Best Zelda Games to Play with a Friend - The RPG Files

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It's Zelda week, and with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom releasing Friday, we are taking a look back at the game's past. When we think of The Legend of Zelda, the first thing that comes to mind is often an epic, single-player experience. From over-the-top bosses to green tunics and puzzles, all of the main series Zelda games are meant to be played alone. However, there are quite a few spin-off titles that feature couch co-op or even online multiplayer. So if you’re ready to crawl through dungeons and collect rupees with a friend, here are my recommendations for the best Zelda multiplayer games.

The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes for 3DS felt like an experiment that sounded good on paper but in reality, didn’t work out as well as expected. The game features classic top-down dungeon crawling and puzzle solving but with a catch. Instead of a single protagonist, there are three different colored Links (red, blue, and green) that are each controlled by a different player.

Additionally, instead of a large, open world to explore Tri Force Heroes mostly consists of a town and 32 dungeons typically with 4 stages each. While that might seem like a significant amount of content, the gameplay and levels do feel a bit repetitive after a while.

In order to complete each dungeon, players need to work together by standing on blocks, stacking up or throwing each other across ledges. Furthermore, to finish a level, all three players need to simultaneously stand on three Triforce pieces, which means no one can be left behind even it would make solving certain puzzles easier.

While playing Zelda mini-dungeons with friends might sound like a great experience, there’s a serious catch, which is one of the main complaints the game