What's your favorite 2D Zelda game?

Link's Awakening. Apart from being a technical feat and introducing new mechanics, it's also a brilliant interpretation of the Siren myth. It actually made me feel bad about beating it back then and I still like that melancholic quality it has.

LttP comes in second, I guess, though I still need to play the later games through. Minish Cap was too easy and felt like Pokemon, so I'm not sure why I'm mentioning it.

The NES games are pretty outdated and no longer much fun for me... One thing I wish every Zelda had though is a second quest.

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Originally Posted by Alianger

One thing I wish every Zelda had though is a second quest.

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This x 1000

I beat 1 and 2 on the NES. Haven't played many others, though I have the SNES Link to the Past (haven't played it much) and Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask for N64 along with Windwaker for GC. Original Zelda 1 for NES is still the best IMHO.

A Link to the Past would definitely be my favorite 2D Zelda game :cool:

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Originally Posted by eddiespruce

The original Legend of Zelda was pretty good, but lacks something that "A Link to the Past" has.

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Yeah LttP has a whole new style for the music & artwork. It has the damn bright pastel colors that the SNES was emphasizing, and it's more cute / cartoon-like. I dislike that direction that Nintendo brought its games at that point with the SNES. I don't like cute cartoons or pastel colors. lol Aesthetics aside, it is a great game. I played thru it mainly bc I love the original Zelda. Also I really wish the dark world was much darker and scarier, rather than just looking brown and muddy. lol

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Originally Posted by eddiespruce

Although, I actually preferred "Neutopia" for the TG-16 over A Link to the Past, and ironically, It came out before A Link to the Past, which makes it the first 16-bit Zelda-type game.

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Yeah the music of and general art style of Neutopia is much better than LttP. It was indeed a great first 16-bit version of Zelda. :)

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Originally Posted by StarMist

Still the first. For one thing it radiates warmth as only NES games can. Beautiful game.

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Warmth = charm? Or did you mean physical heat? lol I haven't played NES games for years...

The first Zelda had the biggest impact on me but I think ALTTP is the best 2d one overall.

A Link to the Past is not only the best Zelda game ever made, it's also one of the finest examples of perfection when it comes to video games. To say "it has aged well" is to say it has aged at all; but it has not, and such words would be blasphemous even to the most hardcore of Genesis fans. It instantly represented the peak of the system's power. Few games so early in a system's lifetime have ever managed to reach such level of elegance, such grandeur, such flawlessness.

ALTTP, LA & Minish Cap, that order.

Zelda 1 and 2 on NES are also great games, although Zelda 2 falls a bit on the side of repetitive with the horrible side-scrolling encounters on the overworld and is a little too difficult.

A Link To The Past offered a complete and balanced entry into the Zelda franchise that still holds strong when compared to many of the newer entries from both Nintendo and others.

Metroid: Zero Mission is a remake/re-telling of the original Metroid only on the GBA and that's how I partially view ALTTP. All of the familiar and important aspects of Zelda are included yet new ones are offered. This is the Zelda that should have been made in 1986 but wasn't able to be made. Out of all the entries in this franchise, this is the defining moment and one that every other future Zelda should strive to be like (in terms of content, ambition, etc..,). Without question, this is the benchmark of adventure games.

Landstalker :p