The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords

Practise carrying and throwing a partner before beginning a scored stage. Agree who stays on a switch and who crosses first.

Inspect the available item pedestals when entering a new puzzle. Give each player a clear role instead of having everyone exchange equipment at once.

Before leaving a room, recover separated partners and check accessible rewards. A coordinated exit is safer than racing ahead alone.

Explore the forest's branches and check the ground before charging through cut vegetation. Keep a route back to the party while collecting scattered rupees.

Use the supplied tools to move between isolated platforms and operate paired mechanisms together.

Strike Big Manhandla's buds with the matching coloured Link. When levers appear, pull them together to expose the next targets.

Approach icy corners slowly and counter the slide before reaching an edge. Do not throw a teammate onto a platform that the receiving player has not checked.

Keep the Pegasus Shoes for the boss encounter and line up each charge before running.

Ram Dera Zol into the icy wall, then slash it while frozen. In the later phase, coordinate the colour information visible to the players.

Wait for lava hazards to finish their cycle before crossing. Leave enough room between players so one mistake does not send the whole party into danger.

Assign the distant-switch task to a player whose tool can safely reach it, then regroup before the boss.

Return Gouen's projectile with the Link matching its current colour. After the boss disperses into flames, find and strike its vulnerable body.

Finish Sea of Trees, Talus Cave and Death Mountain to earn the initial key set. Review the stage-selection screen before choosing Vaati's Palace.

For higher key tiers, replay the regions with the required rupee goals. Efficient collection matters more than winning a race against teammates.

Check every participating player's access before starting the palace route. Different key sets open different challenges.

Read each room as a cooperative puzzle: identify the exit, the switches holding it open and the tools needed to connect them.

Use the Cape for its intended gaps and control movement around fans. Avoid committing every player to a collapsing floor at once.

Recover health and choose the arena's equipment before beginning Vaati. Save the party's coordination for the colour-dependent phases.

Send bombs into Vaati's tornado and detonate them near him. Repeat until he drops within sword range.

In the later battle, pass the changing-colour projectile between the matching Links to create a stun.

Read the colours shown by the exposed arm targets and coordinate attacks on the corresponding sides. Do not assume every projectile follows the same colour rule.