YMMV / The Legend of Zelda: The Sage of Darkness

• Broken Base: Some people are more than willing to forgive the movie's rather shoddy special effects and constant goofs since the story is that good. Others don't even finish the movie after seeing the first part. Possibly also caused by the movie's slow start.
• Complete Monster: Davik, Link's Evil Uncle and the titular sage of darkness, seems to train Link in the ways of the hero, but is really attempting to feed Link hatred and anger in order to speed up Ganon's revival, even supplying him with the White Sword, one of Ganon's artifacts. He's also manipulating Ertegun for his own agenda, and it is also hinted that he also plans on betraying Ganon as part of his agenda as well. He also brutally murdered Link's parents, as well as poisoned his own sister, for no reason whatsoever, aside from possibly trying to get Link to go down the road of hatred even more. His real plan is to extinguish the Cycle of Eternity, which may result in the destruction of the entire world, for no reason besides hating it for unspecified reasons.
• Dueling Movies: With The Hero Of Time. Fans are still fighting over which movie is better.
• He Really Can Act: What many people are saying in regards to Dan Hogan's performance as Link and the Sage of Darkness. It's much better than what you'd normally expect with fan films.
• I Knew It!: The film is based on the premise that the battles with Ganondorf are an endlessly repeating cycle throughout history. Three years later, Skyward Sword was just one Ganondorf short of confirming this as canon.
• Paranoia Fuel: Davik is the living embodiment of this trope. Think about it, this guy has been seen as family for many years, the village elder even saw him as a good friend. And then he kills his own sister, and everyone realizes Davik's true character.
• Special Effect Failure: Unfortunately the case as with most fan films. Some examples include:
  • The constant modern objects in the background, like cars, fences, and radios.
  • Some costumes with obviously modern clothes (the minions wearing jeans, for example).
  • Some pretty obvious CGI effects like most of the fire balls.