Honestly one of the most fun and chaotic multiplayer experiences I've ever played. I will note that getting 4 players together alongside 4 gbas AND 4 link cables severely hurts it a bit but if you're like me and you can manage to get the perfect set up, it's so worth it. I've played this game with 4 players like 4 or 5 times and every single time it was always hilariously competitive. I hope they can remake this game on like the switch where it would be much easier to set up because it's legitimately so fun!

How come they literally went from making one of the best cooperative Zelda games with minimal competition, to one of the worst cooperative Zelda games with constant competition? And then blend this game with ALTTP and Wind Waker to make some horrible zombie????

Alright. Flack aside, the only thing I could say is that playing this game singleplayer isn't that bad at all. But...... That's it. This game's story is really bland, and for it to come after TWILIGHT PRINCESS in the Zelda timeline (a good Zelda game compared to this) Is baffling to me. This game belongs in the timeline of trashy games. The main enemies (Eyeball Vatti, Giant Discord Mod Blue ugly ahh Gannon, and just a cringy version of Shadow/Dark Link) aren't as fun as most of the main enemies in other Zelda games, and that's all I have to say. I don't want to rant too much about this game and after playing this game more growing up, it's safe to say that i abandon this game.

A lot of people frame Mario Party as the friendship-ender but there was no game closer to disbanding my friend group back in 2004 than Four Swords Adventures. When developing a game such as this I think you should decide whether you want it to be competitive or want it to be cooperative. Nintendo, unwisely, chose both, and so the four of us playing split along even lines: half trying solely to make progress in the game, and the other half going for the high score every level, at the expense of everyone else.

I was banned from ever playing this game with friends after just one session. You can imagine which side I fell on. I never saw this game to completion, but that was probably for the best.

At first, this game is pretty simple. The objective is the same every stage, and that's collect 2000 Force Gems so you can destroy the things at the end of the stage. There's (almost) always enough Force Gems with plenty to spare, barring probably one level, and that's 4-3, the Hyrule Castle stealth mission. If you're tying to blaze your way through without getting caught, there's a realistic chance you could reach the end without enough Force Gems, which isn't a game problem, but a me problem.

One thing I wasn't too big a fan of was the number of Shadow Link fights. You got at least one per level, a couple of times two of them. It's not that they're bad, it's more that Shadow Link barely has any changeup to his moves aside from the arena. He's always dropping bombs that help you stun him. I do like the second phase where he changes to one of your Link's colors and only that Link can damage him, but the fight started getting a bit old after a while due to the number of times you fight him.

Vaati is an afterthought. By Level 5, Ganon is the main villain everyone's talking about. He's even the final boss while Vaati goes down like a chump. Even the Palace of Winds literally had Ganon statues laying around with no Vaati statues in sight aside from the front entrance. For a big bad wind sorcerer sealed up by the Four Sword, he lacked any sort of real impact, especially since you literally only see him at the start and end of the game.

That's not to say Ganon's any better. Sure, we hear mention of the guy in Level 6 and 7, along with the knights saying they were beaten by someone other than Vaati, but he kinda just...shows up at the tail end of the game in the flesh. We don't know his plans or anything. He just...appears.

Then there's the items. While some had a lot of time to shine, others felt like they were underutalized, like most of the Level 2 items like the Fire Rod especially, which only got a chance to use it's Level 2 abilities in the Ice Temple, where it was just a Cane of Somaria replacement. The shovel was barely used too. Roc's Feather got some nice time to shine, which is nice because I'm pretty sure it'll never appear again after this game.

Overall, as another relic of my childhood, it was alright. I'm pretty shocked at how easy the final part of the Ganon battle was since that was literally the part I never finished as a kid because I didn't know what to do at that part. Past me was pretty stupid.

My first GameCube title and last mainline Zelda to play before TotK to catch up. And this game is much better than Four Swords on GBA by a mile. First off, this was a much bigger title in terms of the adventure as it was filled with much more levels compared to the predecessor. The single-player mode is handled much better here instead of how it was treated in the 3DS Four Swords, with the four Links being used as formations and such. However, one thing about this game is that it used a lot of locales and songs from A Link to the Past, but it had a few original songs in there though. And the use of the GBA felt a little shoehorned in there, especially with the multiplayer strictly being with GBAs again, which is a bummer.