I think many would agree with me that Ocarina of Time has been the most violent Zelda yet, it has pools of blood below crucifixes in various parts of the game as well as other torture devices. It's in this game that Ganondorf vomits blood (or just vomits vomit, depending on your version:/).
Majoras Mask wasn't nearly as Violent as
OoT (IMO) but I found it to be more... adult. It had scary and very disturbing elements. Whe Link puts on the transformational masks you can tell that it is extremely painful.
Windwaker. I'm not really sure if this game contains blood or not, I see white flecks while fighting however I always thought it was supposed to be saliva. Anyway, this game took a couple steps back as far as violence goes, Ganondorf does get a big ole sword in his head but no blood is ever seen. As far as frightening images goes, I found that the ReDeads weren't as scary in WW compared to
OoT and MM but They were more disturbing, especially since their faces weren't obscured by masks.
Finally we come to Twilight Princess. This game was hyped as being mature. The only Zelda game to boast a T rating (unless you count Super Smash Bros. and Link's crossbow training of course
) It has blood but not blood as I know it. Link is more violent in this game, stabs, the ending blow, the whole wolf deal, but no visible harm is done. Not to mention corpses explode, I liked the feature in WW but in
TP it just doesn't feel right, I think it would work just fine for 'shadow' based enemies or bosses when transforming into Fused Shadows... but I digress.
TP did however have some scarier parts to it, Arbiter's grounds, while not as scary as the original shadow temple, did have some appropriately creepy baddies and the Death Sword was frightening as well. THe only truely disturbing thing in the game that I found was the Cutscene featuring Dark Link. I'm not going to go into a lengthy description because this is already about 10 times longer than I anticipated so
HERE it is.
Now I know that very little is known as of now about Zelda Wii, but based on the progression of the series so far as well as graphical enhances that the wii offers compared to the past systems how much violence are you expecting? How much iolence do you want? Also think about scary images, do you want to be frightened in the next Zelda whether it be through music, undead baddies or just the general atmosphere, and do you think that Zelda Wii wil deliver on your wants?