Composer Reacts to TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Soundtrack
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April 22, 2025
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Man, why didn't you ask us for track suggestions? You missed out on ALL the greatest ones!
It's like Jazz Djent metal turned into orchestral music.
Im just impressed with the speed you can compose. The same piece that took you one hour to make would probably take me 3 to 6 hours to make.
Late to this video, but have to comment just to say; kept waiting for the intro "teaser" to cut to a typical youtube intro, but you just raw-dogged it. No cut to "HEY YOUTUBE TODAY WE'RE CHECKING OUT THE TOTK SOUNDTRACK" you just started with a stinger and kept fucking going. Mad respect, great video.
2:14 when you realize someone is watching you :')
Bro wrote and entire masterpiece in a matter of an hour. Thats what I call ✨️TALENT ✨️
From a music theory standpoint it's 100% more sophisticated than BOTW. Honestly they took some big, big swings to go to the next level thematically.
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The soundtrack definitely does a great deal of heavy lifting in this game!
I swear whenever I listen to this music I feel so many emotions that I've never felt anywhere else
Bro there’s no way you skipped over “colgeras theme”….. it’s the single best piece of music in the entire ost….. wtf …. Like it’s not even debatable
Colgera is the Best
Would you breakdown the time signatures for the full Gleeok theme? I'd love to see it explained. 🙂
2:35 I understand that BotW's soundtrack was less… designed. It was supposed to be very mysterious and vague, for thematic reasons.
But I have to agree. I think TotK's soundtrack is better.
Great breakdown, the unfortunate issue with the playlist you're listening to however, is the fact that you're only getting the final phase of dungeon/boss music, and not the full progression as you advance through the dungeons over five phases. The wind and fire temples especially build amazingly throughout.
Great Video! To create music like that would be really hard, And I want to learn that Someday!
Please do octopath traveler 2
they stepped up so much compared to BoTW, like that one was good but they turned it up waaayyy past 11
im not someone who can do music stuff but the fact you did that first part in just an hour omgg
Colgera: Am I a joke to you?
7:22 Idk how familiar you are with LoZ music in general, but there's a rising run of notes in this part here that sounds eerily familiar to me. Listen to the song Farewell Hyrule King from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and Hyrule Castle Theme from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and you might get what I mean. The notes might not be exact, but it's close enough to remind me of Farewell Hyrule King (which makes sense to me because 'Wind Waker'… wind temple…) I mention ALttP because it demonstrates Nintendo's habit of retaining music and reusing/remastering it to suit different circumstances. If the notes do match up between this and the song from Wind Waker, it's not an accident.
I believe the proper grammatical phrase you were looking for was "I love mes some dungeons musics."
You're welcome
This is 100% Top 5 Video Game OSTs for me. This game just shocked me with how much more and better the music is compared to BOTW.
Want your mind blown? Listen to the Yiga/Kouga theme on this video, take in the melody, the instruments used, etc., then go listen to the Kakariko Village theme.
**Pow**…
The callbacks to "Assault on Vah Ruta" in the Water Temple theme are amazing…
Their use of themes overall is just masterful. You can tell in seconds exactly where you are and who you're fighting just by the motifs and instruments used.
Thanks so much.
I am the game player who is in the game 99%. I did not know that the main menu has those music.
Thank you for bringing me to the music.
Wait where does that first song play? Is it the spirit temple boss?
I wish there was a link to the video you stole
What DAW software do you use ?
Colgera is probably the best boss theme but Queen Gibdo is so so good, that 5/4 7/4 switchup is just so so good
I love love LOVE that they incorporated the motifs from BotW’s divine beast dungeons into the temple’s themes in ToTK as if in homage. Immediately recognized Vah Ruta’s theme within the Water temple theme and it got me choked up because of Mipha and Sidon.
9:38 that is so hard to do😮
listen to the colgera theme (phase 3)
YouTube recommendations giving me a solid W here. Great video! I don’t know jack about music theory, but I always love seeing people’s reactions who really do know it. The thunder temple was my favourite, but the old spirit/desert temples have always been my favourites.
First time I’ve come across your channel. You did a great job on the analysis and I was really impressed how quickly you made that similar song as well as playing along in parts in real time. Super talented bro, keep it up!
I love this music but I do miss the great hooks from the old soundtracks. I wish they’d bring some of that back.
Your cover sounds like a news theme!
It feels weird to see you say "Already a lot more orchestra than in Botw" literally during a track significantly less orchestral than its botw version (Hyrule Castle).
Some other really good tracks are demon dragon and final fall!! Also Ganondorfs approach is awesome
Have you looked at Final Fantasy XIV Soundtracks? That's also a wild ride to go through ^^ if you haven't already (first video I see from you)
Love how you explain some parts and it's nice to see you get excited,, same as I do 😀 although I have no theory knowledge xD
the music actually makes me cry <3 I love this