Game Composer Reacts to COLGERA BOSS THEME from ZELDA TEARS OF THE KINGDOM 

What a joy to see such a tribute to my beloved Wind Waker. Btw, if you liked this video, I also made a video about the secrets hidden in TotK's opening music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0V-TmHrZL08.html

This track had a bunch of extra build up all the way from the journey to Stormwind Ark and the temple music itself, it's really impressive how many elements they put in this boss music.

This boss fight felt so epic, especially when the dragon roost island theme kicked in

I love so much how they basically turned Dragon Roost into the Rito theme

This entire song itself, heck even the theme of the dungeon itself feels like a huge love letter to wind waker as a whole

this was my first boss in TOTK, and up to that point I wasn't really hooked, UNTIL THE DRAGON ROOST THEME STARTED BLASTING

The entire dungeon had such a great buildup to it. You don't just arrive there, find it, or drop in. You climb an entire mountain, meet up with Tulin as a companion, fight your way to the summit, then you start climbing the ruins. About twenty minutes into it you break the cloud layer, and just see flying ships. Questions start building, the music starts ramping up, and then you enter the dungeon. The dungeon itself then builds up as a ghost ship in the skies becomes more and more active and suddenly BAM, Colgera. Considering the game tries to direct you to Rito village as your first dungeon, man talk about an opener.

I think the "Zonai Voices" in songs represent strong connections to the Demon King, and are especially prominent in the gloom hands track.

This was my first boss fight and defeating it made me sad because the music ended :(

I absolutely LOVED this boss battle, it felt like the entirety of the Rito portion of this game so far has been references to Wind Waker. Which is amazing for me personally because Wind Waker is what I grew up on, and still to do this day consider my favorite. Hearing that epic portion of dragon roost in the final phase gave me chills!

The accordeon in the sound track makes sense. Not only is it in Revali's leitmotif. But it was also Kass' instrument of choice. Another Rito connection.

10:38 THIS, RIGHT HERE! This moment, You're BEATING him! you can WIN! This moment is so, SO impactful, it's nostalgia, heroism! TRIUMPH! RAW, EPIC power, the very SOUL of the rito flows through you, as you TAKE. HIM. DOWN! This musical moment just braught me to legit tears. ABSOLUTE PERFECTION, Zelda music team!

One of the best parts of the boss fight which just added to the epicness for me is that you don’t even need weapons. You can aim for the ice when the spikes float up and dive straight through. You won’t take any damage. I remember when I decided to just take a chance and with the pairing of the music. I felt so badass

A good thing to remember with the TotK boss music is that it's an interactive track. Certain loops will fade in and out with each other depending on what the current situation is in the game so how you're listening to it here will be completely different from how you hear it in the game and it's somehow so much more amazing in game

This is my favorite boss fight I've seen in the game so far; The ambiance, the sheer cinematicness, the TRUE 3D dodging and striking, the way its attack becomes its weakpoint feels like so many old zelda enemy designs, the ABSOLUTE PRESENCE of fighting this guy above an ancient relic in the eye of a storm! 10 years ago, this fight would have been HERESY to attempt to program, and now it's on a portable console the size of a Small Plate! An ABSOLUTE EXPERIENCE This fight must be, and I only experienced it secondhand watching a stream.

i literally cried when i heard Dragon Roost/Rito Village. it was so good. my favorite boss

Colgera's Theme is S-tier 10:39 Exact moment where the song gives you chills and goosebumps.

The composers sure know how to call back to old music without being super overt. When I first fought Colgera, I was overwhelmed by a strange sense of nostalgia, to the point of a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart, despite it being a boss fight. I couldn’t place why until I did a relisten to the music and placed the Dragon Roost melody in that final track. And that’s when it hit me. That part in particular had hit me hard and I almost didn’t want to end the fight. Wind Waker was one of my first Zelda games, and even that small callback to it in an unexpected way was enough to hit my nostalgia. Amazing music. It’s one of the best new additions to the LoZ music catalogue, thats for sure.

