You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll have fun, that is the brilliance of The Legend of Zelda. One of the greatest joys of The Legend of Zelda is that it provides so many amazing experiences and emotions, whether it the sheer elation of solving a hard puzzle or defeating a hard boss, or absolute frustration that you can’t ever make your way through the Water Temple without getting lost. Perhaps even more so than Nintendo’s famous plumber and his games, The Legend of Zelda have consistently provided high quality titles that have proven to be essential touchstones in not only the gaming industry, but in wider pop culture and the arts in general. Very good stuff.While it is true that 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of Pokemon ( see list dedicated to that here), it also marks the 30th anniversary of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series. A good sense of harmony and dynamics gives this motion, breath, and direction.
As our first Wind Waker mix, I'm certainly glad it didn't just focus on the legacy content, but instead incorporated it in very smoothly with the newer material. Harp, oboe, strings, choir, orchestral percussion, and french horn are all mixed very coherently and cohesively into this lucid arrangement that's a bit of the old and a bit of the new. Things segue into the classic melody then back out, and we get a nice oboe duet towards the conclusion.
Introing with solo harp, then gradually building to the suspenseful string stabs and horn fanfare of 1'00", there's some great running percussion with tambourine, timpani, and cymbals going full force. Though the middle of this arrangement is taken up by a more reticent version of the classic Zelda theme on oboe, the framing melody on either end is new and gives this ReMix a good combination of nostalgia and freshness. I confess to owning a Gamecube but not this game I'm still working my way slowly through Metroid Prime, which is a bit more my style. Darkesword aka Shariq Ansari gives us this stirring orchestral arrangement of the story theme from Link's latest cel-shaded adventure.
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