Majoras Mask is my childrens favourite Zelda game.I appriciated the hard work put into it.. it's unique story and structure ..it's practically genius .. but the music in the game (except for clock town ,Stone tower and deku palace) was not MY favourite..wich am am allowed not to like..Oath to the order is the worst.. i will cancel the others to avoid backlash from die hard fans 😅.@@OtakuUnitedStudio
Zelda II title screen... "What?! That's a great song!" I hear you say. I agree. Actually I mean the Famicom version of Zelda II. Usually the Famicom Disk System versions had better osts but this specific song just doesn't work for me...
that song froze my n64 and i think that was the first time i've cried while playing a game. just the same flute note. suspended. until i reset the game entirely. absolutely awful.
botw soundtrack sounds ALIVE I had no idea it was so hated. I loved it! When I was first playing it I was suffering from LOTS of anxiety (covid was happening) and I would just crouch in a field and listen to the music.
So, its complicated. Botw's soundtrack was perfect for what the game was going for. However, as standalone pieces, not so much. Zelda music is some of the most covered video game music of all time, except for botw. Its hated bc its so different from the memorable melodies the rest of the series is so famous for. And people, blinded by nostalgia, do not like change. I see both sides of the argument, but botw thrives on ambience and thats exactly what the music focuses on. The point of video game music is to assist the video game and botw's music works perfectly to that end.
@@Tiepobadaae I don’t think it really has anything to do with nostalgia lmao. BoTW’s music, even considering all those factors, still isn’t the best, it’s passable.
If anything, I wouldn't say its music would have many entries for a list like this, because the complaint more often relates to what isn't there, not what is. I do, however, miss having the more involved pieces at least for certain points in the game, Breath's excellent Hyrule Castle theme being a good example of what I wanted to hear more of. I suppose I would also criticize Tears of the Kingdom's reuse of things, like the horse and battle music. I played a DLC for a game around that time and even that 10 hour or so DLC had a really good new battle theme. I dunno why you wouldn't make a new one for a whole new game as grand in scale as Tears was. To be fair, although I don't care for the BotW regular battle theme, it's not alone. There are a couple other enemy battle themes I don't think much of in the series.
100% agree with you! I understand enjoying more "epic" soundtracks found in the previous games, but that's what makes BOTW's so good! You can listen to the most relaxing, ambient track, and all of a sudden have a sick boss fight with a killer soundtrack! I find TOTK has a similar phenomenon!
@@Tiepobadaae Pretty much agree, but you can't really blame a lot of the nostalgia factor when every other game in the series had a banger overworld theme. BotW's Overworld theme might work for its supposed playstyle and exploration purposes, but you can't expect everyone to like it just for that reason alone.
I kinda wish you had just let the songs play for 10-20 seconds after you talked about them, just so we could hear them without you talking over them. Otherwise great video
Trust me, If I could I would. Unfortunately, doing that is asking for a copyright strike as I've experienced in the past. Though I totally understand your comment and defiantly would've done just that.
@@felipesalemgesell3318 I’m not far enough into TotK for those, but while I agree on the Naboris song, the fact that it plays for like 30 seconds in a 300 hour game makes it difficult to remember.
10:25 tbh I think this is one of my favorite songs because it fits perfectly with the twilight realm on how it would make sense for the flashy black specs. (That's what the song makes me think of)
The Twilit Battle theme from Twilight Princess is such an eerie and creepy piece of music... twilight princess was my very first zelda game and as a 10 year old i really, REALLY, hated this theme. It made me so scared, I never played the game when it was so dark outside because i didnt want to fight with that theme in the background xD
@@aki6605 i was scared too, when i was 7! every twilit creature scared me a lot, and the music is amazingly creepy as well. but the hyrule field night theme was what scared me the most. always had to teleport to the zora throne room to wait for the morning while swimming around!! 😭😭
I don't know if you remember this one, but Din's Power (Harp) from Skyward Sword is genuinely terrible (imo). Sounds like a harp being tortured while Fi tries to salvage the song but failing at it.
You have a zelda phase. Zelda holds a special place in my heart becuase twilight princess was my first ever proper video game (my 7 year old brain back then was somehow able to make it all the way to the Temple of time Dungeon and beat it. Well that's probably cuz my older brother would always watch me play) and before you ask I'm still terrified of that one cut scene that plays after you beat the lakebed temple. And I finally beat Twilight Princess on a GameCube emulator this year.
For Skyward Sword, the Lanayru Mining Facility theme is good and fun but gets irritating quickly for me, especially if I am trying to figure out a puzzle and the theme keeps repeating.
The "voice-like" sound is a Cuica, a Brazilian percussion instrument that was also used (albeit in a now archaic MIDI form) for Goron City in Ocarina of Time.