Tears of the Kingdom uses such restraint with its nostalgic zelda leitmotifs, I love it. The fact that the dragon roost theme kicks in only in the last phase here makes it feel that much more triumphant.

i like how bro literally cant help but move to the music. you can tell he loves his job 😂

Colgera was actually my first boss too and I didn’t really focus on its theme unfortunately but hearing it properly now gave me chills! And while I think Colgera was the easiest of the four, it’s definitely top tier music wise! Gonna listen to the other themes now too.

I absolutely adore the violin strings that sound like wind blowing. gets me hype every time while also being a cool chord progression on its own

Hey, if you haven't already, I would highly suggest listening to the AI Sada/Turo boss theme from Pokemom Scarlet/Violet. Probably one of the best songs Toby Fox has composed and maybe one of the most haunting for a Pokemon game.

The entire way up to the stormwind ark had this sense of impending doom that persisted throughout the entire ark. Colgera felt more like a victory lap after all that

I am pretty sure the "zonai voices" are reverse vocals and are symbolic of Ganondorf's influence, similar to how reverse piano notes were symbolic of calamity ganon's influence in breath of the wild.

I thought the rendition of Dragonroost Island in phase 5 was AMAZING, also I just wanted to point out if you listen closely to the background melody in phase 5, you can hear a small portion of the Attack on Vah Medoh theme from BOTW!

When that 5th phase came in in that crescendo I literally started crying during this fight. Molgera is my favorite boss theme in all of Zelda and I love Dragon Roost Island theme and the addition of Tulin's voice actor and lines during this fight what one of the most beautiful moments of playing TotK for me. Great breakdown. I didn't realize the song had so many phases, I just knew that I loved how the song evolved over the fight and having it broken into so many phases makes sense so that it doesn't crescendo too early!

This questline gave me Okami vibes, I think in part because Okami also has a cold area where you have to stop a blizzard and a sailing ship that came from space (this is a Japanese folklore thing), but also because of the music somehow. I think it's the use of the flutes... speaking of which, I know you've reacted to a track from Okami before on the channel and I'd love to hear more. That soundtrack goes so hard.

I REALLY hope they do this track in their next Zelda orchestra, it is very much deserving! Awesome analysis!

I was so sad this fight was gone so fast. I wanted to listen to the track forever.

The absolute joy in his face after hearing the Dragon Roost Island/Rito Village motif is so fun to see!

i love what they did with totk's soundtrack, the cities music before & after the temples, the temple music building up with each step forward, the zonai voices straight up give me shivers, SO many references, etc ... this entire game is an eargasm

This was my first boss battle in TotK. It may have been on the easier side, but that doesn't take away from how awesome it was. The Colgera boss theme as a whole is amazing, but as soon as the Dragon Roost/Rito theme kicked in during the heat of the battle, I could not stop smiling! It really hits different when you grew up playing The Wind Waker. 😄

I just love how the track starts to build hope, then crashes back into danger before resurging to victory! Such a cool track!

the fact that the game pushes you to this dungeon first is so smart. you get the best one first so you're hooked and excited for more. plus the theme is fucking awesome and gives me goosebumps

The Rito soundtrack this time around all the way through is a pure bred Love Letter to Windwaker. and hitting the Dragon Roost theme midway through this boss fight myself made me pause the game in shock. and if you listen to some of the Rito Village ambient music you can actually catch the Dragon Roost Island theme mixed into the background melodies.

That dragonroost island inclusion literally made me *n u t*

I loved the Wind Temple SO much, but by far the peak in this section for me was hearing the epic Dragon Roost Island in the boss fight, LITERAL CHILLS

Colgera is a great name! The boss looks pretty sick, too! Nice video!

10:41 That utter moment of shock and wonder at the beat drop sums up the entire song

It gave me chills (no pun) and MADE the boss fight for me

The straight serotonin every time the theme comes on no matter how many times I watch it across vids or any form of hearing it

Man, the music of this game left me absolutely stunned. I went straight to the rito (hoping for something like revalis gale lmao) and I remember when climbing up to the stormwind arc and as the music evolved, I just became so enveloped in the suspense. Then you go into this boss with this music, what an experience man, these guys are really something special.

This wasn't the most difficult boss for me but the music and intense visuals made this fight so memorable. I couldn't believe how exhilarating it was.

This boss music made me cry while playing. It wasn’t the fight or anything, but the nostalgia that the music brought. It really felt like things were coming full circle.

