AOL Awaken the Princess by crazyfreak

Since this is a past Zelda who exists at the same time as the Zelda of the previous game, I really wonder what might have happened next. 

I think the reason people hate that game is because it beat them up and made them cry. It is MURDEROUSLY hard. 

But that's part of why I love it. I remember playing old school games as a kid, and there was nothing like the sense of accomplishment when you won. After figuring things out and perfecting my skill and beating Super Mario Bros for the first time, I literally ran outside screaming I SAVED THE PRINCESS!! I SAVED THE PRINCESS!!! at the top of my lungs. I was so hyped up all evening. When you beat a hard game after so much struggle, you feel like a god. I didn't exactly feel that when I played LOZ: Wind Waker and hardly ever got hit in the final battle.

I think the makers of some of the later games worry about driving people off with the difficulty and so make them too easy. But it's more fun if there's a reason to dodge, a reason to try to learn the monsters' moves and moments of weakness, a reason to think about what items you can freely use and what items you need to stockpile. It's okay if it's not completely fair, if you sometimes find out how something works by doing the wrong thing and suffering instant humiliating death. It just means next time you have to be more careful, right?

And there should be no such thing as a final boss you can beat on your first play through without dying once.

(There's also the side scrolling thing, but that just makes it different, not bad. And it was also the first game to do so much of the things all Zelda games do now. Sidequests? Go to different towns and talk to the townspeople for clues? Different sword moves that must be learned? All that starts in the second game.)

This is just beautiful! I could never get to the end of the game cause it was so hard for me. I would like to pay it again and not give up this time. Fabulous work!  

Beutifully drawn . great job

This is really beautiful. My second favourite Zelda is Adventure of Link (First is Twilight Princess xD) and this image is really cool! 

Maybe I print this to put in the babybed of my daugther... In four months I will be father, and my daugther's name will be Zelda xD

Very nice!!

She is so beautiful!

This goes from being a happy moment to a sad one with the revelation that that's the Skyward Sword Zelda and that's not her link. She's been asleep for everything that has happened between SS and AoL, so her Link has been dead for thousands of years.

A lovely rendition of a classic scene from an equally classic videogame! Well done!

Looks great

Beautiful Pic! I love the colors and the face expressions you used. It's so beautifully Zelink! But wait...Link and Zelda get married in this game?!?! I didn't know that! If it's true, that's wonderful!

So pretty.... such a sleeping beauty style set up.

right there, he should of kissed her!!

Ah, I love old-school Link! =3 And your Zelda redesign is gorgeous--love her hair!

"The Adventure of Link"? Is it for the NES?

awsome ^^

Oh, hey, I just noticed your devart is on the carpet! haha, nice.

I love this picture ;w; <3 AOL is a great game (though it's testing my sanity at the Great Palace*
Just great design for Zelda and love the dark/light of this picture

I have this game but I've never given it much thought... *facepalm.* It was too hard! I'll go play it now!

wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was actually one of my favorites of the Zelda series. It was very underrated. I love the picture!

I love your artwork. I like the lighting and the colors you have used here. It looks serene and powerful as well. Nice job on the details on Zelda's headpiece.

wow is very cool!!

amazing job!

<3 best zelda pic i've seen on here

Very Nice! I love Link and Zelda's hair! LOL

beautiful

Beautiful scene, Link looks REALLY handsome :3
I never got through AOL ;_;" Shame on me. But I didn't play it since my childhood, time to change this. They marry?! *_*;

Awww, how utterly gorgeous is this? This has so much emotion, and it captures the game very well. AMAZING job

Link looks HOT!!!!! And Zelda looks beautiful!

Yay! I like this a lot. I'm in the mood to try AoL again, or at least make an animation based off of it. I wasn't sure if AoL Zelda had red or black hair...@_@ As for the game, I'm stuck in Death Mountain, it's sooo freakin' hard.

This is amazing. I love the colors.

I like Zelda II but it's just too darn hard to beat. (For me, anyway.)

I love this! Their expressions and poses are perfect. Nice details on their hair. I also like how you watermarked the image, very well blended!

Wow very beautiful^^ i like this.

Wow very beautiful^^ i like this.

I have to say, that among all of your artwork, this is, by far, my favourite!
I don't know, I just love the idea of Link and Zelda being together, and I've always loved Adventure Of Link, so this is like a dream to me.
Also, even tough I love Link with blond hair, I gotta admit he's very sexy with brown hair, specially in this art of yours.

Keep up the good work and do more fantastic fanarts like this one!

That is amazing! I love the design you gave her. It's also an interesting angle. Must fave

aaah I loved that game! >< (Even If I did never past the first dungeon)
So pretty! And I love Zelda this way, Link too! So nostalgic!~

OMFFFFG! SHE'S FAKING!!!!

awesome job! i really love it!

wonderful idea

pose, drawing, painting... all is amazing ^^

amazing job! ^^

nah, you've got it wrong - the CD-i games were the black sheep of the Zelda series. XD

this is pretty awesome. <3