1, 4, and 5 for the zelda ask game? (fav game, and fav link & zelda designs?)
1 - okay this is really hard. I like almost every game for something it does but my favorites have to be WW, Majora’s Mask, BOTW, ALBW, and EOW. That’s five games but what the ever.
For Wind Waker, I enjoy it because it’s really quite charming. The art direction is very strong as well, and you can see the polish and work put into it so much that it still holds up today. Do not do what I did and go from playing Wind Waker to playing Ocarina of Time. Do the opposite of this. I also enjoy the message of moving on from the past and hoping for a better future for the children.
For Breath of the Wild, it’s up there in my favorites list simply by virtue of being my first ever Zelda game that I got when I was eight, and I loved it because the world seemed to impossibly big to me, at the time. I literally knew shit and nothing about the rest of the games so it really was like I was waking up from amnesia and didn’t remember anything. Also, I like how it tells its story non linearly and I like that one memory wheee they’re both under the tree and Zelda questions fate.
For Majora’s Mask, it’s Majora’s Mask. But seriously it’s a really good representation of grief especially given the context of OoT, where MM is essentially a second chance for that Link to relive through his experiences and try to understand why they happened and why he feels sad about it. Sometimes I think about how you start out as a Deku scrub because Link literally feels useless doing anything for himself and not for the sake of helping other people. Deku meaning ‘useless’ or ‘wooden doll’, both of which being accurate.
ALBW is the only one of these I haven’t played because I do not have a 3DS. But I have watched playthroughs as well as people in real life playing through it and I am absolutely in love with the game’s man mechanic and how it’s applied everywhere, and I also love the presentation of its story and the absolutely impeccable music and Hilda and Ravio as characters, of course.
EOW is one of my favorites because it is just very calming to play. I feel at ease playing that game. Sometimes 3D Zeldas make me anxious to do everything that needs to be done, and this game does not do that. Also, you can finally play as Zelda. Very exciting. The characters are charming g as well and it may very well have one of the most interesting villains in the series.
4 - WW Link and BOTW Link have my favorite Link designs out of all of them, save for how Katsuya Terada draws him which is an entirely different thing. WW Link because I enjoy his expressions and BOTW Link because he was my first ever Link. I would pretend that he was a girl because I thought that Zelda and Link were written to be in love and eight year old me wanted them to both be girls about it, I guess.
5 - As for Zelda, I would say that either Skyward Sword Zelda or Tetra are my favorite designs for her. That or CDI Zelda because I’m unhealthily attached to the concept of her existence.
I remember Skyward Sword Zelda because when I was younger (like ten) I looked up a compilation of Skyward Sword cutscenes so I could look at all the parts where she was in it and also the parts where Link was in it so I could imagine myself as Link. I don’t know why it took me as long as I did to realize that I in fact had interest in girls.
As for Tetra, I really like her character in general but I like her design because A: she brownskinned, B: she’s allowed to wear pants along with like three other Zeldas ever, C: she’s cool as fuck.
