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Zelda's Adventure
Developer	Viridis
Publisher	Philips Media
Released	June 5, 1994
Genre	Action Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Philips CD-i
Media	1 CD-ROM

Zelda's Adventure is a video game developed by Viridis and released for the Philips CD-i in 1994. It is a semi-sequel to Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, both released on the same day a year before. Zelda's Adventure was developed by a different company, and this shows through heavily in the game's design. All three CD-i Zelda games were the product of a compromise between Philips and Nintendo after the two companies failed to release a CD-based add-on for the SNES.

Tolemac is in the middle of the Age of Darkness, as Ganon (spelled here as Gannon) has kidnapped Link, and unleashed his rule over the land of Tolemac (Camelot spelled backwards). Princess Zelda sets out to save the young adventurer and learns from the astronomer Gaspra that she must first collect seven celestial signs before she can conquer the dark king and bring Hyrule to an "Age of Lightness".

The story is told mostly through live-action FMV scenes filmed in Los Angeles on blue screen.

A screenshot from Zelda's Adventure

Unlike the previous two CD-i Zelda games, which take the side-scrolling view from Zelda II, Zelda's Adventure is played with the same top-down view found in The Legend of Zelda. Playing as Princess Zelda, the aim is to fight through the Seven Shrines of the Underworld to collect the celestial signs, and bring the land of Tolemac to an Age of Lightness.

Like the system they were created for, the three games were never very popular and today are very obscure. Zelda's Adventure was never officially released outside of Europe, hence its rarity and extremely high resale value.

Along with the other two CD-i Zeldas, the game was constantly teased by Nintendo Power Magazine, mostly in the Player's Pulse section.

Zelda's Adventure was created by an entirely different company with a change in style and gameplay. Gameplay is very much like the original game, with an overworld that allows access to individual dungeons. Regardless, the game is considered to be an inferior use of the Legend of Zelda title by most fans.^{[citation needed]} The game is not officially recognized as canon by Nintendo because of its lack of involvement.

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