

Multiplayer Zelda is one of Nintendo's great, unrealised ideas. It was as rarefied a mid-2000s gaming delight as a go on a Samba de Amigo set-up that actually worked.


Magnificent, but now near-forgotten, because the hardware barrier to entry to experience Four Swords Adventures as it was intended to be played was set so unrealistically high. One of my all-time favourite local multiplayer experiences occurred a little over ten years ago, on the solitary occasion in my life when enough Game Boy Advances and Link Cables had been gathered together with a GameCube for a full four-player session on Nintendo's magnificent co-op romp, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. A unique, challenging and sporadically delightful co-op game - but forget about the clumsy solo play.
