The reason for the fade out during the Colgera battle is because there are like 3 phases and the theme changes for each one Edit: every time you do damage to the boss the theme changes, and then it goes back to the first theme after you hit him 3 times
Did I just beat colgera before I was supposed to? Because I'm pretty sure I just saw 2 phases, and I was using a bow with 24 damage, and also using keese eyes which landed criticals lmao I think I kinda ruined my fight
Also, Mipha is the best girl! I swear, Mipha got criminally little screentime in BotW :( It IS beautiful how they played with Mipha's theme in this version!
@@gammaboy4568 Like was said, give Age of Calamity a try. I was just expecting a kinda mindless hack-and-slash, but I was shocked that it somehow manages to give better characterization and story than BOTW. You get lots of time with the champions, and even get to play as them!
14:37 is enough to make any grown adult cry (to hear Dragon Roost Island theme in that way during the fight is just epic). The tears of the Kingdom trailer theme was amazing too! And Sidon's theme is very catchy as well. There are so many amazing tracks in Zelda, it's bizarre. The old games as well; Ocarina of Time, and most of the overworld themes (like the Dark World theme).
also! yes the colgera is a multi part boss fight, with no long cutscenes in between but there's never a very clean transition between the music and its phases unfortunately
What I love of the Colgera theme is that you can feel like the ups and downs are like the intensity of a blizzard and also like waves in ocean, and it makes sence if you know how the dungeon looks like
I'm not a seasoned musician or anything, but I do know that Colgera's theme employs something know as a tempest. It's a series of notes that are supposed to simulate a gust of wind, starting low, rising high, and back to low. It is a motif that is used through all the Rito Questline, and a fair few films use the same sort of motif when there's a scene with harsh and windy weather.
The rito village theme is actually a slower version of dragon roost island from wind waker which was one of my favorite games as a kid and they implemented a leitmotif in colgera phase 3 and when I heard it I legit started crying, it’s a perfect theme for a perfect boss in such a fitting atmosphere
I never owned Wind Waker and it still got me during the Colgera battle, Chuggaconroys Wind Waker let's play was the first non-minecraft RUclips series I watched.
What I realized during this listen that Frozen Rito Village is actually phenomenal representation of whats happening: the baseline is missing, the theme is broken, but the highest part of the theme is preserved and sounds like young birds singing...
Context for Colgera: You're fighting a GIANT ICE CENTIPEDE flying above a skyboat, which basically is hinted by from all the rising and falling strings in the song also EDIT: yes, it is a multi phase fight, and you SOAR THROUGH THE SKY the entire fight.
This was such fun because I went there sort of intuitively without even planning to do any of the main quest at the time and got caught up (took me a ridiculous amount of time and random luck to figure out to bounce from ship to ship lol) in that fight.
@@sliverofthemoon3165 it's definitely intended to be the first dungeon most players find. Most visible phenomenon on the whole map, and the first that Purah prioritizes in conversation. Unfortunate that that's the most they really do to guide you there, since going elsewhere you could easily miss the Lucky Clover Gazette and Hestu.
Mipha's lietmotif has a beautiful trick to it. If you sing its solfeggio, it's "mi fa mi fa mi fa mi". Frozen Rito Village hurts my soul, because the Rito first appeared in Wind Waker, and Dragon Roost Island was one of my favorite location themes, it's such a warm and gentle upbeat bop. To hear Dragon Roost Island's music sound so empty, so echo'y, so cold and sad, it really really hurt.
I love the frozen rito theme, personally. The contrast of the Dragonroost theme, which, in its original form, is extremely happy and playful, with the tension of the strings and percussion, and the minor reharmonisation (?), it all blends together beautifully.
The use is super appropriate too, because the town will be saved woth the help of the Sage of Wind, and they're using the same theme from the home town of the Hero of Wind. It's amazing.
Hearing the first music swell in Colgera's theme with the Dragon Roost blow in had me in tears. Literally had a nostalgia overload while fighting. It was so incredible.
Had the biggest grin on my face once Kohga’s theme started playing! Absolutely banger theme and very fitting for his Mad Max styled vehicle battles. Kohga’s themes just got better and better as each game in the BotW trilogy released
Kohga's fights give me the same vibes as Gruntilda's fights in Nuts and Bolts. Definitely best that they reserved it for side content, but it's just a joy to see Kohga smugly riding around in Zonai contraptions. The music goes so hard, you can't even be disappointed if the sheer dopamine of seeing Kohga again and better than before (for more than one fight, no less) isn't good enough.
