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A collection of my favorite videogame music. Note that most of them are from games I played so I might miss some great ones from games I never played.
Gameboy
Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)
Face Shrine (Level 6)
Yuichi Ozaki, Kazumi Totaka, Minako Hamano & Kazue Ishikawa
Every time I replay Link's Awakening, I get here and I'm like: "It's time." And then I enter this dungeon and get the same feeling I've gotten since I first entered this dungeon when I was 7 and this theme began
One thing that I really appreciate from SD is that he updates the descriptions of the tracks as new information comes out, no matter how old. This track was uploaded almost 10 years ago, but the link to the fresh new Switch version is now there.
There's something about eerie chiptune music that does eerie part so damn well.
Lots of Bach in this.
This is without a doubt my favorite Zelda dungeon music of all time!
Best zelda theme ever imo.
Who the fuck disliked this shit?
People who either don't like 8-bit music or people who want attention
@Jesse Litrell How do you get attention by making an anonymous vote?
+BeleuchteteBrueder They get haters. :/
:)
My favorite theme from the game is Eagle Tower, but this is a close second.
This piece obviously takes inspiration from Bach's Prelude in c minor (BWV 847)
I am Still stuck at this place!!! HELP!!!!!
@Hs00129 Please disregard myself from a year ago. I am not lost.
This wasn't actually a dungeon, was it? Just a few rooms with an absolute revelation at the end.
No, this is the actual dungeon theme music, this is the theme for Face Shrine, the Northern Shrine that hides one of the Siren Instruments, you're thinking about the Southern Shrine
Hmm, that's not a spoiler at all.
Best song in links awakening
Wait! Link had talked! But it was just a dream....
"All Just A Dream" done right. Very right.
I wonder why is this so sad... was young peoples' faces ripped off as sacrifice for gods or something?
So. freaking. Creepy.
When I first saw this I was like, "What the? A dream? What in the world are you talking about?"
Finally, someone who actually remembered the game and got the wink! Jeez! And, I am a she! /New nick too/ZeldaTechHead ; )
I agree so much with you. I think that's the point of this song. Also, that feeling you describe transmits to the player in that part of the game... I cannot remember any other videogame that made me feel that way like this one did.
Pretty much all the music on Link's Awakening, Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons is underrated. Mermaid's Cave, Horon Village, Skull Dungeon, Nayru's Song, Ballad of the Wind Fish, the overworld theme, Tal Tal Mountain Range...
Exactly
It basically means that the island was fake for link, none of it even the girl in the game was real for him. There is a manga of link's awakens in zelda universe i believe, check it out. ^ ^
TO THE FINDER... THE ISLE OF KOHOLINT, IS BUT AN ILLUSION... HUMAN, MONSTER, SEA, SKY... A SCENE ON THE LID OF A SLEEPER'S EYE... AWAKE THE DREAMER, AND KOHOLINT WILL VANISH MUCH LIKE A BUBBLE ON A NEEDLE... CAST-AWAY, YOU SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH!"
You know what's truly eerie about this song, not only the song's rythym its because this theme is based on Link knowing the truth about island he is in..its all a dream of wind fish! It is not real.........(sobs)
Screw Turtle Rock, this is the dungeon that floored me.
@FibrousAcquiescence Katsuya Terada's illustrations from the manual.
My vote on the being the best Music in Zelda ever.
@Gigabowser4 Totally Agree <3
This reminds me of the last hour from majora's mask..
@Gigabowser4 This game was underrated the windfishs song was also another classic from this fucking game!
@shenloken2 i didnt play but i can relate... awesome comment.
Wow this perfectly describes what must've been going on through Link's head when he discovered the truth of that island... Call me crazy but does anyone else feel kind of a Moonlight Sonata vibe here?
@Gigabowser4 the most underrated zelda song
One of my favorite video games tracks ever...and it's for a GAME BOY GAME. Absolutely blows my mind. And I never found the dungeon creepy either...Nor did I find it relaxing. I guess "melancholic" best describes Face Shrine for me.
@SupraDarky People like to immediately come back to that with the Jars and number of items, and such, but I've always been in love with thie Franchise Entry... to this day it is still my favorite Legend of Zelda game, even over the 3d entries, though, it's been rivaled closely, It'll tell you :P
I didn't ever think this theme was creepy, I mostly thought it was very relaxing, especially for a dungeon....
@shenloken2 Holy crap. Your post describes the exact same memory I have of first reaching this dungeon too.
@shenloken2 Warm GB glow? I only knew of GB backlights released in Japan.
I always thought that this and the 2 Oracle games were perfect. If they ever made another Zelda game with the same sprites and graphics that they used in those games, maybe as a "retro throwback", I would shit golden eggs for Nintendo.
Best dungeon theme. Fits perfectly, Link's mood and thoughts after the realisation of the circumstances, that is.
@PumpkinRain Third? Now I am intrigued. What are the other two, Majoras Mask and Ocarina of Time?
