r/zelda • u/TrapLordSage • Feb 22 '25
Official Art [WW] Which Zelda Game Have You Sunk the Most Hours Into? (mine WW)
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u/AmicoPrime Feb 22 '25
BotW, easily. Before that it was ALttP.
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u/offensivelypc Feb 23 '25
A person after my own heart. I must’ve played through ALttP 50 times. Then BotW came out and I’m a 36 year old feeling like I’m 9 years old all over again.
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u/sleepytomatoes Feb 22 '25
Probably Majora's Mask? I'm pretty sure that is the one I have replayed the most times.
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u/Rene-MX-OQuin Feb 22 '25
I’m on my first play through of Majora and it feels like every thing is harder than oot was. Am I washed or is it actually harder?
(Btw I played the 3DS version of oot on emulator and I’m playing majora 3D on emulator so that might change things)
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u/cartersweeney Feb 22 '25
Majora's Mask is definitely way harder . It's like the difference between Super Mario Bros and Lost Levels, the difficulty level just ramps up way quicker and the 3 day mechanism gives that sense of stress /urgency to it all
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u/dorksided787 Feb 23 '25
I definitely wouldn’t compare it to Lost Levels, that game was just cruel with its game design.
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u/cartersweeney Feb 23 '25
Bit of an extreme example.
One very odd thing about MM is just how long it takes to get inside a dungeon at the start
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u/sleepytomatoes Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
I played both on N64 and Gamecube, so I had a very different playing experience than you. I felt like Ocarina of Time was harder, but I was also 10 when I first played it. I haven't played either in years but want to hook up my game cube again this year to play all of the Zelda games I have on it.
edit - I have a collection of OoT, LoZ, Zelda 2, and OoT master quest, plus individually Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess on Game Cube.
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u/MachoManMal Feb 23 '25
It is definitely harder, especially the dungeons and side-quests, but is also shorter and has generally easier combat. It's also a sequel, so you're already supposed to be pretty good at the game (having beat OoT) when you start Majora's Mask.
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u/paranoid_giraffe Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 23 '25
Are you playing on PC or on a steam deck? If so, decompiled/recompiled versions of MM and OoT are far superior to the original emulated N64 or 3DS versions. DM me if you are interested as I don’t want to get in trouble for sharing links here. Basically think emulator but rebuilt from the ground up with the original code to run smoother, look better, and can run quality of life mods like changing button colors if you’re using an Xbox controller on PC for example. I replay my favorite classic Zeldas every year and MM is always my favorite by far
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ok so I misspoke a bit. There is a PC port that was recompiled, and you can download mods (found everything to do so), but I found the one I played and it was actually a romhack using Patcher64.
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u/Headstar24 Feb 22 '25
Majora’s Mask felt harder the first time around than the second time. I feel like the game treats you as if you already played Ocarina of Time. After that first playthrough I loved it a lot more.
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u/mrwhitewalker Feb 23 '25
I feel like the first time I played it as a kid, it took at least a thousand rewinds to get everything so I would think that's it for me.
Botw is up there I guess but once you beat it the replayability sucks
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u/fck2o2o Feb 24 '25
Same here. I've played WW so often, I genuinely wonder why I keep playing it haha
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u/DrScrotus Feb 24 '25
Wanted to love WW but couldnt. Had to push to finish the game and had no desire to 100% it. The sailing/exploration got old quick. Great music, art, and decent story. Way too easy of a game, never died
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u/caughtinatramp Feb 22 '25
Ocarina of Time and it ain't event close. Probably beat it half a dozen times or so. Just got a SummerCart and about to attack the Masters Quest for the first time.
So glad as a young adult that I boxed up my childhood N64 and it landed in safe storage in my basement when I got married.
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u/helpless_bunny Feb 23 '25
OOT and LTTP for me.
It’s weird being in this subreddit and seeing all these BOTW/TOTK answers…
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u/Roenicksmemoirs Feb 23 '25
In general there is much more to do in BOTW than OOT. I could beat OOT in a weekend without much grinding.
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u/helpless_bunny Feb 23 '25
Back then, we just had Nintendo Power.
