For those who don't know, (I may have gotten the full story wrong, this is AFAIK) Phillips collaborated with Nintendo on a SNES CD attachment that eventually just ended up making their own system, the CDi, and ended up with the license to make a few Nintendo franchise games. They made Hotel Mario and three Zelda games, widely regarded as the worst games ever created in the series. Most of us fans of Zelda pretend they don't exist. Nintendo had nothing to do with the games.
It pains me to have watched these videos.
The intro to Faces of Evil is downright terrible. As is the Wand of Gamelon.
"Oh boy! I'm so hungry, I could eat an Octorok!"
why did you bring these.....abominations to the Light?
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Horrible, horrible animation aside, am I the only one mystified as to how those could be the final levels of the games? I've seen training missions of games that are more difficult than that. A cheat, or are they just that dreadful in game-play too?
Praxis wrote:The intro to Faces of Evil is downright terrible. As is the Wand of Gamelon.
"Oh boy! I'm so hungry, I could eat an Octorok!"
Dude, what is WRONG with Link. "The King's going off by himself to fight Gannon. What's for dinner?"
And later, "That old Gannon's no match for the King!"
"Link, go to Gamelon and find my father."
"Great! I can't wait to bomb some Dadangos(?)!"
Is he high, or something?
No, the script writers, developers, and voice actors were.
Horrible, horrible animation aside, am I the only one mystified as to how those could be the final levels of the games? I've seen training missions of games that are more difficult than that. A cheat, or are they just that dreadful in game-play too?
Well, that explains why they are widely considered the worst Zelda games ever created.
Oh, man. That's some hedious animation. Where the makes all going through crack withdrawls or something? It's like they couldn't draw a straight line to save their lives.
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Now my brains are coming out! The opening to Wand of Gamelon was heinous. They didn't move like people, but rather like living jelly in the shape of men.
And Ganon went down like a punk. Thank Miyamoto we have Wind Waker Ganondorf to make up for that aberation.
What I seriously don't get is simply how bad the animation is for the intros and endings. I don't think anything could really explain how poor they are, even things like incompotence or that they just didn't give a shit: it almost seems the product of hostility for the material.
I mean really, what the fuck? The King's facial expressions (especially his mouth) borderline on psychotic. Zelda has probably the most basic and underdetailed character design I've ever seen. The characters zoom in and out like they're on a dolly track, and I don't think I've seen so much vouging outside of a Madonna video...
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"And besides, who cares if a monster destroys Australia?"
The only thing I could think when watching this is it was like an especially retarded version of Reading Rainbow.
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
Good god, these make the Star Wars Christmass Special and Plan 9 From Outer Space pale in comparison. I can't even watch the bloody things - five seconds after the cinima for the first one started, I practically jumped to get the pointer to close the window.
This has been another blunder by you friendly local idiot.
"Pretend they're not part of the series" nothin'. They weren't made by or released by Nintendo, so they're not part of the Zelda series.
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Dooey Jo wrote:WTF are they doing when they're talking? Waving their arms around like maniacs... WTF...
A common shortcut in animation since drawing subtle and well detailed movements is virtual agony in most cases. Its called "Milking the Giant Cow".
Praxis, for this you are most definatly going to hell and I'm taking you there.
GET HIM!!!
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Yet what he creates tends to be total shit. Example: Ode to Spot.
Purely subjective. Believe it or not, there are people who like that poem.
There are people who like to eat shit too. Those people are idiots.- Darth Servo and Bounty.