Cadence of Hyrule: CoTN - Gerudo Valley / Gerudo Desert | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

Fun fact about the organ in The Legend of Zelda series: Canonically, Ganondorf (the main villain) plays the instrument. In Cadence of Hyrule you can find a young Ganondorf playing the organ and whistling the tune of Gerudo Valley.

The Gerudo Valley Remix from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is definitely my favourite version. Also, the Gleeokenspiel boss music from Cadence of Hyrule is amazing.

Cadence of Hyrule was one of the coolest and most unexpected crossovers I've ever seen. Amazing soundtrack too! There's a reason the peaceful and combat version are the same tempo - as another commenter explained, the game switches between versions dynamically. You hear the combat version while you're fighting enemies (to the beat), then once you beat the last enemy on the screen, it switches to the peaceful version. Then if you move to another screen and it has enemies, you're back to the combat version. They work together incredibly well imo

Alright, let’s do an info dump about Cadence of Hyrule this time, lol. Cadence of Hyrule is a spin-off of both Zelda and Crypt of the Necrodancer made by the Necrodancer developers (Brace Yourself Games). The soundtrack is indeed composed by DannyB, and it also features FamilyJules on guitar, just like Crypt did. It mostly features remixes from across the Zelda franchise, but there’s also a good amount of original tracks in there as well, so it’s not only remixes. The game is basically if you took a Zelda game, made it a roguelite, and made the combat follow Crypt of the Necrodancer rules (it’s to the beat of the music). Each run can take a few hours casually because the game is literally a full (but somewhat compressed) Zelda game each time, just with a randomized map layout and item placements. The deal with the peaceful/combat versions is every overworld/area theme has multiple versions, usually at least 3. There’s the peaceful version, which plays as you move around areas that don’t have any enemies (and doesn’t force you to follow the beat), the combat version, which plays when enemies are present (where you do have to follow the beat), and the pause version, which you didn’t hear, that is a sort of lo-fi version that plays in the pause menu. Some songs have other variations, but that’s the gist of the different versions. They dynamically swap in and out based on what’s going on in gameplay, so you’ll constantly be switching between them all. This is basically a crossover that works surprisingly well, but literally nobody could have predicted it would exist, lol. The music is all bangers, with a ton of really interesting instrumentation and fun integration into the game (some songs feature instruments like a live otamatone or a live oboe, for example). It’s actually my favorite Zelda soundtrack, and you’re in for a treat with any future requests from this game. (I should request a few songs from this game😅)

Mariachi Entertainment System mentioned! Got to see them perform live once, wonderful musicians and even better people.

My favorite version of Gerudo Valley! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9sHLumKX3L8.html

Gerudo Valley somehow passed me by, although to be fair, I only recently got into Zelda. Sounds great, especially the mariachi cover!

Many people don't know that the Gerudo Valley theme was originally inspired from Mido Arashi theme from Dodge Danpei as it came in 1991 and first appearance of Gerudo Valley theme was in OOT 1998

Cadence of Hyrule was crazy. Got announced like 3 weeks before release and was an absolute banger. Imagine a classic 2D Zelda game with an Overworld, Dungeons, Items, Shops and Stuff, but its also a roguelite rhythm game. It's STUPID fun and has an insane soundtrack (especially with all the B-Side stuff and extras that were added later via DLC)

Gerudo valley its just like a canyon/desert area full of women and no men allowed if a men approches their town they get captured which it happened in ocarina of time and link has to go rescue them but he also get captured and he escapes too. The most critical thing frol gerudos is that one male is born every 100 years and it becomes a king and that king is ganondorf. Apology for the grammar. Lol

Cadence of Hyrule has an amazing soundtrack, my favourite track is Gleeokenspiel and the overworld battle theme.

Oh hell yeah, finally some Cadence of Hyrule recognition!

It's funny, I heard a midi version of this track in a fan made map pack for doom 2 called "Ar luminae" and I thought it was an original track written for that map pack, but it's actually from Legend of Zelda lol. That melody got stuck in my head so I instantly recognised it here

To be honest, whenever I watch A Few Dollars More, I always think of Gerudo Fortress because of the music for one, but also because they go into a building that looks a lot like it. It seems clear the this theme was inspired by those Spaghetti Westerns.