Great video! Life-long fan of series, but that Hebra music in TotK is actually haunting to me, as I played that section right before my wife and I had a separation. A year later, weve worked through those hurdles and are reuniting, Ive gone on my own life journey (so gaming got put aside)... So Im kinda excited to finally finish my TotK journey real soon! Amazing how music can trigger those specific moments in life, no?
Fun fact: the ocarina melody that plays in OoTs title theme is from the fairy flute in the nes Zelda game. Which is quite fitting since you have a fairy companion
As I've listened to more traditional Japanese music over recent years, I have to admit that I have a much greater appreciation for the Kamaro flute. It still makes my ears bleed, but like, I get it
I actually like the Pink Rabbit song in A link to the past. Its cool, because it just vibes different and it makes you feel strange, because you are in a new world with a totally different body.
16:51 when I played EoW i was using earbuds and EVERY GOD DAMN TIME this theme played that intro trumpet-with-mute was AGONIZING on my ears and still is lol
I think the reason they make game boy songs wirh bass is because the bass is on a different sound channel than the sound effects so it doesn't get interrupted
10:53 I remember listening to this song and a comment under the video said that with headphones, this sounds like bugs farting in each ear, which is hilarious!
I don't think the cold ambience is a very controversial choice at all. I remember when we got a gameplay preview of TotK, and a lot of people were disappointed to hear the same repetitive cold ambience that we'd already spent hundreds of hours listening to in BotW. Me included.
10:46 I’m surprised that’s the only part of the track you brought up, considering this track (like several of the games tracks) were created in ‘stages’
When I played twilight princess, I spent so much time in lake hylia that I came to ABSOLUTELY HATE the theme song even though I know is good and everyone likes it haha
I like the Forsaken Fortress music. Closest thing I feel there is to that track is the “A Beast in the Village” track from Twilight Princess, where you sneak around Ordon Village in wolf form. Love stealthy music.
That Oracle of Ages one also drove me nuts. I remember that being one of the longer dungeons for me in that game and the high ting noise was murderous.
This was a fun video idea. It would have been nice if you played a snippet of each song so we could compare the sounds and elements you were talking about.
I DESPISE "Cold Temperatures" because it just plays CONSTANTLY the SECOND you enter a freezing area. Which really sucks the fun out of exploring the various mountains. Like, really? They couldn't add at least one or two variations? I get that it's annoying so you're encouraged to leave the freezing weather, but come on...
@@Ryan64yt let me tell you a story, when I was 3 years old I played my very first Video Game New Super Mario Bros Wii, I had a lot of fun playing it and got really good at the Game when I was 4, but by the time I turned 5 my older brother came home with a new Wii Game one that would truly put my skills as a new Gamer to the test and that Game was The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword, the moment I started the Game and got to the title screen it was complete silence until the screen turned to black and The Game showed a teaser of what was to come while playing the Ballad of the Goddess, it was right there at that moment I knew that I was in for one Hell of an Adventure, and still to this day Skyward Sword is my favorite Zelda Game and Ballad of the Goddess is my favorite Zelda theme.
@@Ryan64yt I know and if you heard that 25th Adversary version oh my goodness when I first heard that version I didn't think it was possible to make Ballad of the Goddess any better!
Finally someone who understands that "worst" doesn't mean bad, it's just a "not as great as the others" lol Good vid, I dont have a least favorite soundtrack, maybe the twilight princess battle theme you talked about, but my favorite OST is Wind Waker's alongside it being my favorite game of the franchise too :)
This whole video was worth it for that HUA clip towards the end. My only question: does the TOTK pick count since it's not an original from that game and was already in BOTW?
Very surprised that the Temple Of The Ocean King theme didn’t rank the lowest for Phantom Hourglass, considering how repetitive it is and how you listen to it constantly
Hate to be that ERM ACHUALLY guy, but that theme's not specific to that dungeon. It's the theme for EVERY. SINGLE. DUNGEON. I have a lot of bias towards the DS games, i think they're overhated, but not even i can defend PH on that, it's one of the most annoying songs in Zelda, especially because you'll be hearing it A LOT. That's a big issue of PH, the OST isn't that bad, but the bad songs are the ones you're gonna be hearing the most
@ I forgot about that omg, it’s also the theme for all the caves right? Yea I’m in the same boat though, absolutely love the DS games because of their characters but some of the design issues are… questionable. Especially in Phantom Hourglass sadly
I clicked on this just to check that you picked the cave theme for LttP because I'm currently playing through it and that music drives me nuts. I can't believe you picked the rabbit theme! :P
Ryan help! I need to know the song that plays between 12:17 and 12:36?!! I’ve looked everywhere for it but can’t find it. Edit: Found it. It’s “Romance in the air.”
i really thought the dungeon theme from phantom hourglass was gonna be the worst one. it's the same in every dungeon and super repetitive. PH is actually usually slammed as the worst soundtrack in the series, even though it's a very fun game
you should do which link would be best in every zelda game so you take all the links and you put all ov them in every single game and see who could complete which games
BOTW and TOTK have good osts because they're supposed to be minimalist with their progression. If they were the exact same as every other game, it would've really hurt the games
I love the piano based minimalist soundtrack for the field, it's really the only way that it could have been done without becoming tiresome. My biggest problem with the soundtrack was that all of the blights and Ganon's fight all sound so blandly similar. A game with such a small amount of music moment to moment should have had an enormously epic set of boss themes.
