CD-i Games From The Legend of Zelda Series - Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon

Paired with Link: The Faces of Evil in a simultaneous release, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon represents the first of the Zelda games to be released by Philips for the CD-i. Reversing the traditional Link-saves-Zelda plotline, Wand of Gamelon stars Zelda as she adventures to rescue Link and her father the king who have not returned from their quest. As with Faces of Evil, the game was patterned most closely upon Nintendo's previous side-scroller, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and again features outsourced Russian animation for all cutscenes. Despite the game's similarly positive contemporary reception along with Faces of Evil, modern critics have almost unanimously derided and ridiculed the game for its inability to live up to modern expectations with the animated cutscenes again having become a particular target of negative reception.