The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Four Swords (Game Boy Advance)

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Four Swords features two games, a port of the SNES game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and a new multiplayer adventure called Four Swords.

A long time ago in Hyrule, there was a hero who used a legendary sword (which is called "Four Sword") to defeat a sorcerer called Vaati and trapped him into the sword. After the battle, people built a shrine to protect the Four Sword.

Several years later, princess Zelda noticed that Vaati might have escaped from the blade of the Four Sword. She asked Link to come to the Four Sword shrine to check with her. As soon as they came there, Vaati captured Zelda and carried her away.

Some little fairies later told Link that princess Zelda was at Vaati's palace up on the sky. In an attempt to recuse Zelda, Link dragged the Four Sword and it created three more Links! The Links then began their adventure to save Zelda...

Four Swords requires from two to four players. There are five levels (a training level, three main levels and Vaati palace-an unlockable level). During the game, players must collect as many Ruppees as possible while solving puzzles and defeating enemies. When enough Ruppees are collected, the Great Fairy will give the players a key to open the unlockable level. At the end of each level, the one who collects the most Ruppees will be the winner.

When any of the players dies, the number of Ruppees collected will decrease. The more times a Link dies, the more Ruppees are lost. The game is over when there are not enough Ruppees to revive any Link.

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Alternate Titles

• "ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース＆４つの剣" -- Japanese GBA spelling
• "Zelda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Triforce & 4tsu no Tsurugi" -- Japanese GBA title

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• Legend of Zelda series

User Reviews

Lovely port of the SNES version that is perfect for any Zelda fan's library.	Dark Cloud (35)	unrated
One of the best RPGs, any system	A D (3)	unrated
An almost perfect port of the SNES classic.	kbmb (435)	unrated

Critic Reviews

NintendoWorldReport	Jan 20, 2003	10 out of 10	100
Silicon-Fusion.com	May 05, 2003	10 out of 10	100
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Mar 27, 2003	10 out of 10	100
64 Power / big.N / N Games	Apr, 2003	98 out of 100	98
GamersMark	Oct 02, 2004	9 out of 10	90
Bordersdown	May, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Pocket Gamer UK	Oct 22, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Jeuxvideo.com	Mar 26, 2003	17 out of 20	85
Game Critics	Sep 03, 2003	8 out of 10	80
Netjak	Feb 12, 2002	7.375 out of 10	74

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Game Boy Advance version of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Awards

• GameSpy
  • 2002 – Game Boy Advance Game of the Year
• Golden Joystick Awards
  • 2003 - Handheld Game of the Year (runner up to Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising)

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Related Web Sites

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past & Four Swords (Official game web site for the GBA version by Nintendo of America.)