The maps are usually one screen large with one or more small rooms you play on your GBA. In this mode you fight on a small map until there's only one Link left. If you're tired of helping each other you can always duke it out in Shadow Battle.

After a few levels the irritating and the helping will form a balance of friendly competition and you'll really get the feeling you're playing the game together. Helpful players get rewarded and annoying players get punished, so to win with the most force gems you have to be friendly too sometimes. At the end of every level each player gets to pick which other player he found the most helpful and who he found the most annoying. Needless to say the friend you just shoved into a lake won't be too eager to help you if you need him a few minutes later. To get through the bigger fights and most of the puzzles you'll really have to help each other, arrange who gets which item and who attacks from which position. The game has a very high concentration of fights and puzzles compared to other Zelda titles, don't look surprised if you're fighting against a hundred enemies at once. You won't be irritating each other all the time though. You can even make up new ways of irritating your friends as you go along, how about reading an important sign (text only shows up on your GBA) and smashing it up afterwards so you're the only one that got the message? This game will test even the closest friendships as you and your friends discover each other's darker sides. You can also bother your friends more directly, by picking them up and throwing them into holes, at enemies or at another friend, hitting them with rocks, bushes, road signs or whatever kind of weapon you come across. This way you can quickly open all the treasure chests you encounter before your friends notice you're gone. Walk into a house or a cave and your Link is gone from the television screen, you have to switch to your GBA to see the action. Your GBA is your best friend in this competition because you can use it to hide from your partners. Not only are you fighting an incredible number of enemies, you also compete against three other Links for force gems, heart containers, weapons and other items. The multiplayer mode makes Hyrulean Adventure more interesting by adding competition. Even though the levels are the same as in the single player mode, getting through them as a team adds quite a bit to the experience, you now have to coordinate attacking and solving puzzles with players that don't always do exactly what you ask them. If you play with four players every player gets their own Link, if you play with three players one person gets an extra Link to control, with two players both players get two Links. Like in the single player version, Hyrulean Adventure is made to be played with four Links at the same time. Hyrulean Adventure is the main mode of the game, so we'll focus on that one first. The first is a multiplayer version of the single player mode, the second is a battle mode, and all modes require every player to use a GBA as a controller. So if you want to know if Four Swords is worth the trouble of whipping out four GBAs and inviting a group of friends, you've clicked on the right link.ДЇour Swords has two multiplayer modes, Hyrulean Adventure and Shadow Battle. You've no doubt already read the Four Swords single player review so you already know this is a highly enjoyable Zelda game this review will focus on the multiplayer modes the game offers.

Four Swords Adventures evolved from the bonus multiplayer mode that came with Link to the Past on the GBA and the demos that were shown on Nintendo's infamous connectivity E3. Until now that is, because now Europe finally gets The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. Crystal Chronicles was more bothersome than it was fun to play and Pacman VS only appeared as a bonus disc to a very mediocre racing game, so all the connectivity talk died down quietly. They showed us Pacman VS, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and a few unimpressive looking Zelda minigames, nobody was impressed. (our most humble apologies for that by the way!) we bring you the Multiplayer Review of Four Swords, the Single Player review can be reached here.ДЄ while back Nintendo tried to convince us that connectivity was the next big thing.

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