Perhaps not “part of the big leagues”, but for many years OoT was listed in various places as the best video game ever made, and it still is in MetaCritic. People who are even more purist than me will easily claim it to still be the best game of the entire series, and I can respect that, seeing how it did set the formula for Zelda for the next 25 years.
PS: if it was not for the fact that the dungeons in TP were top tier, just the fact that the entire game’s ambience is surrounded by this whole hottopicesque, edgy aesthetic of 2007 already makes it top tier for me for the sake of nostalgia. Skyward Sword, on the other hand…
Perhaps not “part of the big leagues”, but for many years OoT was listed in various places as the best video game ever made, and it still is in MetaCritic. People who are even more purist than me will easily claim it to still be the best game of the entire series, and I can respect that, seeing how it did set the formula for Zelda for the next 25 years.
PS: if it was not for the fact that the dungeons in TP were top tier, just the fact that the entire game’s ambience is surrounded by this whole hottopicesque, edgy aesthetic of 2007 already makes it top tier for me for the sake of nostalgia. Skyward Sword, on the other hand…