The Best Zelda Games, Ranked From Least To Most Legendary

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The Legend of Zelda is one of the most iconic and influential game franchises of all time. After debuting on the NES more than 35 years ago, The Legend of Zelda has been constantly evolving, reinventing itself in surprising and fascinating ways. It's exceedingly rare for one series to be home to multiple titles that many would place high on the list of the best games of all time, but The Legend of Zelda has managed to do just that. We took a look back at the best Zelda games of all time by ranking them from least to most legendary.

The adventures starring a young hero battling against evil have grown up alongside the gaming industry itself, and it's been interesting to watch Hyrule's evolution from an 8-bit world to a lush and massive playground.

For the purposes of this list we only included major Zelda releases, so you won't find spin-offs like Hyrule Warriors or curious asides such as Link's Crossbow Training. If you'd like to play these games, some of them are available on the Nintendo Switch, and the classic NES, SNES, and N64 entries are available to play through the Switch Online service.

If you're also a fan of Nintendo's iconic plumber, check out our list of the best Mario games. For Switch game suggestions, we have roundups of the best Nintendo Switch games and best Switch games for kids.

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Before there even was a Zelda mold, Nintendo thoroughly broke it. Zelda 2 gets some credit for completely rethinking what a Zelda game could be, swapping its top-down perspective for a more action-oriented side-scrolling combat system, and placing much more emphasis on