Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another Zelda podcast. My name is Katie. I'm here with my cohost, David.
David Geisler:Hey, Katie. Hi. How are you?
Kady Roberts:I'm really good. How are you?
David Geisler:Welcome to your first hosting in of the show.
Kady Roberts:I know. It's very exciting.
David Geisler:You know, I'm noticing as we're talking, we have a lot of reverb in this room, don't we? Yeah. That's okay.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. We'll see how
David Geisler:it comes We're not recording in our normal space. We're recording in a meeting room at Columbia College in the student center on campus right now.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. This was like a very impromptu recording, but we wanted to do it. And today, we're gonna be doing the music of Breath of the Wild.
David Geisler:I'm excited.
Kady Roberts:More specifically, though, I wanted to do the day and night music Well, that'd different ones of Breath of the Wild.
David Geisler:Oh, I'm so excited about this. Yeah. Thank you.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. So I was trying to figure out at first, I wanted to do the different characters themes, but all of them were, like, thirty seconds. So I ended up figuring out, oh, there's, like, a decent amount of day and night cycles. So let's just do that.
David Geisler:I just got an idea. Two or three days ago, Celeste and I were having our weekly AZP production meeting Mhmm. And we're trying to come up with an idea for our Linktober episode this year. Yeah. Linktober is that kind of stream that happens anyway.
David Geisler:And we wanna do Shane Kelly had the idea of doing, like, a guest the music episode.
Kady Roberts:Oh, that would be
David Geisler:so character themes.
Kady Roberts:Oh my gosh. That would
David Geisler:be amazing. Yeah. Those little thirty second things, we'll save that for that episode. Yeah. That's great.
Kady Roberts:Also, if we wanna do something longer, I talked with you a little bit about this off stream. Mhmm.
David Geisler:But Off stream.
Kady Roberts:Oh, stream. It's horrible. Recording.
David Geisler:Yeah. Off air. Whatever. Off air. We're not even on it's not even air anymore.
David Geisler:It's something in the middle. Off off off feed.
Kady Roberts:Anyway Age of Calamity, the game that came out, they have, like, full produced themes for each of the characters out of those, like, thirty seconds. That sounds amazing.
David Geisler:So I know that you're out of town for the next couple weeks and stuff, but maybe we'll still have you zoom in on a meeting or something with Celeste and I. We can kind of pick those songs, but we'll deal with that later. Let's not have a meeting in the episode. I apologize. I just got excited.
David Geisler:Alright. Cool. Yeah. So we are we're recording here in the student center because both of us are in the middle of our finals week right now. Mhmm.
David Geisler:There's a lot going on. We really wanted to get this episode in before the end of the school year because you're going off to you're gonna be in a play, I think, for the next few
Kady Roberts:I am. Yeah. So I'm gonna go back to Michigan, and I'm gonna be up at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor doing SpongeBob the musical. I get to play SpongeBob, which I am so excited about.
David Geisler:That was gonna be a blast.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. I was really hoping I'd get it, but rehearsal start this week, so I have to head out after this to go up there.
David Geisler:Yeah. Wait. You mean, like, literally at we we stopped pushing the record button and you you booked to Michigan?
Kady Roberts:Pretty much. I think I have, like, 30 in between to, like, get something to eat, and then I have to head over to the train station.
David Geisler:Oh my gosh. Okay. Yeah. So let's go for it. Let's do this.
David Geisler:Let's oh, no. I've listened feedback real quick.
Kady Roberts:Hit hit the feedback.
David Geisler:Hit that feedback. Okay.
David Geisler:So let's see. This one, I hope it's not a repeat. I had it and I don't know if I marked it off, but it's just so adorable that I'm gonna say it again. Maybe this will pop up in another episode. This is one of our Apple Podcast reviews, five star review.
David Geisler:Oh, yeah. I'm so excited about this. This is from another Zelda fan. So I remember putting this in. I don't think this is a double.
David Geisler:Another Zelda fan is also a person on our Discord. Mhmm. They're very active on our Discord. I even on Discord said, hey. Love your screen name because they're also another Zelda fan on Discord, which is cute because it's obviously piggybacking off another Zelda podcast.
David Geisler:And so here is another Zelda fan's podcast review for us on Apple Podcasts. Best podcast ever, three exclamation points. I am a 14 year old Zelda fan. I sent in a review last year as well, and I love the podcast and enjoy listening to most episodes. The show is just great, and I just started listening to season six and listening while going to bed, so I often don't finish a full episode for two to four days.
David Geisler:So I am occupied with your perfect show almost every night. Keep doing what you're doing, AZP. And if it wasn't obvious already, I love the show. Green heart emoji. Green heart emoji.
David Geisler:Green heart emoji.
Kady Roberts:That is so sweet.
David Geisler:That's awesome. Thank you, another Zelda fan. I actually honestly, if you're on ours on our Discord, which you can get to by going to our website, anotherzeldapodcast.com, we've got a Discord link right up on top. I've actually personally noticed another Zelda fan being pretty active on there recently. Alright.
David Geisler:Let's keep on going. Thank you so much. Oh, you know, I haven't said this in a while, but sending a review on Apple Podcasts specifically is almost the best way to help the show. I mean, obviously, you know, Patreon and stuff helps us fund the show and helps us make the show. But as far as getting noticed, the Apple algorithm is very sensitive to the amount of reviews and the amount of five stars you get.
David Geisler:So if the more of those you get, the more it recommends the show to other people. So thank you, another Zelda fan, and all the people that have given us amazing reviews on Apple Podcasts. Alright. And I assume maybe there's a similar algorithm on Spotify, I have to say. Anyways, here we go.
David Geisler:Here's another one. So this one this one directly replies so you've gotten your first listener feedback for an episode we've already done. Really? Yeah. P b h seven four nine over on this might be YouTube, honestly, it's not in the screen grab.
David Geisler:But over on our favorite vendors in Breath of the Wild, p b h seven four nine says, so so glad Kilton made the mentions. He just loves monsters. If you notice, his fangs are actually makeup lipstick on his face and not actually fangs at all. What a great character. I wanna know more about him in tears of the kingdom.
David Geisler:Any thoughts, Katie?
Kady Roberts:I would also like to know more about Kilton. That was a good it was good that you noticed that his lips were painted on. I don't think I ever made that connection.
David Geisler:Yeah. I actually went back. I remember seeing this this listener feedback, and I was in Breath of the Wild yesterday to get some background shots for our YouTube videos, and I found Kilton, and sure enough, they're painted on his lower lip. That is
Kady Roberts:so cute.
David Geisler:He just wants to be a monster so bad. No. So much.
Kady Roberts:He creeps me up, but I hope we get to see him again in Tears of the Kingdom.
David Geisler:Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Alright. Here we go.
David Geisler:Here is a tweet reply over at another Zelda podcast. Our co my coproducer Celeste tweeted out, Link, you can do it. Save the princess. Zelda is your dot dot dot. Of course, that's the quote from Link to the Past, the Super Nintendo game.
David Geisler:And then she continued with the tweet, what do you think Link's uncle was going to say? Well, Krystalynheim over here, which is at K R Y S A L Y N E H I M E, says, in my head, I've always figured that Link's uncle was going to say, Zelda is your destiny. Oops. I hit the mic. Can't seem to shake that one.
