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

Part of the Following Groups

• Legend of Zelda series
• Protagonist: Elf

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

GamePro (US)	Dec 13, 2002	5 out of 5	100
AceGamez	2002	10 out of 10	100
IGN	Dec 03, 2002	9.7 out of 10	97
GamesCollection	Mar 02, 2009	9.5 out of 10	95
GameSpot	Dec 09, 2002	9.2 out of 10	92
Game Informer Magazine	Jan, 2003	9.25 out of 10	92
Pocket Gamer UK	Oct 22, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Apr 25, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Mygamer.com	Sep 27, 2004	9 out of 10	90
VicioJuegos.com / uVeJuegos.com	Feb 21, 2006	84 out of 100	84

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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.)