Can someone inform me on why Zelda's great?

[KissofKetchup]

Well....you can say it's great just by the kind of sad fact that Nintendo has been able to make the same game 20 times and still people buy it like hotcakes. The only difference between any of the games is in the bells and whistles really.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Personally the only Zelda game I liked was Wind Waker (and I loved Wind Waker, it's my favorite game) but the rest of the series for me is pretty skippable and all pretty much the same game.

 

[Sight Unseen]

Ok, you don't like it, fair enough, but can you name one well made game that's similar to it in more than one aspect? Probably not (though someone on this forum probably will because there's likely to be one or two games nobody has ever heard of.)

Okami.


OT: It's hard to explain why I love the zelda series... Proabably a lot of it is nostalgia and the fact that Link was one of my first adventure games I ever played after the 2D sonic games, and was probably the first 3D game I ever fell in love with with Ocarina of Time... I've literally played that game like 6 times or more.

After a few games though the gameplay got pretty samey, collect 3 of something from dungeons then collect 9 of something else from another set of dungeons then kill Ganon, the series still holds some charm for me and I have played up to Twilight Princess and Phantom Hourglass and still do enjoy the series.

I really have a desire to go back and replay the wind waker game for some reason, but I don't own it anymore and don't have the first clue where I could get it from :/