Are you so tired and bored with peaceful times in Hyrule that you can’t wait to “squadallah” to a new adventure? Well fellow gamers, your time to rejoice will soon arrive. The new independent game Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore was revealed in this year’s IndieLand showcase, and it looks awfully familiar to Zelda fans.…
Are you so hungry for Zelda content that you could eat an Octorok? Well it turns out that Limited Run Games is about to serve the perfect course to whet your appetite. The renown physical indie publisher is releasing an “interactive animated adventure” called Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, and it sure looks a lot…
Breath of the Wild, Skyward Sword, Hyrule Warriors… These were all but mere preludes to the true endgame of our dubbing projects. It has now arrived upon us, like horsemen numbered four, to deliver it’s swift and terrible gifts. Behold! Please go watch our actual videos.
In the early 1990s, Nintendo was in the early stages of creating a CD-ROM add-on for their Super Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Super Famicom in Japan). One of the companies they were considering collaborating with was a company called Philips Entertainment. They signed a deal, but after witnessing the poor reception of Sega’s…
Despite their ridiculed reputation, the CD-i Zelda games have some very interesting cultural references within them, and a fascinating history surrounding them. I discovered this after some extensive research of these three infamous titles, in a quest to compile a list of my favourite facts and trivia. The results are actually more compelling than expected, with…
About the only thing from the CD-i Zelda games that isn’t universally criticized are their soundtracks. Well, except for Zelda’s Adventure, but that game doesn’t have much of a soundtrack, just a lot of weird atmospheric background noises. But if you listen to the music from the first two games, it really isn’t that bad.…
We’re more than well aware, especially after reading numerous protests against our CD-i Month posts, that there are a lot of Zelda fans who would love nothing more than to scrub the CD-i Zelda games out of existence and remove these stains from the series’ otherwise (mostly) shiny history. So if you were to meet…
Now that we’re into the final week of CD-i month, we know that many of you must be eager to get your hands on the CD-i Zelda games and own them for yourself. Well, never fear! We wouldn’t tease you with pieces of CD-i goodness all month without also showing you where you can buy…
Dear Nintendo, I am writing to you with a request for a Virtual Console release. Before you dismiss this letter along with the hundreds of other Virtual Console release requests that you no doubt receive each month, I implore you to hear me out because I have done research and can guarantee that these games…
They made Zelda the protagonist of a game. People can say what they will about how bad the CD-i games are comparatively to the rest of the series. As much as I’d like to say something as controversial as The Faces of Evil or The Wand of Gamelon being better than, oh, say, Spirit Tracks—and…
We’ve been having a lot of fun with the CD-i Zelda games so far this month. We’ve shown you the ridiculous cut scenes and had a lot of laughs (and groans). Now it’s time to show you the games in their entirety. HalfBlindGamer has created a series of Let’s Play videos for all three CD-i…
The folks from Something Awful are either extremely patient, extremely crazy, or possibly both, to put together a music remix video based on quotes from the CD-i Zelda cut scenes. Drop the Dodongo is a surprisingly catchy tune and the animations are hilarious. Don’t be surprised if it’s stuck in your head for the rest…
The cut scenes littered throughout Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon are often the subject of scorn, but they were not the first time that Link and Zelda were animated and given voices. Most fans of The Legend of Zelda have some familiarity with The Legend of Zelda animated series,…
