The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures - Part 21 - Eye Sore

Skawo: Wow, it definitely hasn't been a year since the last episode. LuigiXHero: TOWER OF WINDS. Meatball132: I do not remember this level at all. Meatball132: Which is weird, because it's pretty different from all the other ones. Meatball132: Random observation I only just now noticed: there's a particle effect of the air coming out of the Links' mouths. Skawo: It's the Tower of Being in Side-view Unless You're On a Handheld. Skawo: This ain't Zelda 2, though. The side sections in this work...

questionably. LuigiXHero: This is one of my favorite levels... in single player. But I don't think it works that well in multiplayer, considering everyone acts as walls. Skawo: Yeah, it's a bit of a problem when jumping is an ability you can dispose of. Skawo: Game's not all that keen to restore it, either. LuigiXHero: At least you can toss people out of your way constantly. But still annoying. Skawo: Wouldn't it be great if the real world worked like that? Skawo: Someone blocking you? Skawo: Ye

et them away. Meatball132: That is how the real world works. Skawo: It is? Skawo: Remind me to never come near you, ever. LuigiXHero: I guess Meatball is from Isle Delfino. He's a CHUCKSTER. Meatball132: How will we record the rest of these, then, Skawo? Local multiplayer only. Skawo: Wavebirds. Skawo: You get to sit OUTSIDE my window. Meatball132: I "get" to, huh? Skawo: Well, yeah. You could be standing. LuigiXHero: Skawo doesn't want us in his house because we'll steal all his fruit. Meatball

132: Skawo is the type of person to eat like, prunes, or something, though. I wouldn't want his fruit. Skawo: Nevermind, you're definitely gonna stand now. Meatball132: Skawo is just offended about how right I am, I think. Skawo: ANYWAY, shooting gallery is happening, aaaand... Skawo: Good work, everyone! Skawo: We turned all the switches off! Skawo: Amazing teamwork. Meatball132: Wow. LuigiXHero: They should've made this room different in multiplayer. Meatball132: Absolute failure. Skawo: Absol

utely splendiferous. Skawo: Hooray! Only shot ourselves in the back 38 times. Skawo: We're holier than an old pair of pants. Skawo: But, should stop acting holier-than-thou, it's not very nice. Meatball132: ...oh, this room made me remember the level, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. Skawo: God, I hope so. It's been 3 years since we recorded this AND another year since we started to commentate this. I don't remember ANYTHING. Meatball132: What a puzzle that was. Skawo: A platform,

just for me! Skawo: ...but why? LuigiXHero: Because you've earned it. Skawo: Okay, but. Skawo: Things you earn are usually worth something. Skawo: Slow displacement over an abyss is not very rewarding. LuigiXHero: Imagine if you could take it with you, though. Would be very handy in certain situations. Skawo: I typically don't find myself near abysses, actually, so, mm, no? Skawo: And even if I had, I'd probably try to stay faaaaar away instead of trying to interact with it. RoadrunnerWMC: You

must have a hard time with platformers. Skawo: I can't believe that actually worked. LuigiXHero: Well, we finally found the jump button. Skawo: Jump buttons are great. Too bad they also come with the "hurt others" button. LuigiXHero: Violence is just the Links' default state. They can't help it. Skawo: Is it? Skawo: Heck they doing mucking about as heroes, then? Villain route! LuigiXHero: In history, the heroes and villains are decided by who won or not. LuigiXHero: Who's to say they really were

the heroes. Skawo: So you're saying this game is actually Hyrule royalist propaganda meant to cover up crimes of its supporters? Skawo: 'ts not doing a great job at it, then, is it. Skawo: ...so. What we doin'? Meatball132: Talking about fruit? Skawo: Look, you can't just slap the FRUIT button because past selves from a year ago left a minute-long gap in the commentary here. LuigiXHero: Sure we can, what is up with airline pineapples? Skawo: ...airlines provide you with pineapples? naknow: We c

an discuss the etymology behind why almost every language calls them "ananas" yet English calls them "pineapples", if you want. Skawo: If it bothers you that much, just start calling them ananas, bro. Meatball132: I think we just witnessed the game having a lobotomy in real time. LuigiXHero: That was as if someone was spamming Z on a GC controller... but we were all using GBAs. Skawo: The game's spamming Z on its own. It just REALLY wants to go to sleep. Skawo: You know, back in the day... Skawo

