Het Grote Gamecube Topic deel 78

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Op woensdag 24 maart 2004 12:27 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:
Ik snap niet waarom iedereen zich druk maakt op Four Swords... Leuk en aardig allemaal, maar daarvoor heb ik geen GameCube Graphics zijn niet het belangrijkste, maar het moet er wel een beetje uitzien van deze tijd Geen SNES graphics op mijn Cube. En ook een game als Wario Ware hoef ik niet

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It's really tough to remember the last time I had as much fun playing a multiplayer game as I did with Four Swords+; I'm grudgingly willing to admit that maybe, just maybe, Nintendo has a point with this connectivity stuff.

We dabbled a little in all three modes, though we hit Hyrule Adventure the hardest. Something that particularly amazed me in that mode wasn't so much the perfect blend of 2D sprites and 3D effects, but the airtight design of the dungeons. There was never an instance where we were hampered by having only three players; every time it seemed like we might be stuck, there was always a way to get the fourth Link in place.

Also fantastic was the variety of things to do. Unlike Gauntlet, where your options are basically to kill things and then kill more things, there was always something new to explore in Hyrule Adventure -- combat was actually kept to a minimum, and more often you'd be either racing the other players to goodies, cooperating with them to solve puzzles, or doing both at once. A good example of what I mean was the room with lots of colored obstacles that had to be pushed out of the way, but could only be moved by the player of the same color. Since chests lay behind a few of the obstacles, you had to fend off the other characters who'd try to slip past you as you pushed the rock back -- one time, I got picked up by Dave and thrown away from the chest as he scampered off to reap his Heart Container reward.

The other modes aren't as engrossing, but they're still a neat couple of diversions. Admittedly, I liked Navi Trackers better back at E3 when it had full English voice; Tetra's directions and commentary really enhance the game when you can understand them. Shadow Battle pits the four players on one screen, and the presence of lots of power-ups and items to use against your opponents keeps it from degenerating into two characters just making a beeline for each other and slashing away.

You might be wondering who won every mode every time we played. The answer: me. Hahahahah! Even when my non-winner co-workers tried to make me lose points by voting me the most malicious player in the Hyrule Adventure mode, the computer couldn't say no to my over-2000 Force totals.