Honestly TOTK isn't quite as minimalist as BotW. There are plenty of more bombastic themes in that one. I see it as kind of a hybrid. It also might be my favorite Zelda OST tbh.
While I tentatively agree with the TP pick, I remember it really fondly (vividly? Eerily? I dont know if fond is the right word) because of how good the sound design pairs with it. Something about it being layered under the screech of twili kargarocs and wolf link's growls always made it stand out positively to me. It might not be a great track, but it's strangely fitting.
I actually love the twilight battle theme, it really fits the other-worldly feeling of the twilight creatures. Malo Mart is much more grating to me. The melody is pretty good but the background sounds kinda kill it.
Honestly the soundtrack of Phantom Hourglass is pretty bad. Most of the OSTs are actually really good but there are like 5 of them in total in the entire game. 50% of the time youre hearing the dungeon OST which is actually trash and the other 50% consists of the remaining 4 songs that are left (ocean, hostile island, friendly island and npc house/shop). The only exceptions I remember of were straight up ripped from previous titles like OOT or WW. The game is really fun but its soundtrack might be the weakest one in the entire series.
I didn't notice it much on my first play-through because I was really enjoying the game, but yeah, it has some extremely short, simplistic, repetitive tunes. The overworld action theme is probably the worst, just 4 notes (and the 4th is same as the 2nd) over and over. At least the dungeon song has a slight key change at one point.
The worst song of Zelda II is the Japanese boss theme, because the loop is too short so it's really repetitive. And often you hear a really annoying roar over it. The western one is actually quite good.
Really cool and principled list - you were also good at pointing out when a track was genuinely bad, or just the least good out of an otherwise great batch. Also, gotta say, you're probably one of the few who has a fond impression of Phantom Hourglass' music. It's pretty notorious for having some really repetitive parts. It still has some classics, but yeah.
I'm glad you did not choose rhe cavern theme feom ALTTP because its such an iconic track that it was even featured in Majoras Mask as an easter egg. (Every memver of the Zora band plays a song from anorher game when you visit them in their rooms and the drummer plays the cavern theme)
Crazy to see you put Spirit's Grave from OoA instead of Crown Dungeon. I feel like Crown dungeon has become kind of infamous for it's crazy bus sounding weird notes.
Older Zelda songs are big and epic or intense because there are a lot of big, epic or intense moments. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are so open that you don't have constant big events in your face so they need themes that fit😊 good or bad, Nintendo picks music that fits the moment
Phantom's hourglass' main dungeon u had to return to was very annoying because pain and suffering of that dungeon, and my arm getting sore. If i have a kid in the future and it misbehaves, im gonna make them go thru the dungeon to reprimand them
If I had a least-favorite song in Majora's Mask, it's that game's version of Ballad of the Windfish. The different instruments just do not gel together, they barely sound like they're even in the same time signature, and it's obvious they needed to come up with 4 parts that don't sound too close to any of the other playable songs. At least Kamaro's Song is cohesive, if bland.
Fair, but isn't that just who Malanya is? He's a weird, bizarre combo between horse and Great Fairy, and as tough of a listen as his theme is it really does fit him.
Breath of the Wild is a game I feel like I played on mute. I don't remember any songs from it aside from maybe the stable theme and Kass's theme (if I'm even remembering them correctly). It may as well have been entirely ambiance sfx and nothing else. Breath of the Wild and by extension TotK does not have a soundtrack as far as I'm concerned. There's nothing there Id want to go back to.
Checking in after that chill stream. The clip of MM Link dancing faceless is nightmare fuel. Btw, when you were showing your manga collection, I mentioned I had a book collection of my own about as big (maybe mine is smaller now that I look back at it). Do you mind if I DM you or email you a picture of it?
I love Skyward Sword's OST, but picking the worst track is easy. It's Scrapper's theme. Also, I'm sure few will agree with me, but I can't stand the Gerudo Desert theme from Twilight Princess. The MIDI samples sound awful and the guitar plucking gets on my nerves. Not the worst track but easily the most annoying to me.
I knew that for TP it was going to be one of the Battle themes, though I expected it to be the regular one (mostly cuz it cuts off Midnas lament so much)
I agree with the TotK pick. I think I would be cool with it if it was preserved for just a smaller area rather than everywhere that was cold. Making it cover such a fast area probably dosuaded me from exploring those areas as thoroughly as I might have otherwise.
