An indie platformer inspired by the worst Zelda games ever made is getting a special controller inspired by one of the worst input devices ever made

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Limited Run Games) Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore is bringing back the spirit of the most infamous games in the Zelda series, and it’s channeling an equally infamous input device for a special edition controller. Back in the ’90s, Nintendo licensed some of its properties to external developers for a device called the Phillips CD-i. The CD-i was billed as a sort of interactive media device that could be used for also sorts of entertainment media, including games - but generally, those games weren’t very good. Nintendo-branded titles like Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon were particularly infamous, but their weird cutscenes and big ideas gave them a certain cult following. This “retro inspired Switch and PC controller” doesn’t feature any CD-i branding, but there’s no mistaking the inspiration - it’s a …