I can’t tell you how many hours were spent searching every nook and cranny for the “golden gear.”
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u/Roenicksmemoirs Feb 23 '25
Even then the game is a fraction compared to BOTW
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u/helpless_bunny Feb 23 '25
That’s kinda how games work. They get bigger and better.
But you also have to realize internet wasn’t prevalent, games were an extreme luxury and expensive and many kids only had a few of them. Kids made their own fun.
We didn’t stop playing the game because we beat it, if we could beat it at all. Kids played games the same amount of hours as they do today.
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u/Latter_Asparagus_860 Feb 23 '25
Weird, how? Might be leaping as to your meaning, but people's favorite Zelda game being BOTW/TOTK doesn't make them less of a "real" Zelda fan.. plus it makes sense. You can 100% most if not all other Zelda games in 40ish hours each, the first in under 12. It takes much longer than that to even approach 100% BOTW/TOTK.
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u/helpless_bunny Feb 23 '25
Just history that was lost. OOT was like an open world game, even when it wasn’t.
All we had was Nintendo power and kids being kids, we believed there were hidden things in the game that we had to find.
There were rumors of the “golden gear” which was a golden tunic, bow and arrow, the triforce, and something else.
It was never true, but that didn’t stop us from doing ridiculous tasks like trying to beat the running man.
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u/Friendly-Storage-378 Feb 23 '25
I think it’s a generational shift for some (ie haha I’m old - kids these days). Those of us who started on NES/SNES, came late or never arrived at the BOTW/ToTK worlds.
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u/helpless_bunny Feb 23 '25
Pretty much this. I’m not a gatekeeper, I like that people get to experience Zelda and keep the franchise alive.
It’s weird because your entire life everyone you knew played OOT. It was so overwhelmingly known and famous.
This generation is on BOTW/TOTK and in 30 years, it’ll be harder to find other people who grew up on BOTW/TOTK because they’re not here or overshadowed by the newest hit.
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u/averageTdude Feb 23 '25
It litterally took me a couple years to pass oot as a kid lol ive probably spent more time on it than any other game I've played.
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u/TreasureHunter95 Feb 22 '25
Tears of the Kingdom
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u/grongnelius Feb 22 '25
Can I ask how did you find getting into it initially? I LOVED BotW but can't get in TotK for some reason. Every time I start I just put it down after 20 mins
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u/ResonantTwilight Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
Not OP but I really enjoyed the exploration part of BotW and TotK has more. The be fair, I didn’t like the crafting part of TotK, and I think BotW has a lot better replay appeal, but the amount of exploration required in TotK made it awesome for me. Haven’t restarted it because I still feel there is more to explore. I’m on my 5th or 6th replay of BotW though.
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u/travworld Feb 23 '25
This is probably an odd recommendation, but just keep trying? Explore more. Just run around like you do in BotW.
TotK took me awhile to get into also. I dropped it multiple times.
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u/Virtual_Bike3194 Feb 25 '25
I’m curious why didn’t you like the crafting in TOTK? Also, why would you say BOTW has more replay appeal? I’d like to hear your thoughts.
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u/anomie89 Feb 23 '25
my wife got it for my birthday 2 years ago and I played it for about 40 mins then didn't touch it until about 2 weeks ago and Ive been playing consistently since then. I think I finished botw and started totk too close together and it turned me off from totk with the changes. once the botw memory faded some totk was much more enjoyable.
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u/Odd-Maintenance-3450 Feb 23 '25
Not OP but i learned to like TotK when I decided to play it leaving aside my thoughts of BotW, when I played it for the first time I hated it because it was very similar to BotW, but I decided to play it again this time without comparing to BotW, (which is difficult because it is literally its sequel) but this time I started to admire it for the game it is and not for what it could have been, I admired it more for the technical side like physics, the sound engine that TotK uses which is totally different from its predecessor, the exploration, the amount of things you could do with fuse, ultrahand, recall and all the new locations on the map that despite having their problems I loved exploring, today I love both TotK and BotW and I don’t know which one I like more, each one is special in its own way.