What i love about this Hyrule Castle theme is that its filled with evil. You know as the player and as Link that its a trap and theres no reason to go into a place crawling with such malice... but its the only lead you have. So you have to press onwards through the tainted halls... Definitely not as final or as bombastic as BoTW's Hyrule Castle but it doesn't need to be. This isnt the end of the game, theres nothing worth saving. It's just an empty husk of a kingdom's pride inhabited only by evil
I love that even someone who doesn’t play Zelda can immediately identify that the Colgera battle theme is downright beautiful. Layered, intense, nostalgic, and even if you haven’t played you can imagine the highs and lows of a fight like this.
Wind waker is my favorite zelda game, it helpen me trough hard times when i was a kid. When i heard that drop on the 3rd phase of colgera i legit had tears running down my face 🥹❤
The Colgera Theme plays music from Wind Waker for the boss Molgera, who it is based off of. The fourth and fifth phases of music has Molgera's theme, sped up, playing throughout.
The Colgera theme has so many callbacks in the theme: 1. Rito Village (BOTW) / Dragon Roost Island (Wind Waker) 2. Molgera (Sand Worm boss from Wind Waker) 3. Blizzeta!?! (Famous Ice Boss from Twilight Princess) 4. Ice Blight Ganon? (BOTW) Tears of the Kingdom's OST has a lot more callbacks to past motifs from older Zelda titles, and they're all used with superb context.
For YEARS I’ve adored the Rito Village theme and since first hearing it, I’ve always thought it would sound AMAZING in a more climactic setting, so imagine my joy after it played at 14:38 and being vindicated after so many years of wishing for this exact piece of musical ear candy
That loud as heck motif at the end of Colgera is a reference to Rito Village! Colgera is the reason Rito Village was frozen. Rito Villages theme is itself a reference to Dragon Roost Island from Wind Waker which is the first chronological point in the timeline where Rito (bird people btw) appear
The Colgera Theme has a dynamic soundtrack which plays different parts depending on what happens in the battle. That is why the song is in different phases.
You can think of the strange voices in the main theme as representing the "evil essence" (gloom) that's haunting the setting of the game. Starting the song with it, then coming full circle and ending with it, represents how the gloom is always lurking, somewhere, throughout the entire game.
7:27 funny enough, they both are named after the same thing, which if memory serves is a specific ninja group? i cant remember exactly but its something like that
I always knew I was going to like this game, because I loved Breath of the Wild. But 14:15 is when I absolutely fell in love with it. That portion of the boss fight is the best musical callback I have ever heard in my life.
Demon dragon is absolutely my favorite boss fight I’ve done. It’s not hard at all, but it’s *fun* and the music is gorgeous- the part where you go for the head literally fuses the Totk and botw themes together holy shit?? And just, the payoff for the story, and the amazing way the demon dragon goes out, gah! It’s just pure fun!!
I'm gonna put this into spoilers because you never know BUT I LOVE DEMON DRAGON SO MUCH it literally brings tears to my eyes with how perfectly climactic it is 😭😭 (I think it's the Erhu but the piano as well is super good)
The original full length of Colgera's theme is about 18 minutes in length. 5 sections that each span around 3 and a half minutes. It is the longest part of the OST.
The “glitched vocals” in the Colgera theme are snippets of the vocals that play around a lot of the ancient ruins throughout the game, which ties to this fight taking place above an ancient flying ship
The Colgera boss fight along with the music is my absolute number 1 boss fight ever! No fight has ever made me feel the way this does, holy crap. Its like being in ones own movie!
Am I the only one hearing fragments of the main franchise theme as well as the previous divine beast themes in the dungeons and their respective bosses?
Yep!! Zelda music in general takes alot from previous songs in the series to create new tracks The bosses use bits from each of their respected town and champion from Botw aswell as others. For example with Colgera you can hear small bits of Revalis theme in it
@@LiamKennedy-nc1wn I knew this. I just don’t typically hear fragments of the actual main theme of the franchise in the boss battles for instance. And I’ve been playing this franchise since 98’
The themes from Zelda games have always been top class. I have a playlist with only Zelda themes from games dating over 25 years that I use for writing, along with remixes of some favorites. How they manage to send nostalgia shivers down my spine even the first time I hear them I will never understand. It's super fun watching someone who have never played the games react to them, and react in the same way that I keep reacting to them. Love it! :D It would be super fun to see you reacting to some of the older games too. Like: "Spirit Tracks" or "Ocarina of Time." The music in those are timeless. Timeless.
