hairy_hen said:
Demise's "curse" is nothing but an infantile attempt at connecting the games together, one which should never have been made. See my above comments about Prequelitis.
It also does the character of Ganon a grave disservice, by rendering him nothing more than a second-rate reincarnation of some other lame villain we'd never heard of until now. I call BS on this—Ganon is far too cool and badass a character to be written off in this way.
This demonstrates what might be a flaw of the Zelda series: That each game takes place before the last game instead of after the last game. The result is that things that shouldn't exist until after game x takes place are brought into game x in contrived ways.