Culturess’ Ranking of The Legend of Zelda Games

8. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons

Even Nintendo’s own official website for The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons admits that they’re meant to be played together, though you can certainly play just one. Should you play both and link them, which is still possible on the Virtual Console versions of the games, you’ll get something like the whole story of this Link.

However, that doesn’t mean that you’ll play the same game twice. That’s not the case at all. In Ages, Link must save the land of Labrynna from a sorceress, rescuing the oracle Nayru in the process. He’ll need to jump between time periods with the Harp of Ages to do so. For Seasons, meanwhile, Link travels to Holodrum. There, he has to defeat Onox and rescue Din, the oracle, changing the seasons with the Rod of Seasons. (Any relation to the goddesses of the same name is completely and totally a coincidence, right? Right.)

Seasons is the action game, while Ages is more the puzzle game of the two, a fact noted in many reviews which accompanied the release of these games. Start with the one you prefer of puzzles and action, then move to the other if you had a satisfying experience. Give them a playthrough when you get the chance.