Sunday, November 19, 2006

Ocarina of Time - Hyrule Symphony

Ok, first, I am not buying a Nintendo Wii. As if that will help my image now that I'm posting this :)

My friend gave this to me yesterday, and it's great listening for writing a paper to, except that it makes you want to play Ocarina of Time. This album runs through Koji Kondo's major Ocarina themes (Kokiri Forest, Lon Lon Ranch, Title Screen, Hyrule Castle, Hyrule Field, Gerudo Valley, others), but now it's in an orchestration from the Hyrule Symphony. This will probably only appeal to those geeky Zelda fans, but I can catiously recommend it to people who are still going Ocarina whaaa-? just cos it's pretty.
Because the pieces are closely based on the original scoring, there isn't much drama or story to the songs- keep in mind that these are background themes that are played over and over as long as you are stuck in one location. Still, the music is lovely, and the easily recognizable themes are set into full, though simple, pieces.
Review

Link
ha hah. ok, we're stopping that right now.
Tracklist in comments.

1 comment:

  1. 1 Title
    2 Kokiri Forest
    3 Hyrule Field
    4 Hyrule Castle
    5 Lon Lon Ranch
    6 Kakariko Village
    7 Death Mountain
    8 Zora's Domain
    9 Gerudo Valley
    10 Ganondorf
    11 Princess Zelda
    12 Ocarina Medley
    13 The Legend of Zelda Medley

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