Phase 3 of the colgera battle always makes me cry its such a beautfiul melody. Its also a callback to a main theme of another Zelda game and it just hits so hard 😭😭😭
[obligatory spoiler warning] There was something I immediately noticed with the hyrule castle theme when I went there for the main story that raised some alarm bells: in contrast with BoTW's hyrule castle theme, there is no use of Zelda's Lullaby. The original theme had a mix of different characteristics that made it apparent that it was leading to a final battle, but here you get more of a sense that it's a place you're not really supposed to be. Lots of suspense and still some pomp and circumstance, but no apparent triumph or goal. Ganon's theme is doing a lot of lifting here instead, as it drives the dissonance. There's nothing here. If there's anything here, it's most certainly not Zelda...
Guys, hear me out. When Master Kohga fell down into the depths in botw. Totk let you go into the depths. Master Kohga went into space, so does that mean?
The Demon Dragon theme has different theme in it. It hits different if you are a Zelda fan who played many games. Its the first song that has the 3 faces in it combined (Hero Link, Princess Zelda, Villain Ganondorf) and it hits different, that this battle is appearantly the very last of the timeline. - First it starts with Zeldas Lullaby but in a corrupt way. - Then it continues with the Er Hu instrument, representing the Light Dragon. - Then at 19:50 is this other instrument representing Link, the protagonist. - Ar 20:03 its both the instrument representing Link and the Er Hu representing the Light Dragon, because they both are fighting together against the Demon Dragon. - At 20:23 its Ganondorfs theme, the main Antagonist - 20:44 again Er Hu for Dragon - 21:00 instrument for Link - After that again Light Dragon and Link fighting together - Another Ganondorfs theme - 22:00 Heroic version - 22:41 Light Dragon Representing theme - 22:43 Links representing theme - The rest is just Link and Light dragon
I understand the atmosphere they were trying to set with the different themes for the Rito Village (frozen and unfrozen) but I kind of wish it was always the frozen version. Even after unfreezing the village. Anyone else prefer the frozen Rito Village music, too?
Every time I go to the castle, I feel like something's about to attack me because the music is so tense! (Probably also because there used to be all these guardians there.) And then nothing happens lol.
I just finished the four temples, and came to watch this video, happy to see that the bests tracks is in this list, but I honestly think that the Shrine Battle is cool too, but I think the Shrine Theme itself is so pretty. Also, the third part of Colgera battle is so cool too!
I love colgera's theme but it works even better if you listen to the soundtrack's entire lead up from the islands as you walk up to the wind temple, then the wind temple, then the colgera theme takes EVERYTHING you've heard before it and brings it all together.
The Frozen Riot is a abbreviation of the Rito Village from Breath of the Wild. :) The Rito's are a folk of bird-like creatures and were first implemented in Wind Waker for the Nintendo Gamecube - and the whole Rito Village theme originates from the theme "Dragon Roost Island" which is AN AMAZING BLAST to listen to.
It's crazy how much you loved the Colgera Battle theme without understanding anybof the context. The Rito theme from the OG Wind Waker. Is in there. Teba's theme. Tulin's theme. And the OG Molgera theme a bit too. And the ties of all these things is soo much I cant rven begin to write it out hahaha. Yet it moved your soul... imagine us when the Rito theme kicks im being THAT epic mid battle. As a reminder, a declsrstion that their fate is in your hands.
I think it would be really cool to listen to Cumulonimbus and the Wind Temple themes from this game to. The relationship between those 2 pieces, Rito Villiage and the Colgera battle make that region my favorite, it's a composer's masterpiece imo.
The Rito village song in other games like Wind Waker is a very happy song. Here they slowed it down and made it very sad and still because their village was storming.
Main theme is a Masterpiece, Mipha's Legacy is a tearjerker, the Construct Battle is quite fun, Master Kohga had no right to go as hard as it did, Frozen Rito Village is so lovely, the Colgera Battle is a Love Letter to Windwaker, this new Hyrule Castle theme somehow is Just as good as Breath of the Wild's which I already loved to death, and the Demon Dragon theme is just the Perfect end battle theme to close out such a magnificent game.
A bit of slightly more niche context for the colgera theme: the musical swell that repeats the melody from frozen rito village is acc really appropriate because that melody has been associated with the Rito since Windwaker, and you're actively fighting to save Rito Village
The main problem with ToTK for me was that I went straight to the Rito region first and experienced the summit of the game. The entire atmosphere of that section in the game eclipsed every other part by a country mile IMO. Only part that was close was the Gerudo region. But Ganon was lit too.
Colgera is my favorite fight in the whole series because the music is absolutely amazing (also my favorite in the series), and the fight is very fun too.
