History VideoGame / TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords

* ColorCodedCharacters:The four hero Links are blue, red, green, and purple. Bosses often have colored weak points that have to be hit by the Link whose color corresponds to it.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Each plsyeer controls a different color of Link.

* Me'sACrowd: All four plyers play as Link.

* BigBad: Vaati, even though Ganon appears at the end of Four Sword Palace.

* BigBad: Vaati.

* ColorCodedMultiplayer
* CoOpMultiplayer

* FacelessEye: Vaati

* MesACrowd

* SaveThePrincess

* MilestoneCelebration: The [=DSiWare=] release is part of Zelda's 25th anniversary.

-->''That is the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement sacred blade]] I spoke of, the [[TitleDrop Four Sword]]. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed away in its forged steel]] is [[BigBad Vaati]], [[BlowYouAway the wind mage]].''
---> --'''Princess Zelda'''

--> '''Princess Zelda'''

-->''That is the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement sacred blade]] I spoke of, the [[TitleDrop Four Sword]]. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed away in its forged steel]] is [[BigBad Vaati]], [[BlowYouAway the wind mage]].

* NostalgiaLevel: The Realm of Memories in the [=DSiWare=] version, including stages based on ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', and the original ''[[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaI Zelda]]''. The graphics and music even change accordingly.

The story for the game, [[ExcusePlot though not terribly important]], involved the wind sorcerer Vaati, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap who had been sealed away before]], escaping from his seal and capturing Princess Zelda. Link obtains the Four Sword and uses its magic powers to split into four copies of himself (green, red, blue, and purple). The four Links must work together to defeat their foes in the various areas and make their way to the final fight against Vaati. Of course, there's plenty of room for competition as well as cooperation.

* ColorCodedCharacters: Shadow Link is black, while the four hero Links are blue, red, green, and purple. Bosses often have colored weak points that have to be hit by the Link whose color corresponds to it.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Vaati escapes his prison and immediately tries to get Zelda to become his bride... ''However'', it's [[AsYouKnow common knowledge]] that Vaati has tried this before, and he had seized a '''''seven''-girl harem''' in the backstory for the sequel.

* NostalgiaLevel: The Realm of Memories in the [=DSiWare=] version, including stages based on ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', and the original ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZelda''. The graphics and music even change accordingly.

The ninth game in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, ''Four Swords'' is actually a multiplayer mode that comes with the 2002 GameBoyAdvance [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' (though also later released standalone for the [=DSiWare=]). It's the first multiplayer Zelda (and, until the [=DSiWare=] version, it was ''exclusively'' multiplayer) and was also the first game released to use the 2D version of the stylized [[CelShading cel-shaded]] design for Link that would later be used in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]''. It also had a few features to connect to ''A Link to the Past'', such as new sword moves unlocked in ''A Link to the Past'' being transferred to ''Four Swords'', and a secret dungeon in ''A Link to the Past'' upon beating both games.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Shadow Link is black, while the four hero Links are blue, red, green, and purple. Bosses often have colored weak points that have to be hit by the Link whose color corresponds to it.

* ButThouMust: The second game ''forces'' you to free Vaati.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The Anniversary Edition includes the Hero's Trial, a harrowing gauntlet of MalevolentArchitecture and mobs of some of the most unfair enemies in the game. It's particularly murderous in single-player mode, as certain enemy ambushes just weren't designed with only one player in mind. They are Sea of Trees, Talus Caves, Death Mountain and Vaati's Castle amped UpToEleven. It will put veterans of older Zelda games to shame.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The Anniversary Edition includes the Hero's Trial, a harrowing gauntlet of MalevolentArchitecture and mobs of some of the most unfair enemies in the game. It's particularly murderous in single-player mode, as certain enemy ambushes just weren't designed with only one player in mind.

* BubblyClouds: The Palace of Winds.

** Averted with the free [=DSiWare=] remake, which can be played in Multiplayer AND solo. Of course, the more players you have, the more fun you will have, and now it's possible to team up with your friends to get the special skills that previously could only be obtained alone.

* UpdatedRerelease: The [=DSiWare=] remake. While it lacks A Link to the Past, it makes up for it by being free, including a single-player mode, making the multiplayer mode wireless, and having two bonus dungeons (one of which is a NostalgiaLevel).

