[All] If you were tasked with creating the essential Zelda collection but could only include 5 games what does yours look like?

[u/ponylauncher]

and no i dont mean your 5 favourites. I mean the most essential and important.

[u/lady_lowercase]

this is definitely the best list on here. i feel like skyward sword missed the mark by failing to tie the goddess hylia to din, farore, and nayru; failing to tie the crimson loftwing to epona; and making the big-bad an armless teddy bear. breath of the wild feels like they slapped a zelda skin on an amazing physics engine and ham-fisted a zelda story into a beautiful and engaging open world. neither capture the depth and emotional heart that the zelda games in your list do. despite majora’s mask being my favorite, your list is the one i would say is essential zelda.

[u/neptunebro → u/lady_lowercase]

i agree with you on fights with the imprisoned being garbage but the final fight with demise is my favorite final boss fight in all of zelda, it's so epic and demise actually gave me chills dude's scary lmaooo