Hyrule Castle (Outside) - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild - Extended 

Normal people: going into hyrule castle for the good loot Me: going into hyrule castle for the music

The natural progression of the Guardians going from terrifying to a minor inconvenience is a true feat of game design

The only song that cannot be interrupted by guardian attacks. They're irrelevant now - the only thing that matters is getting up that ramp. Just thought I'd point out how bloody effective that detail is from an immersion standpoint.

It’s like the theme is trying to express to me how brutal the Calamity was.

The composers of this piece right here are absolute masterminds. It really gives off this feeling that you're either marching towards imminent death or victory. You're walking on the same grounds that hundreds, if not thousands of soldiers have fallen and you are the last one left. You're there not only to save Zelda and protect the land, but to avenge the innocent lives maliciously taken by Calamity Ganon. This OST could not have been any more perfect.

Hyrule Castle, home of calamity ganon. The whole place is crawling with some of the strongest enemies in the game, wielding some of the strongest weapons you can find in hyrule. This whole place is corrupted by malice, and hundreds of knights died 100 years ago, trying to protect this place. Meanwhile, this random korok at the top of the castle was just like: Yeah, this looks like a cool hiding spot!

*starts storming the castle and hears this* Me: "I AM AWESOME!" *spends the next half hour screwing around to listen to the theme*

I get chills every time that classic Zelda theme kicks in

This is when it hit me - this theme begins playing as I rush towards the castle and I realize that the game has relied on Courage this entire time. At this point I KNEW whatever came my way was done for no matter what. I feel like Nintendo thought of this too because of the idea that you can go straight to Ganon from the second you step out of the Shrine of Resurrection. The question was always: Do you have the courage?

Best Hyrule Castle theme

1:52 i am in LOVE with this part of the ost

I love the drums reflecting the soldiers marching

Being that BOTW was my very first Zelda game, I find it amazing that Ganon's, Zelda's and Link's themes were incorporated into this final, epic piece of music. This was by far, my favorite music of the game.

(*Enters the castle for the first time and this starts to play*) (*5 guardians aiming me at the same time*) ME: I JUST WANT A RECIPE BOOK I SWEAR !!

How last month of school feels:

When you get the final Korok seed on top of Hyrule Castle… you literally feel like the Hero of Hyrule…

This song is incredible. Up until this point, it's all ambient music, so when you approach the castle and the game just goes cinematic it REALLY hits

I just love how disrespectful I feel when I prance in like I own the place, break Ganon's toys, loot his goodies and walk out leaving behind a metaphorical middle finger.

Main quests: go in there and kill calamity ganon Side quests: go in there and grab some good loot Me: naw screw that im just going to listen to this soundtrack

1:24 The best part of this OST

Broom + Pot Lid + No bow + Neked Link Aight, let's do this...

When I rolled up to Hyrule Castle for the first time and heard this, I was like, ‘Bring me Ganon!’

zeldas lullaby in the trumpets at 1:58 made me tear up, that's some insane writing.

This game’s soundtrack is so underrated. Yeah sure, most songs aren’t made for you to shoulder-bop or shower to, but it does everything it wants to do while your playing the game flawlessly. Many people find a hard time to appreciate most other songs in the ost in retrospect, but I will always remember it very fondly- Temple of Time being a favorite. That said, if there was a place for the soundtrack to go into full cinema mode, this was it and they certainly delivered. It really feels like the climax of a 100 year battle- and it maintains the instruments we’ve heard weaving in and out of the washed away civilization of which we’ve been exploring- they are all here- working together in harmony for the first time in the game. Link has done what he needs to do- and he is ready to take what he’s learned and save Hyrule. I love this song- but it’s really important to me to not take the rest of this gorgeous soundtrack for granted.

As someone well accustomed to music, each part individually sometimes doesn’t make sense, but when you combine them into this piece, it sounds beautiful. I would pay to see a live performance of this.

This theme has a magic of some kind that really made me fall in love with BOTW. I’d been dreading the lack of tunes that would normally accompany me across my travels, so having THIS felt insanely powerful. When I came to Hyrule Castle to fight Gannon, I had the full Tunic Of The Wild set, Hylian Shield, and of course the Master Sword. It was that moment when I truly felt like everything had come back together. This is when I realized, that this WAS Zelda, and it will continue to be. While Tears Of The Kingdom is arguably the better game, Breath Of The Wild is still going to hold a bigger place in my heart, at least for now.

This is just a brilliant piece of music. You can actually hear the impossible odds of one single knight facing this dark castle alone, Ganon's theme looming, the labyrinthine ways up towards the castle, Link's resolve through the Hyrule theme pushing Ganon's theme aside before the most heroic version of the castle theme rings out - masterpiece!

