Top 10 Reasons Why The Legend of Zelda is Better Than Super Mario Bros.

Seriously, Mario usually gets all the praise, but look at this. Stunning graphics, a princess not nearly as annoying as Peach, and great plots. It's The Legend of Zelda!
The Top Ten
Ocarina of Time is the best Nintendo game ever

Trying not to fangirl, but it's hard! This game had great visuals for a game made in 1998 for the N64 and really brought the series into 3D. The plot was very interesting compared to the ones before it, and the characters are very memorable, as is the music.

This game is so good that even after 21 years of its release, it's still high on the leaderboards for best game of all time. Younger people, who weren't even around when the game existed, are still flocking to stores to buy the 3DS version. Good job, Nintendo.

Great in every way, extremely memorable, and brings back the child in you!

There are fewer annoying characters

Rose Gold Peach, five different baby versions of the adult characters, Metal Mario, 8 filler bosses, Dry Bones Bowser...

Birdo, Toad, Peach, Waluigi, Wario, Hammer Bros...

The boss fights are better

Ugh. I'm tired of the Koopalings for every boss fight or an axe you have to hit to defeat Bowser. Mario bosses need more variety!

Mario bosses are often just a matter of jumping on their heads three times to beat them.

TLOZ gives more of a challenge. In most Mario games, you jump on the boss three times and it dies.

Ganondorf is much more evil than Bowser

Ganon is a better video game villain than Bowser because Ganon has more suitable goals, he is harder to defeat, and he has a better backstory than Bowser.

Ganon's goals are more suitable and realistic for a villain to have, while Bowser's goal relates more to his personal problems. Ganon's goal is also more dynamic, as it begins with him wanting to rule Hyrule and changes over time to him wanting to destroy Hyrule. Ganon has better motivation for his goal, too. While Bowser wants to marry Peach because he is lonely and wants a mother for the Koopalings, Ganon wants to rule Hyrule not only to gain power, but to get revenge on the Hylian race, who treated the Gerudo race poorly when he was king.

Others may argue that Bowser has a better personality because he's more empathetic. However, empathy has a positive connotation in contrast with villainy, which has a negative connotation. It makes Bowser seem like the type of villain whose thoughts and actions aren't completely dominated by evil. Ganon, on the other hand, is literally the "embodiment of pure evil," a quality that fits a villain perfectly.

Each game has a different plot

I mean, in a way, SMB did pretty much save the gaming industry. It's very important, but that's the only thing that Mario beats Zelda with, aside from more successful marketing. Everything else about the Super Mario Bros. games is basically bland and literally the same thing.

The Mario RPGs are the only Mario games with different (and good) stories, while Zelda has excellent stories in every single game.

Unlike Mario, Zelda has some amazing plots, but Mario just has to save the princess!

You get to ride a horse

A horse is faster than a dinosaur.

What's a dinosaur compared to a horse that you can ride into battle?

There are more things you can do in the game

You can ride a horse, swim deep, fight a boar who almost destroyed the world, meet a fairy, save a world beneath Hyrule from a moon, and you can get a motorcycle in BOTW if you get DLC.

The games are simple but not easy

What I mean is, most levels are medium difficulty, but some are just plain easy!

It's actually challenging, which is fun because it's just boring if it ends too soon. It took me 5 months to finish BOTW.

Zelda has more badass powers and items

Link has the Ocarina of Time, magic powers, can turn into a wolf, holds the Triforce of Courage, and wields the Master Sword. Mario has a fire flower and a feather.

There are more possibilities in gameplay

One time in Skyward Sword, in Faron Woods, I used a tree to get outside the border of the world. It was fun!

Big worlds, side quests, great stuff!

The Newcomers

? There are some things and characters in Zelda that give you hope
? Mario is a plumber, while Link is an elven warrior
The Contenders
The fight mechanics are better
Zelda is not as annoying as Peach

Peach can barely defend herself. In pretty much every game, she gets kidnapped. "Help me, Mario!" But Zelda is a whole goddess with many powers. She could survive on her own most of the time if she wanted to.

Zelda has been consistently more helpful than Peach. Each game features a different Zelda who is kidnapped by a different Ganondorf, while Peach is the same royal heiress being kidnapped by the same, completely noticeable spiky-shelled turtle dragon every time!

Peach gets kidnapped more than Zelda, and Zelda can use her powers like magic, transform into Sheik, use the Triforce of Wisdom, and teleport, just like in Smash.

Peach only slaps and uses random items to attack, with a moveset full of pink hearts, and waits for Mario to rescue her from Bowser. Zelda attacks way better than Peach.

The graphics are better

You can't deny this. Zelda has great graphics!

The powers in Zelda are better

Mario just runs around eating plants and shrooms to get power. Link runs around finding weapons, magic, and other items all over the world. Not to mention all the masks.

The storyline is darker

I could agree with this. But may I remind you that The Legend of Zelda was supposed to be an adventure game with a slightly more fantasy and darker theme than Mario, so of course.

I agree that it has a darker storyline.

Bowser is weaker than Ganon

Bowser logic: "I'm going to keep fighting that fat plumber in the same way, always leaving my weakness right behind me. There's no way he'll be able to jump over me like in the last 200 games!"

Link is a greater and better hero than Mario

Link is better than Mario because Link is more heroic, and he's better in Smash. Pit might be better than Link, but at least Link and Pit aren't a 13,000 lb fat Italian like Mario.

Mario is a pain in the butt to his bro, but Link has to put up with "Listen! Listen!" and he doesn't snap!

Mario has saved the princess again. And again. And again. But Link has saved the world, and even small places on the planet like Termina.

The characters are more memorable

Link, Zelda, Ganon, that elf guy, that fairy that says listen...

Midna, Sheik, Saria, King of Red Lions, Linebeck, Skull Kid, Tetra, Zant, and so many more.

Link is stronger than Mario

Anyone who disagrees, play both games and come back to me.

Even the "worst" Zelda games are among the greatest games of all time

Wand of Gamelon is still better than any Mario game (excluding Galaxy) after Sunshine.

I am sure Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon could beat Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Mario is too easy

Way. Too. Easy. I beat Super Mario 3D World in less than an hour. Zelda, however... name one from the timeline series that you can beat under an hour (unless you're just that good or that much of a hacker).

YES! I speedran the original in 30 minutes, so it's so easy - especially with all the new power-ups in 3D World and other new Mario games.

True, the only hard/troll Mario games are Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.

The music is cooler

Name a more iconic companion than Navi, Epona, or Tatl. I'll wait.
Oh, and in The Legend of Zelda there are the Fairy Fountains with soothing music. What does Mario have?

Yes! When I'm mad at everyone, I put on my headphones and listen to Zelda music. I even have a playlist on Spotify for Zelda songs!

Link is cooler than Mario

I mean, in a fight between a human plumber and a wolf-like, sword-wielding badass who uses tons of items, Link would win. Also, Mario uses too many mushroom drugs.

Link is handsome
Zelda games have a more open world
8Load More
PSearch List