When 168澳洲幸运5开🦹奖网:The Legend of Zelda: Teꦚars of the Kingdom was still developing, IGN interviewed Eiji Aonuma. He said the game would probably be "a little darker" than Majora's Mask, which some revဣere as the darkest Zelda 🍰game of all time. However, when the game came out, many felt as though the game didn't meet the expectations they'd been looking forward to.

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While n🐼o one can deny that Tears of the Kingdom was successful, fans of the Zelda series may be looking for a different game to satisfy their need for something dark and gloomy. While several Zelda games could be considered the darkest, it's truly up to the gamer🅷's own experience and opinion, though potential options can be given.

9 The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourgl🅺ass

The Ghost Ship Leads To Nightmares

Toon Link stands next to Linebeck in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Action
Adventure

Released
October 1, 2007 𓆉
ESRB
🗹 E For Everyone D꧟ue To Fantasy Violence
Developer(s)
⛎ Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)
Nintendo

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was released as the direct sequel to The Wind Waker. Taking place after Link and Zelda sail away from the Great Sea to find new ✃land, the game truly begins when Tetra is stolen away by the Ghost Ship, leavꦏing Link to come to her rescue.

However, he blacks out and wakes up in a land he doesn't recognize at all, one that is being threatened by a life-consuming demon named Bellum. Even when Link finds Tetra again, she's been transformed into stone. After a long adventure with new friends, Link saves Zelda, and they wake up on Tetra's pi🦋rate ship, told that their adventure was just a dream. Could everything we experienced be diminished to that?

8 The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks 🌸

Zelda Is The Chosen Sacrifice

Link and Phantom Zelda wield swords in Spirit Tracks.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Action-Adventure

Released
🌠 December 7, 🤪2009
ESRB
e
Developer(s)
𝔉 Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)
Nintendo

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks takes place 100 years after Phantom Hourglass in the land of New Hyrule. The controls can be a bit difficult at times, but the more modern setting for a Zelda game makes this entry in th🐓e series unique.

Betrayed by the demon chancellor Cole, Zelda's spirit is torn from her body, which Cole plans to use in a dark ritual to revive the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Demon King Malladus. The princess has no choice but to possess a suit of armor, called a Phantom, to help Link stop him. When Col🦂e's plan fails, Malladus tries to destroy the world, but our heroes stop him. Zelda gets her body back in the end, but it's scary thinking about what might have been.

Life Is But A DreamLink is ready to set out on an adventure in Link's Awakening on the Switch.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)
Action-Adventure

Released
August 6, 1993ꦐ
ESRB
t
Developer(s)
💜Nin𝔉tendo EAD
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Platform(s)
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo Gꦡame Boy Color ꦚ

was originally released for the Game Boy in 1993, though later re-released for the Game Boy Color and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:remastered for the Nintendo Switch. In this game, Link wakes up🐠 on a mysterious island when his shi♔p is destroyed in a storm.

Much of the game on Koholint Island is cheery and bright, with talking animals, friendly faces, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:cameos from the Mario series. To escape the island, Link needs to collect eight instruments to wake the dreaming Wind Fish. In the end, the Wind Fish awakens, causing Koh🎀olint Island and everyone on it to disappear. As it tuꦗrns out, the island itself had been the Wind Fish's dream. Everyone you grew to know and love is now gone, erased with time like any other dream.

6 ဣ The Legend Of Zelda:🗹 The Wind Waker

Everything You Know Is Flooded

Redead sneaks up on Link in The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Action
Adventure

Released
March 24, 2003 ༒ 💃
ESRB
꧒ E For Everyone
Developer(s)
💙 Nintendo EAD𒅌
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Platform(s)
GameCube

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker follows a young hero's journey that begins with saving his k🥂idnapped sister and ends with him saving the entire♏ty of the Great Sea. When you think of scary moments in this game, your mind might go straight to the Earth Temple, filled with Redead and Floormasters. This dark dungeon is full of death and fear, but that's not the only dark thing about this game.

