The Legend Of Zelda The Four Swords

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This article is nigh the game. For the detail, see Four Sword. For other uses, see 4 Swords (Disambiguation).

The Legend of Zelda: 4 Swords is the 9th principal installment of The Fable of Zelda series, released alongside A Link to the Past for the Game Boy Advance as a package known as A Link to the Past & Four Swords. It was the first multiplayer The Legend of Zelda game to exist released, requiring ii to 4 Game Boy Advance systems with a copy of the game to exist linked up. Information technology is the outset in the Iv Swords series. The game introduced Vaati every bit a new main boss for the franchise. By 2004, A Link to the Past & Four Swords had sold 1.89 million copies worldwide.^[5]

Every bit part of the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda series, an enhanced port of the game was released for the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS as a express-time free download, Four Swords Ceremony Edition.^{[half dozen]}

i Story
- 1.1 Prologue
- ane.2 Defeat of the Wind Mage at the hand of the 4 Heroes
ii Gameplay
- 2.1 The Three Epics
3 Game Information
- iii.ane Timeline Placement
- 3.2 Speedrun Records
4 Listings
- iv.i Characters
- 4.2 Bosses
- iv.3 Enemies
- 4.four Stages
- 4.5 Items
- 4.6 Translations
- four.7 Credits
- iv.8 Glitches
v Ports and Remakes
- 5.1 Four Swords: Anniversary Edition
6 Legacy
vii Trivia
eight Nomenclature
nine Gallery
10 External links
xi References

Story

Prologue

"Long ago, in the kingdom of Hyrule, there appeared a Wind Sorcerer named Vaati. Vaati could bend the current of air to his will and used this awful power to terrorize many villages of Hyrule. In his assaults on the villages, Vaati would kidnap whatsoever beautiful girls who defenseless his fancy.

Many knights from the castle and other dauntless men set out to subdue the magician and rescue the girls, but each one brutal in turn to Vaati'south awesome ability. Just as the people had begun to lose hope, a lone immature male child traveling with picayune but a sword at his side appeared.

When this male child heard what was happening, he said only, "I volition defeat this magician." He boldly entered Vaati'south palace, mystically trapped the evil sorcerer inside the blade of his sword, and returned the young girls to their villages. The boy then went deep into the forest and disappeared.

The villagers asked the girls how a boy so immature could have saved them all and defeated the sorcerer when no one else could. The young girls told a story of how with just a moving ridge of his sword, the male child's body shattered into 4 pieces, each of which then formed a complete copy of the male child. These 4 young boys then worked together to defeat the sorcerer. The people did non believe the story, simply they called it the Four Sword notwithstanding. As rumors of the blade'due south power to divide a person into four entities spread, the people built a shrine to protect it.

Princess Zelda of the country of Hyrule was a cute young girl born with mysterious power to sense approaching forces of evil. For this reason, she was assigned with the sacred duty of protecting the shrine of the Four Sword and the blade itself. One mean solar day, Zelda was in Hyrule Castle when she sensed that something unusual was occurring at the Iv Sword Shrine. She asked a boy named Link, whom she trusted above anyone else, to accompany her to investigate the happenings at the shrine..."

Defeat of the Wind Mage at the hand of the Four Heroes

Every bit they approached the shrine to check on the seal, all of a sudden a dark figure grabbed princess Zelda. The seal on Vaati had weakened over fourth dimension, and Vaati managed to break out of his prison within the Four Sword. Having withal no retentivity of his time as a Picori, or the ability of the Light Force, Vaati did not recognize the princess and saw only a fair maiden. He decided she was to become his bride to commemorate his return and took off with her to his palace. Afterwards being instructed by fairies, Link takes the Iv Sword from its pedestal and is separate into iv, as the legend foretold. The Great Fairies could help Link to get to the Palace of Winds, but not until he proved himself courageous enough. After traveling over iii dissimilar lands and the dungeons they independent, Link and his three other selves confronted the wind mage in the Palace of Winds, the seat of Vaati'south power. Later on an backbreaking boxing betwixt the sorcerer and the heroes, Link was able to reseal Vaati into the Four Sword bract.

Gameplay

Four Swords has many features not seen in other The Legend of Zelda series games. Information technology requires at to the lowest degree two people to play and uses randomly generated dungeons.

Floors of stages are made of two parts. These two parts are randomly interchanged to produce random floors. To motility onto the next floor of a phase, all the Links must accomplish the warp zone. The faster they attain the Warp Zone the bigger the Rupee bonus. Later on immigration 2 floors, or 9 floors if clearing Vaati's Palace with the Hero Keys, the Links volition be warped to a boss room. Later defeating a boss, with the exception of Vaati, a Great Fairy volition announced. Depending on the number of Rupees collected, they will give the Links either a silver key, a gold key, a hero primal, or in some cases no key at all. The Link who did the best in a stage will receive a Medal of Courage. These medals are needed to larn sure items and a technique in A Link to the By. The number of players playing the game, besides as which ballsy they are playing through, affects the type of random areas and items that will appear during a playthrough.

When a Link loses all of his hearts, he will exist downed. A Link is incapable of moving while down until he pays a penalty of Rupees to be revived. The first revival costs 50 Rupees, but the amount needed increases past another 50 Rupees each time a Link is downed. The maximum toll of a revival is 500 Rupees. If a Link does non have plenty Rupees to exist revived, the game ends. If all Links have filled all of their center containers, any Rupees a Link finds will be worth twice its normal value.

The Three Epics

The first time through Four Swords, the team of players volition struggle through the kickoff 3 levels for silver keys in order to complete the game. Nonetheless, afterwards completing the game, at that place is an option of going dorsum through it two more times. Each epic has a different catastrophe, and to fully consummate the game, all three epics must be played.

