#wand of gamelon

[lilyblossom-art]

All of the zeldas so far in order of release

This took me so long lol i don't even know why i did this but here it is :>

And also i have not played eow yet so no spoilers pls

1. Classic Zelda

2. Zelda I

3. Alttp Zelda

4. Cdi Zelda

5. Other cdi Zelda

6. Oot Sheik

7. Oot adult Sheik

8. Oot downfall Sheik

9. Ssb Zelda (i needed to get to 25 lol)

10. Oox Zelda

11. Fs Zelda

12. Tetra

13. Fsa Zelda

14. Mc Zelda

15. Mc stained glass Zelda

16. Tp Zelda

17. St Zelda

18. Ss Zelda

19. Albw Zelda

20. Hw Zelda

21. Botw Zelda

22. Ancient princess (named after Sonia from totk)

23. Coh Zelda

24. Aoc Zelda

25. Eow Zelda

[zinkiez]

here are my cdi zelda portraits so far. :P

[prokopetz]

I'm sorry, but no matter how hard you try to make Wand of Gamelon Zelda look cool and badass in your fanart, her little blue vest will always read as denim to me. She is Jean Jacket Zelda in my heart.

[cacklingskeleton]

Carrying on the sacred duty of playable zelda

[uncharted-constellations]

Cdiverse i love u unironically

[moonglide]

[detestable-darling]

these were a wip siiiinnnnce february. i think i sketched them up the night i finished the game lmao

WHERE MY DAIL ENJOYERS AT 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[theknucklehead]

The first thing I thought of when I got to this part.

[lemoniceart]

Echoes of Zelda

Linktober Day 26: Echoes

Playable Zelda, my beloveds

[lost-in-video-game-land]

Zelda and wands~

Canon or not, echoes of wisdom will be the third playable Zelda adventure game. Wand of Gamelon Zelda will always be my fav.

[beebeerock]

Linktober days 24-31 Diety - Ganon/Ganondorf - Echo - Rest/Respite - Bones - Deku - Mount - Free for All

[jchamphero]

They actually did it. Nintendo made a Legend of Zelda video game.

[sepublic]

I love how the main gimmick for Echoes of Wisdom, in addition to playing as Zelda saving Link from Ganon, is the fact that she wields a magic wand. It’s like Nintendo took all the jokes about Wand of Gamelon being the first playable Zelda game personally, and opted to make their own better version so people would finally shut up about it. Can’t wait to see a game with fully animated 2D cutscenes…

Wait that’s the Link’s Awakening remake, it even introduced the game engine and art style that EoW uses! If that’s Faces of Evil… Then all we need now is Nintendo’s answer to the third CDI game that nobody talks about (due to not being as memeable), Zelda’s Adventure!

[aus-by-fwoosh]

I'm not sure if I'm ever gonna include them in any way if I ever get around to my AU!Links meet AU, but I wanted to do my take on the CDi duo! (Wall of text with my thought process under the cut)

I haven't played those games myself, but I did watch playthroughs of the remastered versions of Wand of Gamelon and Faces of Evil. And as hilariously cursed those games are (in gameplay, animations, plot, as well as dialogues), the thing that bothers me the most about those games is that if we look at only the plot, the stories had the potential to be really good. And they just. Botched it. (I have also started to look at a playthrough of Zelda's Adventure, since I kinda want this Zelda to be the Heroine of Tolemac too because it would be fun if she could light-heartedly tease Link for having saved him more often than him saving her, but I don't yet know how to incorporate those details.)

Anyway, this is how I would tweak Zelda and Link if I was put in charge to remake those games today with as little as possible change of the things that are there already.

Personality-wise, rather than Link trying to flirt with Zelda every time he gets the chance, they're besties and Link's flirting is actually an in-joke between them where Link is mocking all the nobles trying to woo her. He is not romantically inclined at all (aroace af to put it frankly) and gets really flustered ans awkward when people are flirting with him or touchy when it's somebody he doesn't know well. The reason he was imprisoned in the mirror by that Noble Lady Alma in WoG was because he wouldn't kiss her. And rather than just brushing it off like in canon (which is just really weird and a missed opportunity imo), Zelda's "oh nothing happened" was to sooth a groggy and injured Link while the Lady Alma was escorted to a holding cell. So he has some scars from the mirror breaking and his memories of being trapped are mostly somewhat hazy but there. The scars-from-the-mirror idea was shamelessly stolen from the Koridai from @linked-maze (highly recommend y'all check it out, it's currently on hiatus but it's really good ❤), though my version's scar looks more like broken glass then glass cuts, because I want him to match (and share some trauma) with the Shadow Link (aka Flint) from my AU Four Wild Ones. Other than that he's still a hungry goof-ball who is always up for eating like a like-like and bombing dodongos.

Zelda on the other hand is as helpful to commoners and sassy to enemies as hinted in her cutscenes, and whichever of her many suitors she will eventually select one of her (not vocalized) requirement (other than being kind and competent) is that the suitor must not only be okay with Link being a third wheel, they must actually enjoy it and preferably partake in the shenanigans she and Link will cause. This is also why Ganon had her placed under a sleeping spell when he kidnapped her in FoE: The first thing she did when he took her to Koridai was to cause trouble at his fort and nearly escape.

When it comes to their designs, I wanted them to have some similarities in the silhouette, and also stand out a bit from my normal go-to options, but still contain something from the CDi designs. In Link's case, his canon design is pretty much the same as in the other early canon games, but I felt that poofy sleeves and collar would suit him. I might even make the sleeves even poofier in the future. I did plan on making his hair brown, because it was more brown in some of his cutscenes, but I settled on a darker blond that can look blond or brown depending on the light. It's also kind of a mullet cut, though his cap normally hides that detail.

And as I wanted Zelda's silhouette match Link's a bit rather than being so very 90's in style, her vest got turned into a poofy-sleeved bolero-thingy. I also find crop tops to be very uncomfortable and not quite matching my version of her, so I turned that into a short dress with shorts underneath. I also decided that early on while on her first adventure she grew sick of not only things getting stuck in her hair but also monsters trying to grab it, so she found herself a villager who was willing to cut it for her, so she sports an undercut (kinda like Colin in TP I suppose, but less of a bowl cut). As I was colouring her outfit I realized I accidentally made her clothes kinda the same shape as Purah's outfit in TotK, but that's fine, that outfit is ✨amazing✨ anyway imo lol

Not sure where in the LoZ Universe Timeline I think they fit, but among the CDi games my order of them is Faces of Evil -> Wand of Gamelon -> Zelda's Adventure

[otisbeerdraws]

Happy 30th to Zelda CDi! 💿⚔️🍷💣

[zeldatourney]

Long before Echoes of Wisdom, there was the CD-i. Wand of Gamelon versus Zelda's Adventure. Playable Zelda only it's SUPER cursed. May I suggest not including 'I haven't played either' or 'I've only played one' here because basically no one HAS played either, and go solely based on Vibes(tm)?