Worst Zelda Game?
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Towns Folk
Those cut-scenes are just really bad 
that their funny 
ESP
No Limits
Towns Folk
Me too. I remember when I was young visiting my dad and he got me the GBA port to it. It was HORRIBLE! First The Legend of Zelda game I played left a bad impression on me. But luckily, years later, my mother got me MySims Agent and Spirit Tracks. Man, that game solidify my love for the series even though it was one game. But Zelda II man, that game was just difficult in my eyes at the time, I stopped playing it and eventually lost it... just like Spirit Tracks.
GerudoWarrior
Great King of Evil
Towns Folk
Derp
Plays TF2 because bad taste (Avi made by Eridan~)
Towns Folk
Personally, I think that all the Zelda games that I played are great. I never played a Zelda CD-I game so I can't really judge it, other than the footage I have seen on YouTube. About the CD-I games, they look awful as far as visuals go and I also heard that you have to grind for Rupees in order to buy equipment that you need to advance. That alone makes me not want to play the game since I really don't like to grind for resources.
Roxasthebrave
I been having these weird thoughts lately...
Towns Folk
This 'game' is not even worthy of an in-depth review, but I suppose I must do one, seeing as how no one else has actual did a deep review of this crap yet......probably for good reason, too.
The game opens up to an FMV scene where some white-haired guy in a costume that looks like it was found in a dumpster behind Chuck Cheese is telling you to save Link.
'It is up to you, Zelda, to save the courageous Link.'
What the...? This game almost reminds me of Mario Is Missing, except is sucks twice as much.
The only good part about this garbage is that it ditches the abominable side-scrolling format of Masks of Evil and Wand of Gamelon. It harkens back to the original Legend of Zelda........after being run over by a lawn mower and peed on by a dog.
GRAPHICS:
Zelda looks suspiciously like a certain pink puffball at Nintendo due to the horrendous textures. Everything is so blurry in this game that you'll need to take eyedrops afterward to see right. You can never see where you're going.....and the doors blend into the walls so
ee where you're going.....and the doors blend into the walls so well that you eventually have to just rub up against the wall and see if you enter a new room. The graphics are that bad.
Honestly, they look worse than the original Legend of Zelda on the NES. Sure, there's more colors, but there's less framerate, more choppiness, bugs galore, not to mention zero detail on anything. Even the FMV scenes look horrible.
SOUNDMUSIC:
My ears bled much within the first five minutes of booting up the game. Unless you can stand 5 screeching synthesizers blaring into your ears at a time, I'd suggest pressing the Mute button on your remote. If your remote's batteries are dead and your TV has no volume adjustment, I'd just take a hammer and smash in the speakers. The sound.....well, that's not much better, due to the squeaking noise you make every time you move that sounds like Zelda's sneakers have been soaked by a torrential downpour.
And the voice acting in the FMV scenes? Don't get me started. It's like they picked some hobo off the street, slapped a script in his hand, flopped on a costume and then told him to read the script orally. It is absolutely demisable.
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay......if this was supposed to be like the original Legend of Zelda, something went seriously wrong. Honestly, this was in 1994. This is a top-down stall-by-stall scrolling adventure game. For some reason, it would seem that the damsel Zelda is just as strong as the 'courageous' Link and can still hold a sword and shield in both hands, and have all that gear on her back. I do not know what you get after the sword and shield, I never got past the first dungeon due to the horrible control. You'll find yourself reaching all over that crap CD-I controller just to swing your sword at an Octorok. And then it'll take at least half a second for Zelda to respond. Ugh. Oh, and did I mention that you are unbelievably weak, while the enemies are ridiculously powerful? I should have.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, let's see..........well, at least the folks at Philips TRIED to make the gameplay feel like the Legend of Zelda........while they were drunk and killer bees were stinging them from all directions. Or maybe they just slapped the top-down view on to make people THINK that the game was actually good. Then they decided to 'spruce things up' by adding in some pathetic, grainy FMV scenes. Believe me, when you see the guy who dresses up as Link speak, it makes you want to shoot yourself. This game was probably used for torture treatment in terrorist hideouts.
"Innocent Guy: 'I'll never tell you anything!"
Terrorist: 'Is that so? We'll just see about that. Bring out the CD-I, boys!'
Innocent Guy: 'No, not the CD-I, anything but the CD-I!'
Terrorist: 'Boot up.......ZELDA'S ADVENTURE.'
Innocent Guy: 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!'
So, as you can see, this 'game's' 'gameplay' is not very enjoyable at all. You're probably whacking your head against the wall for buying this disk. Make this 'game' into a frisbee for your cat instead.
CHALLENGE:
Personally, I could never get past the first Octorok in the first dungeon, due to the utterly abysmal control. Of course, this does not make the game any more fun. What's fun is popping out those CD-I controller buttons and placing them in Grandma's bowl of hard candy.
