CD-I

[A Black Falcon]

So as I said in the 'games I bought' thread, yes, I got one of the Zelda games, Link: The Faces of Evil. It's an expensive and mediocre game with plenty of issues, including iffy level design, a horribly annoying enemy respawn rate, and lots of grind... but it's not all bad, really! Sure, it's not a great game, but there is something interesting here and I'm playing it some and are interested in getting farther. The graphics and music are good, first. And while the gameplay and controls have issues, seeing this weird take on Zelda is somewhat fascinating. Sure, it's a pain to have to go to one stage to grind ice enemies to get ice shots to use on fire enemies in a different stage to get fire shots to use on other ice enemies back deeper in that first stage to get through to the next area, but I'm kind of having fun anyway... well, sometimes. That insanely high enemy respawn rate is probably the games' biggest problem, so far at least, and makes forward progress difficult, particularly when combined with this games' very stiff controls that make quickly turning around to hit an enemy behind you very difficult, and hitting enemies in the air (which there are a lot of) without taking damage hard as well. That respawn rate is probably there to mask that areas are tiny -- each is only a couple of screens long -- but it's frustrating. The game has items and puzzles to figure out and such though, so there are Zelda elements here.

And of course the also has some of those oh-so-infamous cutscenes, which are indeed pretty entertaining. CD-I Zelda cutscenes deserve their infamy. :)

Is it worth the $80 I paid plus the cost of the console? Quite possibly not, but it's a pretty interesting thing to have and play and I don't regret getting it.