in the CDi Games defence, they had pretty slick graphics, and the Cutscenes are humourus, I've heard the Gameplay is no good though, but ya'll get gannon banned for claiming they're bad without having played them. (...)
While I admit that the graphics were pretty advanced for their time in the CDi games and the cutscenes are funny, I still don't think you must have played those titles to judge them. Besides, it's the gameplay that makes or breaks a game, good graphics, music and story are rather bonus elements (which I of course don't want to miss). Having not played them, of course I can't write a full review or something like that but come on, these games have too many flaws so I'll list only some:
- Enemies cheap-shooting you. If you run into one, you don't get knocked back and the following "invincibility time" is literally 0.01 seconds so you can easily die at full health by getting touched ONCE.
- Enemies that can't be reached by your sword, especially in the swamp level, because they're below you all the time
- Very poor graphical adaptation to obstacles/pits/platforms etc., you can barely see them, it's mainly guesswork
- Invisible ceiling at the top, making your jumps very short
- Missing logic: For example, as you ascend a tree, you first can see everything but somewhere further to the top(!) where it should be lighter, you'll suddenly need a lantern even though it's day outside. Or ropes: They disappear once you've used them to ascend somewhere, WTF? This makes no sense at all.
- More poor controls: Many things are assigned to the same button, sometimes when you enter a room and want to dig out the lantern by crouching, you'll leave through the door instead. So you have to move away from the door which you don't see, possibly falling into a nearby pit, great.
- With the only difficulty in the gaming coming from faulty controls as well as poor enemy and level design, the "epic" boss battles are ridiculously easy. Most of the time using a certain item once kills them, that's true even for Ganon.
I could go on here but I'm too lazy now. So even though I haven't played those "games", they can in no way be better than any other real Zelda game and therefore are the worst of the series.