Legend Of Zelda Is better Than Metroid

INTRODUCTIONI’m going to act under the assumption my opponent is talking about the two series rather than any two specific games.I will be arguing that these two series of games are equally good and that Legend of Zelda is not superior to Metroid as a series. Of course, this is largely going to be a matter of opinion since it’s difficult to argue that one game or series of games is objectively better than another when they’re both so critically acclaimed and beloved by fans.ARGUMENTCOMPARISON OF TITLES BASED ON COMPARABLE HARDWARE(Note: Unfortunately no Metroid game was ever released for the N64, so I will exclude Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask from this comparison. So as not to seem to be withholding these games to my advantage, I recognise them as masterpieces. HOWEVER, since there is no Metroid game to compare them too, I cannot do so)SUPER NINTENDOLegend of Zelda III versus Super MetroidTo me, someone who owned a Mega Drive (Genesis) at the time, I have only played these titles via emulation. However, I have finished both and they both stand out as excellent games, albeit I preferred Metroid having never played a side-scrolling adventure shooter with RPG elements before and having played several other Zelda titles.METACRITIC SCORES:Legend of Zelda III: 95%Super Metroid: 9.8 user score (no critic scores)GAMECUBEMetroid Prime versus Wind WakerI played both these games and given the different genre, it’s impossible to compare them. It should be noted that both were critically acclaimed; Metroid Prime won a number of game of the year awards and is regarded as one of the greatest games ever made.METACRITIC SCORES:Wind Waker: 96%Metroid Prime: 97%WIIMetroid Prime 3 versus Twilight PrincessI unfortunately never played Metroid Prime 3 sufficiently; it was a great game but bigger fish were available to be fried (it lives with my sisters Wii now, never to be played again most likely), but I certainly played Twilight Princess and enjoyed every moment of it.METACRITIC SCORES:Metroid Prime 3: 90%Twilight Princess: 95%REBUTTALSLegend of Zelda has a superior storyThis is not really the case. The story of Legend of Zelda is almost always the same with variation. Link is a nobody kid doing menial things. He meets/has some helper character who tells him he’s destined for great things. He goes on an adventure to save the princess. He meets the rock people and the fish people. He does dungeons with a mini-boss to get a new item and then a major boss which needs the new item to be defeated. He works his way to the final boss. He wins. The princess friend zones him.Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE the Legend of Zelda games, but let’s get realistic here... They’re formulaic because it’s a great formula. Each game has been extremely successful by sticking to that formula, but adding new mechanics and places to make it feel fresh again. Metroid is much the same; Samus has to defeat x antagonist and save the Universe.Legend of Zelda has superior charactersThis I highly disagree with. I find a female (seeeeeeeeeeeeeec-sey) space bounty hunter with a cannon for a hand to be much more interesting than an elf adventurer.Legend of Zelda has superior mechanicsThis is a matter of opinion. Sure, successive Zelda games have always introduced some interesting mechanic (Wind Waker it was sailing, Twilight Princess it was being the wolf in the shadow world) but those mechanics are, as I suggested in the story part of my rebuttal, part of the appeal of the Zelda games. It’s the same story, basically, being told again and again. Metroid on the other hand established the mechanics in the original games and ported them from a side-scrolling game to a first-person shooter seamlessly. You don’t need to introduce some new mechanic every time you release a Call of Duty game or an Uncharted game. You refine what you already have and tell a new story so it feels the same mechanic wise but different story wise. They’re really polar opposites.CONCLUSIONMetroid and Zelda. Both excellent series. Too different for one to explicitly say one is better than the other. I conclude they’re equally good.SOURCESSeems foolish to post the sources to the Metacritic scores. If anyone doubts me, they're free to verify them.