David Geisler:What what what do what did you always think he was gonna say? I always thought he was gonna say sister. My. So was like channeling my inner Star Wars or something. I don't know.
Kady Roberts:No. I really like destiny. I think that is I'm I'm gonna think that now for now on.
David Geisler:Yeah. Zelda is your destiny. Because what is it? It's It doesn't work if it's wisdom. Zelda is your wisdom because courage you know, trying to do that.
David Geisler:Destiny is great. I love it. Thank you so much for the reply there, Chris Lennheim. Last but not least, over on YouTube, we got a comment on the favorite dwellings podcast. This was season episode one of season five, the very first episode of of a season ago, and this was kinda I have to just kinda zoom in for this one.
David Geisler:This is just a quick reply over on YouTube. Marker marker owls, marker underscore owls says, listening to this episode again because I love it so much. I've said it before, but I really enjoy Selmi's spot or Caleb's cabin in Breath of the Wild. Also, I'm gonna need the name of that book series Kate said she was reading about the guy with his pet wolf, laughy emoji, green heart emoji. I love these green heart emojis.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. They're my So on brand.
David Geisler:This is They're my secret. I kinda said it to our audience before, but secretly, they're my, like, AZP love emoji. If you hit the green heart, I'm I'm gonna make sense. These two locations, are you familiar? Sell me Spot and Caleb's Cabin in Breath of the Wild.
Kady Roberts:Oh, I would have to see a picture. I don't remember the names very well.
David Geisler:Yeah. Caleb Caleb's Cabin. There's a lot of little cabins up in the mountains.
Kady Roberts:I was gonna say it also might be the one where you go and there's, like he sleeps on the bed. I remember my horse got glitched into the house.
David Geisler:On the way to Hateno? Yes. Just after that battle, the wreckage of the battle perhaps.
Kady Roberts:Right there. Yeah. That's my one.
David Geisler:It could be. It could be. Yeah. Because, yeah, I think there's little side quest connected to that too. Yeah.
David Geisler:He might even unlock a shrine. It could be. We have we gotta look into it. That one this one kinda surprised us. Selmi's spot.
David Geisler:Selmi's spot. I wonder if it's like a pool of water or something.
Kady Roberts:We're gonna look into this. Probably.
David Geisler:Well, there it is. Thank you so much for the the tweets, the reviews, the comments. It really helps keep the show alive, and certainly we love hearing it and being able to speak to it a little bit. Katie. Yes.
David Geisler:Let's woah. Hi. Welcome to Baritone City. Let's get going.
Kady Roberts:Alright. So I ended up ordering these just in the order that they are on the original soundtrack. Okay. So don't look too heavy into it.
David Geisler:Oh, like like, it's not, favorite first or anything?
Kady Roberts:Oh, yeah. It's not favorites or anything. I have 20. We'll see how many we can get through. Yeah.
Kady Roberts:If not, I could always post the rest of them somewhere if you guys wanna look into them.
David Geisler:Maybe we can maybe we can you know what? Maybe when you're done being SpongeBob, we throw it in as like a blog post or something Yeah. Like that. You can maybe put it together.
Kady Roberts:Alright. Yeah. Alright. So we're gonna start strong with a Hyrule Field Day music.
David Geisler:I love it. I already I already love this song so much.
Kady Roberts:I love it a lot because it's really wistful. Mhmm. But I like that it sounds like someone's trying to remember what it sounds like.
David Geisler:I've never heard someone describe it that way before. That's perfect.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. Because it's like there's like bits and pieces and then it's just like long pauses. So because it's been a hundred years since the calamity, it's like people are trying to remember what it used to be, but they just can't anymore.
David Geisler:I think it's perfect. I you know, when this game first came out, the the big joke on the Internet was like, the Breath of the Wild soundtrack. It's a cat walking on a piano. And, I mean, that's cute, but I actually think that the that this daytime high roll field music just is perfect Mhmm. Because it's kinda sparing.
David Geisler:That might that might have been a background note or a backwards note. There's a couple notes. You know, maybe from audio engineering, there's some stuff we do. There's a few of these piano notes that are reversed at the end. They
Kady Roberts:go whoop. Yeah.
David Geisler:Just a sec. Come on. Give us one. But I've never thought about it as someone slowly starting to remember what's going on. I think that's really well said.
Kady Roberts:Thank you. I like to make up little scenes in my head when I listen to music like this. So you're going to be hearing me say stuff like that throughout
David Geisler:this I love it. I'm also thinking maybe we haven't we heard it in the beginning, but I think I might have been talking over it. Some of the backward notes for me was kind of like I mean, maybe it's little on the notes, but it's a little bit like also referencing a 100 years ago and all that kind of stuff. Awesome. So then there's a knight version of this.
Kady Roberts:There is.
David Geisler:Oh, there was a backwards note right there. Did you hear it?
Kady Roberts:So this is the knight version of Hyrule Field. It is much darker.
David Geisler:I mean, I think it
Kady Roberts:It feels like it's just in a minor key.
David Geisler:I was just gonna say Yeah. I honestly paused because I wanted to hear more, but I was like, I think it's the same, but just in minor.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. That kind of follows a trend throughout this as we listen.
David Geisler:I'm into it.
Kady Roberts:It also feels a little bit more broken. That might just be me with the minor tones.
David Geisler:It's so quiet. We could hear the construction crew out the out the hallway right now building a thing. Awesome. Some accidentals in there. So cool.
David Geisler:Yeah. It does feel a little more broken, but there were a couple but that's like that's what it's like. You're out in the woods at night.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. And there's the guardians everywhere in Hyrule Field. It's That's true. Terrifying.
David Geisler:That's true. That's true. I also think that this kind of broken you know, there's a lot of silence and stuff like that. It helps when you do transition into some of the other songs. Well, if you do see a guardian or somewhere else, you go somewhere else and that music fades in, it's not like you hear this theme fade out awkwardly because there's so much space.
David Geisler:I actually think that's a little bit of a game design choice too.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. I think it's really smart. I never thought of it like that.
David Geisler:Alright. Let's what's next? This is great. We're kinda moving along, but I'm fine with it.
Kady Roberts:Next, we have riding horse day. So whenever you ride your horse during the day. I love this theme.
David Geisler:We have to wait till the the other theme comes in too. Mhmm. Isn't it Zelda's theme or is that nighttime?
Kady Roberts:It's at nighttime. Yeah. I wrote that down. I like the constant rhythm to kind of mimic, like, bouncing on the horse when you ride along.
David Geisler:Absolutely. There's another thing that comes up in the daytime one here after you ride for a while. Mhmm. Hot. It's on here.
David Geisler:Also,
Kady Roberts:like, the little tiny notes make me think of, like, the bugs running away when you, like, run past them.
David Geisler:I love it. Absolutely.
Kady Roberts:It's so cute.
David Geisler:All those little flourishes.
Kady Roberts:Yeah.
David Geisler:I think it's gonna come in any second. There it is.
Kady Roberts:Oh, the strings. See so for me, I took most of the songs with strings in them to kind of be link just because it the strings only show up in certain songs. And for this one, it kind of remind like, makes me think of him, like, remembering, like, writing. But that's a completely personal idea.
