Nintendo has uploaded a full The Legend of Zelda live performance to its YouTube channel, and it options a few of the collection’ most iconic items rendered in an orchestral format.
The live performance was initially scheduled to be aired as a part of the Nintendo Stay 2024 Tokyo occasion, which was canceled in December (thanks, Nintendo Life), apparently owing to threats made in opposition to Nintendo employees and followers.
Fortunately, the total live performance has been made obtainable on the official Nintendo of America YouTube web page. It is round half an hour lengthy and options 9 items, one in all which is a medley consisting of a number of The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening items.
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In addition to Hyperlink’s Awakening, the live performance additionally options music from celebrated classics like Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom, which got here second in our roundup of greatest sport soundtracks in 2023.
The live performance additionally options collection staples like “Zelda’s Lullaby” and the primary The Legend of Zelda theme, crafted by the inimitable Koji Kondo for the primary Zelda sport again in 1986.
The presence of music from Hyperlink’s Awakening ought to hopefully go a way in the direction of salving the wound attributable to Nintendo’s current takedown of an unauthorized PC port of the unique Hyperlink’s Awakening DX.
When you’re searching for an excuse to revisit the music of the Zelda collection (and why would not you be?), then you may undoubtedly do so much worse than this live performance. You’ll be able to watch the entire thing under.
Here is the total setlist for the live performance:
- “Tears of the Kingdom: Most important Theme (Reprise)” (from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom)
- “The Ballad of the Goddess” (from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
- “Zelda’s Lullaby” (from The Legend of Zelda collection)
- “Hyperlink’s Awakening Medley 2024″ (from The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening)
- “Breath of the Wild: Most important Theme” (from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- “Hyrule Fortress” (from The Legend of Zelda: A Hyperlink to the Previous)
- “Breath of the Wild: 2017 Nintendo Swap Presentation Trailer”
- “Ocarina of Time: Kakariko Village” (from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
- “The Legend of Zelda Most important Theme” (from The Legend of Zelda)
It is a good time to be a Zelda fan proper now.
Not solely is that this live performance obtainable to look at at no cost, however Nintendo can also be at the moment engaged on a live-action Zelda film alongside Sony Photos and producer Avi Arad.
The latest Zelda sport, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, can also be promoting phenomenally nicely; finally rely, the sport had offered 18.51 million models, and that quantity has probably elevated since then.