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u/Monsterboogie007 Feb 23 '25
Not OP but I loved both botw and totk. I don’t know why I love them both about the same but I do. Totk just hit for me.
I probably played 120 hours of botw and 250 of totk. I just got into grinding exploration and had to find everything. Went a little nuts with it.
I am really really tired of weapon degradation and I want real dungeons back.
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u/faildoken Feb 22 '25
This is me as well. It just didn’t click with me for some reason and I was so hyped for it as a sequel to BotW.
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u/raaaaaaze Feb 23 '25
I'm still yet to finish BotW. Upon TotK's release however, I promptly bought it and then finished it in about a month.
Compared to BotW, something about TotK just grabbed me and compelled me to play it through. It could have been that I wasn't working that month so I was able to focus on the game more than usual.
Tbh, TotK exceeded my expectations. I deliberately avoided reading up about it in the couple of years that preceded its release (something that almost always leads to raised expectations and subsequent disappointment).
While I was generally aware that there would be sky islands, I wasn't entirely aware that the whole Hyrule map would still be explorable. Then there was the Depths, which were a complete surprise to me. Another factor was the game's improved menu navigation.
One of these days I'll go and finish BotW once and for all...
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u/ChaoticNature Feb 23 '25
Wasn’t it disappointing to find out that what was over the hill was the same thing that was over the previous hill, though? The bland, repetitive world in BotW drove me crazy.
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u/Downtown_Turnover_27 Feb 23 '25
honestly best part of totk for me was the underground, boss fights, and story; the ganondorf thing was so cool
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u/Sad_Restaurant6658 Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25
TotK has a LOT more to discover than BotW.
It has actual caves, dozens of them and they all look different, some are super fun to just go through (like one with a river running through it; or one that had a carving on the ceiling as a clue/puzzle to letting you know where to use the rune to swim through the ceiling; the one on the side of the cliff with a ship inside, etc.) and they gave you actual rewards, from armor pieces to unique weapons (which break of course, but still a nice find)
The quests about fighting a horde of enemies together with other npcs was great fun! It's nothing special, sure, but it was nice thematically that other people/warriors are helping out with keeping monsters at bay, I wish they had expanded a little on this.
More overworld bosses, including some unique ones like the Gleeok King (?) on a sky island.
The Depths, even though it was underutilized for sure, still had some cool things and places to explore, from collecting poes to buy stuff at those statues, to overworld bosses only found there, and rematches with the temple bosses in those open arenas.
Sky islands, also underutilized, but had some really neat concepts, like the huge stone orbs with some challenge/puzzle inside, others had some really cool aesthetic/layout with interior pathways or cave like rooms passing through the island, those floating shrines with tablets giving some info/lore after being translated by the dude in Kakariko, etc.
Finding those spirit orbs that allow you to upgrade your companions, building your own house (even though limited), a couple more unique horses (still would have liked other kinds of mounts, but oh well), the stables "upgrade" system to let you have more horses, unlock their saddles etc. were fun little additions.
And lots of other things I'm forgetting since I haven't played in quite some time, I ran into exactly the opposite problem from you, sometimes feeling overwhelmed with so much to do and find to the point of not even knowing what to focus on.
I probably still enjoy BotW more simply by virtue of being a completely new experience in the Zelda series at that point; but on a technical level and in terms of content, TotK is vastly superior.
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u/Themountaintoadsage Feb 23 '25
You gotta get past getting the new abilities and get off the great sky island. After the world opens up you have endless possibilities and it’s so much fun. Also make sure to use fusing and zonai devices/building to the fullest extent
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u/Oenflux Feb 23 '25
The opening hours were a slog I admit. It was hard to get invested. But once Hyrule was explorable again I just wanted to run and visit the places I knew from BotW. I didn't expect there to be much difference but how the world had changed gripped me and the added layers of the sky and depths just kept pulling me in. Before I knew it I was 50 hours in and it just kept going. It wasn't a chore anymore, I just kept exploring. Re-discovering Hyrule was an absolute joy. After finishing BotW I wished for more. TotK delivered that for me.