David Geisler:So it's just like super slow down.
Kady Roberts:Yeah.
David Geisler:So cool. Mhmm. Mhmm. Mhmm. Let's do nighttime.
David Geisler:Let's get that zombie team in here.
Kady Roberts:Think is the best one.
David Geisler:Sometimes I ride around on my horse at night just to hear this song. I Yeah. Go 100%.
Kady Roberts:I also like how much faster it feels.
David Geisler:Yeah. That's interesting because the because the Hyrule Field, the nighttime was a little bit more subdued.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. And
David Geisler:that's little more adventurous.
Kady Roberts:I feel like it's a lot more sporadic because it's like the horse is scared, you're scared, you're like riding away really fast.
David Geisler:There's a bit of that. Yeah. And if it's darker, your your your eyes are probably, you know, scanning around, darting around a little more. You're not seeing as more little
Kady Roberts:Yes.
David Geisler:Few more surprises. I love it. We still got the we still got the clip clop of the horse with the, like, on the piano. Alright. Here it comes.
David Geisler:Not yet. I thought it was.
Kady Roberts:It's right here. And you notice it's in strings.
David Geisler:Yeah.
Kady Roberts:That's why I was like, oh,
David Geisler:it's kinda
Kady Roberts:like Link remembering stuff.
David Geisler:Oh, the feels.
Kady Roberts:It's so good. Because that's the thing too. It's just like a glimpse of it.
David Geisler:It's so smart how they do these writing themes because they don't start with I mean, daytime theme, that one is pretty abstract. That's the ba ba ba, you know, it's like it's like super drawn out. But here, we hear the Zelda theme, but it doesn't start right away, obviously.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. It
David Geisler:starts maybe twenty, thirty seconds in. Obviously, it's like
Kady Roberts:Yeah. It's like at forty five seconds it starts.
David Geisler:And so that means every time you hop on your horse, it's not gonna kick in right away. But if you're on a horse, you're now now if you've been on the horse for almost a minute in game time, it feels like a long time. Yeah. And now it's the perfect time. Like, if it were a movie, that's where we're kind of the theme, the overarching theme would come in naturally.
David Geisler:So, again, so
Kady Roberts:It's so much more cinematic.
David Geisler:Brilliant, yeah, where they're placing these things, where they don't have to queue it with tech they don't have to necessarily queue it with because sometimes a video game will have, like, a dynamic soundtrack Mhmm. Where there'll be, like, four or five tracks of instruments, and certain instruments will fade in and out when different things happen. Yeah. You know, the most famous thing is, like, in Mario 64, the there the drums cut out when you go underwater, but when you come out, they come back in, and there's games that take it to the nth degree. They'll do have, like, you know, multiple tracks.
David Geisler:But this is a great way to just embed some of that logic into the song. Yeah.
Kady Roberts:Oh my gosh. I love it so much.
David Geisler:Yeah. That one that one always gets me where are going next? We got Kakariko Village. And the owl going by.
Kady Roberts:We do.
David Geisler:This is a noisy little room. I don't know if the mics are picking it up, but anyways That's okay. Cool. We're in the middle of the city. Let's do it.
Kady Roberts:This is the daytime.
David Geisler:I don't know if I ever really noticed this.
Kady Roberts:It's very traditional type
David Geisler:of music. I've always this part I remember.
Kady Roberts:I like how loud and aggressive the music is. Yeah. Because I would say Kakariko is, like, the most bustling town.
David Geisler:That's a good point.
Kady Roberts:So I and also, like, with them all kind of being raised up as warriors, they're all more aggressive and more, like, traditional. And I like how this theme kind of plays into that.
David Geisler:I agree completely. The drums obviously bring kind of the the the slight militaristic stuff Mhmm. Or the training, we could call it. Yeah. The flute, that is so weird.
David Geisler:That weird little trumpet. That's almost the exact same trumpet from Goron City in Ocarina of Time. Oh, it's also in Goron City
Kady Roberts:in this Interesting.
David Geisler:Yes. We got a lot of stuff going on here. Initially with the drums, almost feels more like a Goron City kind of thing. But even this these flutes, maybe that's Piccolo, that very much reminds me of Ordon Village in Twilight Princess.
Kady Roberts:Okay.
David Geisler:There's a lot of like organic flute y feelings and Ordon Village in Twilight Princess was the first time Ordon Village isn't Kakariko Village in Twilight Princess, is a Kakariko, but it's more like a wild West town.
Kady Roberts:Okay.
David Geisler:But spiritually, Ordon Village is kind of more Kakariko vibes. And I feel like that was the first time where we really started getting this kind of not ancient feel, but this traditional feel that you were talking about with the flute and stuff. I mean, there's obviously, like, eastern inspirations here and everything. Mhmm. Cool.
Kady Roberts:Up next, we have the night theme.
David Geisler:Of the same?
Kady Roberts:I like that this is, like, half tempo. Yeah. And very quiet.
David Geisler:This is, a base version of that flute. This is, a massive flute. Yeah. Or they're pitching it down, but I don't think so.
Kady Roberts:I also like that you can hear the person breathe when before they, like, play. You can hear their breaths.
David Geisler:So it's fascinating. As I'm listening, it sounds like some of these instruments are analog, and some of them feel MIDI. Like, that harp didn't feel analog. It felt like maybe it was a MIDI Mhmm. Orchestration on top, and that could be true.
David Geisler:I don't know if they did a full orchestration for Breath of the Wild. I know they did for Skyward Sword. Maybe Breath of the Wild somewhere in the middle? I I I don't know. Maybe I'll take a look.
David Geisler:I'll research it on break. Because this is a real flute or whatever it is. I mean, unless they just have the mic really, really close to the harp, that's a little too pingy. It feels digital to me. You hear it?
David Geisler:There isn't any, like but it's awesome, anyways. But the the the composition, no drums.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. It's very quiet. It feels like kind of like everyone has gone to bed, and there's, like, one person still up.
David Geisler:Which in Kakariko is exactly what has happened Yeah. In Breath of the Wild. People do literally go to bed in that city and and others as well. Anything else you wanna say about this one?
Kady Roberts:No. I don't think so. Cool. Very pretty. Up next, we have Hateno.
Kady Roberts:I have much to say about Hateno. Alright. First off, I think this is the most iconic theme for a place, but also I spent a lot of time in Hittano because I loved it there.
David Geisler:Well, you know, it's introduced to you story wise, it's introduced to you as like the only town that kind of survived, I guess we could say the calamity. Mhmm. And if you really look at the storytelling of the map, it's because there was that big battle at the cabin that we were just talking about earlier in this episode, and that big wall held off the Guardians, everything past that wall was safe ish. Yeah. And then Tenno put themselves up into the hills.
David Geisler:Just, I wanna listen for a second. I I don't wanna harp on this, but, like, that does sound digital, that instrument, doesn't it? Like, it sounds MIDI. Yeah. Like, it's someone on a keyboard.
David Geisler:That's a that's a post production.
Kady Roberts:I also like how much slower it is compared to Paco Rico. It's a much slower paced city.
