I've played some Zelda games, but was never as good at them as I was at Mario. My sister pathvain_aelien plays Zelda games a lot more than I do.
I am a huge Super Smash Bros. fan, though - I've probably played as Link (and other Zelda characters) more often in the Smash games than in actual Zelda games. (Even though I've probably played as Mario characters in Smash more often than both combined.) :)
As for Metroid, I didn't even know about Metroid until I played the first SSB game... which isn't saying much since I was only 6 or 7 by then, but it still wasn't until 2008 when I decided to actually get the first Metroid game (and first Kirby game and first Pikmin game, because those were all games I'd learned more about from Smash than anything else and thought I should try at some point). So I got all three of those games for Christmas that year, but of those, Kirby was the only one I felt like I was good at. And of the other two, Pikmin was the only one I felt like I was okay at. (I've also now played a demo of Super Metroid thanks to amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits, but I don't think I'm good at that either. :P )
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I am a huge Super Smash Bros. fan, though - I've probably played as Link (and other Zelda characters) more often in the Smash games than in actual Zelda games. (Even though I've probably played as Mario characters in Smash more often than both combined.) :)
As for Metroid, I didn't even know about Metroid until I played the first SSB game... which isn't saying much since I was only 6 or 7 by then, but it still wasn't until 2008 when I decided to actually get the first Metroid game (and first Kirby game and first Pikmin game, because those were all games I'd learned more about from Smash than anything else and thought I should try at some point). So I got all three of those games for Christmas that year, but of those, Kirby was the only one I felt like I was good at. And of the other two, Pikmin was the only one I felt like I was okay at. (I've also now played a demo of Super Metroid thanks to amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits, but I don't think I'm good at that either. :P )