I prefer BOTW as a game compared to TOTK, but man did they absolutely nailed the OST from TOTK, such a masterpiece. But like you said, if there is one thing you can be sure about a Zelda game, it's that the sound effects and OSTs are pretty much perfect.
Spoilers!!! Saw on a comment for demon dragon OST that the Erhu = Zelda (as Light Dragon) and the saxophone = Link....Love the part where they come together !
I'm not gonna lie I think Frozen Rito Village got some inspiration from Nier Automata. Specifically the "Posessed By Disease" quiet version sounds so similar with those lonely droning tones amidst the soft and high pitched, weak notes in the front
I think when Ganondorfs old OOT theme dropped in the middle of the boss battle i never lost my shit quicker. EDIT: for anyone who missed it its at 20:24
I hear from other more seasoned LoZ players that Colgera's theme has ties with the style of Windwaker's OST. Im not sure myself though. I just love how glorious it sounds in the third phase
Great video!! I love seeing reactions to Zelda music If there was to be a part 2 then i highly recommend two songs, Tarrey Town theme and Sidons theme, they are both incredible And an honourable mention has got to be Remember this name Also all Zelda games since Skyward Sword (2011) have used full orchestras for theit music :D
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The reason for the fade out during the Colgera battle is because there are like 3 phases and the theme changes for each one
Edit: every time you do damage to the boss the theme changes, and then it goes back to the first theme after you hit him 3 times
That fight's music hit me when the village theme (Dragon Roost) kicked in!
Yes.
Easily my fav fight if not for the soundtrack alone!
(Also tulin rules)
Did I just beat colgera before I was supposed to? Because I'm pretty sure I just saw 2 phases, and I was using a bow with 24 damage, and also using keese eyes which landed criticals lmao I think I kinda ruined my fight
@@ChronosLawliet123 no you didn't I wont spoil what is the last one but nope you didny
Hearing Mipha's Legacy in game nearly broke me. Mipha is a character from Botw who died. This plays around a memorial for her
Really wish we got more time with the original champions in BoTW. I miss Urbosa ):
@@gammaboy4568 age of calamity is all about playing during the time of the champions, try it ! lots of story
Also, Mipha is the best girl! I swear, Mipha got criminally little screentime in BotW :(
It IS beautiful how they played with Mipha's theme in this version!
@@gammaboy4568 Like was said, give Age of Calamity a try. I was just expecting a kinda mindless hack-and-slash, but I was shocked that it somehow manages to give better characterization and story than BOTW. You get lots of time with the champions, and even get to play as them!
Fr 😭
the use of the Erhu will NEVER fail to bring me to tears, i absolutely adore that instrument so much
It's spooky how much it can sound like a human voice sometimes
14:37 is enough to make any grown adult cry (to hear Dragon Roost Island theme in that way during the fight is just epic). The tears of the Kingdom trailer theme was amazing too! And Sidon's theme is very catchy as well. There are so many amazing tracks in Zelda, it's bizarre. The old games as well; Ocarina of Time, and most of the overworld themes (like the Dark World theme).
I swear I went 20 years back in time.
the colgera theme fills my heart with so much excitement it's insane i love this game and its music so much it's absolutely incredible
also! yes the colgera is a multi part boss fight, with no long cutscenes in between but there's never a very clean transition between the music and its phases unfortunately
I can't listen to that song without getting chills
What I love of the Colgera theme is that you can feel like the ups and downs are like the intensity of a blizzard and also like waves in ocean, and it makes sence if you know how the dungeon looks like
It is synced to Colgera's attack patterns as well, which makes it even better.
I'm not a seasoned musician or anything, but I do know that Colgera's theme employs something know as a tempest. It's a series of notes that are supposed to simulate a gust of wind, starting low, rising high, and back to low. It is a motif that is used through all the Rito Questline, and a fair few films use the same sort of motif when there's a scene with harsh and windy weather.
Demon Dragon is basically just the main theme in evil form. It's amazing.
They basically did a Sonic lol
Added a little touch of dragon in there in the form of ehru too
@@thatkarmaguy5356also the start of it is Zelda's Lullaby slowed down
Fun fact for Mipha, her theme, which is the melody of miphas legacy, is based around “mi fa” in the key it’s in
The rito village theme is actually a slower version of dragon roost island from wind waker which was one of my favorite games as a kid and they implemented a leitmotif in colgera phase 3 and when I heard it I legit started crying, it’s a perfect theme for a perfect boss in such a fitting atmosphere
I never owned Wind Waker and it still got me during the Colgera battle, Chuggaconroys Wind Waker let's play was the first non-minecraft RUclips series I watched.