I love this theme so much. The WW references gave me goosebumps! Maybe it's just my imagination, but I could hear a reference to Blizzeta battle music(second phase) from Twilight Princess, which is quietly building up a cold atmosphere and tension here. Thanks, Davi. I really enjoyed this video :)

Really cool video, I never would’ve been able to connect this track to wind waker, this game has some amazing music, the Zora waterworks especially comes to mind

I REALLY want to see a live performance of this sometime

Hey Davi! Loved your video, as always! I wanted to comment this time around to address all the "phases" talk because the source video actually got it all wrong and I'm surprised nobody said anything about it! (Minor gameplay spoilers ahead) This boss has 2 phases, but there's 6 (not 5!) music tracks for it. Why? Because, as always with BotW and TotK, the music is dynamic and it changes as you progress. This boss has 3 weakpoints you have to shatter, twice because they respawn in the second phase, so when you break one, the music changes. That means that you have one track for the battle theme until you break the first weakpoint (let's call it C1-1, which is the first one you talked about in this video), another one when you have shattered one weakpoint (Let's call it C2-1, which is actually the third one in this video) and another when you have shattered 2 and have 1 left (C3-1, the fifth one here). Surely you can see the pattern already, but let's move on. So, when you shatter the third one and enter phase 2, the music changes back to a "more aggressive" version of the first track. (C1-2, the second one here). And you can imagine the rest: A fifth track when you have shattered one weakpoint again (C2-2, the fouth one here) and a sixth one for when you have dealt with two and have one left again (C3-2, which isn't here in this video, actually!)... and that's about it! (Edit: luck be fickle, the video I linked before went private... welp. Looked up and found this other one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tteNQfN-zRs.html and the order is not correct (again) considering how it plays in the game (which is probably because some people uploaded music tracks according to the game files and not how they are actually played in game). The actual order is: 1 - 2 - 3 - 1L - 2L - 3L) Hope this helps!

You should listen to one of the themes of the Divine Beasts from Breath of the Wild, if you haven't already. If you listen really closely (in Vah Medoh you can hear it clear as day) a Morse Code that spells "S.O.S"

Glad to hear your reaction to this! I didn't get to hear most of this cuz the boss died so fast lol.

Well I don't remember the other three boss themes at all, so I'd definitely say it's the best one. Plus, it uses a very familiar motif in it.

This entire dungeon, the lead up to it, finally getting to it, and overcoming it was such a wonderful emotional ride, the music just really drove it onwards. I was legit crying tears of joy, it created SUCH JOY. I love that you are highlighting and adoring this just as much as so many of us.

This game is SO full of little musical call backs! I love it (one of my favorite is one of the most subtle... and most skipped... how Link hums several different themes from previous games when the cooking animation is going on...)

Dragon Roost is possibly my fav Zelda track overall. A reference of it in this track caught me off guard! Great video as always...

thanks the goddess for having found this video from you, i've been OBSESSED with this music since i fought colgera as my first boss in the game and when i did, i kid you not, i freaking cried when the roost island theme started. the chorus was just so powerful, it just brought tears in my eyes (and still do when i'm listen to it). for me this is one of the best piece of music ever made for a zelda game.

You should definitely listen to Bury The Light at some point.

I really enjoyed your video! In addition to the molgera motif, I think I can hear Ganondorf’s chord progression in the underlying brass at 9:51

This makes me so happy to c u so excited about this track as well- I’ve never played wind waker, as botw was my first Zelda game; but let me say that this was my absolute favorite boss theme. I would pause each new phase to just jam for a minute or so, but honestly the music not only made the boss fun, but also made it feel like what u we’re doing was beyond heroic. Genuinely my favorite boss of all time in the Zelda games I’ve played so far

This is such a GREAT theme; the buildup as you climb higher, and higher, and higher, AND HIGHER, only to realize that you have to go INSIDE the eye of the storm! The moments of tension as you repair the ship, and then FUCKING COLGERA Blasts out of the bowels of this ancient artifact, And it keeps building, and Building, AND BUILDING, _AND THEN DRAGONROOST BLARES THROUGH YOUR SOUL,_ And it's just GLORIOUS!!!

