History YMMV / TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames

* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Even if it's justified, the sheer ratio of people who fiercely hate the games to the handful of people who actually played them makes this trope unavoidable.
** It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] on the basis that, adjusted for inflation, the [=CDi=] itself cost US$640 and games $80-$100. The promise of four new Zelda and Mario games wasn't enough to persuade people to fork out the equivalent of a thousand bucks just to play them.
** Among those who have, the general consensus is that the hand-painted backgrounds, varied musical themes and artistic style of the actual gameplay (''not'' the cutscenes) are all quite nice, the gameplay itself is drab and somewhat problematic (supporting the lowest common denominator of CD-i controllers left them with only a control pad and 2 buttons to use, which introduces some issues) but adequate, and everything else is pretty much awful.
** While these CD-i games are not good as ''Zelda'' games, they aren't that bad games on their own. Music and backgrounds are beautiful, sprites are OK, and enemy respawn isn't that much of a problem if you don't rush. The big problem is ''horrible'' jumping. The cheesy cutscenes neglect all your usual fantasy epicness, even though dialogue wasn't a good part of early Zelda games either.
** Or even ZeldasAdventure - clips of ''that'' game are rare for a ''very'' good reason - The game is actually sought-out as a collector's item, and it's not got as much ''{{Narm}}'', some even go as far as to say the game is actually half-decent! It has LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading to balance that out though.
** Not to mention, the game is the rarest of the so-called "Unholy triforce". There are a couple LetsPlay videos of the first two that were done with emulators. However, there are very few clips of ZeldasAdventure because it can't be emulated, you have to have the actual console and the actual game itself. Plus, as pointed out by the AngryVideoGameNerd, some copies are plagued with a bug that doesn't allow the game to keep its saves (making it even ''rarer'') and to compound the issues, the CD-I has its own problems.

*** This troper disagrees; if that were the case, Ganon (sorry, 'Gannon') would actually, based on pronounciation, be saying "...and I will make you a face the GREATEST etc.," which makes no sense in terms of grammar. "Your face" would essentially provide the same meaning as "you a face" anyway, given the correct interpretation of the sentence.

-->'''Hectad:''' "''YES, Master...''"

* {{Narm}}

** [[FlatWhat What?!]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Even if they don't have the original Zelda music?]]

* UncannyValley: GOOD GOD.

* GannonBanned: ''Zelda's Adventure'' spells the G-Man's name incorrectly, while pretty much getting everything else about the series wrong too. Even if people haven't played the game, the cut scenes speak for themselves.
** Rupees are called "rubies", even though it actually makes sense: ruby is a variety of the mineral corundum, which exists in a variety of colors. Non-red colors just happen to be called sapphires instead.

* YourMileageMayVary: Believe it or not, the actual gameplay of the series [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/zeldacdi/zeldacdi.htm has its defenders]]. The linked review cheats in certain places; for example, the reviewer seems to be under the impression (or pretends for convenience) that one of the usual complaints is how Ganon can only be defeated by a specific item, rather than the fact that he goes down in a single blow. However, it also makes some good points -- apparently, those fireballs aren't so unbeatable if you [[HotelMario check out the enclosed instruction book.]]

** Zelda is for the most part, depicted as the OnlySaneMan. Whether or not she ReallyGetsAround is the part of her alternate interpretation among poopers, however.

** While these CD-i games are not good as ''Zelda'' games, they aren't that bad games on their own. Music and backgrounds are beautiful, sprites are OK, and enemy respawn isn't that much of a problem if you don't rush. The big problem is ''horrible'' jumping. The cheesy cutscenes neglet all your usual fantasy epicness, even though dialogue wasn't a good part of early Zelda games either.

* CriticalBacklash: Some even find ''Zelda's Adventure'' to not even be ''that bad''.

** Ushrom's rather creepy mannerisms as well as 50% of his dialogue in his only appearance of the CDi games (as well as the entire Zelda franchise) being misinterpreted as something '''much''''' worse considering that he's talking to Zelda has given him this status as well.

--> '''King Harkinian:''' "''Enough! My [[strike:shit]] ship sails in the morning!''"
--> '''Militron:''' "''Worthless [[strike:Korean]] Koridian, you must be hardened with fire!''"
--> '''Ushrom:'''"''Just take what you want. I'll handle the [[strike:boobies]] rubies...''"

* CanonDiscontinuity: It seems that Nintendo is pretending these game never existed. Case in point: A recent edition of ''Nintendo Power'' advertises ''SpiritTracks'' as the first time Zelda actually joins the adventure instead of waiting in the background to be rescued. Zelda was the ''player character'' in two of these games.

** Rupees are called "rubies", even though it actually makes sense.

** Gwonam - Squadala Man

** Morshu - The Shopkeep
** As well as some less used ones, like Ushrom for the ''Wand of Gamelon'' shopkeep.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Two of them feature Zelda in the starring role. How awesome would it be to play a competent Zelda game starring ActionGirl Zelda?

* {{Narm}}: Quite possibly the MostTriumphantExample when it comes to video games.

* AdaptationDecay: Hoo boy. Ganon is some indistinct pig/bulldog-thing instead of the blue pig he was in the games; Link is a borderline [[TheDitz Ditz]]; the Triforce acts and looks nothing like it's supposed to; the list goes on and on.

* FountainOfMemes