What I realized during this listen that Frozen Rito Village is actually phenomenal representation of whats happening: the baseline is missing, the theme is broken, but the highest part of the theme is preserved and sounds like young birds singing...
Colgera's theme is so JAM PACKED with Wind Waker references: Molgera's boss theme, Dragon Roost! It all mixes in so well!
Context for Colgera: You're fighting a GIANT ICE CENTIPEDE flying above a skyboat, which basically is hinted by from all the rising and falling strings in the song
also EDIT: yes, it is a multi phase fight, and you SOAR THROUGH THE SKY the entire fight.
You also skydive during the fight!
This was such fun because I went there sort of intuitively without even planning to do any of the main quest at the time and got caught up (took me a ridiculous amount of time and random luck to figure out to bounce from ship to ship lol) in that fight.
@@sliverofthemoon3165 it's definitely intended to be the first dungeon most players find. Most visible phenomenon on the whole map, and the first that Purah prioritizes in conversation. Unfortunate that that's the most they really do to guide you there, since going elsewhere you could easily miss the Lucky Clover Gazette and Hestu.
Also has elements from Molgera and Dragon Roost Island themes in Wind Waker
The most important part is that you're fighting in the center of a giant blizzard/whirlwind
Mipha's lietmotif has a beautiful trick to it. If you sing its solfeggio, it's "mi fa mi fa mi fa mi".
Frozen Rito Village hurts my soul, because the Rito first appeared in Wind Waker, and Dragon Roost Island was one of my favorite location themes, it's such a warm and gentle upbeat bop. To hear Dragon Roost Island's music sound so empty, so echo'y, so cold and sad, it really really hurt.
so the colgera theme is basically just a massive throwback to the windwaker using molgeras battle theme and dragonroost island in one theme
I love the frozen rito theme, personally. The contrast of the Dragonroost theme, which, in its original form, is extremely happy and playful, with the tension of the strings and percussion, and the minor reharmonisation (?), it all blends together beautifully.
The use is super appropriate too, because the town will be saved woth the help of the Sage of Wind, and they're using the same theme from the home town of the Hero of Wind. It's amazing.
Hearing the first music swell in Colgera's theme with the Dragon Roost blow in had me in tears. Literally had a nostalgia overload while fighting. It was so incredible.
Had the biggest grin on my face once Kohga’s theme started playing! Absolutely banger theme and very fitting for his Mad Max styled vehicle battles. Kohga’s themes just got better and better as each game in the BotW trilogy released
Kohga's fights give me the same vibes as Gruntilda's fights in Nuts and Bolts. Definitely best that they reserved it for side content, but it's just a joy to see Kohga smugly riding around in Zonai contraptions. The music goes so hard, you can't even be disappointed if the sheer dopamine of seeing Kohga again and better than before (for more than one fight, no less) isn't good enough.
Glory to Master Kohga.
Glory to Master Kohga. @@Nogli
Glory to Master Kohga.@@Shritistrang
Rito's theme having Rooster Island's theme from WW integrated into it is so fitting and so nostalgic.
Same with colgera
I love watching TOTK streams the OST is phenomenal I'm so glad your reacting to it your channel is AMAZING and massively under rated
What i love about this Hyrule Castle theme is that its filled with evil. You know as the player and as Link that its a trap and theres no reason to go into a place crawling with such malice... but its the only lead you have. So you have to press onwards through the tainted halls...
Definitely not as final or as bombastic as BoTW's Hyrule Castle but it doesn't need to be.
This isnt the end of the game, theres nothing worth saving. It's just an empty husk of a kingdom's pride inhabited only by evil
I scrolled too far to find this. It's my favorite theme in the game, and there are ALOT of great contenders.
I love that even someone who doesn’t play Zelda can immediately identify that the Colgera battle theme is downright beautiful. Layered, intense, nostalgic, and even if you haven’t played you can imagine the highs and lows of a fight like this.
Wind waker is my favorite zelda game, it helpen me trough hard times when i was a kid. When i heard that drop on the 3rd phase of colgera i legit had tears running down my face 🥹❤
Real beautiful OST this - nice mix of styles, i love the glitchy parts and yeah the Orchestra just takes it to another level
Just watching everyone react to the Colgera battle theme and the wind waker references in it, is always such a pleasure
The Colgera Theme plays music from Wind Waker for the boss Molgera, who it is based off of. The fourth and fifth phases of music has Molgera's theme, sped up, playing throughout.
Don't forget Dragon Roost Island!
The Demon Dragon battle theme has parts that sound like they represent the Light Dragon who assists you in the battle.
