NEW Zelda Echoes of Wisdom Trailer Nintendo Direct MUSIC Analysis 

☝ Yep!

Yep. From a lore perspective, you can even consider that the Ballad of the Goddess is the one which was reversed to get Zelda's Lullaby. I find it particularly interesting then that OoT-Zelda, presumably the sage of time, played the reversed Ballad of the Goddess (presumably the goddess of time) to send Link back in time.

Also, the romance theme from skyward sword shows up many times too in the main theme!

Thank god someone said this

Yes, loved it! I am the world's biggest sucker for a deftly placed leitmotif, and eagerly await the day when game soundtracks respond on-the-fly to on-screen action the way well-orchestrated movie soundtracks are written to do... John Williams is SO good at this in songs like Battle of Yavin. I'd like to see game soundtrack emulate this even better than the end of TotK as Link dives through the air, reaching for [spoilers]... Imagine an encounter where the cutscene ends, and then the music turns menacing as the player scrambles to avoid taking more damage as the boss' attacks land mercilessly all around. The music shifts as the player begins to dodge more effectively, and then a discovery motif rings out in the midst of the boss theme as a weakness is finally found. The hero's theme surges to the fore as the player begins to attack in earnest, but the boss theme roars back at the start of a new phase of the battle, darker and more brutal than previously. The player is running critically low on health, and the hero's theme returns, but it's become dissonant and desperate... The boss is also low on health, and the music screams to a fervent pitch as the two combatants attack each other, but who will land the final blow... ? (Been daydreaming about this kind of thing for about 35 years now) I do feel like this idea is the purpose for the orchestra hits when Link lands an attack in (SS?) (TP?), albeit in a simpler form. The approach to the Wind Temple-through-Colgera also took great strides towards this, I felt.

@X24-SC21V This, for sure, is gameplays' definitive goal with musical motifs. What musicals and plays have done for 100's of years, we can only hope those with the creativity and ambition can realize within the gaming space. I would love to see someone come out with a top list of games that provide this kind of ambitious musical landscape for their games.

@@clayton2847 I literally hope with every new console announcement to hear that they've added some sort of musical analogue to a graphics card for just such a purpose

Wow! Incredibile video❤ i will ne so thriller if you could do an animal crossing new leaf music analisys! There’s so much stuff in there and I feel a lot of harmony from Zelda is in ACNL. It would be SUPER INTERESTING. Also the fact that sometimes is jazzy. It would be so cool if you could do some sort of videos in which you show not only the Zelda themes hints in the games, but also “list” some sort of Emotional”vocabulary” wich we can leernos how those chords make the listener feel and how the MUSIC “links” perfectly with the trailer, its flow. We dont studi that even in musical theory so surely would help

@@francosworldpiano You're referring to the content creator but you are commenting to my post.

Love it

Lots of sacrifice, I didn’t have a whole lot of time and really made time for it. But it’s not every day you get stuff like this released!

14:47

YES I agree! I hear Tal Tal Heights, as well as a bit of the Dark World and Death Mountain themes from ALttP

At about 5:45 I thought you were about to bust out with some Zelda's Lullaby.

Speaking of being high, I thought I was when I started to hear that If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys.

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Wait, stop what? Stop watching, stop being high, or stop being high while watching? I’m confused.

​@@xeldalachyrule Yes. I'd guess probably high while watching, since OP was hearing voices, basically.

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Yeah, I'll admit I tapped hoping for Twilight Realm revelations and Midna's return to the series teased. Still hopeful!

That would be fun. You never know

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And I love that they leaned into all the creativity in TotK because it really does embody a mix of courage and wisdom. It feels even more like a puzzle because the whole world is part of the pieces, even walls and trees which serve as boundaries normally

Thank you so much!!

At 2.52 I’m pretty sure that’s an oboe.

It’s the same chords, same with Zelda’s Lullaby B section and Alicia Keys If I Ain’t Got You. Love that sound, I was just demonstrating how often Zelda does that.

REALLY hoping that rift goes to the Twilight Realm

Also the new lights are fire, my man

Thank you! Lots of experimentation. I appreciate the comment.

🤣 They swapped Twilight Princess between Gamecube and Wii like a mirror image because most people found swinging the sword left handed unnatural. So Gamecube it's one way, Wii it's backwards. That's when I first thought about it.

Thank you so much!

Are you policing his emotions?

@@NuiYabuko long drawn out emotes are not necessary, for instance, when Zelda's lullaby has been remixed for the dozenth time. It's no longer surprising to anyone even though he made it seem like it was novel.

@@NuiYabuko He's absolutely not being authentic

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