exactly as the title says lol
TLoZ is my absolute favorite series of all time. i LOVE the elder scrolls to death as well, and it comes close, but nothing will ever top zelda. it holds a special place in my heart as the series that i've spent countless cozy holidays bundled up in my pajamas as i sit there glued to the screen on. ocarina of time was the first zelda game i ever played, and the game that got me into videogames to begin with.
my favorite, an unpopular opinion indeed, is skyward sword. idk, i just... love it sO MUCH. the music is wonderful, the graphics are BEAUTIFUL, a++ antagonist (ghirahim was AMAZING), and tbh i didn't think the motion controls were that bad. like, people love whining about it but my motion controls worked fine, personally?? i only had to re-calibrate a few times...
also i've beaten skyward sword 4 times
and the silent realms were really scary but not so scary and difficult that they were impossible, they just got the adrenaline pumping.
wind waker comes in at a second for me because i love the story, and then ocarina of time at third because omg it's timeless i could play it over and over.
my least favorite is kind of hard to decipher- i'd say the most DISAPPOINTING was a link between worlds, because i absolutely despised the mechanic of having to buy everything from ravio. like i never even beat the first temple, i was too pissed at how often i'd get lost and die and then have to scrape for rupees AGAIN because if you died, you lost everything.
but then again, i guess it's not fair to me to judge a game that i didn't even beat (let alone even bothered to finish the first temple). if we're going by games i've actually beat, i supposed i'd have to say twilight princess. like it's not bad, it's a great game! it's just not as good as some others imo + also the twilight princess elitists are kind of annoying and they've sucked some love out of the game for me.