: ...this would've been the only legit way to actually see what's on a GBA screen. Skawo: With their lack of backlight and general darkness issues, and whatnot. Skawo: Too bad you can't play other games through your copy of FSA. naknow: It was to force children to play during the day, because playing at night when it is bedtime is a sin. We all know this. LuigiXHero: I think the SP was out by then, though. So, could get around it. Skawo: You'd think day would make any sort of difference, but, no

. Skawo: You have to be sitting on the SURFACE OF THE SUN to see the OG GBA screen. Meatball132: I think there is a better solution called "Game Boy Player", Skawo. Skawo: Not anymore. Have you SEEN those prices, Meatball? Skawo: Would actually be cheaper to book a flight to the surface of the sun. Meatball132: Well, Skawo, today's price gouging doesn't matter when we're talking exclusively about contemporary options. Skawo: I do wonder how exactly showing the GBA screen on the TV works, anyway.

Skawo: Do you reckon the GameCube is emulating the GBA code in the background? Skawo: Does the GBA actually send out what it's rendering...? Skawo: Those link cables are probably like 3 bytes per hour, so it has to be the former, right? Meatball132: I think I looked into this a long time ago and the GameCube was just reconstructing everything displayed on the GBA screen from scratch. RoadrunnerWMC: That's not quite the same as emulation... LuigiXHero: Simulation. RoadrunnerWMC: Mimicry. Meatbal

l132: I mean, the GBA screens are probably just displaying stuff calculated on the GC itself anyways. Skawo: Oh, so it's actually a QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT OF STATES. Skawo: ...Minus the quantum part. Skawo: "Entanglement of States" being the beta name of the USA, by the way. Skawo: History lesson with FSA. Skawo: Anyway, I like the idea of making Force Gems into an enemy. LuigiXHero: It's like Like Likes but less bad. Skawo: And you can pretend you're fighting the Illuminati! LuigiXHero: I don't g

et why the fake Force Gem enemies are GBA-only, though. Skawo: The Illuminati hide in the darkness. Ergo, GBA screen. LuigiXHero: We're also kind of part of the Illuminati, though, being the Triforce bearer. Skawo: There was a schism. Skawo: The ISOSCELES tribes WARRED with the ACUTES while the OBTUSE watched. Skawo: Good button pressage, by the way, Meatball. Nudged it with your pinky toe? Meatball132: It worked, didn't it? LuigiXHero: That happens a ton in this game. Buttons are more of a sugg

estion. Skawo: Notthwomps. LuigiXHero: A tutorial like 4 levels before the end of the game. Does that get a owl? I feel like it should. Skawo: We don't give owls in this game. LuigiXHero: Right, we didn't have the budget for it. naknow: We get them. Whether we want to or not (I don't want them). Skawo: The owl can't remember the score that long, anyway. Skawo: The Notthwomp stomp sound is pretty good. Skawo: Very definite. Meatball132: It's not HURRRHGH though. Skawo: It isn't, true. Not everyth

ing can be the greatness that is Mario 64. Meatball132: And Mario Kart 64... and Mario Galaxy 2 has the same sound for Whomps. And Probably other games. Skawo: Not EVERYTHING. But some things can be. naknow: Viewers, please... how would you transcribe the Thwomp sound in text formation? Please share with us your findings. Skawo: BUTTON PRESS Skawo: Awww, skeletons? That's not a good button at all. LuigiXHero: Talk about skeletons in the closet, am I right? Skawo: No. No. There were no closets in

volved. Stop saying nonsense. Skawo: So, anyway, we just spent like 4 minutes in that last room, there. Skawo: Will add a little card to the video if you want to witness that whole deal. Skawo: For the sake of everyone's sanity, it has been purged from this video, however. Skawo: You're welcome. Meatball132: Aw, but I couldn't wait to write commentary about nothing for four minutes straight. Meatball132: We'd probably talk about fruit again. Skawo: We can always talk about fruit, though. Skawo:

