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]]> 19 Jul 2007 02:55:15 Link: The Faces Of Evil is a video game developed by Animation Magic and released for the Philips CD-i in 1993, on the same day as Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. A follow-up to both games, Zelda's Adventure, arrived in 1994. All three CD-i Zelda games were the product of a compromise between Philips and Nintendo after the two companies failed to release a CD-based add-on for the SNES. Because this game has next to no connection with Nintendo, few "Zelda" fans consider this a true Zelda game, and Nintendo does not officially recognize the game as part of the Zelda series.

Link, feeling increasingly useless in the now-safe land of Hyrule, has no idea that the far away island of Koridai has been taken over by his old nemesis, Ganon. A mysterious wizard visits Link on a flying carpet to inform the hero of the dire situation. Only Link, with the aid of the Book of Koridai, can defeat Ganon. After being refused a kiss from Princess Zelda, Link then flies away with the man on the flying carpet and moves towards a populated island of stone statues in the shape of diabolical faces known as the "Faces Of Evil".

The story is largely told through animated FMVs, in an attempt to make best use of the CD-ROM format. Sample videos can be watched on YouTube. Many backgrounds were taken from the Zelda cartoon and used as backdrops in the game. The cutscenes are notorious for having bad animation, acting, and scripting.

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]]> 17 Jun 2007 04:23:31 Zelda's Adventure is a video game developed by Viridis and released for the Philips CD-i in 1994. It is a semi-sequel to Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, both released on the same day a year before. Zelda's Adventure was developed by a different company, and this shows through heavily in the game's design. All three CD-i Zelda games were the product of a compromise between Philips and Nintendo after the two companies failed to release a CD-based add-on for the SNES.

Tolemac is in the middle of the Age of Darkness, as Ganon (spelled here as Gannon) has kidnapped Link, and unleashed his rule over the land of Tolemac (Camelot spelled backwards). Princess Zelda sets out to save the young adventurer and learns from the astronomer Gaspra that she must first collect seven celestial signs before she can conquer the dark king and bring Hyrule to an "Age of Lightness".

The story is told mostly through live-action FMV scenes filmed in Los Angeles on blue screen.

Unlike the previous two CD-i Zelda games, which take the side-scrolling view from Zelda II, Zelda's Adventure is played with the same top-down view found in The Legend of Zelda. Playing as Princess Zelda, the aim is to fight through the Seven Shrines of the Underworld to collect the celestial signs, and bring the land of Tolemac to an Age of Lightness.

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]]> 17 Jun 2007 04:31:28 Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon is a video game developed by Animation Magic and released for the Philips CD-i in 1993, on the same day as Link: The Faces of Evil. A follow-up to both games, Zelda's Adventure, arrived in 1994. All three CD-i Zelda games were the product of a compromise between Philips and Nintendo after the two companies failed to release a CD-based add-on for the SNES. Because this game has next to no connection with Nintendo, few "Zelda" fans consider this a true Zelda game, and Nintendo does not officially recognize the game as part of the Zelda series.

The story begins with the King of Hyrule going off to fight Ganon. He tells Princess Zelda to send Link to help him if he does not return after a month. An entire month passes without word from the King. As instructed, Zelda sends Link to find him, but he doesn't return either. Zelda then decides to venture forth herself to search for Link and her father.

The story is largely told through animated FMVs, in an attempt to make best use of the CD-ROM format. Sample videos can be watched on YouTube. Many backgrounds were taken from the Zelda cartoon and used as backdrops in the game. The cutscenes are notorious for having bad animation, acting, and scripting.

The Wand of Gamelon was the first Zelda game where the player plays as the eponymous princess. It is played using the side-scrolling view introduced in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. For a variety of reasons, it is generally accepted that this game does not play as tightly as Zelda II. These range from the quality of the CD-i controller, to the speed of the gameplay and the jerkiness of the character animations. The button mappings have been criticised as being illogical, for example having to crouch to open the inventory screen. Another problem fans saw was the ease a player has in killing Ganon, the final boss, with only one hit with the Wand of Gamelon, making him the weakest incarnation of Ganon in any Zelda game.

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