REPLAY VALUE:
Think of it this way: if you can't get past the first Octorok in the first dungeon, then your replay value then extends to infinity! Really, the only replay value is watching that Zelda's Adventure disc case burning over and over again on your camcorder.
OVERALL:
Avoid this crap at all costs. Wait a minute......you could also convince that 7-year old down the street that it's the latest thing, and he can have it for his lunch money! Wait, that would be wrong, you'd be ripping him off big time.
THE BOTTOM LINE: You have to play it to believe it.
......
Oh crap, I actually posted all of this for a measly thread?
The game opens up to an FMV scene where some white-haired guy in a costume that looks like it was found in a dumpster behind Chuck Cheese is telling you to save Link.
'It is up to you, Zelda, to save the courageous Link.'
What the...? This game almost reminds me of Mario Is Missing, except is sucks twice as much.
The only good part about this garbage is that it ditches the abominable side-scrolling format of Masks of Evil and Wand of Gamelon. It harkens back to the original Legend of Zelda........after being run over by a lawn mower and peed on by a dog.
GRAPHICS:
Zelda looks suspiciously like a certain pink puffball at Nintendo due to the horrendous textures. Everything is so blurry in this game that you'll need to take eyedrops afterward to see right. You can never see where you're going.....and the doors blend into the walls so
ee where you're going.....and the doors blend into the walls so well that you eventually have to just rub up against the wall and see if you enter a new room. The graphics are that bad.
Honestly, they look worse than the original Legend of Zelda on the NES. Sure, there's more colors, but there's less framerate, more choppiness, bugs galore, not to mention zero detail on anything. Even the FMV scenes look horrible.
SOUNDMUSIC:
My ears bled much within the first five minutes of booting up the game. Unless you can stand 5 screeching synthesizers blaring into your ears at a time, I'd suggest pressing the Mute button on your remote. If your remote's batteries are dead and your TV has no volume adjustment, I'd just take a hammer and smash in the speakers. The sound.....well, that's not much better, due to the squeaking noise you make every time you move that sounds like Zelda's sneakers have been soaked by a torrential downpour.
And the voice acting in the FMV scenes? Don't get me started. It's like they picked some hobo off the street, slapped a script in his hand, flopped on a costume and then told him to read the script orally. It is absolutely demisable.
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay......if this was supposed to be like the original Legend of Zelda, something went seriously wrong. Honestly, this was in 1994. This is a top-down stall-by-stall scrolling adventure game. For some reason, it would seem that the damsel Zelda is just as strong as the 'courageous' Link and can still hold a sword and shield in both hands, and have all that gear on her back. I do not know what you get after the sword and shield, I never got past the first dungeon due to the horrible control. You'll find yourself reaching all over that crap CD-I controller just to swing your sword at an Octorok. And then it'll take at least half a second for Zelda to respond. Ugh. Oh, and did I mention that you are unbelievably weak, while the enemies are ridiculously powerful? I should have.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, let's see..........well, at least the folks at Philips TRIED to make the gameplay feel like the Legend of Zelda........while they were drunk and killer bees were stinging them from all directions. Or maybe they just slapped the top-down view on to make people THINK that the game was actually good. Then they decided to 'spruce things up' by adding in some pathetic, grainy FMV scenes. Believe me, when you see the guy who dresses up as Link speak, it makes you want to shoot yourself. This game was probably used for torture treatment in terrorist hideouts.
"Innocent Guy: 'I'll never tell you anything!"
Terrorist: 'Is that so? We'll just see about that. Bring out the CD-I, boys!'
Innocent Guy: 'No, not the CD-I, anything but the CD-I!'
Terrorist: 'Boot up.......ZELDA'S ADVENTURE.'
Innocent Guy: 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!'
So, as you can see, this 'game's' 'gameplay' is not very enjoyable at all. You're probably whacking your head against the wall for buying this disk. Make this 'game' into a frisbee for your cat instead.
CHALLENGE:
Personally, I could never get past the first Octorok in the first dungeon, due to the utterly abysmal control. Of course, this does not make the game any more fun. What's fun is popping out those CD-I controller buttons and placing them in Grandma's bowl of hard candy.
REPLAY VALUE:
Think of it this way: if you can't get past the first Octorok in the first dungeon, then your replay value then extends to infinity! Really, the only replay value is watching that Zelda's Adventure disc case burning over and over again on your camcorder.
OVERALL:
Avoid this crap at all costs. Wait a minute......you could also convince that 7-year old down the street that it's the latest thing, and he can have it for his lunch money! Wait, that would be wrong, you'd be ripping him off big time.
THE BOTTOM LINE: You have to play it to believe it.
......
Oh crap, I actually posted all of this for a measly thread?
lemonpoppymuffin
That One Box Of Muffins
Towns Folk
I would have to say that Zelda II is the worst game out there. Now I was going to say the CDI games because they are bad, but that is because they were not made directly by Nintendo. So, back to Zelda II. It had a weird side-scrolling mechanic and the overworld map was terrible. The magic system was off and over it was just different, in a bad way.