Call me crazy but i liked the twilit battle soundtrack because of the creepy vibes it gave off it really felt like I'm in a twisted shadow realm fighting those monstrosities that might have been normal beings
How did Oracle of Ages' Fairy Forest theme not even get mentioned? It's both extremely repetitive and actively ear-grating after listening to it for very little time, to the point where I rush through the area as fast as possible just to avoid hearing it for too long
New to the channel, love the video! And has anyone told you you sound like Chris Sabbat from Funimation? (Voice of Zoro, Piccolo and Vegeta) And greetings from Saskatchewan fellow Canadian!
What is your least favorite Zelda song?
Worst goes to Oath to order(when Giants sing!) and yes the Song in the video from majoras mask.
@@Aurora-qn2dx Just not a fan of Majora's Mask music, huh...
Majoras Mask is my childrens favourite Zelda game.I appriciated the hard work put into it.. it's unique story and structure ..it's practically genius .. but the music in the game (except for clock town ,Stone tower and deku palace) was not MY favourite..wich am am allowed not to like..Oath to the order is the worst.. i will cancel the others to avoid backlash from die hard fans 😅.@@OtakuUnitedStudio
@@Aurora-qn2dx sing sounds more like their screaming😅 yes is bad
Zelda II title screen...
"What?! That's a great song!" I hear you say. I agree. Actually I mean the Famicom version of Zelda II.
Usually the Famicom Disk System versions had better osts but this specific song just doesn't work for me...
Forsaken fortress hate in these videos is basically a bingo free space at this point
Yep, and it always will be
@@Ryan64yt I don't see why. And it also isn't the only stealth section in the franchise.
@@toumabyakuya Not the worst one but it's close.
@@toumabyakuya Yeah I will never understand why either. It feels more like a meme at this point rather than an actual opinion.
@@Ryan64ytcant lie lowkey an L. Really not that bad imo
justice for kamaro's dance
that song froze my n64 and i think that was the first time i've cried while playing a game. just the same flute note. suspended. until i reset the game entirely. absolutely awful.
@LarzBBarz that's tragic bro
for real!
MOTHER CAIN???????
Yesss! I honestly love the Kamaro song. The original and the remastered version is definitely my favorite out of MM
Skyward sword is a super over hated game this game is one of my favourites and has my favourite Zelda soundtrack it’s just so good
@@Ninjanugge it's popular to hate. Anyone who beat it will have it in their top 5. To be honest TotK is actually my lowest rated 3d game
It’s my number one favourite, so I’m totally with you there
Easily the best boss themes in the series
@@Hardcoresual I know the controls aren’t that great but in my opinion I think the dungeons are very well made and it’s just an enjoyable experience
It was tedious.
botw soundtrack sounds ALIVE I had no idea it was so hated. I loved it! When I was first playing it I was suffering from LOTS of anxiety (covid was happening) and I would just crouch in a field and listen to the music.
So, its complicated. Botw's soundtrack was perfect for what the game was going for. However, as standalone pieces, not so much. Zelda music is some of the most covered video game music of all time, except for botw. Its hated bc its so different from the memorable melodies the rest of the series is so famous for. And people, blinded by nostalgia, do not like change. I see both sides of the argument, but botw thrives on ambience and thats exactly what the music focuses on. The point of video game music is to assist the video game and botw's music works perfectly to that end.
@@Tiepobadaae I don’t think it really has anything to do with nostalgia lmao. BoTW’s music, even considering all those factors, still isn’t the best, it’s passable.
If anything, I wouldn't say its music would have many entries for a list like this, because the complaint more often relates to what isn't there, not what is. I do, however, miss having the more involved pieces at least for certain points in the game, Breath's excellent Hyrule Castle theme being a good example of what I wanted to hear more of.
I suppose I would also criticize Tears of the Kingdom's reuse of things, like the horse and battle music. I played a DLC for a game around that time and even that 10 hour or so DLC had a really good new battle theme. I dunno why you wouldn't make a new one for a whole new game as grand in scale as Tears was. To be fair, although I don't care for the BotW regular battle theme, it's not alone. There are a couple other enemy battle themes I don't think much of in the series.
100% agree with you! I understand enjoying more "epic" soundtracks found in the previous games, but that's what makes BOTW's so good! You can listen to the most relaxing, ambient track, and all of a sudden have a sick boss fight with a killer soundtrack! I find TOTK has a similar phenomenon!
@@Tiepobadaae Pretty much agree, but you can't really blame a lot of the nostalgia factor when every other game in the series had a banger overworld theme.
BotW's Overworld theme might work for its supposed playstyle and exploration purposes, but you can't expect everyone to like it just for that reason alone.
I kinda wish you had just let the songs play for 10-20 seconds after you talked about them, just so we could hear them without you talking over them. Otherwise great video
@@Cosmikaze I agree. I have no idea how some of these songs even sound. I don’t really want to YT each one probably having to watch an advert first 🙈
Nintendo is notoriously litigious. I'm sure it was a choice made due to that. Though, I think your desire is valid!
