The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords features two games, a port of the SNES game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and a new multiplayer adventure called Four Swords.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords is an adventure developed by Capcom Production Studio 1, released 2 December 2002 on Game Boy Advance.
What The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords is
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords is an adventure game developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and released in 2002. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Link to the Past The wizard Agahnim has been abducting descendants of the seven sages, intent on using their power to obliterate the barrier leading to the Dark World. One of the descendants happens to be Princess Zelda, who informs Link of her plight. Armed with a trusty sword and shield, Link begins a journey that will take him through treacherous territory. Four Swords A long time ago in Hyrule, there was a hero who used a legendary sword called the Four Sword to defeat the sorcerer Vaati and trapped him into the sword. After the battle, people built a shrine to protect it. Several years later, princess Zelda noticed that Vaati might have escaped from the blade of the Four Sword and…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords is the 29th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in 2002. Its critic score of 100 is 14 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 32 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords launched on 2 December 2002, within three weeks of Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.
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