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The two greatest game endings ever produced
7:22 PM on 01.31.2007, Jordan Grim Devore 94 comments

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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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tehuberone's Avatar
tehuberone at 01/31/2007 19:25
My eyes!

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

..BAHAHAHA, oh man, that's quality
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Mabec at 01/31/2007 19:29
Everytime i see that i throw up...
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ian_esq at 01/31/2007 19:29
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
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SP420 at 01/31/2007 19:33
That's some easy boss fighting. Select and item and done...damn.

AND WHOS THAT PSEUDO-MUSKATEER GUY IN THE 2ND VIDEO?!? LOL
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scrap at 01/31/2007 19:34
*hearty guffaw*
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bumbuliuz at 01/31/2007 19:40
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?
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Sockapal at 01/31/2007 19:44
They look amazing, I want to play them. I hope they will remake them in High Def!
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tazarthayoot at 01/31/2007 19:48
"NO! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME!"


lolz, yes we have.
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trypticon at 01/31/2007 19:54
Those are the best endings in gaming history. Hands down.
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Matthew Mac at 01/31/2007 19:58
For some reason, I hadn't realized Ganon went back that far. We really have been playing the same game for a while.
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scrap at 01/31/2007 19:58
I like how you interact with things by stabbing them.
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tazarthayoot at 01/31/2007 19:59
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.
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momiji58 at 01/31/2007 20:05
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...
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Jordan Grim Devore at 01/31/2007 20:10
Wanna know what the budget was for these games? $600,000 each.
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 01/31/2007 20:12
Are you sure it wasn't 50 bucks and a pirated copy of paint shop pro and flash mx?
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AlexanderJ at 01/31/2007 20:15
Is that the real budget grim?
If so... damn, they didn't use it wisely.
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Aetsen at 01/31/2007 20:15
Second one was better, because the rope humping was HAWT.
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Jordan Grim Devore at 01/31/2007 20:23
"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
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Indestructable Larry at 01/31/2007 20:25
It's just tragic.

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

Someone looked at that and said "yes, I do believe that is good enough to go to market."
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Jchobot at 01/31/2007 20:26
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.
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Jchobot at 01/31/2007 20:27
And wow-those endings in Zelda are....

simply amazing.
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bhive01 at 01/31/2007 20:29
At least I wasn't the only one turned on by the rope humping...
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DJDuffy at 01/31/2007 20:37
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*
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R Riley at 01/31/2007 20:38
For some reason, those just made me want to play the games even more.
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chado53 at 01/31/2007 20:41
what the hell is CDI?
Jordan Grim Devore's Avatar
Jordan Grim Devore at 01/31/2007 20:42
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BlackDove at 01/31/2007 20:44
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
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tazarthayoot at 01/31/2007 20:50
Let's all go out for some fried octorocks!
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Topher Cantler at 01/31/2007 21:04
Good God, that was truly fucking hideous. Shame they're the only ones with um ... you know ... a jump button.
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madmatt at 01/31/2007 21:07
The laugh animation in the 2nd video is the scariest thing I have seen today.
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brad drac at 01/31/2007 21:07
Well, EXCUUUSE ME Princess!
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Philonious at 01/31/2007 21:15
Two Words: Virtual Console.
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deiga-the-semivaliant at 01/31/2007 21:21
Good God. To think that Nintendo broke away from a partnership with Sony for... this.
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mix at 01/31/2007 21:39
OMG 1st post (finally)

Epic finales
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DigitalD562 at 01/31/2007 21:41
What I just saw shall haunt my dreams until the day I die!
Thanks alot Destructoid... :(
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nightmareci at 01/31/2007 21:47
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.
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PaulyWalnuts at 01/31/2007 21:48
IT'S LIKE I HAVE AIDS
FOR MY EYES
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Roryzilla at 01/31/2007 21:49
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.
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Oni at 01/31/2007 21:52
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.
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Clockwork at 01/31/2007 21:52
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.
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charliesuh at 01/31/2007 22:02
I WON!
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ArrestedDeveloper at 01/31/2007 22:05
Those two are better than OOT
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PANZERDRAKO at 01/31/2007 22:08
hey my clock run backward!!!111
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generaldane at 01/31/2007 22:15
i thought those videos were funny
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twilightquest at 01/31/2007 22:28
I'm pretty sure that Nintendo would like to forget that these ever existed...
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