@@Cosmikaze for reallll that’s what I came here to say
Trust me, If I could I would. Unfortunately, doing that is asking for a copyright strike as I've experienced in the past. Though I totally understand your comment and defiantly would've done just that.
@@danijadedd We love greedy Nintendo!
i never understood the “botw and totk have shitty soundtracks because they’re not epic” like have you listened to the colgera boss fight?
So….1 song
@@sasook Attack on Vah Naboris in BotW is amazing too! The Draconification, Queen Gibdo and The Last Fall in TOTK are also great
@@felipesalemgesell3318 I’m not far enough into TotK for those, but while I agree on the Naboris song, the fact that it plays for like 30 seconds in a 300 hour game makes it difficult to remember.
bro didn't pick the by far EASIEST song to call worst. Cave theme in PH.
@@Ep1cBramb10 its literally just "ding doing ding ding bum bum"
Didnt even think about it tbh…
@@Ryan64ytit's so bad it didn't register as a song :p
Nahhhh
Dungeon and field theme aren't much better.
10:25 tbh I think this is one of my favorite songs because it fits perfectly with the twilight realm on how it would make sense for the flashy black specs. (That's what the song makes me think of)
YES EXACTLY that's what I also thought
The Twilit Battle theme from Twilight Princess is such an eerie and creepy piece of music... twilight princess was my very first zelda game and as a 10 year old i really, REALLY, hated this theme. It made me so scared, I never played the game when it was so dark outside because i didnt want to fight with that theme in the background xD
A streamer I watch recently called it 'my tummy hurts' music and now I'm no longer scared of it
@@aki6605 i was scared too, when i was 7! every twilit creature scared me a lot, and the music is amazingly creepy as well. but the hyrule field night theme was what scared me the most. always had to teleport to the zora throne room to wait for the morning while swimming around!! 😭😭
Pretty fitting though.
It sounds like MIDI fart sounds.
@@meow762 that's so cute 😭
I like this list. Maybe you could do one for most underappreciated song in each game. Not the best song, but one that deserves more recognition.
@@ShallBePurified gotta be Zant theme for TP
the mayor’s office theme in majora is such a banger and no one talks about it!! like it’s so good!
I don't know if you remember this one, but Din's Power (Harp) from Skyward Sword is genuinely terrible (imo). Sounds like a harp being tortured while Fi tries to salvage the song but failing at it.
Oh yeah… what the h*ck was that. There is a melody in there, but Fi’s autotune makes it sound like a Lil Wayne feature on a somewhat catchy pop song.
It's SO weird, because the song itself is great, it's just that the version with Fi is awful. Definitely love the version without her though
14:00
"When do they stop tuning their instruments and play the music?"
"This IS the music!"
back in my Zelda phase and this dude saved it
Welcome to the club 🙏
I see we’re all entering our Zelda phases again around the same time lmao
You have a zelda phase.
Zelda holds a special place in my heart becuase twilight princess was my first ever proper video game (my 7 year old brain back then was somehow able to make it all the way to the Temple of time Dungeon and beat it. Well that's probably cuz my older brother would always watch me play) and before you ask I'm still terrified of that one cut scene that plays after you beat the lakebed temple.
And I finally beat Twilight Princess on a GameCube emulator this year.
@@gojirafan6155hell ya TP was my 3rd Zelda game as Wind Waker was my first those 2 games are so special to me.
Ocarina of time was my first but alttp remains my favourite ❤
For Skyward Sword, the Lanayru Mining Facility theme is good and fun but gets irritating quickly for me, especially if I am trying to figure out a puzzle and the theme keeps repeating.
The "voice-like" sound is a Cuica, a Brazilian percussion instrument that was also used (albeit in a now archaic MIDI form) for Goron City in Ocarina of Time.
Yup.
11:48 This track actually debuted in Phantom Hourglass as the sword training/mini-game theme.
Also, 16:04 is reused from BOTW.
Great video! Life-long fan of series, but that Hebra music in TotK is actually haunting to me, as I played that section right before my wife and I had a separation. A year later, weve worked through those hurdles and are reuniting, Ive gone on my own life journey (so gaming got put aside)...
So Im kinda excited to finally finish my TotK journey real soon! Amazing how music can trigger those specific moments in life, no?
Fun fact: the ocarina melody that plays in OoTs title theme is from the fairy flute in the nes Zelda game. Which is quite fitting since you have a fairy companion
As I've listened to more traditional Japanese music over recent years, I have to admit that I have a much greater appreciation for the Kamaro flute. It still makes my ears bleed, but like, I get it
I actually like the Pink Rabbit song in A link to the past. Its cool, because it just vibes different and it makes you feel strange, because you are in a new world with a totally different body.
