I voted for Ocarina of Time, but before I get into that, some words about the other two.
Sadly, Mario 64 never did much for me. I've beaten the game twice, and gotten every star once, but throughout the entire experience the game never rose about "fine" for me. I am not trying to say that I'm right and that the game is overrated. Personally, I hate it when people call something overrated and they follow up with nothing but their opinion. That doesn't mean a game is overrated, that just means your opinion is below the average opinion, which is literally how averages work. Everyone has opinions, some of those opinions will be above the average and some will be below the average, and using those opinions you create the average. If you want to call something overrated, you have to speak specifically to what caused it to be overrated. Yet, when people try to bring up reasons a game is overrated, they use thin arguments with no evidence to back it up. Really, most of the time someone calls something overrated, it's a way to invite a debate while also guaranteeing themselves a win, in their minds, because the other side instantly loses due to being blinded by whatever caused the game to become overrated, and therefore whatever they say is wrong. I could go on and on as I have so much more to say, but getting back to the point, Super Mario 64 is a great game, a masterpiece, but not to me because I'm a poo poo head that doesn't care for platformers, other than a few special exceptions like Super Mario World, Celeste, Sonic Mania, Super Mario Odyssey, and others.
Metroid Prime is a wonderful game, and my favorite in the entire Metroid series. It was also the game that made me comfortable with first person games. When I started playing Metroid Prime, it was a huge struggle for me to get used to that perspective, and progression was very slow. If I hadn't been having so much fun, I probably would have quit just due to it being in first person. However, I persevered, got used to it, and fell in love. As an aside, I never played the Wii versions of Prime 1 and 2, but if they control like Prime 3 does, I prefer the GameCube controls. Don't @ me!
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Ocarina of Time is my favorite game ever. It was not my first Zelda game, that was Link's Awakening, which is objectively the best 2D Zelda game, and if you disagree with me you are wrong because your favorite 2D Zelda is overrated, but I am a superior being (Team January, btw) and know better than you and can safely tell you that you are wrong. Anyway, back to Ocarina of Time. My first experience with it was actually a negative one. I was over at a friend's house and his mom brought the game home as a surprise. My friend then played the game the rest of the time I was there, and I was upset because I did not come over to watch him play a video game. By the time my mom picked me up, I was very anti-Ocarina of Time. I would later play the game and enjoy it so much that without me asking for it, my parents got me an N64 for my birthday with Ocarina of Time. (It was the translucent green N64 that came with Donkey Kong 64, meaning I did not actually own OoT until 2000. Which was fine because the N64 looked cool and it came with the Expansion Pak, so I was ready for MM when I got that game for Christmas that year.) I played the hecking heck out of Ocarina of Time. I beat it so many times that I still have the game memorized to this day. I woke up early just to play it before school. It was my first love, and some would say my purest.
Just a few random notes. My favorite dungeon is seriously the Water Temple. I never had any issues with it and I always thought it was a lot of fun, plus it has the Dark Link fight. My least favorite dungeon is Jabu-Jabu. While I still find OoT 3D to be a wonderful 10/10 game, I consider it an inferior version of the game. There are a variety of reasons, but the biggest reason is that the game is unpleasant to look at. I despise the screen on the 3DS, and I don't like what they did with the art style of the game. A lot of people don't think about the art style of games from that era, but each game had a distinct art style, and they ruined it in the 3DS version. They made the game overly bright and colorful, and Link really sticks out like a sore thumb (maybe for 3D purposes, I don't know, but Link looks like he doesn't belong in that game). Also, I find the game uncomfortable to play on a 3DS. Again, there are other reasons I don't prefer the 3DS version, but those are the biggest and the simplest reasons.
So yeah, that's way too much about Super Mario 64, Metroid Prime, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Like, two people might bother to read all of this, but I enjoyed typing it and ranting a bit. It was a good time putting my thoughts into words.
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