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Zelda - The Four Swords Adventures Rated
An anonymous reader writes "The GameCube has had a drought of games since the start of spring. Many gamers are eagerly awaiting 'the next big game,' The Legend of Zelda: The Four Swords Adventures. The game, which is set to be released this June, has already been released in Japan and a full review from the SiliconEra website. According to the piece, the game is 'easy to learn, innovative and can appeal to people of all ages', but the reviewer also states that the US release of the Four Swords will be minus some Japanese features, as it will be missing the Navi Trackers mini game."
Navi Trackers was the main reason I was looking forward to this game. I played Tetra's Trackers at E3 last year (with English voices, no less) and it was a LOT of fun. I felt it would have made a great minigame. (Most people were upset at the "gimmick" of using 4 GBA's to control the action, but once I got past that line of thinking, I actually enjoyed myself immensly.)
And I guess since it's so language heavy, it wouldn't be a good import. Ugh.
At least Four Swords was just as fun.
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when i was playing pacman last night, it only required one gba for 4 players.
Four players, four gameboys... that suggests that each player has his/her own gameboy... makes sense to me.
Thats the dumest thing I ever heard. First off you are way more likley to find some one who owns a GBA then someone who owns a Gamecube. Secondly YOU only need to have ONE GBA. Your friend (You have friends rights?) has to have his own. Third if you dont have a GBA and your friends dont why the fuck are you buying a game that requries them? Obligatory link: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-08 -25
I think every player has to use a GBA as a controller, like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Presumably, like all good Nintendo fanboys, you and all your friends already own them, and the requisite Gamecube->Gameboy cable.
Having played the Gameboy Advance version[1] I'd say it's quite a fun game, rather action orientated compared to traditional Zelda, but its the sort of game that depends on you being able to get enough people (of the right quality) together to play. I gather the Gamecube is longer than the over-in-an-evening GBA version, which is nice. The GBA version was very fun, with a nice competition element of who can get the most rupees. At least with the Gamecube version you don't have to all own copies of the game, you just need one, but all the people playing have to be able to own / buy / steal / borrow a Gameboy to join in.
The fact Nintendo seem to have cut a section of the game out because they can't be bothered to translate it sucks, it can't cost that much to record a new set of voices for a game (just use Sega's patented technique, and grab a few people off the street and stick them in front of a microphone.)
[1] And fighting the complete stupidness that European and US cartridges won't play together (you get connection error messages), but luckily I was able to get my money back on the US cart I'd picked up second hand and get a nice new EU one like a nice, non-import using Nintendo patron. (Remeber kids! Importing video games supports terrorism!)
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You don't need a GBA for the single player mode, which is still a great game. Controlling 4 Links in formation is a lot of fun.
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A comment about the game, Im sorry but I really cant vouche for nintendo on their decision to require 4 gbas to play a 4 player game, it sounds more like a scare tactic than a product feature. And come on? 4 friends with 4 gba'S? I have 2 brothers a neighbor and between all of us we have 4 friends with one gba and one gamecube. In which alternate reality every brother in the same household and every neighbor friend has a gba? (well at least it doesnt require 4 cubes)
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Your argument is, as I see it, akin to saying, "Man, why can't I play DDR without the dance pad?" except taken to a more extreme level. Nintendo introduced a game where GBA connectivity offered a different kind of experience that could not be replicated with a standard Gamecube controller. No one is forcing you to buy it. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
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One difference which may or may not be a big deal to you is that unlike the GBA game the environments are fixed. You can go back and replay past levels at any time, but they're always the same levels (although there are minor differences if you're playing single-player rather than multi). A couple other noteworthy differences are that the number of Forces collected by each player is always visible, making the competition less obvious and that there are always four Links on the screen, with "extras" being picked up by the actual players, who can move them individually, keep them in formation, or default to conga-line where you're only really using the one in front.
On the topic of using the GBA or not...Hyrule Adventure is completely playable single-player *without* a GBA. When you're using the GCN controller, a subscreen shows up in the middle of the screen showing what would appear on the GBA if you were using one. (This also shows in the four-player mode if the other characters are trying to walk off the screen and one person is lagging behind because of being on a GBA screen -- that person's GBA action is shown on the main screen for the mockery of all.) This is my preferred one-player mode, but it does block out the "overworld" main screen...and things do continue to happen on the big screen while your Link is on the GBA. However, in one-player you can also press the Z button to hide the GBA screen. You get rumble from things like the Hammer or the Pegasus Boots, too.
A lot of people have been complaining about the need to use a GBA in multiplayer. I must say that the game as it is WOULD NOT WORK with multiple people all on the big screen! The GBA is used far more extensively than in, say FFCC. Any time a single Link goes into a house, cave, hole in the ground, underwater in some cases...the action transfers to the GBA for that person, while other players are still wandering around. Sometimes the two interact. The 2D-based graphics lend themselves very nicely to these switches, by the way.
By the way, one feature of Navi Trackers is voice synthesis; you can pick out a two-syllable name and Tetra will use it as she narrates the action like a sports announcer. This is one thing I don't think would transfer so well. It really is a shame that it won't be coming, since I'd like to know what she and the other pirates (and that weird guy who runs the Battleship game in WW) are all *saying* but given all of the voice that must be in it I'm not all that surprised. I've only played that one one-player; you can play completely solo or with Tingle as an opponent (you set his speed, or something like that). I'm looking forward to playing that one with at least one other person. Kind of a shame that all the action really happens on the GBAs, but it's no stranger than the Four Swords GBA game, I suppose.
Shadow Battle, the deathmatch game, didn't do much for us two-player and really needs three or four. There were some cute things in it, but the playing arenas are quite small and it's easy enough to avoid each other with just two. However it looked like it might be a lot of fun with three or four.
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