David Geisler:Yeah. Well, what I was thinking as we were starting to listen to this is like it's the town that, okay fine, it was the one that survived, but it's still pretty big.
Kady Roberts:Yeah.
David Geisler:It's not like a laurel in village. It's not, I mean, it's an it's it's maybe square footage. It's even bigger than Kakariko.
Kady Roberts:Oh, absolutely.
David Geisler:Yeah.
Kady Roberts:Also, back to my, like to think that the strings are Link. This is like the only village that has strings and that's where his house is.
David Geisler:Katie, you're good at these music episodes. This is my first one doing one not with Kate, and this is great. I'm having the time of my life.
Kady Roberts:I think that's all with this one. She's just gonna loop.
David Geisler:Yeah. The the strings for you is Link. I love it. Because I guess it is kind of the yeah. In Zelda, strings are usually the main melodies, not like trumpets or anything like that.
David Geisler:It's not like it's John Williams or something. What's next?
Kady Roberts:Yep. We have Hateno's night theme.
David Geisler:Oh, great. Okay. Because I kinda wanted to keep talking about Hateno a bit.
Kady Roberts:If I may, with my Link is the Strings.
David Geisler:This is so cozy. Please.
Kady Roberts:I like to think that this has more strings because Link was gone during the day doing his night stuff, and so he comes back to the village at night to go to bed and that's why it's like there's only really strings playing because he's the only one left awake.
David Geisler:I fully support this. I love it. Yeah, it's a Hateno, what I wanted to say about Hateno is it is this interesting mix of it is a pretty large town, but it is relaxed because it's where people have survived. It's the only place story wise that peace has been able to exist. And
Kady Roberts:they're not warriors. That's the big thing. They're just people.
David Geisler:They're just Farmers almost. Yeah. They're farmers. There's and then also I'm realizing in a town that's been able to survive the calamity for a hundred years, you start to get that's why the dye shop is there. So you start it's not just a survival town.
David Geisler:Like Kikariko is beautiful, but it's basically a little bit of small gardens and warriors. Mhmm. This is we now have artists. We have there's a hotel.
Kady Roberts:I mean, the lab is there.
David Geisler:The lab is there.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. They're starting to advance and try and, like, rebuild.
David Geisler:So in peace, generally speaking, you know, in peace times, that's when art and science and stuff start to come back into a culture, and I think this is being reflected here.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. Oh, it's so beautiful.
David Geisler:That's just a cello. Right? Love it. Something there's a few Eastern instruments that sound cello ish to me. There's one in the Tears of the Kingdom Mhmm.
David Geisler:Main title. I think this is just a cello, and it which, oh god. Mhmm. There it is. Mhmm.
Kady Roberts:You know, I didn't notice until you pointed it out that that has continued through some of these songs. What has? The little Yeah.
David Geisler:I think so. Well, I yeah. Anyway yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about it a bit more later.
David Geisler:I wanna explore some more of these songs. I think I think that was an or an analog cello. That sounded like a real cello to me too. Yeah. So if I had to guess, I'm gonna guess that what happened here.
David Geisler:Maybe I'll do a little bit of research behind the scenes and we can bring it up on another episode. Maybe when we do an Age of Calamity music episode? Yes. Alright. Cool.
David Geisler:Because you were mentioning that earlier. It sounds if I had to guess, it sounds like maybe half the instruments or the main instruments. Mhmm. Like, I believe this was probably fully orchestrated. Mhmm.
David Geisler:And then the main instruments were recorded analog, and then you can go in with MIDI later and put in some of the complementary instruments. That's probably what's going on here. Because a full symphony orchestra is very expensive for this much music.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. Talking MIDI, Zora's domain is all MIDI.
David Geisler:Let's do it.
Kady Roberts:This is their day theme.
David Geisler:Oh, yeah.
Kady Roberts:It's like all synths, all electric Yeah. Which I think is very funny considering they're a water town doing all electric music.
David Geisler:That's even the exact same Jingle Bell sample. Listen to it. Here it comes again. Yeah. There's no variance at all.
David Geisler:That's okay, though. But, like, you know, it's also a cute reference because the Zoras stuff was always synthy Mhmm. And all the others.
Kady Roberts:I also like all the descending chords. It just reminds me of the waterfalls.
David Geisler:Absolutely. 100%. Oh, no. We've got a longer flourish here.
Kady Roberts:I remember going into Zora's Domain because this is the first place that I went to with a different, like, race other than the Highlands. Yeah. And with this theme and how it looks, it was, out of a storybook. It's like it's it's like a storybook kingdom. It's so pretty, and the music kind of matches that.
David Geisler:I agree. In fact, it might be the only one that really is kind of storybook esque, like, high not high fantasy because all of Zelda is technically in fantasy, but I agree with you, where you're definitely transported into a different place, which I'm realizing, something that helps that is that long trek up the river. Absolutely. You've gone on a little bit of a journey, emotionally you've gone to a new place, you've opened a door emotionally. Another Another thing I wanna say is I almost feel like this piano was the final thing to be recorded.
David Geisler:I'm sure it was written, but whoever's playing it, like there's some improv in there. You hear that? Yeah. Because here it comes. The piano in Breath of the Wild is just so good.
Kady Roberts:Absolutely. It's featured in, like, every song, but every song, it adds something to it.
David Geisler:And piano's not usually used much in previous Zelda games. I think
Kady Roberts:it just adds to the gentleness of this game and, like, the open world nature of it. I don't know.
David Geisler:So maybe yeah. I mean, I don't wanna dive in too deep, but maybe the piano is is, like, Link's subconscious and his reflection, and then the strings are his present actions.
Kady Roberts:I would love to think
David Geisler:would love to think like Let's go into nighttime for this, if you don't mind. I wanna see if there's what's different, because this this is very reminiscent of 64 Zora. Still mean.
Kady Roberts:I like that they keep descending in this version because it's like they're all sleeping really deep under the water, so it just keeps descending and descending and descending.
David Geisler:So we're doing the descending on the harp now, so it's a little more muted.
Kady Roberts:Mhmm. Like it's underwater.
David Geisler:Not the piano. Yeah. Not the piano keys. I mean, there's some piano in there too, but The harp or harp sounds were a staple in Twilight Princess Orr's Domain and Ocarina of Time domain, Princess Orr's Domain, or whatever. Bring it in.
Kady Roberts:That's so pretty.
David Geisler:I'm I'm gonna find out who the piano player was on break because this is a jazz musician who who Yeah. Absolutely.
Kady Roberts:Oh, I did wanna mention that right there, that kind of, like, wind sound
David Geisler:Yeah.
Kady Roberts:Sounds very much like snoring
David Geisler:to me. Snoring? It was kind of a synthy sound to me. I don't know if it's gonna come back anytime soon. What is that noise?
David Geisler:I mean, I I like it as a snore. I think that's a created sound.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. Listening back to it, I don't know why I said wind. That was
David Geisler:very nice. Like a metal rod on a spring or something?
Kady Roberts:Yeah.
David Geisler:Alright. I think we have time for two more songs, then we'll take a break.
Kady Roberts:Alright. We're gonna hop over to your favorite, Luralin Village. We're listen to the daytime theme for that.