Just finished the game. What a ride. 150+ hours and a blast from start to finish. Went back for the Citadel of Time just for the nostalgia but I was still so pumped from this banger right here ❤️ Off to TotK!!!

The expression on my face: ok just get the loot My brain: OH YEAAAA THIS MUSIC!!!!

I played Zelda on the NES and Legend of Zelda a Link the to Past on SNES when I was growing up. The kid in me drove me to buy a Switch just to play BOTW/. Walking into Hyrule castle and hearing that classic theme woven in was incredible. Well done!

The best track to finish a perfect game. It tells you, keep going you can do it, you are almost there.

This is easily one of my favourite video game tracks of all time. I had chills for like a good hour it's so good and did I mention it's good? Honestly thinking about this song's existence brings a tear to my eye.

The epicness of this piece is incredible. It is sinister, it is grand, it is the perfect opening and closing of the end and the beginning. It is the incarnation of this Hyrule castle: majestic yet corrupted.

I kinda wish there was a final cutscene where right before you start throwing down with Ganon, all of the old soldiers that might still be around along with their now adult sons and daughters put their old armor on, some wearing the armor of their predecessors in their stead if they fell in the calamity or from age. For the younger of this group, it’s the fight to avenge their predecessors, for the old soldiers, it’s one last fight before the end. All this while this soundtrack is playing, you see them begin combat with the monsters and guardians, then it switches back to Link, and your fight with Ganon begins.

This isn't our final boss battle... *It's Ganon's.*

The theme of: You have no idea where you’re going, do you?

The timing is perfect as he opens the front door!

This is the best song in the game imo

This feels like a march, just get to the sanctum. But when you get inside the castle, the music gets calm. There is less to fear inside the castle, but all that matters is facing Ganon on the top. I like how the new track just feels like an ominous place more than an epic final journey.

Every time I listen I get goosebumps, it’s one of the most epic themes I’ve ever heard. Every time I just imagine myself rushing up the steps of hyrule castle, slaying monsters on my way to save Zelda and vanquish the calamity once and for all. It’s fucking awesome.

I understand the reason behind BoTW's minimal music, but hearing an absolute epic like this just makes me wish there was more of it.

This game's musical design was so damn impressive. The music was always so muted, mellow, and whimsical. You're exploring the world and just soaking it all in, and it all just blended in. In a good way. Then you stray one step too far and you're at Hyrule Castle, and it's a corrupted mess. Suddenly the music is front and center. It's 10 beats per measure, which just sounds... wrong. Music isn't like that. We're used to 4, maybe 3, not 10. Everything's off. It's the Hyrule Castle theme, with hints of Ganondorf's organ solo from Ocarina of Time, as he's corrupted the castle grounds. Then, you'll get little moments of the Hyrule Field theme now and then, but all with the wrong timing. It's unsettling. Then you enter, and the music almost immediately cuts out... to a ghostly, even more unsettling version of the same song. But you no longer get the Hyrule Field theme poking in. Now it's Zelda's Lullaby, played low on an ocarina, while the old "low health" noise repeats. Oh god, I've been exploring this world for how long? And she's been fighting so hard to hold him back. What was I thinking??? Such a masterpiece.

I hope this is in tears of the kingdom!

I play this in my head while I'm at work. No lie.

*This theme is incomplete without the imagery of a worn down but ever still majestic Hyrule Castle in the background, and those annoying, pesky, guardian drones making noise as they hover in the background.* ...And of course Link just standing there contemplating his life as the player appreciates this SS+ tier theme.

Today I finished all 120 shrines in the game, and listening to this while searching the last shrine was a beautiful experience, I love this game

This song quickly became one of my favorites from the entire series. It's so damn majestic.

Now I’m going to set a bit of a scene for you the first time I actually listened to the music when playing BOTW So basically I was just getting out of the castle and going outside with the music on, the song was about to hit its crescendo right when I stepped out of the castle and I heard this 1:25. I was so overcome by the music that I basically had to pause the game and I actually shed a tear on how impacted I was at this one piece of music. Truly a masterpiece

Best music in the game by far.

Walking into School knowing you forgot your Homework be like:

"Alright Ganon, I'm coming for you!" Flying Guardian: YOU SHALL NOT P- _OHKO'd by Ancient Bow + Arrow_ "Too bad!"

Going inside then out again just for the weird music effect

This music is epic

Link: *walks into hyrule castle* This: *plays* Link: (Whispers) for hyrule, and for zelda.

THIS BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES INCREDIBLE COMPO BY MANAKA KATAOKA AND YASUAKI IWATA...

When this song started playing, I was so pumped for the finale

This honestly made me cry, i loved every second i got into the final moments of the game, hearing this masterpiece and the inside variant

This is the reason why i like Botw more than Totk.