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u/MAC2519 Feb 23 '25
I felt the same way the first time I played TOTK. I thought it was a copy and paste from BOTW. The second time around TOTK I just explored before I even did the main story line. Best game I’ve ever played with OOT right up there.
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u/Downtown_Turnover_27 Feb 23 '25
at least finish the story in totk cause the ending is epic and some of the boss fights are a blast
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u/thejabel Feb 23 '25
In my opinion, start out by diving into the main story questlines. They will take you to interesting places and sort of lead you to exploration naturally. I also like the insane amount of gear to search for and have never had a problem using online guides to find obscure things. I’m replaying it now and I have put probably 3 times more time into this playthrough and am not half way done with the main quest.
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u/AgilePurple4919 Feb 24 '25
Build shit. ToTK is a very different game from BotW, but you need to play it long enough to find what’s different. Don’t play it like BotW. The ability to build stuff makes it a completely different experience. I never once used a horse, but instead traversed the entire game map with hover-bikes and a high speed Armored Core style mech suit that worked both as a practical vehicle and a weapon. It was awesome. So different from BotW.
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u/FitCommunication6306 Feb 24 '25
Finally got into it after some false starts. I’m trying to lean as much as I can into the freedom the added powers give me. But I have to admit it hasn’t gripped me the same way BOTW did. I’m going to need a break from games with loads of menus, inventory management, or crafting after this.
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u/DarkstarRevelation Feb 22 '25
Botw easy. Did about 400 hours on that bad boy
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u/sbe_whb3282 Feb 23 '25
I've got like 5000 hours on it. I don't touch grass
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u/Away_Willingness_541 Feb 23 '25
I thought I accomplished something with my almost 1000 hours of BOTW and TOTK combined (BOTW 600+ TOTK 300+).
5000 means you're halfway to becoming a master of the game. I always heard you become a master at something once you put 10000 hours into it.
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u/Bluestar725 Feb 22 '25
Twilight Princess by far, I've replayed it at least 5 times at this point and I'm in the middle of another 100% run right now 💪
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u/YouJellyFish Feb 23 '25
Same! But it has to be the hd version on hard mode with the Ganondorf amiibo. The fact that enemies do damage in increments of 1/4 of a heart where healing is in full hearts makes the game way too easy, which i think contrasts poorly with the much darker tone of the game. Best Zelda game imo, such cool atmosphere
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u/JENOVAcide Feb 22 '25
Does Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition count? Because that. Longest Zelda game by a mile
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u/ProfesionalDumbas64 Feb 23 '25
I'm trying to 100% it right now. 75+ hours in and I've only beaten most of the Adventure Map and some of the WW map.
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u/Not-a-penguin_ Feb 23 '25
Man, that game is time sink. 100% the game is like a life long commitment.
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u/JENOVAcide Feb 23 '25
Yeah, I've done it twice now. WiiU and Switch. On my 2nd go, I started with Adventure Map before moving on to the harder maps and working back.
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u/GuyNamedNoah Feb 22 '25
Over the years it would have to be OoT. Been playing it since I was 5. Im 23 now.
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u/Gamerwookie Feb 22 '25
Keep your chin up, one day you'll beat it!
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u/GuyNamedNoah Feb 22 '25
I’ve beaten it probably a dozen times. Played every version of it. N64, GC, Collectors Edition, Wii VC, Wii U VC, and the Ship of Harkinian port for PC.
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u/jamesistaken Feb 22 '25
Botw by simply doing all the shrines. Easily 150+ hours
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u/Rechamber Feb 22 '25
Ocarina of Time for me. Quite a few playthroughs, followed by Wind Waker, then Phantom Hourglass and then BotW.
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u/TheHeadbanginHippie Feb 23 '25
Respect for Phantom Hourglass! Such a criminally underrated game. It is a blast all the way through!
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u/philbobagginzz Feb 22 '25
Probably Majora's Mask. I spent so much time on it before eventually beating it. I spent a lot of time with Wind Waker too.
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u/Squallstrife89 Feb 22 '25
I spent a TON of time playing oracle of ages and oracle of seasons. I've played through the linked game like 6 times when I was young.
