Navi Trackers

Navi Trackers is a puzzle-based treasure hunting game that was included in Japanese version of Four Swords Adventures. The game formerly planned as a stand alone game titled Tetra's Trackers, but it was canceled somewhere along the line in development. The players uses Game Boy Advance as a game screen and a controller, while the television screen showing navigators narrating the action, and a basic map.

In this game, Tetra or other navigators will serve as a guide to Link as he searches the land for members of Tetra's pirate gang in a specific order to gain stamps from them. Link must collect as many stamps as possible within a given time limit. In the multi-player game, players must competed with each other to gain the higher scores. In a single-player game, player have the choice of playing against Tingle (Tingle Battle), or collecting the stamps alone within a given time limit (Time Attack).

Development

Tetra's Trackers is four-player GameCube/GBA link-up game that was announced at the E3 2003. Tetra's Trackers originally planned to be a stand-alone game release. However, Nintendo canceled the project with no official announcement. The modified version of the game however, was included in the Japanese version of Four Swords Adventures. This game is known as Navi Trackers, but it was never released in other regions.

Story

The story takes place right after The Wind Waker, where Link has to prove himself worthy of being a pirate in Tetra's "Pirate Test". Three other pirates are disguised as Link and battling with him in a little contest. Link must pass all 12 of Tetra's test to become a pirate.

Gameplay

Official Description

"Tetra, the leader of the pirates, has put forth a challenge!"

Link must race his way through various settings, collecting stamps from Tetra's pirate cohorts. To rise to the challenge, he will have to use all his exploration and navigation skills. Accepting this hefty task, players search for pirates placed strategically around Pirate Island and receive a stamp from each one as proof that they actually found them. Pirates must be found in the correct order, so players rely upon map information and hints provided by Tetra through the fabled Pirate's Charm. Up to four players compete to see how many stamps they can collect before time runs out.

Features

• Experience a new level of connectivity between Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Compete against one another to prove your skills as trackers.

• Control four different colored versions of Link, from the Legend of Zelda series, including characters from The Wind Waker. Tetra, the young leader of the pirates, guides you as you race to gather stamps from her pirate followers.

• Use the Game Boy Advance as a game screen and a controller, and race against up to three friends. Exclusive information appears on each player's screen, while Tetra guides the group along the way with cues that appear on Nintendo GameCube.

Characters

All the characters from this game is directly inspired from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Trivia

• The word "Navi" in the game title probably taken from the word Navigator.
• Tetra and her pirate crew have full voice acting in place of text-only dialogue. The navigators (Tetra, Sue-Belle, and King of Red Lions) also can synthesizing the two-character name that each player enter at the beginning of the game,

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