David Geisler:This is our second episode, and you already know that it's my favorite. Alright. Here
Kady Roberts:we are.
David Geisler:The tambourine? I don't remember the tambourine.
Kady Roberts:The steel drums are what make Yeah. This song. I love that it's the slowest town theme because it is slow lane back there, and you're literally just on the beach.
David Geisler:It's a hidden town. Mhmm. It's not even on the map until you find it.
Kady Roberts:I also like that this doesn't have too many instruments in it because there's so few people in the town.
David Geisler:So we've got the the drums are just kind of the regular rhythm of the town. And then the I'm not sure what the tambourine is doing here. Maybe it's just to make it kinda folksy. Mhmm. Because I would expect the tambourine to be more with, like, the Gerudo.
David Geisler:However, it's like the the lone steel drummer
Kady Roberts:Yeah.
David Geisler:Is just playing on the beach because. Mhmm. Another flute. It's a synth flute, but it's okay.
Kady Roberts:This sounds like you're on the water.
David Geisler:Yes. You're right. Yeah. It has that nautical feel. Mhmm.
David Geisler:That's what it is. There's a guitar in there.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. Very just in a few different places. I throw it in.
David Geisler:Fascinating. I love Laurel and Village. I've never paid that much attention to the music except you hear the steel drum kinda come through when you're playing. Is there a night one for this?
Kady Roberts:There is a night one. Here is the night.
David Geisler:Another place where everybody goes to bed. I mean, they all go to bed everywhere, but, like, it's really noticeable in some towns.
Kady Roberts:I love how slow it is.
David Geisler:Then we've got the acoustic guitar as the lead here. Still a tambourine. Curiously more tambourine.
Kady Roberts:See, what I was thinking is this is a fishing town. So people are staying up to night fish. So on my head, I'm thinking like there's some people that are asleep, but there's still pretty much all of instruments from the daytime one is just slower. So everyone is still awake. They're just kind of slowed down after, like, the long day.
David Geisler:Yeah. I can already imagine, you know, like, taking care of their little market sheds not sheds, but, know, their market booths and things like that or behind the scenes stuff, a little bit. But only the tempo slowed down. It's not like the sound files are slowed down. You know what I mean?
David Geisler:Because the you can still hear the rolls on the steel drum. Mhmm.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. I think, really, the only instrument that's gone was the, like, in the background kinda drum. This is cool.
David Geisler:Wait. Oh, yeah. Oh, that. Because it's the hustle bustle of the day. Mhmm.
David Geisler:This is heartbeat of the day. Bring it home, flute. Is there a little no. That is still guitar. I thought piano came in for a second, but it's all guitar.
David Geisler:It's hard to tell if that's an analog guitar or a synth guitar, but I don't care. It sounds great. That one's it sounds analog to me. It's so great. Mhmm.
David Geisler:So homey. I
Kady Roberts:definitely think they have the prettiest night theme.
David Geisler:Yeah. Yeah. And because, I mean, you're looking out at the ocean. Yeah. Sometimes you get the sunrise there too as things are just coming up.
David Geisler:Alright. Katie, I say we go to break.
Kady Roberts:Okay.
David Geisler:And we come back and just keep on going. Yeah. What do we have in store? Is there you got a little teaser?
Kady Roberts:Yeah. So we're gonna move on to the rest of, like, the other races villages now. Alright. Yeah.
David Geisler:Cool. Excellent. I'll see you on the other side of the break.
Kady Roberts:Alright.
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Kady Roberts:Alright. We're here after the break. Thanks for listening. We're gonna just hop right in and move on to the next day theme, which is Gerudo Town. This theme just makes me wanna, like, bob along.
David Geisler:Synth in the back. Yeah. I noticed that. Maybe it just feels like ambience when you're playing the game.
Kady Roberts:I love the heartbeat. It just feels like you're trudging through the sand trying to get somewhere.
David Geisler:Yeah. I agree. Yeah. But but, like, yeah. It's hot.
David Geisler:It's warm. We're getting through. There's lot of characters that are sitting down in this town because it is just hot. Mhmm. But the but the rhythm stays there.
David Geisler:It's such a stark contrast from the Ocarina of Time, the Yeah.
Kady Roberts:It just feels like everyone is trying to work, but they're so exhausted from the heat.
David Geisler:A little bit. I'm picking up on a theme so far. All of our tempos are pretty slow in this game so far.
Kady Roberts:At least for the day night cycles. Yeah. They're very laid back.
David Geisler:But I guess it's because they exist in the background. And then you get your little battle music or your whatever music. Yeah. That's true. Yeah.
David Geisler:For the day nights. Yeah. Because yeah. You're absolutely right. Day night cycles.
David Geisler:This is the music that's supposed to give us atmosphere. Yeah. So it's really reflecting the people in the towns.
Kady Roberts:I say we move on now to the night Mhmm. Of Gerudo.
David Geisler:What?
Kady Roberts:It feels so much colder.
David Geisler:I must it's Gerudo Town. Mhmm. I must not be in Gerudo Town at night.
Kady Roberts:I was gonna say, I have, like, never been actually in Gerudo Town at night. And same here, it feels like there's one person up in the cold.
David Geisler:Yeah. Yeah. I love that this little glockens not a glockenspiel. It's it almost sounds like one of those not a harpsichord. One are those things with the little got the little drums and the hammers and
Kady Roberts:you hit the strings? You're saying thinking.
David Geisler:Don't think
Kady Roberts:I can't think
David Geisler:of it as sounds like it is. But for me, that's like because we're in the desert, but, of course, deserts freeze at night.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. The synth just makes it feel so much colder.
David Geisler:There's a yeah. There's a snowiness to this. And I shouldn't say snowiness, but it is it piano? It is piano. Piano again.
David Geisler:And of course, the piano melody's coming in maybe a minute in. So if you, you know, you've you've you've settled into the environment, into the space. So smart.
Kady Roberts:Alright. I'm going to take you now to the complete opposite of what Gerudo sounds like, and that is the Goron City day theme.
David Geisler:I was gonna be like, Oh, yep. There it is. You got it. I mean, some some marimba in there, though. What that?
Kady Roberts:I love that part. It sounds like a Goron is trying to play a woodwind, but they can't because, like, they aren't delicate enough for it. Because then they come in with the trumpet and it's very, like, harsh and in your face.
David Geisler:Yeah. There's that. So much flare. I do remember the kind of, like, weirdly canned symbols. Mhmm.
David Geisler:It's like someone hit a trash can more than a symbol.
Kady Roberts:Which honestly, they might have done that for this.
David Geisler:There's a lot going on here. Not like it's not big and bombastic, but there are so many different threads happening. Yeah, it's very percussive. Oh, it's a trombone, not a trumpet. Oh, did I say trumpet?
David Geisler:I said trumpet too.
Kady Roberts:Oh, okay.
David Geisler:Yeah. Maybe it's even a muted trombone or half muted or something.
Kady Roberts:Mhmm. Goron City was probably, like, my least favorite city to be in, but I think they have one of the most iconic themes for the different cities.
David Geisler:Yeah. I'm trying to I mean, this this is these are all the classic instruments that come along with the Gorons in previous games, you know? Mhmm. Is there a knight or is this day or
Kady Roberts:is a knight. Yep.
