The “Secretly hidden” Zelda games

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Does anybody know or remember these 3 games :

- Link : The Faces of Evil
- Zelda : The Wand of Gamelon
- Zelda's Adventure

If not, don't worry. You didn't miss anything.

These 3 games were released on the Philips CD-i multimedia system, and unless I've made a mistake, they were never released outside of Europe!

The story is largely told through animated Full Motion Videos in an attempt to make best use of the CD-ROM format.

Link: The Faces of Evil (1993) :

The lands of Hyrule are at last peaceful, so what more can a hero do? Link, feeling increasingly useless in this safe environment, has no idea that the far away island of Koridai has been taken over by his old nemesis, Ganon. Worse, he has kidnapped the Princess of Hyrule, Zelda, and is holding her captive there. A mysterious wizard visits Link on a magical flying carpet to inform the Hero of the dire situation. Only Link, with the aid of the Book of Koridai, can defeat Ganon, so Link willingly boards the carpet, and the two fly to Koridai.

The Faces of Evil is played using the side-scrolling view introduced in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. For a variety of reasons, it is generally accepted that this game does not play as tightly as Zelda II. These range from the quality of the CD-i controller, to the speed of the gameplay and the jerkiness of the character animations. The button mappings have been criticised as being illogical, for example having to crouch to open the inventory screen.

Zelda : The Wand of Gamelon (1993)

The King of Hyrule has embarked on a journey to make a treaty with Duke Onkled, but somehow has disappeared en route. Link, in true hero fashion, sets out to rescue him. He also vanishes, and so it is left up to Princess Zelda to save the duo, and to find out why they went missing in the first place.

The Wand of Gamelon was the first Zelda game where the player plays as the eponymous princess.

Zelda's Adventure (1995)

Hyrule is in the middle of the Age of Darkness, as Ganon has kidnapped the Hero, Link, and unleashed his rule over the land of Tolemac. Princess Zelda sets out to save the young adventurer, and learns from the astronomer Gaspra that she must first collect the seven celestial signs before she can conquer the dark king and bring Hyrule to an Age of Lightness..

Unlike the previous two CD-i Zelda games, which take the side-scrolling view from Zelda II, Zelda's Adventure is played with the same top-down view found in The Legend of Zelda. Playing as Princess Zelda, the aim is to fight through the Seven Shrines of the Underworld to collect the celestial signs, and bring the land of Hyrule to an Age of Lightness.

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I prefer Wind Waker cartoon style