I literally cried the first time I heard colgera the Rito village theme mixed in is what did it for me
I love my bird people so much 😭
The Colgera theme has so many callbacks in the theme:
1. Rito Village (BOTW) / Dragon Roost Island (Wind Waker)
2. Molgera (Sand Worm boss from Wind Waker)
3. Blizzeta!?! (Famous Ice Boss from Twilight Princess)
4. Ice Blight Ganon? (BOTW)
Tears of the Kingdom's OST has a lot more callbacks to past motifs from older Zelda titles, and they're all used with superb context.
You probably mean water Blight.There is no ice blight in botw
The water blight might as well be an ice blight i mean look at how he looks in Aoc.
@@Doctor_Bamias wind blight maybe?
2:47 I be darned, that's some musical foreshadowing right here. If you know, you know.
For YEARS I’ve adored the Rito Village theme and since first hearing it, I’ve always thought it would sound AMAZING in a more climactic setting, so imagine my joy after it played at 14:38 and being vindicated after so many years of wishing for this exact piece of musical ear candy
Floating Hyrule castle is great because you're basically exploring a giant cursed grave that was left untouched for years after the events of botw
Zelda music just has a magical effect on you. Nothing can compare to it.
That loud as heck motif at the end of Colgera is a reference to Rito Village! Colgera is the reason Rito Village was frozen. Rito Villages theme is itself a reference to Dragon Roost Island from Wind Waker which is the first chronological point in the timeline where Rito (bird people btw) appear
mipha is such a beautiful character that truly showed love and compasion to everyone . her theme is literally displaying her soul.
The Colgera Theme has a dynamic soundtrack which plays different parts depending on what happens in the battle. That is why the song is in different phases.
The 3rd phase of golgera is my favorite part of the theme!
Isn't it everybody's
Oh my god Colgera's theme was insanely good. And I'm not even an emotional guy but the Demon Dragon theme made me tear up during that fight.
You can think of the strange voices in the main theme as representing the "evil essence" (gloom) that's haunting the setting of the game. Starting the song with it, then coming full circle and ending with it, represents how the gloom is always lurking, somewhere, throughout the entire game.
TOTK has NO RIGHT to go so hard on their tracks. Super super pretty ost!
It's Zelda so it always has the right to go Hella hard
fair enough.
7:27 funny enough, they both are named after the same thing, which if memory serves is a specific ninja group? i cant remember exactly but its something like that
I always knew I was going to like this game, because I loved Breath of the Wild. But 14:15 is when I absolutely fell in love with it. That portion of the boss fight is the best musical callback I have ever heard in my life.
Demon dragon is absolutely my favorite boss fight I’ve done. It’s not hard at all, but it’s *fun* and the music is gorgeous- the part where you go for the head literally fuses the Totk and botw themes together holy shit?? And just, the payoff for the story, and the amazing way the demon dragon goes out, gah! It’s just pure fun!!
Now can we mention the colgera battle is done almost entirely while free falling and shooting arrow in bullet time ?
The "eastern string instrument" is an Erhu, from China. I love its sound.
ah yes, frozen rito village, or as i like to call it, "the epic theme song of starving bird children"
Lol 😂
I wish she heard the full version of the shrine construct battle music because when it gets intense it becomes unbelievable great
I'm gonna put this into spoilers because you never know BUT
I LOVE DEMON DRAGON SO MUCH it literally brings tears to my eyes with how perfectly climactic it is 😭😭 (I think it's the Erhu but the piano as well is super good)
The dueling erhu and sax is so goooood
The original full length of Colgera's theme is about 18 minutes in length. 5 sections that each span around 3 and a half minutes. It is the longest part of the OST.
The “glitched vocals” in the Colgera theme are snippets of the vocals that play around a lot of the ancient ruins throughout the game, which ties to this fight taking place above an ancient flying ship
The Colgera boss fight along with the music is my absolute number 1 boss fight ever! No fight has ever made me feel the way this does, holy crap. Its like being in ones own movie!
The backwards music and sound effects in this game are SO COOL I’m obsessed.
Am I the only one hearing fragments of the main franchise theme as well as the previous divine beast themes in the dungeons and their respective bosses?
Yep!!
Zelda music in general takes alot from previous songs in the series to create new tracks
The bosses use bits from each of their respected town and champion from Botw aswell as others. For example with Colgera you can hear small bits of Revalis theme in it
@@LiamKennedy-nc1wn
I knew this.
I just don’t typically hear fragments of the actual main theme of the franchise in the boss battles for instance.
