Nintendo Switch Chat Thread V

[Photek]

Everyone hoping for a Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask double pack alongside a Wind Waker HD/Twilight Princess HD double pack.

If we are incredibly lucky and actually get Switch ports of them we’ll get the normal versions as opposed to any of the updated ones. If we just get one double pack (if we get a double pack at all) they’ll be the more recent versions.

DS ports of OoT and MM will more than do for me. I will fanboy out HARD if this happens.

(Wind Waker/Twilight princess double pack is pretty much nailed on btw) - I don't think I'd buy has have both for Wii U.

[deathofcows]

I love this Zelda Music hype!

Ocarina has so many memorable songs elsewhere anyway

This is my alarm clock sound:

Yeah!

Shout out to Spirit Temple theme. I also like the theme that plays when you talk to the owl and the game selection screen.

Yeah!

Okay - my top ten Zelda tracks, ascending order and subject to change:

Lon Lon Ranch (OoT)
Credits (WW)
Attacking Vah Naboris (BotW)
Termina Day 3 (MM)
Song of Storms (OoT)
Rutela (TP)
Ballad of the Goddess (SS)
Midna's Lament (TP)
Gerudo Valley (OoT) (thanks Karl)
Dragon Roost Island (WW)
Great Sea (WW)

Yeah!

Dragon Roost Island is GOAT

Yeah!

I went to the Symphony of the Goddesses concert a few years back, and I teared up when they started to play the OoT title theme, so make of that what you will.

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I really like OOT's music. Gerudo Valley is a bop

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I think we can all agree that BOTW has the best soundtrack, featuring such belters as:

1. One note from high on the piano, repeated 4 times
2. arpeggiate single piano chord.
3. Silence

...Yeah!

We’re all just ignoring all the Champions themes, Rito Village, Tarrey Town, Hateno, Kass’ theme and all the brilliant ambient music from BotW then yeh.

Yeah!

We’re all just ignoring all the Champions themes, Rito Village, Tarrey Town, Hateno, Kass’ theme and all the brilliant ambient music from BotW then yeh.

Don't forget the "Attack On..." music for the divine beasts (not so much Vah Rudania, but the others are all good).

Yeah!

We’re all just ignoring all the Champions themes, Rito Village, Tarrey Town, Hateno, Kass’ theme and all the brilliant ambient music from BotW then yeh.

Also the Hyrule Castle theme, which I'd say is one of the best final level themes ever, absolutely flawless vibes.

That said, the best music from BOTW wasn't even in the actual game, it was the music from the story trailer, still gives me chills every time I hear it.

Yeah!

It's not a series where music really stands out for me in many ways - I love the atmospheric, resonating tones used across parts of OOT, and obviously some things like the main/overworld theme are excellent, but in general it's not the music that really makes me take notice when it comes to Zelda.

wait what

I mean, I almost get what Jenuall's saying, but I don't think any series or game's music is important to me per se. Likewise it's very rarely the most important aspect of a game, with the possible exception of your rhythm games for obvious reasons. The only non-rhythm examples I can think of are Tropical Freeze and Banjo-Kazooie.

what the

It's not a series where music really stands out for me in many ways - I love the atmospheric, resonating tones used across parts of OOT, and obviously some things like the main/overworld theme are excellent, but in general it's not the music that really makes me take notice when it comes to Zelda.

This is a messed up opinion

Music is a central motif in several Zelda games, but especially Ocarina of Time with its eponymous ocarina. It's straight up some of the best music in videogames because its so large a part of the game's identity.

Phew. Yeah!

[Jenuall]

The ambient, resonating, 'finger running around the rim of a glass', harmonic sounds of OOT are the best bit about it's soundscape though.

Doesn't mean there isn't excellent music elsewhere in both the game and the series mind.

[Balladeer]

I hardly think I was insulting Zelda's music there. I don't think it's slagging anything off to say it's not the most important aspect of the best gaming series of all time!

[Jenuall]

People are getting very

[Victor Mildew]

People are getting very

This calls for 250 hours of BOTW WOM.

With.
Out.
Music.

[Jenuall]

People are getting very

This calls for 250 hours of BOTW WOM.

With.
Out.
Music.

I think our only hope is the Potato King of Hyrule!

[deathofcows]

People are getting very

This calls for 250 hours of BOTW WOM.

With.
Out.
Music.

I.e. 250 hours of BOTW.

(NO THE F*CK I DIDN'T!)

[deathofcows]

The ambient, resonating, 'finger running around the rim of a glass', harmonic sounds of OOT are the best bit about it's soundscape though.

The ambient, resonating, 'finger running around the rim of a glass', harmonic sounds of OOT are the best bit about it's soundscape though.

For reals though this is a great way of describing the effect.