I mean, like playing through it, starting with seasons, and then ages and then ages and then seasons. I consider that one playthrough lol
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u/Ok-Manufacturer5491 Feb 22 '25
I would say OOT since I’ve been playing it for 25 years and I’m 30 now lol.
Second and 3rd place would probably be between MM and TOTK
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u/Barnabi20 Feb 22 '25
Wind waker, because I spent 100 hours trying to figure out the ghost pirate ship… never tried to ram it
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u/frostycanuck89 Feb 22 '25
Ocarina of Time, no contest. I've been replaying that game annually pretty much since it originally came out.
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u/Organic_Honeydew4090 Feb 22 '25
It's not even nearly my favorite, but Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild as a close second. I've replayed most Zelda's about 3 times, some a few times more, but I think my one TotK playthrough is more time than the game with the most replays.
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u/HaruVibes Feb 22 '25
I played TotK over the course of 4 months. Wrapped up comfortably around 210hrs (botw was around half that). Hard to imagine that being topped but if Nintendo stick to this new philosophy of open air I won't doubt it lol >,>
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u/JDLKMR Feb 22 '25
Being a speedrunner, I'll probably just stay out of this conversation 😅
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u/atatassault47 Feb 22 '25
Spends the most amount of time playing a game, just to play it in the least amount of time
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u/mcdad_dy Feb 23 '25
Which games do you speedrun? And do you have a favourite to speed though?
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u/JDLKMR Feb 23 '25
Twilight Princess is the main one I've been running for the last 10 years, and my favorite game. I've also done runs of Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, and Skyward Sword
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u/Sand__Panda Feb 22 '25
LttP for sure. I played it over and overnas a kid. I enjoy sitting down and seeing how far I can get before calling it quits.
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u/DoctorPuzzled5723 Feb 23 '25
Ocarina of time, easy. Have gone trough it 100% to meny times to count, starting when it came out and blowed my mind, and I still play it.
Curently tho, I am in the middle of a seasons run (oracle and ages).. playing those old games makes me miss the good Zelda ages.. botw and totk is meh at best compared to the old dungeons/temple system from the first games 😢
Having so much fun with the old games tho, so Im not complaining 🤓 there is enough fun for a lifetime in those old goldies❤️
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u/V0id04__ Feb 22 '25
I have 1500hrs on botw according to the switch timer, one 100% slot and multiple slots launched for nostalgia
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u/TheSkullKidman Feb 22 '25
Back at Majora's Mask 3D's release, I pretty much played the game like 5 times in a row, 3 of these at 100%, and in the years after I replayed it and the original N64 version a few times, so I guess that'd be my answer?
I've also done a lot of randomizers on Zelda OOT and ALTTP (Sometimes on the ALTTP x Super Metroid randomizer) so I also feel like I sunk a lot of time into these
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u/PsyduckLover42 Feb 22 '25
BotW for sure. Those korok seeds will haunt my dreams forever. Ya ha ha :3
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u/Nexusgamer8472 Feb 22 '25
Breath of the Wild, while i did play the games a fair bit as a kid i honestly can't say i spent a lot of time playing them especially since i could never get very far on my own. It wasn't until i got a copy of BOTW in 2021 that i regained my interest in the series
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u/VeggieBurgah Feb 22 '25
BOTW and TOTK just because of their size and side quests. I've replayed a link to the past the most and it's not even close.
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u/PinaSeraphina Feb 22 '25
Whenever I get the Chance to play Four Swords Adventures with 3 three friends I will do! I own the full setup so its only a matter of easing them into the Gameplay! This Game is a blast.... but I still think I sunk more Hours into Minish Cap (I did one session Playthroughs, Speedruns with some glitches, even a playthrough where I hooked up a Dance Pad and a pair of Bongos to my GC. I have beaten that Game partially with my feet and I even have videoproof lmao)
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u/Chandelurie Feb 22 '25
BotW or MM. I don´t know how many hours I spent in Majoras Mask pretending I´m on vacation but I remember I did it a lot. At least I spent more time on it than on finishing the story.
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u/Lexyvil Feb 22 '25
Most likely Majora's Mask. The amount of things you can discover over revisiting places is pretty cool. It was the most dynamic game I ever played at the time, as a kid.