David Geisler:I wonder what this one's like, because maybe this one's there's not activity.
Kady Roberts:Oh. I like
David Geisler:this This is
Kady Roberts:It makes me think of, like, they're all asleep and there's, like, one little Goron trying to, like, sneak around and not disturb anyone, but they're, like, so big and, like, they keep hitting everything, you know? Like, final ones. Yeah. The Gorons can't really, like, fully control themselves.
David Geisler:This the plucked strings. I don't know if it's basses, cellos, or what, but these plucked strings are exactly the vibes of going into the lower parts of Goran City in Ocarina of Time. It's like the exact same sound. This might even be a similar melody. This was a different compo Breath of the Wild was the first time Koji Kondo didn't what didn't compose anything for a Zelda Really?
David Geisler:Yeah. It was actually pulled it up here over break. It was Minaka Ka Kaoka was the main composer, and she also is the composer for Tears of the Kingdom.
Kady Roberts:Oh, that's so exciting.
David Geisler:Yeah. It's very cool.
Kady Roberts:Like I said to you previously, I listen to Breath of the Wild music to, like, study or just to relax to.
David Geisler:Yeah.
Kady Roberts:So I'm very much looking forward to hearing what she has in store for Tears of
David Geisler:the King film. It sounds interesting. Maybe we'll talk about it right at the end of the episode here, but let's go into whatever's next. Yeah. You know, Koji Kondo is such a legend when it comes to many games, but Legend of Zelda for sure.
David Geisler:Everybody know you know, everybody it's you can talk about Koji Kondo's music. There was and in the in in Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, they started bringing in additional composers, and Skyward Sword was one of the first games where Koji Kondo did Maybe I think it was the main theme and a couple others, but they had four or five composers for Skyward Because Skyward Sword was fully orchestrated and then played by an orchestra, there's lot of music to put out. And Kate and I talked about this in our music of Skyward Sword episode, but we observed in that episode that it was the variety of musical styles was apparent in Skyward Sword and not maybe not to to its benefit. It was there was a lot of different it almost didn't feel like it was the same game sometimes. This one clearly very much feels like it's all the same game.
David Geisler:Yeah. It was a main voice. There were two other composers too that kinda helped apparently, Hajime Wakai and Yosaki Iwata. I'm saying those. I really kinda butchered that first one there.
David Geisler:Hajime? Yeah. What is it? Hajime. Hajime.
David Geisler:Oh, you Hajime. How would you say that last name then? Okay. Wakai?
Kady Roberts:Kataoka? Oh, wait. I was looking at Manaka.
David Geisler:Oh, that's Manaka Kataoka.
Kady Roberts:Oh, wait.
David Geisler:Which one? Give me with my Midwest. Here. The Midwest.
Kady Roberts:Hajime Wakai. That's my best chance
David Geisler:Guado. Attempts. That's fine. That's cool. So they they obviously did some complimentary composing too, but really, apparently, the main thread was Manaka Kanakanoka.
David Geisler:Kanakanoka. Anyway, so what we're hearing here is we're hearing riffs on we're hearing reinterpretations, not direct lifts, but reinterpretations of Koji Kondo themes. Mhmm. Maybe the most direct one was Zelda's theme, but that's like, you know what I mean? You gotta go there.
David Geisler:What's next? Let's see. Yep.
Kady Roberts:We have the day theme for Rideau Village.
David Geisler:I
Kady Roberts:can't place it, but I'm pretty sure this is another theme somewhere
David Geisler:Here's where and then they cut to something else in the trailer.
Kady Roberts:I love the soaring heights of it. It just keeps getting higher and
David Geisler:higher. Strange chimes. And there's that thing again. Dulcimer. That's what it's called.
Kady Roberts:Dulcimer. Yes. Yeah. Oh, this just makes me think of Cas. He's one of my favorite characters in the game.
David Geisler:Yeah. My only I was fine with Cas. The only disappointment is that when he would sing his songs, I really wish that there would have an audio. You didn't have to read it. I know.
David Geisler:Because basically, you're reading like a weird kid's poem.
Kady Roberts:Mhmm.
David Geisler:It would have been fun. Even if there was some melody just Yeah. But anyway anyway.
Kady Roberts:I like how quiet it feels too because you're up so high that it feels like you're, like, the only one. And just seeing, like, the view that you just can't forget, It matches so pretty.
David Geisler:Yeah. You're right. It's chill. I mean, maybe the dulcimer is it's a little like like, we always hear a little bit of tambourine, little bit of dulcimer, a little bit of whatever when to evoke, like, the hubbub of the city, the little going going ons, and that's happening here.
Kady Roberts:For this theme, I kind of, like, thought of the little tambourine being, like, bits of snow falling. Because it's not a lot. It's just little tiny bits.
David Geisler:You're right. I do remember this music fitting in very well when you're going over the bridges to get into Rideau Village. It was so epic. Then once in a while, you're in the town just, like, buying bananas, and it goes, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah You're kinda like, well, I mean, I don't know. But, like, but I get it.
David Geisler:It's okay. Yeah. Sometimes it's a bit much, but, when you come in, when you first go up that pillar and stuff, so cool. Let's let's hear what nighttime is.
Kady Roberts:Yeah.
David Geisler:Link. Link, open your eyes. Okay. I'm done. Maybe Rito maybe the Rito stuff was written really early on in production.
David Geisler:This must have been an early theme because this was definitely used in promotions as well. Mhmm. About half speed just like the others.
Kady Roberts:Feels more flourishy though.
David Geisler:Yeah. Still the chimes.
Kady Roberts:And it's the piano and guitar instead.
David Geisler:Which which has major cast vibes for me, even though it's the what he has the accordion. Mhmm.
Kady Roberts:I feel like it makes it feel so much sadder.
David Geisler:I agree. And this has, like I'm feeling, like, tucked in bed, honestly, when I'm hearing this. Is that kinda what's going on? Because where do they sleep in Rideau Village? It's a little bit like the Zoras.
David Geisler:You're not sure. Yeah. I mean, there's little cots. Oh, there's hammocks and stuff that the kids are in.
Kady Roberts:Picture with me, if you will. Mhmm. Link is up at the night, and he's staring down at what used to be, and he just feels it in his heart, and this is what plays.
David Geisler:On the edge on the edges of one of those little cliffs on the pillar.
Kady Roberts:So pretty. Also, you can hear the breaths.
David Geisler:I heard that. I heard it that time. I really did. You heard
Kady Roberts:I love when they include that.
David Geisler:Or you hear I don't if it was, like, the human breath, but it was the air starting to go through the flute Mhmm. Before it started to make the noise. You definitely heard it. I'm calling it a flute, it could be something else. It could be it's actually that could that's more like a clarinet.
David Geisler:I was
Kady Roberts:gonna say,
David Geisler:I think
Kady Roberts:it's a clarinet, but I could
David Geisler:be wrong. No. You're right. No. And then once again.
David Geisler:Cool.
Kady Roberts:We're moving on to our last two. Again, a whole pivot. We're going to the Korok.
David Geisler:Oh, sure.
Kady Roberts:The Korok Forest has a day and a night theme, which I never realized.
