Are the portable zelda games any good? I'm playing through twilight princess to finish off the 3D ones I never played...

are the portable zelda games any good? I'm playing through twilight princess to finish off the 3D ones I never played, never really thought about these.

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those? not really
the gb/gbc/gba ones? yes

short answer: no.
long answer: no, not at all.

minish cap is pretty fun, haven't played the others

play them. just play them. Zig Forums is fucking retarded. never ever as their opinion on anything

use the d-pad patch

the GB/GBC/GBA ones are great
Spirit Tracks is ok
Phantom Hourglass is pure shit

Yes, they are great. PH is better than ST. Linebeck is awesome

They're okay. I don't know how much you're willing to pay for them but they're definitely worth your time at least.

Link Between Worlds is the only fun Zelda game

i love phantom hourglass. it was my first zelda game though so i may be biased. i think it is pretty underrated on the internet. couldn't get into spirit tracks though. i also played the dsiware version of four swords which was cool but short
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PH is great, if the touch screen controls filter you consider killing yourself
don't play ST, it's shit

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This except the "filter" part. A lot of people don't like the screen controls because they are weird, but if you don't mind them, PH is great.
(ST is ok, not shit but really underwhelming)

The Oracles and Link's Awakening are fantastic, Link Between Worlds is great, Minish Cap is decent, and the DS ones are fine if you don't mind touch controls but a safe pass if you do. Be warned though, Spirit Tracks' train results in one of the least satisfying overworlds in the series but the dungeons are FUCKING good in it. Anything I didn't list here probably wasn't worth mentioning.

ST vs PH seems to be a preference thing. There are good and bad parts to both.
I prefer ST because the tower has way more interesting puzzles than the ocean king temple due to controlling the phantom, the music is better, and I actually enjoy the train rides. But then again, PH has linebeck.

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I couldn't get into spirit tracks, I found traveling from place to place tedious and very limiting while in phantom hourglass you have the freedom to draw any path you want

>are the portable zelda games any good?
yes
Links awakening and A link between worlds are standouts

i really like both of them. just try it out
if you ask me the touch controls are perfect but the vocal minority on Zig Forums really despises touch and motion controls

>People bash on the Temple of the Ocean King because the dungeon is supposedly on a time limit.
>Yet they praise MM, where the entire game is on a time limit.
This dungeon really is the biggest pleb filter.

I bash on the Temple of the Ocean King because you have to redo previously completed floors every single time

most of the floors has skip mechanics if found the items of subsequent dungeons, you can get even the last 2 charts from the ocean king dungeon in a single visit!

i dont really get the complaint. the dungeon gets more fun and easier as time goes on and the beginning is a breeze

it goes by pretty fast after the first time. that temple was pretty cool

yes, botw is pretty good.

Phantom Hourglass was a ton of fun, but I never played Spirit Tracks because Nintendo apparently put in some anti-piracy measures that disabled the train controls, meaning you'd be forever stuck in the first area.

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They're okay games apart from the god awful pan flute in Spirit Tracks.

Why not just try them and see? Even absolute toasters can run DS emulators no problem, with the mouse acting as a stylus. That'll give you much better insight than anything anyone can tell you.

Though I will say PH is very thin on the ground since it relies on its unique input method to carry a lot of its weight, whereas ST is more of a proper Zelda that just happens to have touch controls. But on the other hand, ST's train overworld is limiting and often cumbersome.

Most people who bona fide hate these games do so for the controls though, so you'd really have to try or emulate to know if you'd be in that camp or not.

how does ST work on an emulator with the pan flute and all?

Eurochads always gets the superior box art

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They're an absolute fucking nightmare if you're the type of person that likes to 100% your games.

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this is nice but i prefer the US box art.

I remember loving Phantom Hourglass. I stopped playing Spirit Tracks after a couple of hours, it weren't my thing.

I'm sorry about your eyesight user

Expanding on this

> god tier
Link's Awakening
The Oracle games
A Link Between Worlds

> great tier
Minish Cap

> ok tier
Spirit Tracks

> meh tier
Phantom Hourglass

The touch screen novelty wears out pretty quickly. At least with Spirit Tracks, the way they used Zelda was very unique and felt more than just a novelty that forced you to use touch controls.