The First Epic: The outset time through the game, the squad volition need to collect a total of at to the lowest degree 1000 Rupees per stage in club to get Silver Keys to open up the path to Vaati'southward Palace.

The Second Epic: Stages are a bit harder, and if the team already has Argent Keys, they may try to collect a sum of 3000 Rupees in order to receive Gold Keys to Vaati's Palace.

The Final Epic: If the team of Gilt Central holders can collect a total of 5000 Rupees per phase, the Links will receive Hero'southward Keys from each level. In the last ballsy, Vaati's Palace has four boss battles, instead of the usual one boss.

Game Information

Timeline Placement

Principal article: Zelda Timeline

As can be observed in the plots of the three games featuring the 4 Sword, Four Swords takes place many years after the events of The Minish Cap, and before Four Swords Adventures. The opening scenes of Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures cements the continuity of the three-game mini-serial, dubbed the "4 Sword Serial".^[7] ^[8]

The Fable of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma said Iv Swords was meant equally the outset game in the timeline,^[nine] leading many theorists to place it before Ocarina of Time, while others thought that its placement may have inverse with the release of Four Swords Adventures and other Zelda titles.

Co-ordinate to the official timeline released in Hyrule Historia, The Minish Cap and Four Swords accept identify between Skyward Sword and Ocarina of Fourth dimension, while Four Swords Adventures takes place later Twilight Princess.

Speedrun Records

Main commodity: Speedrun Records

Category	Runner	Time	Date
Whatsoever%	Blank	1m 50s	Janurary eighteen, 2020
Any% (Glitchless)	RealAlphaGamer	1h 18m 59s	April xix, 2018
100%	RealAlphaGamer	1h 34m 12s	April 21, 2018
Low%	RealAlphaGamer	1h 52m 4s	April 20, 2018
Obtain the Master Sword	RealAlphaGamer	20m 33s	April xx, 2018
Obtain the Mirror Shield	RealAlphaGamer	45m 51s	April xx, 2018

Category	Runner	Time	Date
Any% (Game Boy Accelerate)	legrandgrand Baffan	20m 42s	July 7, 2016

Listings

Characters

Bosses

Enemies

Stages

Items

Translations

Credits

Glitches

Ports and Remakes

Four Swords: Anniversary Edition

Main commodity: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition

As office of the 25th Anniversary of the series, a special edition known as Four Swords: Anniversary Edition was made available every bit a free download as DSiWare for the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS between September 28, 2011 and February 20, 2012.^[6] Information technology was later made available again as a costless download for the Nintendo 3DS between January 30 and February 2, 2014, in North America only, to celebrate the release of A Link Between Worlds.^[ten] The port features several changes and additions not present in the original, most notably a single-player mode and two new stages, the Realm of Memories and Hero'due south Trial. Due to A Link to the Past no longer being paired with it, rewards that could be unlocked and carried over from that game are now obtained in the new stages instead.

Legacy

Even though The Air current Waker was the first Zelda game to use the cel-shading graphics style, Four Swords was the first to utilise the mode's accompanying 2D fine art elements.
Four Swords is the first game featuring a dungeon set entirely in the clouds.
It is the commencement multiplayer Zelda game.

Trivia

In Four Swords, the player does not go the option of choosing a name for Link, akin to Iv Swords Adventures and Jiff of the Wild. This was changed in the Anniversary Edition.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Regions
Language		Proper noun	Significant
	Japanese	ゼルダの伝説 4つの剣 (Zeruda no Densetsu Yotsu no Tsurugi)	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
	Chinese ^SI	塞尔达传说四支剑
	Chinese ^TR	薩爾達傳說四人之劍
	German	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
	Korean	젤다의 전설 4개의 검

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External links

Official Due north American website
Official North American Ceremony Edition website
Official Japanese website
Official Japanese Anniversary Edition website
Four Swords page on Zelda.com

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.ane Encyclopedia (Dark Horse Books) pg. seven
↑ | Games Matrix - Game Boy Advance |, Nintendo Commonwealth of australia (archive), retrieved July xiv, 2013.
↑ 젤다의 전설 4개의 검+, Daewon C.I., retrieved March 25, 2021.
↑ Encyclopedia (Night Horse Books) pg. 10
↑ Xenogears vs. Tetris, RPGGamer.
↑ ^vi.0 ^{half dozen.one} "[Iv Swords] volition be bachelor for free in the 3DS and DSi shops between September 28, 2011 and February 20, 2012." — Four Swords Anniversary Edition: release date and new levels, Zelda Universe, published September 13th, 2011.
↑ "Information technology is said that the body of who touches this blade will be shattered to pieces. It has mysterious powers... Legends say that when mighty Vaati attacked, a hero arose and saved the people from devastation. They proceed to say that by using this sword, the one was as four, and the 4 combined their strength!" — Princess Zelda ( Four Swords )
↑ "When all promise seemed lost a young boy carrying little more than a sword appeared. Co-ordinate to the legends, when the male child drew his sword, he carve up into four, the four-who-are-one worked together to shell Vaati. [...] Ages flowed by... The wind magician Vaati broke gratuitous of his prison and kidnapped Zelda, the princess of Hyrule. Princess Zelda's childhood friend Link used the power of the Four Sword to defeat Vaati and seal him abroad once once more." — N/A (Four Swords Adventures)
↑ "The GBA Iv Swords Zelda is what nosotros're thinking as the oldest tale in the Zelda timeline." —Eiji Aonuma (Game Informer A Fable Of Zelda: The Eiji Aonuma Interview)
↑ 4 Swords, 4 Gratis, 4 Days Only, Nintendo eShop.