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Frogger on 18 December 2014
mZuzek said:

Most of Skyward Sword's music didn't have to be memorable to be great, though. It relied more on atmospheric tracks rather than the catchy themes we've come to expect from Zelda, so naturally the only "memorable" ones at first would be Ballad of the Goddess, the Sky music, Skyloft and maybe a couple of others. But it's just such an immersive soundtrack - every song really makes me feel like I'm inside that world (the motion controls also help). I see why people wouldn't like it, and in fact I wasn't a big fan of the music in that game at first, but after getting more used to it you really start to notice the brilliance in most of it.


I just don't think that that kind of music direction works in a Zelda game. The thing about memorable themes is that they bring you back to where you were wheb you heard it, and almost none of Skyward Swords soundtrack does that, which means it failed to do what any Zelda soundtrack should in my book. I don't think any of the prior soundtracks lack immersion or atmosphere from being memorable. The music that plays when you leave Outset for the first time in WW is memorable. The music that plays when you encounter any standard enemy in WW is memorable, yet still atmospheric. The Maiamai theme is memorable. The Desert Palace theme in ALBW is memorable, and oozes atmosphere. I can go on forever with other Zelda titles, but I don't think SS's soundtrack is any more immersive or atmospheric, while almost completely losing out in memorability.



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darkknightkryta on 18 December 2014
riderz13371 said:
My vote goes to Skrillex.

Wob wob wob wob woooobbb

Is all I can hear right now thanks to you >:(

Seriously, it'd sound like DMC's track...



Cheebee on 18 December 2014
spemanig said:

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My vote goes to Ryo Nagamatsu, sole composer to the entire soundtrack of ALBW. Not only are his remixes superb, but his original pieces match and even surpass the originals. ALBW has my favorite soundtrack of any Zelda game, and I'd love to see what he could do in a Zelda game of this scope. There probably will be more than one composer, but I wish there was only one as it creates focus, and I wish it was him. Such talent.

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I second this, very very much. He's amazing, his work on music in Nintendo games is nothing short of spectacular, really.

I think it's extremely likely he's very much involved in Zelda U's soundtrack.



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the_dengle on 18 December 2014
spemanig said:
the_dengle said:
Link Between Worlds only needed one composer because it only had like a half-dozen new songs.

Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword each had 3-5 composers attached to them and it will be the same for Zelda Wii U.

None of that is true. Not only did it have a ton of new peices, but it's almost as difficult to arrange existing pieces in new and unique ways as it is to create entirely new words. It's not somehow less time consuming or less work. This is coming from a musician.

It's coming from you, so it carries roughly as much weight as a European swallow.

Link Between World's OST has about 100 tracks. Wind Waker's has about 150. Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword each have about 200.

After skimming through it, I'll give LBW about 30 new tracks, and that's being generous (how many times shall I count Yuga's theme?). So it's about 70% recycled music.



niallyb on 18 December 2014

I think Slipknot should do the music.



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darkknightkryta on 19 December 2014
mZuzek said:

Well, again... that's you. I didn't find the Maiamai theme very memorable, never mind the Desert Palace one which I can't even remember anymore (and I hated that they had the same melody playing in every Lorule dungeon in that game).

The reason Lorule and Hyrule only had one dungeon theme resepctively is because that's how it was in A Link to the Past.  Which melodies were both remixed for A Link Between Worlds.



darkknightkryta on 19 December 2014
mZuzek said:
darkknightkryta said:
mZuzek said:

Well, again... that's you. I didn't find the Maiamai theme very memorable, never mind the Desert Palace one which I can't even remember anymore (and I hated that they had the same melody playing in every Lorule dungeon in that game).

The reason Lorule and Hyrule only had one dungeon theme resepctively is because that's how it was in A Link to the Past.  Which melodies were both remixed for A Link Between Worlds.

Nah, the Lorule Dungeon themes were all new and all shared a new melody between them.

They used the same theme for the first 3 dungeons, figured it was the same for Lorule.  I just got to Lorule, slowly but surely I'll get to a dungeon.



darkknightkryta on 19 December 2014
mZuzek said:
darkknightkryta said:

They used the same theme for the first 3 dungeons, figured it was the same for Lorule.  I just got to Lorule, slowly but surely I'll get to a dungeon.

With that said, the Hyrule Dungeon remix was absolutely amazing.

I actually really liked it.  I remember when I was playing through A Link to the Past fully for the first time, I was in maybe the third or fourth dungeon of the other world and I was like "I miss the old dungeon music"



Pavolink on 19 December 2014
spemanig said:
Anfebious said:
While Skyward Sword kinda sucked... the music was amazing spermanig! I think the composer from SS should come back for this game.


I don't think it's music was memorable at all. 

It has better music than ALBW copy paste soundtracks.



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Frogger on 19 December 2014
Pavolink said:

It has better music than ALBW copy paste soundtracks.


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Copy paste. Right.

Show some respect for the musicianship at work. It's one thing to not like the new arrangements of old tunes, but it's a different thing entirely to act like it takes little effort or tact to arrange them in the way that was done in ALBW. The soundtrack in ORAS was copy paste. The soundtrack in ALBW was not. That's not an opinion, and saying that is a harsh insult to the musical process. Do you even realize how difficult it is to make a derivative, yet still unique sounding piece of music?