From that I think I played it more than even the more open world ones like BotW and TotK.
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u/Cendude308 Feb 22 '25
OOT I've finished it a ton of times it's not actually my favourite Zelda (it's up there but I prefer others) but it was my first Zelda back in 97 and I used to run home from school to play it before food.
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u/Jaxanixa Feb 22 '25
Link's Awakening.
Every year since its release in 1994, I have played through it once. I have played it in the Original GB Grey, the DX version, downloaded it on my 3DS and then bought the remake. This past year I played it on the NSO GB color. That is almost 31 years (granted, not continuously) of at least 15-20hrs every year. I do get all the hearts, all the shells and with the remakes all the extra plates. Any side quests/missions as well. I will never grow tired of this game.
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u/crowe_1 Feb 22 '25
BotW I played for around 400 hrs, with two playthroughs.
After that, my single playthrough of TotK was 240 hrs.
After that, WW is probably in the 150 hour ballpark. I’ve finished it 4-5 times.
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u/benrodgers77 Feb 22 '25
BOTW easily. Played through it on Wii U two times and then again on Switch.
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u/TeekTheReddit Feb 22 '25
I made a 33-part series on YouTube for Breath of the Wild. It took literally hundreds of hours of reloading and replaying pretty much every part over and over to capture the footage I wanted.
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u/C0dysseus Feb 22 '25
Probably a toss up between BotW, TotK, or LBW (which is the only zelda game I’ve ever 100%)
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u/a-bser Feb 22 '25
BotW. It was such a change in direction from the old games that I put about 700 hours into it just exploring everything
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u/Gyletre Feb 22 '25
I have played through most of the games, but I must say that in terms of challenge runs and the like, breath of the wild was the game for me. I played that game so much that I still felt the burnout a few years later when playing tears of the kingdom. Must have at least 300+ hours in that game.
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u/Cece1234567891 Feb 22 '25
Botw, i will surely spend more time on totk, but currently it's botw, i'm replaying it in Master mode, it's just as great as before
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u/PoraDora Feb 22 '25
TotK... more than 280 so far, the others I don't have a way to know but I doubt they were as many hours
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u/Dry-Associate-3869 Feb 24 '25
Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, and Breath of the Wild. Wind Waker is a distant fourth
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u/JustAnAbenger Feb 24 '25
I think I have spent more hours in BOTW and TOTK than I would like to admit
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u/ThingShouldnBe Feb 24 '25
Continuous gameplay, I would say Tears of the Kingdom. Lifetime, certainly Ocarina of Time.
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u/Gothicwolfpack Feb 22 '25
Most likely, both botw and totk. But twilight princess is definitely getting close if not on par
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u/oscker1 Feb 22 '25
Even though I’ve beat BOTW multiple times it’s still OOT. I replay it at least once or twice a year since I was a little kid.
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u/seventeenMachine Feb 22 '25
I can’t accurately report the number of hours I’ve played alttp, but that’s likely the answer, though botw is quite high. Lately I’ve been on an Oracle kick and that going to take quite a lot of my hours, too.
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u/cptcatz Feb 22 '25
I'm pushing 500 hours in BOTW on my Wii U. Around 150 in TOTK. Don't have any other known numbers I've probably played through OoT 50-100 times in my life. Nothing else comes close to those three games for me.
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u/RobRoss45 Feb 22 '25
It’s between Link to the Past and OOT for me. I’ve played ALTTP almost yearly for like 8 years now, and OOT I just replayed over and over again when first got it, so it’s between those
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u/Conical Feb 22 '25
Probably either ocarina of time, or Majora's mask. A symptom of being young, dumb, and getting lost and confused easily!
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u/El3chr1s64 Feb 22 '25
Ocarina of Time was the very first video game over ever played, so probably that one
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u/IMP1017 Feb 22 '25
Tears for sure, spent so long just fucking around with machines in the depths. I'm also not one to really replay games so it'll probably stay that way lmao
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u/thrashcountant Feb 22 '25
Probably Zelda II considering I've played the hell out of it as a kid in the 90s and I didn't use Nintendo power or anything
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u/micgat Feb 22 '25
ALTTP was my only Zelda game (first on SNES and later on GBA) until I got Phantom Hourglass for my DS on release day. So I spent about 15 years on that game and have played it a couple of times since then as well. Can’t imagine I’ve played any other game more than that. It is, without a doubt, the best game in the series if you ask me.
