I'm a little late to the party here, but thought I'd pipe in and rekindle the discussion a little anyway (a week since the last post, but one of the top topics in Gaming and Entertainment, kinda sad).
So, I like TP. I really do, and I really want to love it, but I don't. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why I don't love it as much as I do Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, but I think I may have figured it out the other day. In Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker (my favorite Zelda games), there is a certain level of. . . man, describing this is hard, but I'd call it "whimsy" or maybe "innocence". I feel like that is what makes Zelda feel so huge and epic: Link is this young, innocent kid who gets pulled into this huge, world-saving adventure. TP doesn't have that; Link is already fairly old, probably an adult (albeit he's probably like 16 or 17, but still), and he's already learned a lot about the world. This kind of dawned on me when I was trying to figure out why the TP world didn't feel very large; I mean, technically it's the biggest of all the games. I realized it's due to Link's age. He already understands a lot about how the world works, and that makes things no feel so awe-inspiring big.
Anyway, I do really like TP. Just not as much as Wind Waker or Ocarina of Time. (Also, I think the dungeons are too long. I don't like having to play for a minimum of 2 hours if I want to finish a dungeon, I like relatively digestible dungeons, but lots of them).