CD-i Games From The Legend of Zelda Series - Link: The Faces of Evil

Paired with Zelda: Wand of Gamelon in a simultaneous release, Link: The Faces of Evil represents the first of the Zelda games to be released by Philips for the CD-i. Following the traditional Link-saves-Zelda plotline, Faces of Evil was patterned most closely upon Nintendo's previous side-scroller, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. The game broke new ground in the video game industry by using outsourced Russian animation to create all cutscenes, and the game received largely positive contemporary reception. The game has not aged well, however. Modern criticism is almost universal in its harsh negativity toward the game and the animated cutscenes have become particular targets of derision.