David Geisler:I don't know if I realized either because it's also ethereal. Mhmm. But I'm I if I remember correctly, there's, like, there's probably gonna be little shakes and clicks and things in there too. I don't know. Let's see.
David Geisler:I'm trying to I don't know if I really remember this. Because I'm always so I get even even just like two days ago, was in Breath of the Wild, and I went into I went into, you know, Korok Village under the great digotry, and that that try triforce that's on the ground Mhmm. Where master sword goes, it's so emotional for me.
Kady Roberts:It's so beautiful.
David Geisler:It really is. And it looks just like the link to the past one, and it looks just like some of the others, and it's just I I, to this day, get a little emotional in that space. It's so cool. And so sometimes maybe I'm not listening to the music. So let's let's hear what they have.
Kady Roberts:Here's the day
David Geisler:theme. Oh, of course. Of course.
Kady Roberts:It's also wooden.
David Geisler:There's all those Koroks running around. I mean, we're way high. We're up high on the marimba, so it sounds like you're literally hitting little twigs and sticks and stuff.
Kady Roberts:I like how, like, childish and playful it feels too. Like, it feels like these, like, little kids could be playing the instruments. At least the main stuff, like, the winds and xylophones.
David Geisler:I agree. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. The main stuff is little Koroks, but then we've got this we've got the wisdom of the great Deku tree Yeah.
David Geisler:Which is these undertones that we're hearing. The the strings and stuff.
Kady Roberts:And, like, it's a deeper tone too.
David Geisler:Mhmm. I don't know what the lifespan is of a korok, but but narratively, they're always childlike. You know what I mean? I know. There's a little bit of Rito strings coming in there.
David Geisler:I mean, okay. Maybe this is a stretch. And maybe it's just on the same instruments. I was starting to think, like, oh, are there little elements of all the towns by the great Daiquitri because it's the wisdom, but I might be going. I might be pulling a little too hard for that one.
Kady Roberts:Alright. And here is the last song I have prepared for you. It is the Korok Forest Night theme.
David Geisler:This one immediately I recognize.
Kady Roberts:I like that it sounds like none of them sleep. They just are, like, creeping around in the forest.
David Geisler:Maybe they don't sleep.
Kady Roberts:Yeah.
David Geisler:They they they only I mean, honestly, when you go under the great Deku tree and that one Deku is, like, made a bed for Link Mhmm. He has for me, it always his dialogue is always kinda like, did I do it right? Here you go.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. They're like, is this what a bed is?
David Geisler:Yeah. I don't know if they, like, really they're magically imbued or whatever.
Kady Roberts:I like to think they're getting up to mischief in the dark.
David Geisler:There's a lot of cello down in there, little bit of bass.
Kady Roberts:Or if you wanna look at it a completely different way because it is so much bass, maybe the Koroks are asleep and the Deku Tree is watching over them.
David Geisler:When you're walking around at night, do they are they still popping out? Are they still popping their little corac heads out of the bushes and stuff?
Kady Roberts:Yeah. I could not tell you. I cannot remember.
David Geisler:Wow. And there
Kady Roberts:she goes looping again.
David Geisler:So let's let's recap here. I think we've got I think we've identified a good 12 instruments that kinda repeat in most of the tracks. So we have a theme. We have an we have an orchestrated theme throughout the entire game. You know, it's almost as if the same orchestra is playing the same music.
David Geisler:Right? We hear I mean, the strings were always there. There's plenty of cellos. That dulcimer came back a couple times. The the tambourine obviously came back a couple times.
David Geisler:What were some standouts for you as we were listening?
Kady Roberts:I mean, I think the most different theme out of all of them is definitely Kakariko because there are so many traditional sounds in that one that really are only in that one theme. But, I mean, my favorite is definitely the horse riding night. I think it's so iconic. And I didn't even realize that the theme was in there, the Legend of Zelda theme, until I was listening to this before I came here. Oh, really?
Kady Roberts:Think of stuff, and then I heard it. I was like, no way.
David Geisler:I play when I play Breath of the Wild, I try I don't I don't I I don't this is not a hardcore rule, but for the most part, I try to never teleport when I play any Zelda game. I if I I have to go to a town, I try to just go to that town even if it's on the other side of the map. Even in any like, even in Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, I never warp. So so much so that I didn't even know you could warp in Wind Waker the first time I played it until I had to warp into that one, like, island or whatever. And it's just a choice that I make because Mhmm.
David Geisler:In real life, I really love to be in nature and I love to go on hikes and all that kind of stuff. And I love the emotional weight of if you need if you're in Rideau Village and you need to go to Kakariko Kakariko, I love that that might take twenty minutes. And Mhmm. Real life Dave IRL David has to make that choice. Like, am I gonna spend the twenty minutes, you know, or in game, it's like, am I gonna spend the two days to go back to Kakariko to get what I need?
David Geisler:The only time I really warp is when I just, like, actually, the only time I really warp is when I'm just picking locations to do the backgrounds for the YouTube videos, but I digress. Anyways, so that means that sometimes I'm riding my horse a lot. Mhmm. So I'll definitely be going from one side of the map to the other side via my horse or something like that. And, I mean, if you've never played not warping, it's not like it's not like it's hardcore mode, but it's just more emotional for me.
David Geisler:And I highly recommend it. If you ever if you ever playing in a cozy style or a casual style, try it. Try not warping, and you'll you'll you start learning the layout of the land a little bit more than just popping from spot to spot. You start to memorize every little hill and stuff like that. You it's your visual pardon me.
David Geisler:It's like your real life visual memory. Okay. Anyway, I'm getting a little excited so I'm gonna get on the topic. But with that said, I remember the first time it was nighttime, and I was on my horse not expecting it and riding riding around and all of a sudden I didn't even realize it, but I was like feeling Zelda's lullaby. Mhmm.
David Geisler:And then I real then it came I was almost like I came out of a dream consciously. Was like, oh my gosh, Zelda's Lullaby is playing right now. And we haven't even heard that yet. You know what I mean? Yeah.
David Geisler:It just comes in almost in a subconscious level and it was such a cool it was a moment for me playing that game. It was it was almost like a put down the controller and take a second to reflect moment. Yeah. Because it was so cool to hear that thing just organically embed itself right into my play experience.
Kady Roberts:See, for me, it it was something that I unfortunately missed because I I have no patience. When it comes to games, I have no patience. So I was teleporting everywhere trying to, like, check everything off the list, do everything. So I hardly ever rode my horse.
David Geisler:Oh, okay.
Kady Roberts:Especially at night, I hardly rode it.
David Geisler:I'll keep I'll keep my horse with me. I did I did get the Epona Amiibo horse finally, so now I just kinda hang on to Epona, and she comes with me everywhere. Mhmm. Sometimes sometimes you jump off a cliff to get somewhere, then you just go get your horse again at a Yeah. At a stable.
David Geisler:But I do use that for my travel, which actually now I'm start starting to realize as we record this, we're about seven days out from Tears of the Kingdom Mhmm. Coming out. So by the time people hear this, Tears of the Kingdom has probably been out for maybe a week or two. I'm very excited about I'll just I guess I'll say, not warping, Tears of the Kingdom by building all those different crafts and things like that, the cars and the ships and all that stuff.