That and you only hear it once (unless you forget the moon pearl of course lol)
The worst TOTK song is Hestu’s dance because it’s not BOTW Hestu’s dance
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@@MaxWelton probably the saddest moment in my TOTK playthrough
15:18 that’s a cuica, check it out!
@charlzthedrummer BRASIL MENCIONADO? SAMBA
"when you can't quite hit the climax of your yawn" I've never ever heard that and yet its so fitting. I'll use this from now on.
TP is my favourite ever game, and I went through the OP to pre-pick before watching and I made the same choice as you. That theme is just pain creepy.
Kinda good tho? But yes, very creepy…
16:51 when I played EoW i was using earbuds and EVERY GOD DAMN TIME this theme played that intro trumpet-with-mute was AGONIZING on my ears and still is lol
I think the reason they make game boy songs wirh bass is because the bass is on a different sound channel than the sound effects so it doesn't get interrupted
And because its AWESOME
The song you picked for twilight princess is legit one of my favourite , it’s so strange and fitting I could listen to it for hours lmao
The Din's Power performance version from Skyward Sword is an absolute assault on the ears.
Holy fuck I repressed the memory of it til now
10:53 I remember listening to this song and a comment under the video said that with headphones, this sounds like bugs farting in each ear, which is hilarious!
The ds Zelda's have incredibly underrated soundtracks in my opinion
You speak the truth
I don't think the cold ambience is a very controversial choice at all. I remember when we got a gameplay preview of TotK, and a lot of people were disappointed to hear the same repetitive cold ambience that we'd already spent hundreds of hours listening to in BotW. Me included.
10:46 I’m surprised that’s the only part of the track you brought up, considering this track (like several of the games tracks) were created in ‘stages’
16:05 Cold Temperatures is also in BotW, too, I believe.
12:39 You aren't going with the harp themes???
When I played twilight princess, I spent so much time in lake hylia that I came to ABSOLUTELY HATE the theme song even though I know is good and everyone likes it haha
The Commadore 64 would go so hard im not even gonna lie (also fire vid)
It would wouldn’t it? (Thanks)
I like the Forsaken Fortress music. Closest thing I feel there is to that track is the “A Beast in the Village” track from Twilight Princess, where you sneak around Ordon Village in wolf form. Love stealthy music.
I really thought he was going to answer "Malo Mart" for Twilight Princess 😅
"i think we're due for some negativity" is a wild sentence
That Oracle of Ages one also drove me nuts. I remember that being one of the longer dungeons for me in that game and the high ting noise was murderous.
@@howlroseXI The crown something dungeon? Lmao
This was a fun video idea. It would have been nice if you played a snippet of each song so we could compare the sounds and elements you were talking about.
I DESPISE "Cold Temperatures" because it just plays CONSTANTLY the SECOND you enter a freezing area. Which really sucks the fun out of exploring the various mountains. Like, really? They couldn't add at least one or two variations? I get that it's annoying so you're encouraged to leave the freezing weather, but come on...
Agreed, it can get really old really quick
Man congrats on 8k!!! I've been watching your career with great interest.
Really appreciate it! Have I reached the rank of RUclips Master?
@@Ryan64yt no, but you are on the council
Ballad of the Goddess is the greatest Zelda theme ever made!
Absolutely agree
@@Ryan64yt let me tell you a story, when I was 3 years old I played my very first Video Game New Super Mario Bros Wii, I had a lot of fun playing it and got really good at the Game when I was 4, but by the time I turned 5 my older brother came home with a new Wii Game one that would truly put my skills as a new Gamer to the test and that Game was The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword, the moment I started the Game and got to the title screen it was complete silence until the screen turned to black and The Game showed a teaser of what was to come while playing the Ballad of the Goddess, it was right there at that moment I knew that I was in for one Hell of an Adventure, and still to this day Skyward Sword is my favorite Zelda Game and Ballad of the Goddess is my favorite Zelda theme.
Imo, ballad of the goddess is THE Zelda theme. I’m glad someone else agrees with me! That’s a great story
@@Ryan64yt I know and if you heard that 25th Adversary version oh my goodness when I first heard that version I didn't think it was possible to make Ballad of the Goddess any better!
I never thought that anyone else’s favourite was the ballad of the goddess it’s my favourite Zelda theme and I’m glad it’s others too
I think spirit tracks has the best sound track in the series
Finally someone who understands that "worst" doesn't mean bad, it's just a "not as great as the others" lol
Good vid, I dont have a least favorite soundtrack, maybe the twilight princess battle theme you talked about, but my favorite OST is Wind Waker's alongside it being my favorite game of the franchise too :)
How was that annoying, repetitive cave theme that plays in every single dungeon not the pick for Phantom Hourglass?
Because I had forgotten about it lmao
This whole video was worth it for that HUA clip towards the end. My only question: does the TOTK pick count since it's not an original from that game and was already in BOTW?
