Nintendo has uploaded a full The Legend of Zelda live performance to its YouTube channel, and it options a number of the sequence’ 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 towards Nintendo workers and followers.
Fortunately, the total live performance has been made out there 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 sequence 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 attributable to Nintendo’s latest takedown of an unauthorized PC port of the unique Hyperlink’s Awakening DX.
In the event you’re on the lookout for an excuse to revisit the music of the Zelda sequence (and why would not you be?), then you’ll be able to undoubtedly do quite a bit worse than this live performance. You possibly can watch the entire thing under.
Here is the total setlist for the live performance:
- “Tears of the Kingdom: Essential 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 sequence)
- “Hyperlink’s Awakening Medley 2024″ (from The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening)
- “Breath of the Wild: Essential 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 Swap Presentation Trailer”
- “Ocarina of Time: Kakariko Village” (from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
- “The Legend of Zelda Essential 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 out there to observe totally free, however Nintendo can also be presently engaged on a live-action Zelda film alongside Sony Footage and producer Avi Arad.
The newest Zelda sport, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, can also be promoting phenomenally nicely; eventually depend, the sport had offered 18.51 million models, and that quantity has possible elevated since then.
