There are so many subtle details, which are so well designed, you can't catch that with a score.
The whole games makes an impression as a whole. We are only talking about game mechanics but there are few games that have this atmosphere. The music, the lightning and the themes are simply art. You can't break that down in a list.
One of us has misunderstood the others' post. As I have already written; I agree with you, I can't think of any game in Zelda's specific genre that beats or even comes close to Zelda's quality. I only pointed out that there are actually many games that clone Zelda's game mechanics at large, which imo the article's author completely missed for some strange reason. (None of the games he listed are actually games that fall within Zelda's genre.)
The whole games makes an impression as a whole. We are only talking about game mechanics but there are few games that have this atmosphere. The music, the lightning and the themes are simply art. You can't break that down in a list.
There is only one Shigeru Miyamoto.