You need to play this game with 4 players - Reviewed on 2006-11-27
4 customers found this review helpful.
The only way to really have fun in this game is with 4 players.
When I first ripped open the game and turned on the cube, it's a very boring story in the beginning that you can't skip, since I didn't want to go through it again, I completed the first level by myself. It was hell, extremely boring.
I was actually thinking of returning it, I thought to myself to have 3 of my friends over that had Game Boy Advances, and GCN-GBA cables, so I phoned them up, oh god, I had such a blast!
With 3-4 Players this game is extremely fun and entertaning. You'll get near endless amounts of fun and replay value, most of the puzzles aren't as confusing as the Four Swords for GBA ones, and the action is better. However, choose your friends wisley, since they can hurt you by throwing you off pits, you can return the favor though, I did it countless times.
With 2 players the game is kinda... meh, OK... You won't get bored if you play 1-2 levels (3 if you're hyped, like sugar-high or something) but after that it's extremely tedious. You NEED a memory card for this game. Don't even THINK of playing this without one, since the saving feature is limited enough!
Like I said before, 1 player is horrible, and you should only try it once (the first level)
When you go into a house or something (in 2-4 player mode) your game will move to your GBA screen, it seems creative at first, but then it just gets to be a pain in the (BLEEP), since it is quite a pain while you're playing. (When playing 1 player, the GBA screen will overlap the TV screen, unless you're playing on a GBA, but why would you?)
GBA SP's can also be used BTW. Even more troubles: First of all, there usually isn't 4 item spots, where all 4 of you can get a specific item, so you usually have to fight over it, which is quite a hassle. Another trouble is that no matter how good you do, your "buddies" can just give you the "bad" rankings at the end of the game, making you lose points, so they can win, even though you helped them as best as you possibly could. Idiots.
A great addition to the game, even though it can be unfair, if you're bad at fighting in 2d zelda games, is Shadow Battle which is for 2-4 players, you CANNOT add bots to play alone.
You can use items in this mode, however the hidden stages are just "Dark World" variations, where there is a cirlce of light around you, with the exact same level. This is what you get for beating Hyrule Adventure? You gotta be kidding!
For the extra game Tera's Trackers, you need the Asia Import of this game, since it got ditched from the US version. Why? I have no idea. What a crafty marketing strategy. Not!
Anyways, buy this game at your own risk, if you are the type of gamer who's friends all have Xbox, you should not get this game, since I doubt they will all have GBA/GBA SP and GCN-GBA cables.
Even worse (Read it in the instruction booklet) Nintendo DS, and Nintendo DS Lite are not compatiable with any Linkup games, any type. Period. Which is really dumb and stupid, so you can't even PLAY multiplayer if you don't have a GBA SP or GBA.
Another crafty, idiotic marketing scheme. Ah well, wait for Twillight Princess, it arealdy came out for the WII
i'm shelling out for the GCN version.
coming 12.12.06
(offical release date from www.zelda.com)