The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords

released on Dec 02, 2002

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords

released on Dec 02, 2002

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.


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Goateddddd. The first masterful Zelda and it hasn't dropped in quality since. My first Zelda experience and it went so hard. Killing foul beasts with newly unlocked weapons and trinkets was sick, exploring and trying to collect every heart piece was sick, the Dark World reveal halfway through the game was oh so sickening. The added voice lines for Link in this GBA version was something I never knew about but it does add a certain life to the game I must admit. Plus there's a whole nother game latched on this has gotta be the superior version.

Got a couple of dungeons left but damn good. The parallel world/ dark world thing is something I miss in the new Zelda games.

Peak GBA multiplayer and Link To The Past is a timeless classic.

Four Swords was a fun little adventure, but this game earns its 5 stars simply because it contains Link to the Past.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords COMPLETED 11/10 I finished this game a while ago but I wanted to talk a little about it. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was the first game in the Zelda series that I got to know, but I only finished it years later since at the time my reading wasn't good. I finished the games in the series countless times. This year, 2024, I started finishing this game again, but in the GBA version with Switch Online, the game emulation is wonderful! Everything is very responsive. I love the small universe that this work is made up of, both exploring the World of Light that is Hyrule and the darkness that is Ganon's world. It's interesting to explore all the dungeons, it's a pleasure to search through each little secret.

And watching the credits always makes me want to cry because it reminds me of the happy moments of my childhood. Many players are missing out on the fun of playing a game looking for epic journeys and shocking twists and endings that were like a high-production movie. I feel sad about this, they are missing out on the greatest pleasure of enjoying an adventure.

Link To the past, we start with Link sleeping in his bed, during the early hours of the morning with Zelda's cry for help and Link going to her and rescue her. The main objective is to collect the 3 pendants and wield the Master Sword, to soon discover that Zelda was kidnapped along with 7 other maidens and we have to go to the world of darkness defeating each boss and rescuing 8 crystals where each girl is sealed so that in the end we will have enough strength to defeat Ganon.

Here in the GBA version we have a new feature, the Four Swords, a short adventure with 4 stages plus a special one which is the tutorial. The game presented with a story, this game is canonical! And our goal is to defeat Vaati, the wind demon who escaped from his seal and captured Zelda.

Here the central mechanic of the game is Link wielding his 4 Swords and being cloned, hence the name of the game The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords is impossible, I said impossible! You can play alone, at least 2 people must play together. I played with some friends since I wanted to finish this game 100%. Here in the game, everything is focused on cooperation, divided into areas such as the forest, the Ice Palace and the Fire Mountain, and finally the Vaati Palace. Your goal is to collect the keys with the fairies from the fountains and finally enter the Palace. After finishing the game once, you will be able to access the Four Swords Palace in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It is an extra added to this game exclusively in this version. It is a Boss Rush special. The bosses take a lot more life. It has new attack patterns. It is a great challenge. A new extra is also added, which is that you have collected at least 10 medallions in Four Swords. In A Link To The Past, we will have a new quest where, in the woodcutter's house, he will give us a cage and will say riddles where we have to use our net to capture creatures that he will say. When you do this riddle, upon completion, you will gain your supreme technique with the sword. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords is a wonderful game and its definitive version. I loved having this experience again. I love this game in every possible way! I had a lot of fun revisiting the locations and especially playing Four Swords with friends. I'm a lone wolf player, but with this game it was fun to play with friends.

So that's my review, it's a bit more superficial, but this game is perfect for me. I love revisiting it whenever I can.

I'm rating it for four swords because the alttp remake is literally just alttp but Link screams now.
Anyway, the four swords mode is very hard to even get to playing because of the multiplayer (Nso made it a lot easier) and it does the job. It's a fun little multiplayer experience. It is really short though