The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD

Aside from the needlessness of Wolf Link as a gimmick and the incredibly slow opening/drawn out manner in which the City in the Sky is gotten to, I think Twilight Princess stands as the most refined version of the classic Zelda formula in 3D and the openness of BotW/TotK make its comparatively restrained scope fairly cozy.

Puzzles and storytelling are still better in Majora, and the game is too easy without Hero Mode/Ganondorf Amiibo, but I think Twilight Princess’s dungeon quantity, quality and spectacle is as a whole the best in the 3D series. It’s got great music, cool atmosphere and Midna is easily the best companion character in terms of having an actual arc.

Hot take: Midna's still the best companion in the series, but she suffers from Tetra syndrome where once you cross the halfway point she loses all personality. It's less obvious in this one since she doesn't physically transform or get bleached, but the second she warms up to Link all her sass, attitude and character are sucked away. I was halfway through City in the Sky when I realized she hadn't cracked wise or said anything snarky for hours.

The first 1/3 of the game is awful and yeah it picks up eventually , but those early game moments like the one when game forces you to collect some white, shiny berries (I don't remember what that was exactly) as a wolf left a bad taste in my mouth. Dungeons are mostly good, but there are only two good boss fights and that includes the final boss.

Game has grown on me a ton recently, altho i still prefer wind waker ocarina

God, Link is such a twunk here.

The Legend of Zelda but, like, with Linkin Park ethos-

I'm just saying words.

i could have had a whole game just playing as a majestic wolf. love the dark and light worlds in any game. despite that the game is so tedious that i was really just putting up with it until i could change between wolf and link whenever i wanted. however by the time i finally got the ability it was anticlimactic and i was just tired of the game. i stopped playing and never went back.

I really want to replay this but every time I think about all the tedious stuff in between the cool stuff the feeling goes.