And I’ve been playing this franchise since 98’
The themes from Zelda games have always been top class. I have a playlist with only Zelda themes from games dating over 25 years that I use for writing, along with remixes of some favorites. How they manage to send nostalgia shivers down my spine even the first time I hear them I will never understand. It's super fun watching someone who have never played the games react to them, and react in the same way that I keep reacting to them. Love it! :D It would be super fun to see you reacting to some of the older games too. Like: "Spirit Tracks" or "Ocarina of Time." The music in those are timeless. Timeless.
Phase 3 of the colgera battle always makes me cry its such a beautfiul melody. Its also a callback to a main theme of another Zelda game and it just hits so hard 😭😭😭
Absolutely beautiful soundtrack.
Imagine if she actually understood the significance and meaning behind colgera’s best part, that it’s a homage to the wind waker
[obligatory spoiler warning] There was something I immediately noticed with the hyrule castle theme when I went there for the main story that raised some alarm bells: in contrast with BoTW's hyrule castle theme, there is no use of Zelda's Lullaby.
The original theme had a mix of different characteristics that made it apparent that it was leading to a final battle, but here you get more of a sense that it's a place you're not really supposed to be. Lots of suspense and still some pomp and circumstance, but no apparent triumph or goal. Ganon's theme is doing a lot of lifting here instead, as it drives the dissonance.
There's nothing here. If there's anything here, it's most certainly not Zelda...
zeldas lullaby is part of a different song
wow I noticed the absence of Zelda’s lullaby too but I didn’t think it in this way, great observation!
master kohga has some of the best music for any game ever created
Master Kohga is also a ninja, like the one from Pokemon.
Except he’s fat. And he joins Team Rocket at the end of his questline.
The Yiga Clan are Botw's and Totk's comedic characters and I love it, Kohga taking himself out twice is peak Yiga
@@LiamKennedy-nc1wnLOL
Guys, hear me out. When Master Kohga fell down into the depths in botw. Totk let you go into the depths. Master Kohga went into space, so does that mean?
The Demon Dragon theme has different theme in it. It hits different if you are a Zelda fan who played many games. Its the first song that has the 3 faces in it combined (Hero Link, Princess Zelda, Villain Ganondorf) and it hits different, that this battle is appearantly the very last of the timeline.
- First it starts with Zeldas Lullaby but in a corrupt way.
- Then it continues with the Er Hu instrument, representing the Light Dragon.
- Then at 19:50 is this other instrument representing Link, the protagonist.
- Ar 20:03 its both the instrument representing Link and the Er Hu representing the Light Dragon, because they both are fighting together against the Demon Dragon.
- At 20:23 its Ganondorfs theme, the main Antagonist
- 20:44 again Er Hu for Dragon
- 21:00 instrument for Link
- After that again Light Dragon and Link fighting together
- Another Ganondorfs theme
- 22:00 Heroic version
- 22:41 Light Dragon Representing theme
- 22:43 Links representing theme
- The rest is just Link and Light dragon
I understand the atmosphere they were trying to set with the different themes for the Rito Village (frozen and unfrozen) but I kind of wish it was always the frozen version. Even after unfreezing the village.
Anyone else prefer the frozen Rito Village music, too?
Yeah, me too. It's so pretty.
i agree
It's prettier, but it wouldn't fit the rito being happy again.
@@kokalombia That's why I said, I understand the atmosphere they were trying to set... Imagine not understanding that... 😅
ikr, especially with the blizzard it was so pretty 🥺
One of the best zelda soundtracks
Every time I go to the castle, I feel like something's about to attack me because the music is so tense! (Probably also because there used to be all these guardians there.) And then nothing happens lol.
I cried so hard at the end of totk and the demon dradon theme just made me cry even harder😢😢
Only true zelda wind waker fans can feel the nostalgia from colgeras theme
Colgeras boss fight is a masterpiece of sound truly. No other boss has me fighting them slowly just to listen to music but colgera.
Rewatching this, some parts of the Mipha's legacy theme sound like they came from My Time at Portia, and I can't explain why
i will refrain from hearing the final battle theme and castle theme cuz i wanna experience those first in game
I just finished the four temples, and came to watch this video, happy to see that the bests tracks is in this list, but I honestly think that the Shrine Battle is cool too, but I think the Shrine Theme itself is so pretty.
Also, the third part of Colgera battle is so cool too!
I love colgera's theme but it works even better if you listen to the soundtrack's entire lead up from the islands as you walk up to the wind temple, then the wind temple, then the colgera theme takes EVERYTHING you've heard before it and brings it all together.
