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Game endings are generally a time for players to reflect on both the good and bad times they endured throughout their gaming experience. Other times, endings can make you wonder how the hell you were tricked into buying the game in the first place. This is where Zelda: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon come in.
 
Many people consider these games to be a skid mark on the underpants of gaming society and these videos will attest to that. Pause the first clip at 1:24 and you will see what all the fuss is about.
 
Witness the horror that is Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon after the break. 

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Fronz's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:23
Fronz
I can't tell which one is worse...
shadloon's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:24
shadloon
I won! *Chime*
tehuberone's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:25
tehuberone
My eyes!

Can't see now..
wario67's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:28
wario67
game makeing 101: never have the final final FINAl boss be killed in one hit
Serpentish's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:28
Serpentish
"I saved you from Ganon! :D"
"Oh you did not"

..BAHAHAHA, oh man, that's quality
Mabec's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:29
Mabec
Everytime i see that i throw up...
ian_esq's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:29
ian_esq
Welll, I love the second one, I think you know what happened in the love-feasts they used to have back in the day....THATS when link gets Zelda
SP420's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:33
SP420
That's some easy boss fighting. Select and item and done...damn.

AND WHOS THAT PSEUDO-MUSKATEER GUY IN THE 2ND VIDEO?!? LOL
scrap's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:34
scrap
*hearty guffaw*
bumbuliuz's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:40
bumbuliuz
These are the 2 worst endings I have seen in ages. What the hell was going on in Nintendo's head for allowing this garbage to come out?
Sockapal's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:44
Sockapal
They look amazing, I want to play them. I hope they will remake them in High Def!
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:48
tazarthayoot
"NO! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME!"


lolz, yes we have.
trypticon's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:54
trypticon
Those are the best endings in gaming history. Hands down.
Matthew Mac's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:58
Matthew Mac
For some reason, I hadn't realized Ganon went back that far. We really have been playing the same game for a while.
scrap's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:58
scrap
I like how you interact with things by stabbing them.
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 19:59
tazarthayoot
As good as these two are, my favorite game endings were for Fight Club and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

In Fight Club...I don't even remember. You don't get anything, you barely get a credits sequence, you don't get the Pixies. But what you do get is Fred Durst as an unlockable character. The world weeps.

And then Who wants to be a millionaire was amazing just because when you beat the game ("win" one million dollars) you're treated to an FMV of Regis Philbin making fun of you, saying things like "Hey, if you're so good at the home game, why aren't you in the hot seat right now?" Or something to that extent. My mother actually beat this game, watched this video, and said, out loud "Fuck this game, and fuck you Regis." And then never played another game, or watched that show, ever again.
momiji58's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:05
momiji58
The real gem was how the last boss can be killed with one hit. And the animations looked so rushed and so plain, I think even my 4-year-old nephew can draw those...
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:10
Jordan Devore
Wanna know what the budget was for these games? $600,000 each.
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:12
tazarthayoot
Are you sure it wasn't 50 bucks and a pirated copy of paint shop pro and flash mx?
AlexanderJ's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:15
AlexanderJ
Is that the real budget grim?
If so... damn, they didn't use it wisely.
Aetsen's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:15
Aetsen
Second one was better, because the rope humping was HAWT.
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:23
Jordan Devore
"Wand of Gamelon and Link: The Faces of Evil were given the relatively low budgets of $600,000 each and it was decided by the Cambridge-based development team, led by Dale DeSharon, to develop the two games in tandem in order to more efficiently use the budget." -Wiki
Indestructable Larry's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:25
Indestructable Larry
It's just tragic.

Someone looked at that and said "yes, I do believe that is good enough to go to market."
Indestructable Larry's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:25
Indestructable Larry
It's just tragic.

Someone looked at that and said "yes, I do believe that is good enough to go to market."
Jchobot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:26
Jchobot
Let us not forget the cool ass ending to Shadow of the Colossus (sp?) and ICO. I'm also a fan of the FFVIII ending.
Jchobot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:27
Jchobot
And wow-those endings in Zelda are....

simply amazing.
bhive01's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:29
bhive01
At least I wasn't the only one turned on by the rope humping...
DJDuffy 's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:37
DJDuffy
my eyes! it burns! I love how they reused animation for the second ending from the previous game. Also, they didn't even move the backgrounds in the camera moves...I'm in the animation industry and this is some of the worst animation I've seen in a while. *barfs*
R Riley's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:38
R Riley
For some reason, those just made me want to play the games even more.
chado53's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:41
chado53
what the hell is CDI?
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:42
Jordan Devore
BlackDove's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:44
BlackDove
Well it will take me a while to wash off the turd shaped photons those two videos flung at me with soap.

All I could hear in my head as I was watching that was...

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 20:50
tazarthayoot
Let's all go out for some fried octorocks!
Topher Cantler's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:04
Topher Cantler
Good God, that was truly fucking hideous. Shame they're the only ones with um ... you know ... a jump button.
madmatt's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:07
madmatt
The laugh animation in the 2nd video is the scariest thing I have seen today.
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:07
brad drac
Well, EXCUUUSE ME Princess!
Philonious's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:15
Philonious
Two Words: Virtual Console.
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:21
deiga-the-semivaliant
Good God. To think that Nintendo broke away from a partnership with Sony for... this.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:39
mix
OMG 1st post (finally)

Epic finales
DigitalD562's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:41
DigitalD562
What I just saw shall haunt my dreams until the day I die!
Thanks alot Destructoid... :(
nightmareci's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:47
nightmareci
CDI: Crap Dump Inferno (best I could think of), the system that destroys entire 3rd world countries, and will kill your family if it ever comes within 10 ft. of you. Also, it runs Zelda.
PaulyWalnuts's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:48
PaulyWalnuts
IT'S LIKE I HAVE AIDS
FOR MY EYES
Roryzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:49
Roryzilla
So wait, Link was trapped in a mirror the whole game? And he doesnt get an explanation of what the fuck was going on? My god that rules.
Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:52
Oni
My God those were horrible. And what's with the one shot kills the boss thing in both of those games? I've never had a boss that easy, and I've been playing video games for 20 years.

Thank God I never bothered w/ the CD-i. What a steaming pile of shit.
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 21:52
Clockwork
When Zelda and the King were laughing at the end of Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, that was probably my most terrifying video game experience. Thanks for the nightmares.
charliesuh's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 22:02
charliesuh
I WON!
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 22:05
ArrestedDeveloper
Those two are better than OOT
PANZERDRAKO's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 22:08
PANZERDRAKO
hey my clock run backward!!!111
generaldane's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 22:15
generaldane
i thought those videos were funny
twilightquest's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/31/2007 22:28
twilightquest
I'm pretty sure that Nintendo would like to forget that these ever existed...
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