Although I have beaten 14 Zelda games, the older ones are my least favorites. They are excellent for their time, but by today's standards they are pretty dated. The graphics are very bright and hard on the eyes for the first two Zelda games. The difficulty is also much, much harder. There's also not nearly as much of an emphasis on story, and overall the older ones just aren't as enjoyable. This game does get better the more you play it, and you do get used to it, but I found myself just progressing in it a little bit at a time, partly due to difficulty, but mostly just because I got tired of it and wanted to play something more contemporary. I mostly played and beat this game because it was a Zelda game, and I want to beat all of them.