OOOOHH didn't expect you to listen to tears of the kingdom music, i'd love it if you could react to the "Demon Dragon" theme, it's another one of the best in the game

Love your content Davi! Also loved this temple and boss and how the music built up through the whole mission. I'm so excited about this game (I've only done the Rito temple, and I'm 47 hours in - there's so much to do)!

Dammit, Davi! You're making it VERY hard to wait until the end of the month to buy my copy of TotK. I love me a battle, theme and all, that increases the tension with each "phase". In particular, this theme made me remember the bosses of Shadow of the Colossus (another game whose OST you NEED to check), and Colgera reminds me a lot to the Thirteenth Colossus, the Flying Snake. In that battle too (well, more like, in every battle), the music followed "phases". While not technically linked, the themes of the battles in SotC, you always got first an "approach theme", where you had to literally approach the Colossus you were fighting, the theme being mostly slow, sometimes mysterious, but still majestic. When you spotted the Colossus, or they spotted you, the "attack theme" would begin, with the Colossus turning aggressive, like the theme. That theme would play until you succeeded in grabbing onto the Colossus to climb up towards its weak point(s). But then, when you managed to climb onto the Colossus and you were finally ready to hurt it, the "heroic theme" would play. And boy, were those themes pure awesomeness. I get goosebumps just remembering theme. BotW and TotK take heavy inspiration from SotC with some of its colossal bosses, and Colgera is one amazing example. Heck, even its weak points are like those of the Thirteenth Colossus!

When that rito theme hits it's amazing, so triumphant, gives chills

This boss theme is by far my favorite track from the new game! It's also vindicating to see that someone else heard the similarities to the Molgera theme from Wind Waker, so thanks Davi!

What you also hear during the 4th phase where you referenced Molgera's boss battle is the undertones being those of Ganondorf from multiple Zelda games as well

I just did this part last night so of course I had to come back and watch your video on it :)

I teared up when I fought this boss for the first time. These games are timeless. Shout out to everyone else that played Zelda growing up in the 2000s!

Not gonna lie when the dragon roost island portion of the song played i teared up. I played wind waker back in my last year of middle school and it was such a joy. I loved dragon roost theme so much sometimes id just go there and hang out with the ritos just to hear the theme.

i have never gotten so motivated during a fight in a game as when this amazing piece of music from my childhood started playing!!!! as someone who's favorite Zelda game was always Wind Waker before BOTW, AND dragon roost island being my absolute favorite track from Zelda! i loved this fight so much!!!! man this whole game had amazing music! like if you could react to the main theme of the game, i dont doubt for a second that you would be blown away! such an amazing OST for an absolutely fantastic game!!

I'm so happy to see all the love for Wind Waker in this game and this comment section as well!

something I want to point out in Phase 5 is the relationship between the flute and the chorus. it's a call-and-response! here, the team is making it clear that they're not *just* referencing older games, they have a relationship with the series history that they're building on. and that itself builds into the overall TotK theme of community and relationships.

I played this boss yesterday and I almost cried when I heard the Dragon Roost theme into the song. I came here to check if you had talked about it and you did! I hadn't noticed the Molgera part until you spoke about it and it's even better now!

Man, I cried, literally, with your reaction and your analysis.

Dragon Roost is my favorite Zelda song. When it hit during the boss fight it screwed my concentration up. It took until the second time to comprehend it. Great stuff.

a great one to react to would be the music that plays when *gloom hands* spawn i seriously never thought i would ever miss guardians

One of the MANY things I've always loved about the Zelda series is how they reference it's own music, and I'm so glad I found these videos analyzing the amazing music compositions of the series

I loved the way you smiled when you heard the part that gives us all chills 🥰🥰 it made me smile ear to ear too

the whole way to the temple and the boss fight music is insane!! the build up going to the temple with the switch up is master piece!!

Amazing video, I loved your reaction to the Dragon Roost callback! I am really interested in hearing some analysis of the Shrine Battle music, I can barely wrap my head around the time signatures let alone all of the other chaotic elements, and then the strings come in at the end to blow my mind. I have no idea what makes it so great but it's been constantly stuck in my head

I really enjoyed your break down of the music, especially how the cords invoke different emotions.

