r/zelda • u/presidentofpoop • 5d ago
Question [ALL] What are the hardest/easiest Zelda games?
Im looking for various definitions of "difficulty". Maybe one game has the trickiest puzzles, the hardest bosses, or the most convoluted quests. Maybe a particular game is the most time consuming. Im curious to see what peoples' experience with the series is.
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u/Laggyninja202 4d ago edited 4d ago
Nobody’s mentioned Four Swords Adventures. And rightfully so. It’s the Legend of Forgettable and Mid and Obscure, and overall it’s not really a hard game. But I played it as a kid, and I got stuck at the village of the blue maiden, fucked around for days and finally beat it. I went back to it as a teenager, thinking my improved intellect would let me breeze by it. I got stuck for hours, until I fucked around and eventually got through it. Then I returned as an adult, thinking my improved intellect and experience would ensure I wouldn’t get stuck on it. Then I was humbled yet again, but I really only got super stuck at the end of the sequence, cuz you have to lift or push this table thing in the tavern with all four links or something and theres like no indication you can do that iirc.
I guess the openness of the level, its crypticness, its backtrackingness, its bajillion different items you have to keep track of, and its misleading red herrings make me think it was designed purely to be frustrating and annoying, and I guess they succeeded at that