It makes me sad that they didn’t have the best part for the shrine battle theme. 😭
The Frozen Riot is a abbreviation of the Rito Village from Breath of the Wild. :) The Rito's are a folk of bird-like creatures and were first implemented in Wind Waker for the Nintendo Gamecube - and the whole Rito Village theme originates from the theme "Dragon Roost Island" which is AN AMAZING BLAST to listen to.
It's crazy how much you loved the Colgera Battle theme without understanding anybof the context.
The Rito theme from the OG Wind Waker. Is in there.
Teba's theme.
Tulin's theme.
And the OG Molgera theme a bit too.
And the ties of all these things is soo much I cant rven begin to write it out hahaha.
Yet it moved your soul... imagine us when the Rito theme kicks im being THAT epic mid battle. As a reminder, a declsrstion that their fate is in your hands.
I think it would be really cool to listen to Cumulonimbus and the Wind Temple themes from this game to. The relationship between those 2 pieces, Rito Villiage and the Colgera battle make that region my favorite, it's a composer's masterpiece imo.
The Rito village song in other games like Wind Waker is a very happy song. Here they slowed it down and made it very sad and still because their village was storming.
The thing is that I always want to listen to Zelda music but I also dont want to cry all of the time, its too pretty and I love it.
That Pianist in Demon Dragon was lowkey going crazy
This soundtrack will never not give me goosebumps when I listen to it
Main theme is a Masterpiece, Mipha's Legacy is a tearjerker, the Construct Battle is quite fun, Master Kohga had no right to go as hard as it did, Frozen Rito Village is so lovely, the Colgera Battle is a Love Letter to Windwaker, this new Hyrule Castle theme somehow is Just as good as Breath of the Wild's which I already loved to death, and the Demon Dragon theme is just the Perfect end battle theme to close out such a magnificent game.
The last 3 notes of the main theme hit different after finishing the story
A bit of slightly more niche context for the colgera theme: the musical swell that repeats the melody from frozen rito village is acc really appropriate because that melody has been associated with the Rito since Windwaker, and you're actively fighting to save Rito Village
14:37 this is like a remembrance of dragon roost island from windwaker
All of the Rito's themes are awesome, i love the Frozen village eerie vibe and Tulin's theme's gotta be my favorite.
imagine this is how you learn Master Kohga survived BotW
21:30 The timing of this statement 😂 (iykyk)
I started crying when I heard dragon roost island in Colgera’s Battle
The main problem with ToTK for me was that I went straight to the Rito region first and experienced the summit of the game. The entire atmosphere of that section in the game eclipsed every other part by a country mile IMO. Only part that was close was the Gerudo region. But Ganon was lit too.
Colgera is my favorite fight in the whole series because the music is absolutely amazing (also my favorite in the series), and the fight is very fun too.
I reccomend listening to the last trailer theme for tears of the kingdom, i absolutely love it
Colgera's Theme is just perfect, holy shit. It causes so many emotions just by hearing it XD
Zelda music is always amazing, never a miss.
I prefer BOTW as a game compared to TOTK, but man did they absolutely nailed the OST from TOTK, such a masterpiece. But like you said, if there is one thing you can be sure about a Zelda game, it's that the sound effects and OSTs are pretty much perfect.
I beat the game in 3 weeks and I wish I listened to all of the music throughout. I did listen to the Colgera one during that battle and it was magical
I NEED a part 2 with Demon King Ganondorf and The Demon Kings Army. Maybe even the prologue if you want something spooky
Spoilers!!!
Saw on a comment for demon dragon OST that the Erhu = Zelda (as Light Dragon) and the saxophone = Link....Love the part where they come together !
I'm not gonna lie I think Frozen Rito Village got some inspiration from Nier Automata. Specifically the "Posessed By Disease" quiet version sounds so similar with those lonely droning tones amidst the soft and high pitched, weak notes in the front
I think when Ganondorfs old OOT theme dropped in the middle of the boss battle i never lost my shit quicker.
EDIT: for anyone who missed it its at 20:24
I hear from other more seasoned LoZ players that Colgera's theme has ties with the style of Windwaker's OST. Im not sure myself though. I just love how glorious it sounds in the third phase
Great video!! I love seeing reactions to Zelda music
If there was to be a part 2 then i highly recommend two songs, Tarrey Town theme and Sidons theme, they are both incredible
And an honourable mention has got to be Remember this name
Also all Zelda games since Skyward Sword (2011) have used full orchestras for theit music :D
Unrelated, but more people need to talk about the Crisp Climb Castle theme in Bowser's Fury. That sounds incredible.
I wish she listened to Gibdo queen in this. I swear hectic Phrygian scale goes so hard
No matter what game, Zelda always has top-tier music