@SupraDarky I have to agree with you, I'm currently replaying this game and I'm heading to the 6th dungeon. This game has such a deep philosophical meaning for a game targeted towards such young children. The Ballad of the Windfish is by far one of my favorite songs and the more you play and talk with Marin, the more the game grows on you. In the end you kinda just wonder why leave a paradise and let it vanish? Great game.
Hands down, best 2D zelda game. I=on my own personal list, I'd put this as the third best zelda game, for it's complex and DIFFERENT storyline (for once!), along with glorious music and intelligent dungeons (considering the year it was made!)
@SupraDarky Oh yeah, I almost forgot: favourited! ;)
@SupraDarky Link's Awakening was the first Zelda game I ever played. I remember being totally struck with awe when the game made me realize it's all a dream and when the Wind Fish awakes, the whole island will be gone! This particular dungeon (and its haunting music) is the perfect moment in the game that describes this mood. After Link's Awakening I tried many other Zelda games but NONE other came even CLOSE to Link's Awakening! The settings were a lot more boring!
@bushwhacker2k Malon was links vision of zelda richt? so technically her halucination is in the game xD
Easily my favorite Zelda ever, it's largest flaw is probably its complete lack of anything to do with Zelda herself, though some might argue that as a perk instead.
man, i hated (and still i hate) this place, but hovewer, this level's song is my favourite one from that game
Knowing what you know at this point in the game, its tough to say who the bad guy is.
@cryptonomicon25 This is actually very common. Another example of this happening is with Super Metroid's Spore Spawn theme. It is almost a note for note copy of an 8 second motif from Stravinsky's Firebird (see 5:59-6:07 of the video titled "Stravinsky conducts Firebird") Musicians frequently pay homages and take inspiration from each other - it's a symbiotic relationship, to be honest.
@Taedrin Wow. They do sound very similar. Surely the composer(s) of this song were inspired by it?
You know, I've ALWAYS thought that this sounds very similar to Bach's Prelude No. 2 in C Minor. When I learned how to play the Prelude as a child, I couldn't help but think that I was playing this theme.
@SupraDarky Yes! I remember this too! This game had such fantastic music. It all fit the mood so perfectly.
@cryosynthe well a link to the past was not open-ended, as long as you went and talked to people in the village. That and the fact that most areas were inaccessible until you beat the dungeon or temple and got the special item needed. It made for a little bit more depth than games at the time. I like a challenging game, but at the same time i don't want to feel like i need to wait til an exact minute and second on a day in January in order to unlock something. its still a tough balance.
@MrAgnost Yes, in fact that was the Gameboy Color re release
Such a complex and difficult Zelda game for the Gameboy. Nintendo really respected the game player back then.
@SupraDarky in addition to it being complex on the surface... it's also interesting how many things you can distort using the glitch... and creates almost an entire new world behind the curtain :)
would be utterly badass to make a 3d version of this.
likewise, my friend.
This Game still rocks my socks now! I recently got it again and I've actually gotten stuck on this level.Again!!!
then you remembered you could mute it......right?
Bad pun, huh? :0 I guess it's time for me to face the music.
Are you ready to face this challenge?
I remember i had shivers when i went to the temple below level 6 and saw the mural where it explained that the island is just an illusion.. I was like "whaaat?? all this an illusion?"
This song was so eerie when I heard it as young. I wanted to run the fuck out of that temple as fast as I could because the theme scared me.
My favourite game of all time, sweet. =)
one of the most underrated zelda songs, any1 agree?
When playing this game on my Gameboy under the covers at night, this eerie music would just enrich the gaming experience. I should do that again; warm glow of the GB under the covers, awesome 8-Bit music...yeah yer never too old to relive a moment in childhood.
I played almost every Zelda game (I haven't finished Zelda 1 and 2 and Oracles of Ages and Seasons... YET.), and this is still my favorite Zelda... It was also my first Zelda game... It's been so long...
Play this in a dark alley at night. For extra points, mix in the static radio sound from silent hill.
I thought this would never get on! Hurray!
one of my favorite games. it's kind of funny. i beat the game when i was nine. i started a new file last year and played through it, and half the time i was asking myself "how the hell did i do that?" the bosses weren't hard, but damn those later dungeons can really make you run in circles.
Scariest dungeon. Incredible music, though.
It happens to all of us, haha, those Armos' really can mess up a person with 3-5 hearts.
Oh my god, I love you SupraDarky <3
Loev this one, and also the mini-shrine you have to go to to get the key. The music there is chilling... so ominous, and it's the first "realisation" that maybe Koholint isn't what it seems. Really atmospheric game, actually.
Me too! I was stuck in this dungeon for years. I couldn't figure out that you were supposed to bomb this one unmarked wall...
Such an underrated, yet great game. It's my favourite 2D Zelda as well. I don't know why- I just loved this game. And this music is great too.
yeeeeah that's what i'm talking about.
I remember playing Link's Awakening for the first time and I accidentally came to the South Face Shrine about two dungeons before I was supposed to.
I remember this dungeon. I got lost here for a long time.
Oh and I recently re-finished both this game and Link to the Past. I was surprised about how I realised that this really is my favorite 2D Zelda. It's a much more complex game, it becomes very apparent when playing both in a short period of time.
LOL spoilerz