Beat AlttP/Fs

I just beat AlttP and Fs yesterday.

I think Four Swords was way too short to be put on GameCube it took me, my brother, and my cousin playing on two players about an hour to beat it....

... and how do you start the riddle quest?

When playing Four Swords the player with the most Rupees at the end of a level is awarded a Medallion of Courage, thus collecting 10 of them will activate the Riddle Quest, which can be played at the Woodcutters house north of Kakariko Village.

For help on that, I am sure www.zeldauniverse.net has plenty of info for you.

Well, it's going to be a new Four Swords game, not just a remake. And it looks like it'll use at least some of the A Link to the Past map, with awesome things thrown in there like finding 3 or 4 Moldorms to fight at once in an area of the field.

Well now I'm going to have to borrow the game from my cousin agoin to get more of those there medals. Grrrrrrrrrrrr....

You see? There's more to it isn't there? That's what makes the Zelda games - and alot of other Nintendo games - so good. You can finish them, but you can also FINISH them.

There's always more than there appears to be!

There still isn't THAT much to FS to make it compelling for long-term play. For one, it's way too easy.... even easier than TWW.

Note that the version released for the Gamecube is actually going to be completely different. The only apparent similarities are the fact that there are four Links, the team dynamics, and the need for four Gameboy Advances.

That's probably why the two games were released together. Remember that the buyer pays the price of one game, not two.

This is true, although I could always point out that Gameboy Advance games are oddly priced as it is.

And it does make for a slightly better multiplayer experience, when you can sit down and beat the game in an hour or two.

However, what gets me isn't just how easy or short it is, but how little a lot of features are put into use. Most of the features encountered in the tutorial area will only be encountered once in the course of a game, often not at all, and most items certainly aren't taken full advantage of.

It's really just an extension of my desire for FS to have been a bit longer, especially after all the hype it'd received at trade shows. there's a lot of content there that they could have taken greater advantage of, but didn't.

if you succeed in gaining (I think) over 5000 rupees in each stage then you and your partner(s) receive the Hero Keys...

if you get all 3 Hero Keys from the 3 levels then you unlock a really long version of Vaati's Palace...

took me and my friend a while to go through the very extended version of Vaati's Palace...

I think that four swords rocked. Me and my friend played it for hours on end until we both had enough triforce medals to get the hurricane spin which is really cool.