Shout out to OP for letting Zelda's lullaby ride out at the end
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best song in OoT
Very surprised that the Temple Of The Ocean King theme didn’t rank the lowest for Phantom Hourglass, considering how repetitive it is and how you listen to it constantly
Hate to be that ERM ACHUALLY guy, but that theme's not specific to that dungeon. It's the theme for EVERY. SINGLE. DUNGEON. I have a lot of bias towards the DS games, i think they're overhated, but not even i can defend PH on that, it's one of the most annoying songs in Zelda, especially because you'll be hearing it A LOT. That's a big issue of PH, the OST isn't that bad, but the bad songs are the ones you're gonna be hearing the most
@ I forgot about that omg, it’s also the theme for all the caves right?
Yea I’m in the same boat though, absolutely love the DS games because of their characters but some of the design issues are… questionable. Especially in Phantom Hourglass sadly
I clicked on this just to check that you picked the cave theme for LttP because I'm currently playing through it and that music drives me nuts. I can't believe you picked the rabbit theme! :P
Ryan help! I need to know the song that plays between 12:17 and 12:36?!! I’ve looked everywhere for it but can’t find it.
Edit: Found it. It’s “Romance in the air.”
That’s the one! It’s slowly creeping up my all time favorite Zelda songs list
@@Ryan64yt It’s super good. I may or may not have browsed the skyward sword soundtrack for an hour.
@@Ryan64yt I think the song perfectly captures the essence and feeling of skyward sword.
i really thought the dungeon theme from phantom hourglass was gonna be the worst one. it's the same in every dungeon and super repetitive. PH is actually usually slammed as the worst soundtrack in the series, even though it's a very fun game
you should do which link would be best in every zelda game so you take all the links and you put all ov them in every single game and see who could complete which games
My only strong disagreement is your final selection: Stamp Guy Theme. That song is lit bro
It’s definitely fitting…
@@Ryan64yt Fit for a king, or shall I say a princess 👸
You left out links crossbow training for the Nintendo Wii... Can't believe you forgot one
My slow wifi works better when a video in playing in the background. Glad I found this one to watch while I worked online. xD
BOTW and TOTK have good osts because they're supposed to be minimalist with their progression. If they were the exact same as every other game, it would've really hurt the games
I love the piano based minimalist soundtrack for the field, it's really the only way that it could have been done without becoming tiresome. My biggest problem with the soundtrack was that all of the blights and Ganon's fight all sound so blandly similar. A game with such a small amount of music moment to moment should have had an enormously epic set of boss themes.
Honestly TOTK isn't quite as minimalist as BotW. There are plenty of more bombastic themes in that one. I see it as kind of a hybrid. It also might be my favorite Zelda OST tbh.
While I tentatively agree with the TP pick, I remember it really fondly (vividly? Eerily? I dont know if fond is the right word) because of how good the sound design pairs with it. Something about it being layered under the screech of twili kargarocs and wolf link's growls always made it stand out positively to me. It might not be a great track, but it's strangely fitting.
how about a boss ranking for phantom hourglass and spirit tracks next.
I actually love the twilight battle theme, it really fits the other-worldly feeling of the twilight creatures. Malo Mart is much more grating to me. The melody is pretty good but the background sounds kinda kill it.
Obviously the worst song in skyward sword is the guardian theme. Reason?
I’m so scared :(
Honestly the soundtrack of Phantom Hourglass is pretty bad. Most of the OSTs are actually really good but there are like 5 of them in total in the entire game. 50% of the time youre hearing the dungeon OST which is actually trash and the other 50% consists of the remaining 4 songs that are left (ocean, hostile island, friendly island and npc house/shop). The only exceptions I remember of were straight up ripped from previous titles like OOT or WW. The game is really fun but its soundtrack might be the weakest one in the entire series.
Oh yeah theres the cave theme too. A 4 second loop of peak.
I didn't notice it much on my first play-through because I was really enjoying the game, but yeah, it has some extremely short, simplistic, repetitive tunes. The overworld action theme is probably the worst, just 4 notes (and the 4th is same as the 2nd) over and over. At least the dungeon song has a slight key change at one point.
The worst song of Zelda II is the Japanese boss theme, because the loop is too short so it's really repetitive. And often you hear a really annoying roar over it. The western one is actually quite good.
15:02 The "voice like sound" you hear in the Gaman Contest is a Brazilian percussion instrument called a cuica", otherwise known as a monkey drum.
Really cool and principled list - you were also good at pointing out when a track was genuinely bad, or just the least good out of an otherwise great batch.
Also, gotta say, you're probably one of the few who has a fond impression of Phantom Hourglass' music. It's pretty notorious for having some really repetitive parts. It still has some classics, but yeah.
Cold temperatures gives me the chills I want to leave the cold area as soon as I hear it…
Skyward Sword was added to Nintendo Music yesterday!