After seeing your react to the Wild Arms intro, I knew this one was going to be right up your alley. The organ is a great touch!

I'd wholeheartedly endorse a full Cadence of Hyrule OST or playthrough! It's amazing.

I have the feeling this has some slight uses of Disco Descent from Crypt of the Necrodancer as well, but I'm not 100% sure.

This game is basically A Link to the Past as a rhythm game with almost procedurally generated maps (even the overworld). Zelda's also a playable character here, so not a damsel story. Also the music dynamically switches tracks between peaceful and combat depending on if there's enemies on the screen. When you beat the enemies you can move free of the tempo with no issue, but during the combat portion you're supposed to act on the beat. Some of the hardest challenges are chests that only unlock if you clear the whole map without any off-beat inputs.

It’s funny you sort of listened to it backwards. When you enter a new screen the combat music plays and it only changes to the peaceful music when you’ve cleared all the enemies

There are actally 2 more Versions of these songs by different composeres. They were part of the DLC of this game.

Man you NEEEEED to play this on stream

Going through this game with FamilyJules' version is such a blast, I love it!

As someone who may or may not have taken my name from Ocarina of Time, i approve muchly of these songs and my nostalgia bar is now full. 😄

I *adore* DannyB's orchestration of Gerudo Valley for Cadence of Hyrule, I think it might be my favorite one. That says a lot given the amount of fantastic 'official' orchestrations of Gerudo Valley in Smash Ultimate, variations in later Zelda games, and that's not even touching other YT arrangers. Lucas Gitano Family's arrangement/performance is also fantastic. As for why Gerudo Valley is flamenco/Spanish inspired...here's my guess. The Gerudo were inspired by a story in Journey to the West about a town of only women, but LoZ added the twist making them a different...culture, if not a different 'species' with fantasy and not going there. Point being they have a 'king' born about once a century, which is where Ganondorf comes from. Why it's a desert, why it's spanish themed...I think it's because Nintendo was pulling from Moorish history. From ~750 to ~1500 CE various parts of Spain were controlled by a variety of caliphates, whether it was nobles fleeing the collapsing Umayyad Dynasty to the Caliphate of Cordoba at its height, so there is another association of Spanish/Flamenco sounds to various music of Islam. Which, for better and worse, the Gerudo are themed after may pop culture depictions of the Middle East. What it did was result in one of the most legendary pieces of video game music.

Cadence was a short, awesome playthrough of a game!

I think that 'trumpet' in the combat version is an Electronic Wind Instrument. Insaneintherainmusic liked to show that off in some of his covers, and it sounds the same to me.

Cadence of Hyrule blew me away!

I've never played this ( I love Zelda games I just suck at Rhythm games lol) but this was a joy to listen to!

Nice videos man! I hope you get more subs than that.

I highly recommend you check out one of the guitarists in this song his name is FamilyJules and I recommend you check out his metal tribute to video games throughout history called replay 2019

i love hearing that xenoblade music in the background before and after the reaction, forest of the nopon, was it?

ive never played zelda at all but that was fire

U should react to tryo the beryl, solo, entrusted hope and hopeful pain from dinasty warriors br0. hurr hurr

Hell yeah, more Zelda!

You should def react to both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the kingdom final trailer music!

Finally a classic Zelda theme

You need to react to Zelda’s Lullaby songs

If you want to know what Gerudo Valley/Desert is like, play Ocarina of Time. You really should now that you own a Switch. It is the most critically acclaimed game of all time for a very good reason. (The valley part is basically a canyon and the desert part is what you can guess, a hot sand desert. It's named after the Gerudo tribe who live there, an all-female warrior/thief tribe)

ah yes a fortress run by arabian style amazonian warrior women

I'm sure it's been said ad nauseum, but yeah.. if you like video games, you really owe it to yourself to play at least one Zelda game..