Friday Video: You must eat swords

by JC Fletcher { Oct 5th 2007 at 7:39PM }

The horrific animated cutscenes from the CD-I Zelda games are hilarious enough without any help-- honestly, the only way we can even begin to accept that people made these, and then watched them and decided they were fit for release is if we believe that they did it as a joke. We've embedded the original cutscenes from Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and the less-common live-action (!) Zelda's Adventure after the break, just in case you haven't seen them.

Those are provided as background for our Zelda Week Featured Friday Video: a mashup of scenes from Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon called "Swords for Dinner." It takes the unintentional humor found in the original videos' weird, jerky animation and pointless dialogue and makes it into a screamingly hilarious story that is only marginally stranger than whatever was happening in the real videos.

Link: Faces of Evil

Zelda: Wand of Gamelon

Zelda's Adventure

Tags: cd-i, faces-of-evil, wand-of-gamelon, zelda, zelda-week

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

WhatIsThatThing @ Oct 5th 2007 8:21PM

Yay! Youtube poop! Man, that stuff is awesome when done right.

Mainman @ Oct 5th 2007 11:45PM

YouTube Poop?

*Rubs hands, grins*

For those of you not familiar with the genre, here's a quick guide: YouTube Poop (YTP) is a video genre that specialises in making unintentionally funny footage (like the Zelda CD-i game cutscenes) even funnier through the use of sporadic video editing. The most frequently used clips are from the Zelda CD-i cutscenes, 'Hotel Mario' (another hilariously bad CD-i game), the 'Super Mario World' cartoon, and the old 'Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog' cartoon. Below are a couple of examples.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zNPWsJrXOro
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0hEHHElao

(Note: Trying to narrow this selection down to stuff without swearing or suggestive themes was HARD)

I keep a separate YouTube account for my favourite YTPs, so have a browse around if you like what you've seen so far.

http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=TrueBluePoop

TESM @ Oct 6th 2007 2:33AM

yea, Youtube Poop is probably one of the best ADD/Random things to come along in a while. When they use audio clips cleverly, and slice in game lines, as the one used is a fair example), the can be a riot.

Plus Hotel Mario is probably the best game ever.
'Did you bring a light?'
'No.'

Conrad Slater @ Oct 15th 2007 8:42AM

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Friday Video: You must eat swords

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