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The Wind Waker's Great Sea is set upon the mountaintops of Hyrule, which was drowned by the gods when Link wasn't around🌳 to stop Ganondorf. Those who could flee to the highest mountaintops, but not everyone could have survived a calamity like that.

5 🔯 The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Face Hyrule's Dark Past

Dead Hand approaches Link as giant arms rise from the ground in Ocarina of Time.

Released
༒ November 21, 1998
ESRB
E10+ for Everyone 10+: Animated Blood, F𒆙antasy Violence, Suggestive Themes 𝓀
Developer(s)
Nintendo
Publisher(s)
Nintendo

Despite its usually bright visuals, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ocarina of Time sent chills down our spines at times. You begin the game as a child leaving the forest for the first time, journeying across Hyrule and even into the future to stop Ganondorf from having his way - only to realize he's al🔯ready shaped the future𒅌 as he saw fit.

It was shocking to see the once lively Castle Town reduced to rubble inhabited by Redeads, and there are two dungeons more terrifying than that. A young Link must venture through The Bottom of the Well to get his hands on the Lens of Truth, guarded by the hor🌊rify𒉰ing Dead Hand. He then must brave the terrors of the Shadow Temple, where the Sheikah once executed traitors to the throne.

4 ෴ The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Hyrule Is Covered In Twilight

3 Link rides Epona while Midna rides Wolf Link in Twilight Princess.

Released
꧟ November 19,𝕴 2006
ESRB
🅰 T For Teen due to Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence ꦜ
Developer(s)
🐓 Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Platform(s)
GameCube, Wii

From the moment you're introduced to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Twilight Princess's version of Hyrule, you know you're in for a darker, more somber tale. Though beautiful in its own right, this Hyrule was one where its princess had to surrender to spare her people further slaughter. The people of Hyrule became mere shades in a land meant to be their home, overcome by the oppressive 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Twilight Realm.

Your partner Midna is sarcastic and cynical as she lends a hand, and Link is shown what it would mean to give in to the overwhelmin🔴g power of the Triforce. A light spirit is slain, and you slay Ganondorf, but Zant finishes the job by snapping his neck. Whether you're a wolf or a man, this game leaves an impact on you.

2 The L🌌꧒egend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Hyrule Is In RuinsGuardians go on a rampage in Breath of the Wild.

Released
𒆙 March 3, 2017 ๊
ESRB
🅠 E for Everyone: Fantasy Violence, Use of Alcꦰohol, Mild Suggestive Themes
Developer(s)
ꦡ Nintendo EPD
Publisher(s)
Nintendo

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Breath of the Wild truly is an apocalyptic tale. Sheikah relics called Guardians were excavated only to turn against the people of Hyrule when corrupted by Malice. In their wake, the once beautiful Hyrule is left in ruins, and the world may be healing when Link wakes up 100 years later, but the scars o🎉f war still linger in the fields and mountains of Hyrule.

Life is found only in select pockets and the few brave enough ꩲto travel the road. Guardians still wander the land, ready to fire their lasers and shoot our hero down. Some civilians may have survived, but we're left wondering how many lost their lives because Zelda failed to connect with her Godd൩ess-given powers soon enough.

1 The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask

The Moon Won't Stop Falling

 Skull Kid looks up at the moon in Clock Town in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Action
Adventure

Released
🗹 ཧ October 26, 2000
ESRB
💯 E10+ For Everyone 10+ due to Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence, Suggestive Themes 🧜
Developer(s)
🐈 𓆉 Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)
Nintendo

In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Majora's Mask, we leave the Hyrule of Ocarina of Time behind to find the dear friend we lost alon𒉰g the way. Instead, we're met with a quest where we only have three days to save a st📖range land from a crashing moon, and everywhere in Termina is marked by grief.

The people of Clock Town live in disbelief that the moon could ever actually fall, Woodfall's fresh waters have been tu🐼rned to poison, and the Gorons of Snowhead freeze as it grows ever colder. Great Bay's prized diva lost her eggs and her voice, and the dead roam free in Ikana Canyon, unable to find rest. In Termina, people have died, and we see what's become of them, but still, we have no choice but to continue.

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