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Ages, Seasons, and Link's Awakening hold a special nostalgic place in my heart. Even with their flaws, they're still some of my favorite Zelda experiences even today

I wish they could have got the third one to work with these two. These games are incredible.

Man these two games hold a special place for me. As kids my older brother and I saw the cool as hell commercial and we were dead set to save up every penny so we could each buy one of the two games. I picked Ages and he picked Seasons. Great memoires.

The Oracle games are so underrated. Two of the best Zelda games.

Oracle of Ages was actually my very first Zelda game and I have a lot of nostalgia and love for it.

Oracle games are a pair of criminally underrated games; would really love to see remakes of the games in the Awakening remake style.

Criminally underrated Zelda games here. These gems deserve to be remade

Love hearing Nayru's Song - a hauntingly beautiful, underrated song for a pretty great game.

Oracle of Ages is easily my favorite game of all time. Everything about it damn near flawless

The Oracles games, Taken  together, May be my favorite Zelda titles honestly.

This is why Oracle of Ages is my favorite of the two, although I will not deny there are moments where its pacing grinds to a halt and has me tearing at my hair ever since I was a child. However, it was never the puzzles, it was those damn mandatory minigames (specifically targetcarts with how unforgiving the seedshooter is, and wildtokay being pure dumb luck.)

I’m glad to see this game finally get its own recognition on its own. Also…something that never gets mentioned: Nayru actually has agency. She uses the burden of her mantle of Oracle of Ages to prepare Link for what is to happen to her and Labrynna. Link actually saves her midway through and…oh wait. The story’s not over. That NEVER happens. She continues to assist as a guiding and steading force despite clearly being traumatized by her experiences while recovering at her home. Her relationship with Ralph, her reputation in the Present and her slandered reputation in the Past is the heartbeat of this game right alongside Link often quietly making things whole again. And Ambi’s Turn from being a Kind Hearted Queen to having her heartbreak so easily manipulated long before she herself is possessed (and heavily hinted to be pregnant with her lovechild with the man who would become the Stalfos Pirate Captain and eventually result in Ralf’s Bloodline) is so deeply human and causes the player to question how “good” the queen ever was at all. And while Veran as a final boss is less intimidating than some of the level bosses preceding her, she carries far more narrative weight than many if not most Zelda Villains to date now over 20 years later.

Honestly…I’d LOVE to see this game remade for a modern system, and see its ideas Expanded. Leaned into even further. (But. Less minigames. PLEASE.)
But…I’d also admittedly would love to see a Third Game revisited as a Final Act/Set Order and incorporating the Plot Aspects of the Linked Game Narrative but allowed to become its own thing: let Ages remain Puzzled, Seasons remain Combat, and “Seed of Courage” (that name needs work) be a harmonization of those two ideas as a Final Challenge, if you will. (And if Nayru is a mysterious singer hiding herself away deep in a forest, and Din is a dancer deliberately always on the move as her own method to avoid detection surrounded by knights as her “troupe” (please. Like she didn’t know.) then why can’t Farore be a storyteller and historian? Someone who collects both the epics and mundane and spins them Alive again for her audience to keep her own land Whole…and how things crumble and decay and distort once she is now also Gone.
This would also give Zelda’s Arrival even further Weight as she desperately (and recklessly, as she has her own kingdom to attend to) tries to hold the land together as she senses the Final Flame Lighting only to become a Final Sacrifice as the Vessel Herself.

Or something along those lines.

But I digress: of the Main Oracles (Farore…doesn’t truly count in the original release), Nayru is the one with the True Narrative Weight with her Presence with her Duty as well as her Relationships to Ralf and the other NPCs. She MATTERED…and Without needing to be a love interest or having onesided affections or a superficial crush etc with Link

The best review of Oracle of Ages is "What if every dungeon was the Water Temple from Ocarina of Time?"

My unrivaled favourite Zelda game that I return to again and again. It released the summer before I turned 14, and I got both games as a set for my birthday that year. I preferred Ages to Seasons, and it's still one of my favourites to play.

Ages was the first Zelda game I had as a kid and I loved it. Looking back on it, I have no idea how I got through the game as a kid without a guide or internet. All I did was hand write notes for items, puzzles, and how to efficiently defeat certain enemies

OMG someone actually talking about my 2nd favorite Zelda game 🤘
Rare but nice to see it acknowledged at all.
Oracle of Ages and Seasons were a fantastic experience as a young boy playing his Gameboy Color

loved the Game boy Zelda games as a kid i even had a Oracle of Ages book that was a combination hint guide and choose your own adventure

Oracle of Ages was the first Zelda game I ever played, and after Link to the Past, it’s my favorite Zelda game.

oracle of ages is my favorite of the oracle series. It was a bit more challenging then seasons but so much more rewarding. The last dungeon was the only one that gave me a problem but was still fun, still have my passwords from back in the day and replay both games at least once a year

A full remake of Oracle of Ages and Seasons as well as making the third game we never got would be a dream come true.
Can you imagine if they explored the ideas they had for the Oracle games even more in-depth ?