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Re: Best GameCube Games

Roam85

Hey, Four Sword Adventures moved up from #50 to #49 since the last posting.

Which is still weird because it’s my #1

Re: Memory Pak: When Mario Became A Pro Wrestler And Ruled At It

Roam85

Paper Mario is great.

But you’re talking about Mario being a pro wrestler and ignoring that before Charles Martinet, most people thought Mario sounded like professional wrestler, Captain Lou Albano (and with good reason, Captain Lou played Mario in the all the Dic cartoons and the live action segments of the super mario bros super show).

Re: Feature: Zelda: Spirit Tracks Finally Gave The Princess A Crucial Role To Play

Roam85

I liked Spirit Tracks a lot. I personally preferred the boat customizations in PH over the train customizations in ST, but I think the story in ST was stronger. Byrne and Malladus were great non-ganon antagonists (probably the best this side of Vaati. Sorry Veran and Onox.). Use of Zelda, as this article points out: is easily among the best in the series. And during a time where using zelda seemed to often mean making her someone other than Zelda (Sheik and Tetra), this one really did go for making it about the namesake. Plenty of other familiar faces like Alfonso and Linebeck.

Really, there is no portable zelda that isn’t an underrated zelda.

Re: Feature: Zelda: Four Swords Was Probably Great, But Finding Pals To Play With? Talk About A Master Quest

Roam85

Because we had Four Sword Adventures in college where I provided all the link cables and copies of the game (and even a second gba as I upgraded to the SP), we had a steady group of 4 (five technically, two guys alternated on the loaner gba) and played through the entire game over a little less than a month by getting together regularly and doing it.

Was probably the best zelda experience of my life. And having the full foursome so stages ended with votes that mattered on “who helped” and “who hindered” really did make it.

Everyone had one item they weren’t allowed to use after an “incident”. For one buddy it was the boomerang, because he kept boomeranging folks into pits. For another it was the hookshot... because he kept getting revenge. For me it was the bombs... because one time when I got them upgraded I just figured it was too much fun to put bit bombs everywhere. And for the final buddy it was the roc’s feather... he didn’t do anything wrong with it; but the rest of us lost something and that was his preferred item, and as established, the rest of us were kinda jerks.

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As for the original, I had it. Tried it like once or twice with my brother and link cables. Didn’t beat it till the anniversary edition on dsi/3ds let you play solo. The link’s awakening level was neat.