Kady Roberts:Thrilled for that.
David Geisler:You know what I mean? Yeah. I have a I have a proposal. Mhmm. We're doing good on time here.
David Geisler:What if we have about five minutes left for this recording. Mhmm. Could you pull up the tears of the kingdom main theme, like, on YouTube or something right now, and we'll listen to it, and I'll put it into the episode? Because I was listening to it, and in the let's just listen to it straight through once, and then we'll just call it on this episode. In the middle of the Tears of the Kingdom theme, there's Breath of the Wild melodies.
David Geisler:Really? It's so cool. And, of course, it's the same composer. Already so epic. Look.
David Geisler:It is Piano everywhere.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. I love the fact that it's like because the first game was, like, just trying to remember there wasn't too much battle stuff going on. Yeah. Of course, this is a full attack.
David Geisler:I think you're right. I think this is part I mean, I don't know if this is gonna be a trilogy, but this is, like, part two. This is if Breath of the Wild is waking up, this is time for action. You know what I mean? Now this instrument here is not a cello.
David Geisler:It's like an eastern well, now we're in the strings, but I think that we're hearing earlier, it's some kind of thing where there's like a a pole and a single string. Yeah. And you and you play it with a bow. Have you seen this?
Kady Roberts:Yeah. I've actually watched seen it a lot in anime.
David Geisler:Okay. Yeah. I'm sure, actually. Yeah. That makes sense.
David Geisler:Okay. Wait. Here we are. There's some of the Breath of the Wild. That would be bop that happened.
Kady Roberts:And there's the army marching drum.
David Geisler:Can play with it. I mean, It
Kady Roberts:really feels like everyone coming together to like strike and attack.
David Geisler:It's going up and up and up.
Kady Roberts:I love the high burn sound.
David Geisler:And we do get a couple reverse notes here at the end. That's not reverse notes. That's reverse dialogue, I think.
Kady Roberts:Oh, is it really?
David Geisler:Did you hear it? Anyways, so cool. Same composer, same vibe. Obviously, this feels not like I don't know. I don't wanna say, like, level two if Breath of Wild is level one, but but if if Breath of the Wild is is was was just us kinda waking up and figuring things out, and, of course, there's the big battle at the end, for anybody who felt that Breath of the Wild was too much of a departure off of a traditional vibe of a Zelda game, I feel like Tears of the Kingdom is kind of really bringing both energies together.
Kady Roberts:Yeah. I'm so excited for Tears of the Kingdom. I'm gonna be doing nothing but playing it.
David Geisler:I'm excited. I'm gonna be in Texas on my vacation when it comes out, so I actually might wait till I come back to start playing it. It's gonna be difficult because there's a part of me that wants to record for our YouTube channel, maybe my first ten minutes playing Oh, that would really good. Even though, obviously, the game will be out for a week. Maybe we just do it anyway.
David Geisler:Yeah. So I've I've gotta decide. I I think it'd be better for me to spend time with my family for a couple I think so. Tears of kingdom when I get back. Regardless, I think it'll be a lot of fun.
David Geisler:Of course, as people are hearing this, it's been out for a week or two. Okay. So that's interesting. So now then then it'll be really fun to do a Breath of the Wild music episode compared to tears of the Kingdom, but I do think this Age of Calamity, we should see who the composer of Age of Calamity was. If it was the same Manaka or whatever.
David Geisler:But anyways, for now, we should get going. Mhmm. Because we're kind of at time here. Let's see. Any closing comments, Katie?
Kady Roberts:Can I plug something really quick?
David Geisler:Sure.
Kady Roberts:Okay. So I'm gonna plug really quick, guys. I'm so sorry. If you are into video games, I well, it's tomorrow as I'm filming this. I have a free game coming out on Steam
David Geisler:that did voice over for? I did. Oh, yeah.
Kady Roberts:I I voiced the main character in it. It's called Origin Unknown. If you're interested in playing, just please do it. It's free. You will waste nothing but your time if you don't like it.
Kady Roberts:Just yeah. Let us know what you think.
David Geisler:I remember seeing the trailer for it. It was so much fun to hear you and stuff. It was very cool. Alright. Let's see.
David Geisler:If if people wanna find you on Twitter, Instagram, or the things, we're oh, wait. I'm hosting us out. You gotta do this. Oh. You brought us in.
David Geisler:Oh my gosh.
Kady Roberts:Okay. Well, if you wanna find me, you find me at katieroberts.com, k a d y, or my Instagram is mind of katie, again, k a d y. David, if they wanna find you, where can they find you?
David Geisler:Oh, thank you so much, Katie. They can find me at raptor paint on Instagram and Twitter, and that's pretty much it for now. I would like to actually say you've probably been hearing the ad a lot in this season's episodes, but I am making another podcast called Returning Student. It's been an absolute blast to make this thing. I'm in my fourth semester back right now, and each season of the show is a semester of school.
David Geisler:So semester one is what's being posted right now. The whole thing's delayed by about a year, year and a half. It's an absolute blast. Season two will be the the the not the show, the class that you and I shared together, Katie.
Kady Roberts:Oh, okay.
David Geisler:Maybe I, like maybe I bring you in as a a character now that I know that you're gonna be part of this. Like Yeah. Because because honestly, you being a part of AZP is part of my season four story thread for Returning Student. Mhmm. It's all it's all very, like, behind the scenes and strange.
David Geisler:Yeah. But I hope people will will enjoy it. It's a storytelling podcast, documentary style, returning student. You can find it at returningreturningstudentpodcast.com, and there's also a link to it on the bottom of our another zeldapodcast.com show. With all of that said, people can find another Zelda podcast at another Zelda pod onto I'll do this one.
David Geisler:I was gonna hand it to you, another Zelda pod on Twitter or another Zelda podcast on Instagram. They can go to our website, like I said earlier, another zeldapodcast.com, where they can find links to all of our shows, all six seasons of our shows. We have some new merch out right now. We have some links to that merch. We've completely revamped our Patreon, which people probably heard about in the break of this episode.
David Geisler:And so we have links to our Patreon pages there. We're we're doing a ton of new, like, behind the scenes content, fun stuff. We have a behind the scenes video, quick little video of us making this episode today because it was
Kady Roberts:kinda special to
David Geisler:be here campus. That's on our one of our think it's our top tier Patreon tier. Anyways, Katie, I hope I hope SpongeBob goes well for you. Oh, wait. Or I I hope you break all the sponge legs.
David Geisler:I'm not sure what to say. I don't wanna jinx you.
Kady Roberts:Oh, no. Thank you so much. And everyone go listen to Returning Student. It's gonna be great.
David Geisler:I'm having a a ton of fun with it. And and and I actually we were talking off mic, but I think I now I am gonna record you for season okay. Let's not we won't do it. Let's get out of here. Let's get out of here.
David Geisler:Actually, I think it's you. I'm so I'm so sorry. I'm so used to the post it out.
Kady Roberts:No. No. No. No. I'm not used to it.
Kady Roberts:Thank you all so much for listening to this episode. Check us out, and please listen to next week's episode. See you later.
David Geisler:Works for me. Works for me.