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 Dwell 2024 Tokyo occasion, which was canceled in December (thanks, Nintendo Life), apparently owing to threats made towards Nintendo employees and followers.
Fortunately, the complete 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, certainly one 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 sport 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 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 brought on by Nintendo’s latest takedown of an unauthorized PC port of the unique Hyperlink’s Awakening DX.
If you happen to’re in search of an excuse to revisit the music of the Zelda collection (and why would not you be?), then you possibly can undoubtedly do lots worse than this live performance. You may watch the entire thing beneath.
Here is the complete setlist for the live performance:
- “Tears of the Kingdom: Principal 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: Principal Theme” (from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- “Hyrule Fort” (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 Principal 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 without cost, however Nintendo can be presently engaged on a live-action Zelda film alongside Sony Photos and producer Avi Arad.
The newest Zelda sport, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, can be promoting phenomenally properly; ultimately depend, the sport had bought 18.51 million items, and that quantity has doubtless elevated since then.