Four Swords Adventures

I just noticed that Four Swords Advetnure is not only among one of the best Zelda games I have ever seen, but very, no, extremely underrated, too. Very few of you know of its absolute brillinace.

Element-wise, it feels like a blend of A Link to the Past, The Minish Cap, and The Wind Waker. It's feeling is of the elemtsn of those games all together. It is an obvious sequel - direct if on the adult timeline, indirect if before the timeline split - to The Minish Cap, and the obvious prequel to A Link to the Past. Oh yes, that game not only sequels The Minish Cap, but prequels A Link to the Past, connecting The Minish Cap to A Link to the Past, at that.

The point is, the game has great gameplay and great graphics, combing the use of A Link to the Past's graphics and overworld geography with some of The Wind Waker's beautiful cel-shaded graphics. It's storyline is a connected between The Minish Cap and the forehshadowing and connection to the events of A Link to the Past.

Why is the game so underrated? It's among one of the best Zeldas out there.

It's music? Freakin' brilliant. The game has among the best soundtracks, which are some new and others awesome recreactions of some of the music in A Link to the Past.

It was a good game, I didn't think of it timeline wise though.

Probably because of it's unique game play that seemed unlike what we have seen before. We are used to an over world and collecting a bunch of items and heart pieces. FSA Seemed kind of shallow compared to other Zelda's. You say the gameplay is great and it is, it is just missing some Zelda elements like a big over world you can only have one item at a time that kind of sucks. However I did have a very fun time fighting larger hordes of enemies. It is no way bad just a little different.

Aside from the fact that the music was 90% remakes, the graphics almost as much and the story, whilst platable, still very easy to just toss to the side and forget about, the game was very good, with great level design, very impressive bosses and a great flow to it.

Definitely a great game, amongst the Zelda games it stands somewhere in the middle.

Is four swords adventures considered hand held?

I've only played a little bit of FSA (up to the Village of the Blue Maiden), but I do think it is a pretty good game.
I did not really like it at first, but after I played ALttP, I gained a much greater appreciation of FSA due to its references to ALttP. Also, since they didn't have to worry about making an overworld to connect all the areas, they were able to make the areas bigger.

Originally Posted by Navi the Fairy

Is four swords adventures considered hand held?

No, this should probably be in Gamecube and Wii Zelda.

I agree that it is underrated. Matter of fact, I think I have it listed as my favorite Zelda game. I greatly enjoyed it; it brought a lot of much needed originality to the 2-D Zelda gameplay formula.

Unfortunately, gameplay was pretty much the only thing that WAS original. Nearly all the music, graphics, story, characters, etc, were all taken entirely from other Zelda games, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it missed a lot of opportunity in lazily copying components from another games, making it feel like more of a halfhearted spin-off than a genuine Zelda experience.

Originally Posted by Prof. Fish

I agree that it is underrated. Matter of fact, I think I have it listed as my favorite Zelda game. I greatly enjoyed it; it brought a lot of much needed originality to the 2-D Zelda gameplay formula.

Unfortunately, gameplay was pretty much the only thing that WAS original. Nearly all the music, graphics, story, characters, etc, were all taken entirely from other Zelda games, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it missed a lot of opportunity in lazily copying components from another games, making it feel like more of a halfhearted spin-off than a genuine Zelda experience.

You have to keep in mine that it is the intended preuel of A Link to the Past, so its storyline had to be connected to and lead into that game, as well as having the same overworld because of its actual intended placment status.

I loved the look of the graphics, but i didn't like playing as four links, that got tedious real
quick, this game must be meant for 4 players

Originally Posted by Potent Col

You have to keep in mine that it is the intended preuel of A Link to the Past, so its storyline had to be connected to and lead into that game, as well as having the same overworld because of its actual intended placment status.

Yeah, right. This is the Zelda series we are taling about. Since when has Nintendo ever let connecting Zelda games override design considerations? I highly doubt they would design a Zelda game a certain way just to make it fit with another. Any timeline theorist will tell you that's hardly a consideration for them.

Originally Posted by Cukeman

I loved the look of the graphics, but i didn't like playing as four links, that got tedious real
quick, this game must be meant for 4 players

Really? I only played through the game by myself, and I thought the controls of the four Links worked VERY well.

not really an issue of controls, just that i got tired of the formations

Oh yes I agree, FSA is (in my opinion) one of the best Zelda games ever created. Although a little repetitive, it is fantastic. I love the way it brings those 3D effects into the 2D world. Brilliant.

I used to own the gmae i traded it in though(i regret that)
The game was like link to the past it was fun yet could be beaten in a day,
or two. Sad part was is that it has little rep aly value other then multipalyer which i didnt have 3 link cables 3 gameboys and 3 4 sword cart's and i didnt have 3 other friends so unless you have the utilities the game is worth playing once and maybe replaying every once and a while.It's a fun game nothing less.

Four Swords Adventure is so much fun. I really liked that game and the idea behind it. Sure plenty of it was merely rehashed but it was done well enough to make me enjoy it instead of thinking Nintendo is lazy.

Only game i really regret not getting.

Anyway with gameplay as original as it is i excuse it for largely copying other games in the series.

I've always been wondering if this game is a single player game. Or is it a multiplayer game like Four Swords?

Golden: it can be both.

yeah, but it is annoying to hook up 3 Game Boys to your system!

I would've really enjoyed FSA, but whole "levels" thing took away from the exploration part of the game. I also didn't like it how easy it was. You would just keep coming back to life. I really wish there would've been just an open world to explore and stuff. That would've greatly improved how this game stands in my rankings.

.I enjoyed the game. The adventure cool. The gameplay and atmosphere is all zelda greatness IMO.