** The [=DSiWare=] remake added a couple to ''Four Swords'' itself; the [[NostalgiaLevel Realm of Memories]] and the Hero's Trial are two bonus dungeons you can unlock. The rewards for completing these dungeons were previously available in the original, but getting them required progress in ''A Link to the Past'' to unlock them. [[hottip:*:The first reward, the Beam Sword, was acquired by obtaining the Master Sword during standard gameplay; the second, the Hurricane Spin, required completion of a sidequest that required 10 Medals of Courage from ''Four Swords'' to even ''initiate''.]]

* ExcusePlot: There's no story at all beyond Zelda getting kidnapped and you having to go save her.

* NostalgiaLevel: The Realm of Memories in the [=DSiWare=] version, including stages based on ''ALinkToThePast'', ''LinksAwakening'', and the original ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZelda''. The graphics and music even change accordingly.

The ninth game in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, ''Four Swords'' is actually a multiplayer mode that comes with the 2002 GameBoyAdvance [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]''. It's the first multiplayer Zelda (and, until the [=DSiWare=] version, it was ''exclusively'' multiplayer) and was also the first game released to use the 2D version of the stylized [[CelShading cel-shaded]] design for Link that would later be used in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]''. It also had a few features to connect to ''A Link to the Past'', such as new sword moves unlocked in ''A Link to the Past'' being transferred to ''Four Swords'', and a secret dungeon in ''A Link to the Past'' upon beating both games.

''Four Swords'' was rereleased in 2011, unattached to ''Link to the Past'', for [=DSiWare=] download as part of [[MilestoneCelebration Zelda's 25th anniversary]]. Besides the advantages of being on a system with built-in wireless multiplayer (the GBA had to use link cables), this edition also includes a single-player mode. The single-player mode only features two Links and gives players control of both by using the X button to call the second Link to the first one (after which the second Link follows the first one and manipulates objects with him) and the L and R buttons to separate them and switch between them. Although the first Link is always green in single-player mode, players may choose which of the three colors the second one is, and this can be changed anytime the game is loaded rather than being permanent. (Multiplayer mode lets you use the X button to call for help, though the other Links don't ''have'' to respond...)

The ninth game in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, ''Four Swords'' is actually a multiplayer mode that comes with the 2002 GameBoyAdvance [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]''. It's the first multiplayer Zelda (and, until the [=DSiWare=] version, it was ''exclusively'' multiplayer) and was also the first game released to use the stylized [[CelShading cel-shaded]] design for Link that would later be used in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]''. It also had a few features to connect to ''A Link to the Past'', such as new sword moves unlocked in ''A Link to the Past'' being transferred to ''Four Swords'', and a secret dungeon in ''A Link to the Past'' upon beating both games.

* AdaptationExpansion: Much like all the other games, a manga was made for this game as well. Within it, we get seperated personalties for the four Links, a characterization for Shadow Link, and some insight of everything that was going on, as well as proof that Zelda was mentally strong.
** [[AllInTheManual All In The Game]]: However, though it advertises itself as a manga for the remake, the plotpoint with the Maidens is only ever explored twice; we see them captured, they free two of them, and that's it. If it weren't for the game, no one would really know their use.

The ninth game in ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series, ''Four Swords'' is actually a multiplayer mode that comes with the 2002 GameBoyAdvance [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]''. It's the first multiplayer Zelda (and, until the [=DSiWare=] version, it was ''exclusively'' multiplayer) and was also the first game released to use the stylized [[CelShading cel-shaded]] design for Link that would later be used in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]''. It also had a few features to connect to ''A Link to the Past'', such as new sword moves unlocked in ''A Link to the Past'' being transferred to ''Four Swords'', and a secret dungeon in ''A Link to the Past'' upon beating both games.

* [[spoiler:HijackedByGanon: No surprise, really.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Vaati escapes his prison and immediately tries to get Zelda to become his bride... ''However'', it's [[AsYouKnow common knowledge]] that Vaati has tried this before, and he had seized a '''''seven''-girl harem''' in the remake.[[hottip:*:Albeit [[spoiler: that he did this under Ganon's control, it was pretty inferred that he would actually do something with them once Link was defeated.]]

The ninth game in ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series, ''Four Swords'' is actually a multiplayer mode that comes with the 2002 GameBoyAdvance [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]''. It's the first multiplayer Zelda (and, until the [=DSiWare=] version, it was ''exclusively'' multiplayer) and was also the first game released to use the stylized [[CelShading cel-shaded]] design for Link that would later be used in ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]''. It also had a few features to connect to ''A Link to the Past'', such as new sword moves unlocked in ''A Link to the Past'' being transferred to ''Four Swords'', and a secret dungeon in ''A Link to the Past'' upon beating both games.