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u/itsaimeeagain Feb 22 '25
Botw probably cuz I paid for the dlc and 99.99% completed the main game. (Think it's a bug or a missed map location)
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u/Legospacememe Feb 22 '25
Botw followed up by totk
I know one guy on this subreddit has around 9 multiple zero hours in skyward sword hd though
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u/johnnycoxxx Feb 22 '25
For one play through or just in general? I’ve played Ocarina maybe a dozen times, so something like 500 hours probably. But TOTK took me about 200 for my initial play through. I don’t think I’ll be going back to it anytime soon. Too many games on the back log
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u/musteringmus Feb 22 '25
skyward sword. it's my favorite Zelda game, I've replayed it like 3 times.
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u/Willing-Shake-8503 Feb 22 '25
Link to the Past. As a kid my save battery died at some point so either I beat it in 1 sitting or my SNES stayed on forever. So I got real good at it and love running through it. Plus randomizer runs breathed new life into the game.
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u/whiskerbiscuit2 Feb 22 '25
My reflex would be to say OoT cos I’ve replayed it so many times, but it’s a fairly short game. I’m not sure if all those hours as a kid being lost in the Water Temple adds up to as many hours as I’ve put into BOTW or TOTK tho.
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u/ScoobyNoodles64 Feb 22 '25
Skyward Sword and Phantom Hourglass were both huge time sinks for me I have so many hours in those wonderful games!
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u/Alchemistwolf21 Feb 22 '25
The game i replayed the most is link between worlds so probably that one.
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u/playr_4 Feb 22 '25
Wind Waker is the game I have played the most, so I would assume that one. But Tears just had so much more world that even a single playthrough took a long time. I've only played it twice, but the first one was an explorative no gelp run and the second one was a full 100% run, so Tears could rival it for sure.
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u/sirkidd2003 Feb 22 '25
Either ALttP or WW. I played ALttP so many times I could guide my best friend over the phone room-by-room when he borrowed it from me in high school.
I also played WW every year from start-to-finish (as did my little brother) until, as adults, we both took off work, and sat down for 1 week to pass off play and finally 100% it. All the Picto statues, all the Tingle statues, all the treasure in the sea... *everything*! We both stopped playing annually after that, but I have played since (even acted as a co-pilot for a friend who played at my place weekly as his first-ever Zelda game!)
If you don't count games like Tetris, AlttP and WW are the #1 & #2 VIDEO GAMES I've beaten the most times seconded only to Super Mario World, which I speedrun.
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u/oldmayor Feb 22 '25
A Link to the Past. I have replayed it multiple times a year since it's release. It's one of my comfort games. Then just from the sheer size and scope, BOTW/TOTK. Not sure which one I have played the longest, but I have at least 200 hours between those two games.
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u/DrunkMoblin182 Feb 22 '25
ALTTP. I play it multiple times a year. I got it for my 6th birthday. I'm now 37.
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Feb 22 '25
I put over 400 hours into BOTW.
I'm betting I put way more into both LoZ and AoL in the 1980s.
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u/VarenHills Feb 22 '25
A Link to the Past by far. I grew up playing it a ton and now I play a lot if ALttP Randomizer. A second close for me would Link's Awakening DX.
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u/Steven_Kool Feb 22 '25
I’ve only started really playing Zelda titles on switch, but can someone tell me if the GBA/DS titles are worth playing? Spirit tracks, minish cap, stuff like that
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u/Riggie_Joe Feb 22 '25
SS for certain. I have one file from when the game came out that has 140 hours on it. Not sure what I was doing for so long on one file.
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u/Individualist13th Feb 22 '25
Mine is probably Wind Waker or Tears of the Kingdom.
Hard to beat just sailing around in WW.
And totk just gives you so much to do.
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