After doing all the main missions (Including the DLC missions), i realized it was time to storm the castle and this theme started to play i just found a spot clear of of any Guardians and just Vibed to it for awhile. Probably a Very underrated tune in the LOZ franchise

I can imagine Link thinking something like this: "This castle was the home of the person I fought to protect a hundred years ago, and is now infested with the creatures tainted by malice that serve Calamity Ganon. With the champions and the kings spirits, the past heroes, lost to time, steeped in the embers of twilight, who kept their sword skyward, who fought a great masked evil, along with all of the people that fell during the past 100 years... I will continue marching to Zelda."

Everyone is talking about it sounding like the dead soldiers are marching with you, to me it makes it feel more like a one-man-army situation.

What a triumphant way to bring the original over-world theme back

When you enter the mines and organ music starts playing

I get chills every time I hear the horns blare at 2:00

This music is so powerful..Love it

the first time i went to hyrule castle in the game was to get the memory that’s there, and when the old main theme started playing, i just had to stop and listen it, it brings me so much nostalgia

I went in, listened to this and my mind went movie scenery for some reason I imagined it like the last scene from a movie where they're storming to the enemy's base, and they defeat all sides I was doing my truly best, talking like if i was link This was the most epic thing ever made

We did it for Zelda. We did it for King Rhoam. We did it for those who have been lost. We did it for vengance. We did it to take back what was destroyed. But we all know we at least did it for the Champions.

3:38 I love that they play the classic Zelda theme, whenever I first heard it while playing I got chills.

I love how gairdians go from terrifying mini bosses with their own battpe theme to just another insignificant monster in your way to hyrule castle.

One of my favorite things about this game is going from the sheer terror of a rusted stationary guardian to seeing how many drones/sentries/walkers I can kill before the next blood moon

I miss this soundtrack in TotK! SHoulkd also have been in TotK! It is just a phenomenal soundtrack

this song always gives me chills

Alternative name: "The final march of the Hylian Army" The footsteps of the legions of Soldiers marching through the castle trying to at least save a bit of time for the kingdom. Meanwhile the Guardians are aiming at them with their buzzing lasers. Everything under the tragic fanfare of the hylian army. This is their end. They cannot play a triumphent hymn only the song of their downfall.

This and Calamity Ganon( phase 2 ) are the best tracks for this beautiful game

I just love how incredibly beautiful this sounds. Normally, the game's soundtrack is very calm, with a sombering piano playing in the distance while you're amazed by the game's beautiful landscapes, but this... This is different. This plays as soon as you enter Hyrule Castle, with difficult bosses and multiple guardians. I will never forget my time with BOTW. I will never forget how I felt when I heard the original Legend of Zelda theme play at 3:26. I have grown disillusioned with Nintendo over the years, but there's no denying that this is probably their best display of quality and talent yet.

This truly makes one feel like a hero about to go kick ass and save the princess

zelda music does not need to hit this hard but it does and I’m so proud it does

Honestly listening to this music, beating the crap out of these guardians while the master sword makes this EPIC „BANG | BANG | BANG __BANG!!“ sound, makes me feel so powerful.

Everyone owes it to themselves to do at least one gate crashing run through this dungeon. Sneaking through the interior is fine and all for loot, but busting down the front door like a man on a warpath is way too much fun.

1:24 Classic Zelda Theme plays.

Perfect theme song for 2020

When I played my second Master Mode file, I went here early game for some good loot and the Royal Guard's Armour. To think I was still courageous enough to explore Hyrule Castle on 4 hearts shows how much I learned about the game between my first and second Master Mode files

0:52 and 1:52 are too epic for this world

1:32 Does this part gives you a feeling of nostalgia?

Imagine perfectly deflecting a Guardian beam at 1:52

When I went to the castle in search of the memory and a few weapons, this song began to play in such an epic way that it almost made me want to kill Ganon with only 2 divine beasts and many apples xd

that moment when you go on a guardian killing spree with a pot lid

can we talk about how often it transitions from 5/4 to 6/4 time signature? so cool

Does anyone else feel like the piano is slower than the snare drum at 2:14? If it actually is then I think it’s intentional to try to add more of an uneasy feeling to it

I never believe its been 6 7 Years💀💙💙

0:47 goosebumps

First legend of Zelda game I have ever played... I have become a fan

This is so underrated.

I love how the piano playing just before the song starts over seems to just slightly drag behind the beat of the song. It makes it sound eerie somehow!

Wonder how will this be topped off in the next game its amazing when i played this game I only went to the castle for the music killed everyone except Gannon and left did it for 4 years until I said that's enough I have to face him already lol

i killed my first lynel with the master sword to this theme

The Theme screams: "GET UP THERE AND DEFEAT THE BEAST THAT HELD US CAPTIVE IN HIS WORLD"

This plays when you're walking around Chernobyl

Listening to this after 2nd trailer for the sequel has come out.