For skyward sword, it's gotta be the "inside Eldin Volcano" one that you hear in the area that requires the fireshield earrings.
I feel like the Stamp Guy is to Zelda what Larry is to Pokémon
I'm glad you did not choose rhe cavern theme feom ALTTP because its such an iconic track that it was even featured in Majoras Mask as an easter egg. (Every memver of the Zora band plays a song from anorher game when you visit them in their rooms and the drummer plays the cavern theme)
Crazy to see you put Spirit's Grave from OoA instead of Crown Dungeon. I feel like Crown dungeon has become kind of infamous for it's crazy bus sounding weird notes.
Older Zelda songs are big and epic or intense because there are a lot of big, epic or intense moments. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are so open that you don't have constant big events in your face so they need themes that fit😊 good or bad, Nintendo picks music that fits the moment
Very well said 🙌
Was not expecting a reference to Hellsing Abridged in a zelda vid but it was hilarious none the less
The twilit battle theme is actually so great to scratch your brain with if you use headphones though...
3:45 this is the same reason I usually don’t activate Super Sonic when playing a Sonic game, I don’t like replacing the music that’s already there
Phantom's hourglass' main dungeon u had to return to was very annoying because pain and suffering of that dungeon, and my arm getting sore. If i have a kid in the future and it misbehaves, im gonna make them go thru the dungeon to reprimand them
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the theme that plays when Bow Wow gets captured
If I had a least-favorite song in Majora's Mask, it's that game's version of Ballad of the Windfish. The different instruments just do not gel together, they barely sound like they're even in the same time signature, and it's obvious they needed to come up with 4 parts that don't sound too close to any of the other playable songs. At least Kamaro's Song is cohesive, if bland.
I Loved The Bunny Theme its So Evil and Sinister a Shame Its only to Hear for so Short :(
Nice video, just wish we could hear each song just a bit longer
Twilit battle is sounding like having an indigestion tbh
15:43 For me with ToTK I really dislike the Horse God Malanya song, two beautiful songs meshed together to create something which sounds horrible 😭
Fair, but isn't that just who Malanya is? He's a weird, bizarre combo between horse and Great Fairy, and as tough of a listen as his theme is it really does fit him.
Breath of the Wild is a game I feel like I played on mute. I don't remember any songs from it aside from maybe the stable theme and Kass's theme (if I'm even remembering them correctly). It may as well have been entirely ambiance sfx and nothing else.
Breath of the Wild and by extension TotK does not have a soundtrack as far as I'm concerned. There's nothing there Id want to go back to.
Checking in after that chill stream. The clip of MM Link dancing faceless is nightmare fuel.
Btw, when you were showing your manga collection, I mentioned I had a book collection of my own about as big (maybe mine is smaller now that I look back at it). Do you mind if I DM you or email you a picture of it?
Absolutely! DM me on twitter I would love to see! And yes, it used to terrify me when I was younger…
@@Ryan64yt Sorry it was a bit late, but I sent it.
I love Skyward Sword's OST, but picking the worst track is easy. It's Scrapper's theme.
Also, I'm sure few will agree with me, but I can't stand the Gerudo Desert theme from Twilight Princess. The MIDI samples sound awful and the guitar plucking gets on my nerves. Not the worst track but easily the most annoying to me.
i loved lttp rabbit theme.
I knew that for TP it was going to be one of the Battle themes, though I expected it to be the regular one (mostly cuz it cuts off Midnas lament so much)
Before watching... if my boy the Fortune Teller is on this list from A Link-games, I will go to sleep at an inconvenient time...
I agree with the TotK pick.
I think I would be cool with it if it was preserved for just a smaller area rather than everywhere that was cold. Making it cover such a fast area probably dosuaded me from exploring those areas as thoroughly as I might have otherwise.
Call me crazy but i liked the twilit battle soundtrack because of the creepy vibes it gave off it really felt like I'm in a twisted shadow realm fighting those monstrosities that might have been normal beings
How did Oracle of Ages' Fairy Forest theme not even get mentioned? It's both extremely repetitive and actively ear-grating after listening to it for very little time, to the point where I rush through the area as fast as possible just to avoid hearing it for too long
Because I forgot about it lmao. That song definitely sucks too, I should’ve mentioned it
9:43 because it's full of tritones, they add tension to the music piece
New to the channel, love the video! And has anyone told you you sound like Chris Sabbat from Funimation? (Voice of Zoro, Piccolo and Vegeta)
And greetings from Saskatchewan fellow Canadian!
Poor Key Cavern theme 😭 I think it works well...
Ryan64? More like, you should play the Commadore 64
Maybe tell me one more time and I’ll do it
For ALBW I might put the alternate version of the Death Mountain performance at the milk bar, although it does have comedic value.
Really? The pink bunny theme from a Link to the Past was always fine to me. It sounded like an intro to an evening news program.
“A bad Zelda song is still a good song”
Exactly