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Retronauts Episode 469: The Zelda 2D Ranking Hootenanny preview

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Triforce of Jeremy Parish, Stuart Gipp, and Diamond Feit Courageously commune to share their deep Wisdom of the 2D-style Legend of Zelda games by ranking a dozen games according to the Power of their design and appeal. Which Zelda reigns eternally?!

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, Jeremy here to tell you about the latest patron exclusive episode of RetroNots.

0:12.3

This time we're talking about the Legend of Zelda.

0:15.0

More than that, we're weighing in on which of the Zelda games is best.

0:19.3

There are as many different opinions about Zelda as there are Zelda fans, but this episode

0:24.2

does involve opinions.

0:25.9

It's about cold, hard facts as we objectively and correctly rank the 2D Zelda games from

0:32.0

best to worst.

0:33.6

Join me, Diamond Fight, and Stewart Gip as we lay down the law about Zelda in a 2-hour

0:38.8

podcast available only to listeners who subscribe to the show at the $5 a month tier and above.

0:44.7

You get more for your money than just this one episode though.

0:47.6

You also get instant access to a 2.5 year backlog of bi-weekly patron exclusive episodes,

0:53.3

as well as 2 years of weekly exclusive columns and mini podcasts by fight, discord access,

0:59.0

and more.

1:00.0

It's a much safer bet for your 5 rupees than that money making game guy offers.

1:04.5

Also enjoy this excerpt and head over to subscribe at patreon.com slash RetroNots.

1:32.6

This is the game that we put together a list of games that are covered under the umbrella

1:38.8

here.

1:39.8

There have to be some boundaries because game releases and versions get kind of weird.

1:44.6

Like in this case, there's only one links awakening entry, even though it's been remade

1:48.9

twice.

1:49.9

That's just we don't need to rank each of the remakes.

1:53.2

So we put all those together and then we go through the list chronologically talking

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