Fair enough though Jenuall and Balladeer, I guess music is less overtly important an ingredient to you guys in the Zelda cocktail. I'm in the OR camp though, methinks.

In fact that last Skyward Sword thing I wrote kept getting waylaid by the phrase 'Zelda is Music', because after I though of it I kept thinking about it (sometimes I wonder if games are basically my favourite vehicle of music full stop). But I find it really interesting to think about because I don't even like splitting video games into music, graphics, controls and so on - I reckon when played these things inform each other too much to be meaningfully separated (though I totally get what you said before Balladeer about melodic music and listening to it outside of games. Some of my favourite video game tracks are from games I've not played, which I think might be due to an over-arching video game sensibility of music though that's a different post).

In fact I often like to think about how music (i.e. in Zelda) is not some kind of overlying adornment, or tone calibration, but as physical and mechanical a part of the adventure as any. Some examples off the top of my head:

1) Pre-BotW Music was often tied to specific places. This made the places more discreet from each other in feel, so added a sense of variety and progression to the quest.

2) Heroic themes like Hyrule Field theme add a sense of player-centred heroism, almost a divine-eye type aggrandization, and with it the feeling that your actions or somehow meaningful and witnessed (by history? by God? by aligning oneself with some narrative sense of order?)

3) When the music drops to just ambient sounds - such as at night in the overworld, or when saying goodbye to Saria on a bridge - it feels like super-silence, like an inverse beat-drop, a tonal key-change, a potential-energy of quietness that only comes after music has been there. This gives real range to the mood palette, compared to the constant music of other games. Like HDR for your ears. Then there's those wake-up bird-like Morning-Is-Breaking strings which feel like colour on a dark canvas.

4) The Ocarina songs in OOT (say) are all very different (and all are bangers). But when you've first learned them or teleport using them, they end by morphing into an optimistic, heroic end bit that lends an over-arching sense of continuity to everything - as if re-syncing with some higher order of adventure.

5) The fantasy of Zelda in general is only partly from its setting and dressings, and more so from its mode - in which everything is inflected by music, and thus also hard-baked with something less literal than just visual happenings, instead also something lyrical, poetic, transcendent.

6) Regular interludes like Link jamming on his Ocarina with Sheikh and so on are punctuation in the adventure, moments that raise the journey above the core events, alchemising it, more than the sum of its happenings. But also more generally area music means that events happen in with a twist, where time does not move in the steady silence of reality, instead somehow a little warped, stretched-or-slowed-or-suspended by the musical rhythms and stuff associated to them.

7) Making the Ocarina (or wind baton, or harp, or whatever) a gameplay device collapses the functional/mechanical and the aesthetic/textural - these events we witness are not like normal events - everything is gilded and in this world even music literally moves things, makes things happen. Everything here is song, Zelda is just a music given movement and space.

8) Even the sound of textboxes closing or whatever is scored by little scales/flurries of notes - this is aural colour and it is everywhere, it gives shape and body to abstract, potential things, things that don't normally have them (i.e. the ending-of a dialogue).

9) I really like the Island in the Sky theme from SS. Calmer than a Resi safe room.

Anyway I've gotta go now but that's what came to mind. I think the music is intractable from the legend.

[Squinty]

This

[ITSMILNER]

twitter.com/TheBY2K/status/1402738036140544001

GameStop US have apparently received 35th Zelda posters that they are scheduled to put up the day of the Direct.

Interesting aside to this, GameStop have also put a freeze on buying Switch consoles (US stores) so maybe some kind of price drop is coming as well?

[Fisher]

shyguy64 did you get new recipe in animal crossing new horizons today.

[Hypes]

I'd like a new game please

[shy guy 64]

shyguy64 did you get new recipe in animal crossing new horizons today.

nope

[Victor Mildew]

I'd love a new Mario+rabbids game, so I hope one of those gets announced.

[SerialCeler]

The US is getting an eshop sale for E3 next week, so hopefully we shall too.

twitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/1403019132086411274

[DarkRula]

Starlink is 82% off on the eshop if anyone wants to give it a try. It's well worth the £12.59 it's down to. Especially if you just want to pretend it's a Star Fox spin-off.

[Godzilla]

I'm tempted by that. I finished it and did everything on PS4 but star fox characters makes it a lot more desirable.

[Pedz]

Music is one of the most important elements of a video game for me. It can elevate a merely okay game into something special. I honestly think people don't realise how important it is, in general terms.

Tropical Freeze

Plenty of people mute it as it means nothing to them. Grum is one such disgusting strawberry floater who does it.

[shy guy 64]

Starlink is 82% off on the eshop if anyone wants to give it a try. It's well worth the £12.59 it's down to. Especially if you just want to pretend it's a Star Fox spin-off.

but you wouldnt get that sweet arwing model i nearly nicked off my friend. i mean my friend showed me