Oh my god, molgera, colgera, cold molgera!

One of my favorite things about this song is that the underlying tempo being kept by the string section throughout the entire piece, but especially in the 5th and final section, matches the underlying tempo from Vah Medoh's theme in Breath of the Wild. The repeating 4 notes under everything else happening is truly a subtle homage to the previous game within this epic song and I love it to bits!

I've never cried so much, wind waker fans are in tears crying a ocean. This brought me into tears the nostalgia of hearing not only Dragon Roost Island, but the Molgera Boss Theme from the SAME GAME. This is true happiness for all wind waker fans.

Been a while! I loved the moment you fast-forwarded Molgera's theme 9:40 and compared to Colgera's because you can even tell they wanted to keep the "interferences" from the original song with the "zonai voice" as they were already in Molgera's theme. When will you write a thesis on those zonai voices in the game? It's the second track from TotK I'm listening on your channel and I'm sooo pumped up!

Caraca! Muito obrigado por ter linkado meu mashup na descrição!! Eu sempre quis que você reagisse ao tema do Revali desde quando eu descobri seu canal!

I have only done this boss so far, but even as a very casual gamer I found this fight exceptionally fun. I think a lot of this is because the soundtrack was so good and I got chills when I heard the main roost theme! Thanks a lot for breaking this down so simply without overdoing the music theory jargon. I can now appreciate how much work went into crafting this soundtrack by pulling together themes and references to past Zelda games!

This was a really interesting breakdown of this theme, thank you so much! I am subscribing for more!

I get goosebumps every time that bit of dragons roost comes in!! This games sound track is so good I can’t 😭

I would love to hear your reaction to some more TotK music! This soundtrack is fantastic! If you are avoiding spoilers like the plague, do not look below. I’ll still try to avoid spoiling anything though. Here are some ideas: the sage themes (if you know what that means), yunobo battle theme, Gerudo dungeon boss theme, anything to do with the final battle really, muktorok theme, and there’s still more but those are some of my favorites.

Lots of wind instruments, leitmotif of molgera for colgera from wind waker, ritos as birds, acordeon as a leitmotif for revali since there is a somewhat similar rito sage and when you wear the divine beast helmet the sage's spirit of tulin wears the zonai helm. And of course; dragon roost island from wind waker. It is all connected to the wind abilities of the rito.

I got goosebumps hearing the old melody again. Even if the framerate is dying for me the bosses are the best part about this game. Especially because there are big and cinematic ones but also gimmicky and fun ones. I haven’t seen all of them by now but those bosses are so unexpected and random (in a good way) that you’re always surprised at what you’re actually fighting. Also I didn’t expect too much from the OST because BOTW didn’t have many bangers due to the focus of atmosphere but TOTK‘s is breathtaking. I haven’t heard anything below a 9/10 while playing. Even the dungeon themes are something you’d listen to outside of the game again. And then there is the way the soundtrack works inside the game itself. It’s very dynamic. The 1 minute loop you mentioned isn’t even motivate because with every action the tone of the music changes from threatening to heroic etc.. Just like in twilight princess back then when you are able to attack the weakpoint of the boss but in a way way better and more seamingless way.

When I was doing this fight I paused for a second and thought “holy crap the music is good” and just listened to it for a bit 🤣 that’s when u know a theme is incredible

Not only Wind Waker, I also hear a reference to BotW's wind titan Vah Medoh's battle theme here. But that Dragon Roost/Rito Village part gave me goosebumps! Great job

being a jethro tull fan and a long time zelda player hearing the theme at full volume it make me shed a tear at the awesome moment i was witnessing, wort mentioning that colgera was my first boss in my playthrough.

When the music from the ice boss literally gives you chills

Very cool breakdown of an amazing moment in totk

This is such a wind waker song I love it

I'm glad I'm not the only one that pumps my right hand up and down to a good song's rythm.

I never heard of Dragon Roost before, but hearing it first time in TOTK it was UNBELIEVABLE!!! I had a wave of unfamiliar nostalgia even though I am completely alien to the song. And that rise of the climax was completely epic! Had me rooting for Link and Tulin the whole time. All in all a very good time!