Ranking Every Legend Of Zelda Game From Worst To Best

Choo-choo! Come on, come on, do the locomotion with Link!

There are two types of people in this world: those who love trains, and those who lead well-adjusted, sensible lives. For the former, Spirit Tracks is a proverbial wet dream of track-and-triforce frolics. For the latter, it's Phantom Hourglass on a steam engine.

Part action-adventure, part civil engineering, Spirit Tracks actually benefits from reducing the player's freedom, as counter-intuitive as that sounds. Exploration is quite literally railroaded, and it's a much tighter experience for it, with the utter boredom of sea-faring replaced by the marginally less-dull (though still quite dull) diversion of laying track for your ghost train thing (don't worry about the details). Think Gromit at the end of The Wrong Trousers, but with fewer evil penguins.

There's an entertaining side-quest involving a man in a bunny suit, a neat albeit literally breathtaking mechanic with pan pipes, and, crucially, most of the more irritating control annoyances from the predecessor have been rectified. Though the concept runs out of steam fairly quickly, it's just short enough for it not to matter.