to release. BotW is a new style of Zelda aping Bethesda and Ubisoft open-world sandboxes so it doesn't really compare well, however I will very harshly criticise Nintendo for taking an eternity to produce BotW2 when all the stuff shown in trailers so far looks like it should barely justify a paid DLC release. Fucking unacceptable. Get your shit together Nintendo.

tl;dr - TP is the best of a bad bunch released during the post-N64 dark ages. The sum of its parts puts it above average, and that's the most we can seem to hope for until they get Koizumi back into a leading role.

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