Nintendo has uploaded a full The Legend of Zelda live performance to its YouTube channel, and it options among 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 Dwell 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 accessible on the official Nintendo of America YouTube web page. It is round half an hour lengthy and options 9 items, one in every of which is a medley consisting of a number of The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening items.
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 finest recreation soundtracks in 2023.
The live performance additionally options collection staples like “Zelda’s Lullaby” and the principle The Legend of Zelda theme, crafted by the inimitable Koji Kondo for the primary Zelda recreation again in 1986.
The presence of music from Hyperlink’s Awakening ought to hopefully go a way in direction of salving the wound attributable to Nintendo’s latest takedown of an unauthorized PC port of the unique Hyperlink’s Awakening DX.
For those who’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 may watch the entire thing under.
This is the total setlist for the live performance:
- “Tears of the Kingdom: Major 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: Major 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 Change Presentation Trailer”
- “Ocarina of Time: Kakariko Village” (from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
- “The Legend of Zelda Major 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 accessible to observe free of charge, however Nintendo can be at the moment engaged on a live-action Zelda film alongside Sony Footage and producer Avi Arad.
The newest Zelda recreation, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, can be promoting phenomenally effectively; eventually rely, the sport had offered 18.51 million models, and that quantity has doubtless elevated since then.