Don't need four minutes of idiocy to do so. LuigiXHero: MANGOS ARE GROSS Skawo: KIWIS TASTE WEIRD naknow: PEARS ARE MESSY RoadrunnerWMC: APPLES CAN GET YOU SUED Meatball132: WATERMELONS EXIST Skawo: Whoa, there, Meatball. That's too controversial for this channel. Meatball132: I'm sorry, I have to get the truth out there somehow. Skawo: ...Well, anyway, speaking of our group's idiocy. Meatball132: That was a weird glitch, everyone just teleported... naknow: Space particle flipped a bit and we we

nt ahead a lot, thanks, universe!! LuigiXHero: Skawo pulling all the stops to let us get this done faster. Skawo: Yes. I govern the space particles. Meatball132: Wow, I just jumped in all the exact incorrect locations, there. Skawo: Wanted to cool off. Skawo: Maybe you thought the ceiling triangles were new schmancy Force Gems? RoadrunnerWMC: I wonder if the falling ceiling triangles are allied with the sword-bearing ambush ones. LuigiXHero: Nah, they can't be. The ice ones are GCN only, so they

don't even co-exist in the same realm. RoadrunnerWMC: I guess the link cable doesn't have the bandwidth to transmit a treaty. Skawo: Yay. I got two. And, goodbye, jump button. Skawo: HELLO ARSON BUTTON Skawo: ...does melting ice count as arson...? Skawo: This "Tower of Winds" sure has a lot of ice-related content inside, by the way. Skawo: More worryingly, none of, uh, winds? Skawo: Also, frozen frog. Skawo: What else would you use to block a passageway in your videogame? Skawo: Taking lessons

from the best, too. Wario Land. Skawo: We know Wario Land is actually a stealth Zelda game, of which this is just yet another proof, if backwards. LuigiXHero: Well, the level IS in Frozen Hyrule. So the ice thing kinda makes sense. Skawo: No heating. Gotcha. Skawo: Gosh darn ancient temples not providing basic amenities. LuigiXHero: Also, do you really want wind puzzles? Skawo: Touche. Meatball132: Seems warm enough on the GBA screens, you can't see your breath there. Just on the TV screen. Skaw

o: Well, the GBA doesn't have any heatsinks. Maybe it gets a bit warmer in there. Meatball132: I think you'd need more than a heatsink to produce all that ice. The GCN must have a freezer inside. Skawo: Hello again, jump button. Skawo: And then the Tower was like... "I could Keese you". LuigiXHero: I never realized they made these Keese in the sideview areas act like they do in Zelda 2. LuigiXHero: That's a neat callback, I guess. LuigiXHero: ...are they even Keese in Zelda 2? Skawo: Nope. They'

re called Aches. Still. Same thing. Skawo: And they sure are an ACHE IN THE BUM, am I right? Skawo: ...it doesn't work when you replace one of the words like that. I'm sorry. Skawo: Having recently played a lot of Game Boy-adjacent Zelda, the comically high jumps look weird. Skawo: They really improved the Roc's Feather technology over the years, I guess. LuigiXHero: ...How did that even work? Skawo: ...What good does that dinky platform do for us? Skawo: ...Oh, uh, well, I guess it does much mo

re "good" than dropping skeletons into the level, as I just managed. Skawo: And how did THAT even work?! LuigiXHero: I guess the platform is just so you have an easy time leaving? But Roc's Feather is too OP, plz nerf. Skawo: Why would they make a puzzle which just lets you leave the place where you did the puzzle easier? Skawo: Very confused. But, uh, nevermind. Skawo: Hurry up, STRAGGLERS. Skawo: The tips of our ears are surely about to fall off from the cold. Skawo: You don't want ROUND ears

like a weirdo, do you? Skawo: What the fresh hell are these. LuigiXHero: Must be one of those single-level bird enemies that Nintendo will end up loving 20 years later. Skawo: Not entirely sure those are even birds. Looks like a blue-haired Octorok being ridden by a red creature. Skawo: NOT THE GLORPS LuigiXHero: Why did we get slimed on? Skawo: Nickelodeon Skawo: I got basically nothing nothing out of that Force Shower. Meatball132: Force Shower sounds like how a Jedi Knight would clean themsel

