| contestgamer said: BOTW soundtrack is absolutely terrible. The way to judge a games OST is how many songs you can hum from it 5 or 10 years down the road. I guarantee you not many in BOTW wil be among them - if any. A ton from OoT will stick with you. BOTW is not catchy and thats what matters. It's ambient music and I hesitate to call that music at all. Nothing in BOTW compares to Gerudo valley, hyrule field or kakariko village in Oot when it comes to how catchy they are. |
That's not by any means the only metric for assessing a game's soundtrack.
There are other crucial factors; how well the music fits and enhances the gameplay experience for instance. A traditional bombastic orchestral score would have been totally out of place in Botw's mostly solitary journey through a ruined kingdom now overgrown into a wilderness. Such dramatic themes do play a part during narrative events such as the Guardian Beasts, but out in the field, the ambient minimalism perfectly accentuates the game's sense of place and the contemplative, almost zen-like process of exploration in a world that jutxaposes serenity and danger.
