Topic: Breath of the Wild or Twilight Princess? Best entry for new Zelda player?

I have an enormous back catalog of game titles, I have a Wii, Wii U, New 3DS XL & Switch OLED. My Nintendo library mainly consists of first party titles (Mario World, Land, Kart, etc, Yoshi, Captain Toad, Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong). On PlayStation & PC I mainly prefer FPS games but on Nintendo I could play Captain Toad or Mario 3D World forever.

I have been very busy for many years and haven't prioritized games, I am looking to make a point to add them to my day to slowly get through my back catalog...plus I do like them!

I have every Zelda game released on the 3DS, Wii, Wii U & Switch (rebought the remastered games). Except for Twilight Princess Wii U they are all still sealed.

Twilight Princess is the only Zelda game I've ever played. I got stuck on a bird or something somewhere and lost interest. I did enjoy finding the temple and working through that, and the gravity boot things & claw were cool.

I am not an overly huge fan of RPG game elements and sometimes I can get lost in open world games as I don't know where to go and often end up somewhere I'm not able to complete because I don't have something and don't know where to get it. Sometimes I do like the detail in games but I will get to a point where I want to make game progress, so randomly looking for hours and getting nowhere would frustrate me very much.

It was testing my patience at the beginning of Twilight Princess, to get the cat to get the fishing rod to get the fish to get the hat or whatever. That type of time wasting grinding is very grating to me. Yet for some reason, I'm completely fine trying to find all the special coins in Mario or whatever. I just don't like overly complicated deliberate obfuscation that sends me online trying to figure out how to get past whatever all the time. Spending hours in a game to look at the grass blowing in the wind is not what I want to do. I am fine with a long game if I feel I am making progress.

Since I have so many of them, I sure would like to love the Zelda games, what game would you suggest as the best most enjoyable entry in to the Zelda series? I'm tempted to replay Twilight Princess again since I already have it open or perhaps open Breath of the Wild on Switch. Since all my games are still sealed, I'd rather be very careful on which I open in case I decide to sell them instead.

Any suggestions for me?

The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past. Can't go wrong with that game.

@Dreamliner You're talking about avoiding getting lost. BOTW's quest log is the best quest log to avoid gettng lost, or helping you resume a game if you took a break. You can look in your quest log at main quests & side quests. Every quest you encounter is there, and they gray-out when you complete them (you can still read them, though, to see what they were). The quest log descriptions tell you who gave you the quest, where you were, what your supposed to do, and puts a pin on the map for where you're supposed to go to complete the quest. It's never been this good with previous zelda games as far as I recall. The open world has a great map. You can fast travel to towers & shrines. Or you can drink in the scenery walking/riding a horse/or hang gliding from a tower. It's never been easier to resume a game and travel around.

If you have time to play a zelda game, to me, I think BOTW is the easy recommendation.