ves. LuigiXHero: About the "birds": they're apparently winged eyes. And they even got a rare fully unique sprite for this game. Skawo: So THAT'S where half of the budget went. Meatball132: So anyways, this is a good room. Skawo: A chance to re-experience this wonderful puzzle anew. LuigiXHero: Thankfully this time we didn't need to cut it. Skawo: If you didn't click on that card back there, just replay that part like 20 times. LuigiXHero: Practice makes perfect after all. Skawo: Well, I dunno if

I'd call that "perfect" per se. Skawo: Anyway, well, here's the boss. Skawo: Giving us a very cold stare. Meatball132: Flipping us birds, even. LuigiXHero: Surprised they were hiding this here. After already reusing bosses a bunch. LuigiXHero: But I guess if Mario Sunshine can reuse the first boss four times in a row, this game can reuse the knights and Phantom Ganon fights too. Meatball132: Nintendo develops a Zelda game without any bosses that are just a giant eyeball challenge (impossible).

Skawo: I don't remember any eyeball bosses in BotW. Skawo: That might be because BotW doesn't have any bosses, though. LuigiXHero: Stalnox kinda is, since only the eyeball can get hurt. Skawo: Okay, but there are other parts of Stalnox you can get hurt by. Doesn't count. Skawo: ...was that it getting hurt or preparing to give birth? Meatball132: That looked like a Super Metroid enemy, there. LuigiXHero: Not quite aggressive enough to be a Metroid boss though, thankfully. Skawo: Imagine getting y

our eyelash stuck in your eye if you're this thing. Skawo: Welp. Skawo: Aside from the absolute idiocy in like 3 rooms...? Skawo: That went pretty well, methinks. Meatball132: Yeah, short video, huh? LuigiXHero: Wind Waker warp to the end! LuigiXHero: What flavor is this magical girl? Meatball132: Oh yeah... that's what this game was about, wasn't it? LuigiXHero: Oh. It's Zelda. Skawo: Wait. Wait! I thought we were playing AS Zelda??? Meatball132: Why can't Zelda jump? Skawo: Doesn't have Roc's

Feather. Duh. LuigiXHero: She believed in us? I didn't even believe in us. Skawo: Yeah, she's definitely insane. Skawo: To be fair, you'd go insane being stuck in a lightbulb this long. RoadrunnerWMC: Yeah, she's been trapped there for three and a half years at this point. Skawo: Well, she should git gud. BotW Zelda did 100 years of that. LuigiXHero: BotW Zelda was even stuck in a pimple and she didn't care. Skawo: Deltarune. Meatball132: That looks extremely safe. Skawo: Why didn't we break the

crystal BEFORE listening to her spiel? Skawo: Surely it came out all muffled this way. LuigiXHero: Because it's cold and in the crystal it's warm. Meatball132: I don't think the Links even heard any of what she said. naknow: Look, there's grass out there!!! naknow: Grass... naknow: I need to tell you guys something if you don't mind... LuigiXHero: Anyway, we made it to the top. ...Now what? naknow: We haven't been getting along as of recently. I feel like she hasn't been paying much attention

to me... Skawo: We jump down. naknow: She's always off photosynthesizing with some other guy and I just... LuigiXHero: Break all our ankles. Skawo: We don't have ankles. naknow: I feel hurt. Skawo: Out feet are directly connected to our torsos. LuigiXHero: I'm not sure we even have legs. naknow: I mean, perhaps it's for the best that she's off with someone she likes better, but... Skawo: Oof. LuigiXHero: Woah, I might not actually win. naknow: I'm sorry for being so quiet about it, and in gener

al, my friends... Skawo: It'll be close. Skawo: 2 naknow wins in a row! LuigiXHero: Super close one. naknow: I don't care... you can have my win... you all can have it... Meatball132: Sadness. LuigiXHero: Next time from another place, not from outer space, but from some place even higher.