I'm not giving this a star rating because completing it felt like a huge chore, but I don't think that's really the game's fault. I was playing singleplayer and that's just not the experience the game is built around. Most of the issues I had were things that either wouldn't be a problem in multiplayer (as a quick example, there are a lot of enemy swarms that presume the swarm's attention will be split between multiple players), or they were general "this isn't what I usually want from Zelda" things that I wouldn't have minded if I were having the multiplayer experience instead.

I can't really review the multiplayer mode, but it seems like it would be great. This is several massive steps up from Four Swords in terms of scope and ambition and it's really impressive what they did here - I just wish I had a handful of GBAs lying around so I could have had the intended experience.