The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Includes Four Swords)

A Link to Childhood (2010-01-27) : 5/5
I first began playing the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past years and years ago when my family still had a working NES. And it's safe to say that it's set my standard for all Zelda games I've played since then. I had to buy this game when I discovered that my DS was also compatible with GBA games. (I have a busy life, I never stopped to consider.) Anyways, with this game, I can regress to my childhood any time I want.

This game also comes with Zelda Four Swords Adventures. The description in the manual seems interesting, but it requires that you have an actual GBA and that all your friends you want to play with have one too along with the connectors and another copy of the game. So, unless you have all that, you can't play it. But I honestly bought this game for the Link to the Past portion of it and I am thoroughly satisfied with that.

Happy Winter-een-mas. :)
I was fooled! (2009-09-03) : 3/5
When I started This game on my (DS)(I love AC and how peacful it is but I desided to give Zelda a go) I thought it was a great game! It was fun. Though it had poor graphics. But alas when i got to the East palace I realized that every time you died you had to go back to the beginning of the palace!!! Even right before the boss. NO check point!!! *faints* This meant that I spent 3 hours doing the same thing over and over and over aaaaannnnddd ooovveerr.... I tried and failed again and again Yes it did get boring. Boring boring. I had never bin so pleased to get of a game before when I finally beat the boss. I dread What i will have to do i n the upper levels.
If you do not find joy in repeating things over and over. Do not get this game. All I can hope it that Nintendo does not make the same mistake with Pantom Hourglass. But I am rethinking of getting that game anyway.
Awesome (2009-05-07) : 5/5
This is probbobly the only Zelda game I really like, and I can remember playing it on SNES. Now, for the GBA, I can relieve all those memories. It is a really fun game to play, you can waste hours on it, and I highly recommend it. it is a must for any zelda fan!
16 Years Later...I FINALLY BEAT YOU! (2009-03-30) : 5/5
That's right 'A Link To The Past', I bought you when you first came out on Super Nintendo. You were one of my first games and I loved you dearly. I must have invested hundreds of hours playing you, searching for all the fractions of hearts, digging with the shovel in places I shouldn't have been digging. I would hop between worlds like it was a revolving door and try to murder the invincible chickens. I'd play your mini-games until I was a grand master at shooting those squids in the shop 5 out of 5 times!

But you know what I never did? I never kicked the crap out of Ganon and beat the game!!! It was either because it was too hard, I was too distracted, or I was too confused as to where that last key was in the Ice Palace (YouTube'd that nonsense) but I never conquered you.

Fast forward to November 2008: I'm in Iraq with a pink Nintendo DS my wife gave me and a lot of free time on my hands. So I order you, and oh the nostalgia! I still remembered nearly every little trick 17 years later, and this time Ganon, instead of meeting an idle 8-year old with a low attention span you find yourself squaring up with a battle-hardened 24-year old weapon of the U.S. Army...with a slightly higher attention span. But you find yourself suddenly lacking, and you stink of fear. My silver arrows cut your fleshy pig skin to shreds, and for the first time ever Zelda is overwhelmed by my machismo. The TriForce is in the hands of a benevolent ruler once more and we celebrate until dawn; I make bacon for breakfast with the flesh of my enemy.

This game is the pinnacle of video game greatness. I didn't play `Four Swords' so I have nothing to say about that portion, but it doesn't get better than `A Link To The Past'.

This game gets 1000 Stars and 3 Conjoined Triangles!

Zelda 4 Life (2009-03-10) : 5/5
Zelda: A Link To The Past was the first game that I remember loving from beginning to end. It is amazingly fun. It isn't too difficult to play (I'm basing this on the fact that I orginally played it and beat it when I was in elementary school), it has interesting stories for the individual characters you meet in the game, and the gameplay is nearly perfect. Someone might argue that the graphics aren't spectacular, but that is besides the point. Honestly, graphics are the last thing you should consider when purchasing a game if it has a decent story and near perfect controls like A Link To The Past does.

You start off as an average young lad who wakes up after hearing the voice of a girl. It is the middle of the night when you see your Uncle/Dad prepare to leave with his shield and sword. Of course, you go after him in the middle of the night during a rainstorm. How about that for some visual presence? Anyway, you make your way to the castle and begin your adventure to rescue Zelda across several castle/dungeons, bosses, and two worlds.

I still own and play the SNES version. I recently purchased a Nintendo DS Lite and purchased the Game Boy Advance version of this game since the NDS Lite can play GBA games. It's still great on the small screen. The game has been updated with some images and sounds from the Windwaker game --which is also a great Zelda game, so I can't complain for those changes to be honest.

My only complaint is probably not worth mentioning unless you are soley purchasing a GBA or NDS handheld system to play this game: The buttons are backwards on the game pad (A, B, X, Y). It'll take some getting used to the difference, which is kind of annoying that that was even done. But, the game is so great that I got over it.

Happy Gaming!