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This
past week the group behind Zelda Re-Orchestrated announced that after
nearly nine years of performing together that the group was
disbanding. To celebrate their near decade of great music, I will be
doing a tribute to ZREO this week.
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Monday:
A Link to the Past Review
Tuesday:
Crowning Music of Awesome
Today:
Beyond Audiodome
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In
August of last year during my Legend of Zelda Tribute week, I did a
Beyond Audiodome comparing the the Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask
soundtrack and last time both I considered both albums to be great
and couldn't choose between either of them.
But
how about the Zelda Re-Orchestrated albums?
Well
today on Beyond Audiodome, I take a listen to both the Ocarina of
Time and Majora's Mask ZREO remakes. Which one is the superior album?
Going
into the Ocarina of Time Album, I was surprised at how many songs
there were in the album. It seemed ever track from the OST was
featured here in some way or another. Now normally that can be
considered a good thing as no song is left in touched. However with
the Zelda series that means every song such as Item Get also get
remixed. The question becomes, do these 4-30 second songs deserve to
be remade? The answer is complicated because on one hand they are
considered songs and are found on the OST, but at the same time, they
are only at most half a minute long.
ZREO's
Ocarina of Time album is very good and a wonderful soundtrack to
listen to, but the sheer number songs can be kind of intimidating. I
understand what they were trying to do but I don't think every micro
song should have included. Perhaps if they wanted to they could have
had them combine into one long track as a medley, similar to what the
Brawl team did.
With
Majora's Mask, the team seemed to have learned from the Ocarina of
Time album and limited the amount of micro songs with only the Mask
Get, New Wave Bossa Nova and Elegy of Emptiness. Perhaps it is
because a few songs had been brought over from Ocarina of Time, but
the important fact is that the album is much smaller then Ocarina of
Time.
Yet
there is something amiss with Majora's Mask. Not only was the Final
Battle music missing from the albums, but so were the themes to
Woodfall Temple, Great Bay Temple and Snowhead Temple. I do not know
why they were missing, but in my opinion it does hurt the soundtrack.
Great Bay Temple in particular because it was unlike any other song
in the Zelda series to that time. The music had a very heavy
percussion present in the song and it worked perfectly in the dungeon
as it was set in a factory of sorts. I would love to have heard the
ZREO version of Great Bay Temple.
Much
like the original soundtracks, the ZREO remixes are both incredibly
good and it is incredibly hard to choose one over the other. With
Ocarina of Time there is an over-abundance of music while with
Majora's Mask, the amount of music has been cut down, but in doing so
they have also removed some tracks such as the Majora's Mask battle.
It is disappointing to say the least because I would love to have
heard their version of it.
As
much as I enjoy Majora's Mask, I am going to have to say that ZREO's
Ocarina of Time Album is the superior version. While it does have the
issue of quantity over quality, the album does have several
memorable songs on the album such as Windmill Hutt, Ganon's Final
Battle and the Title Theme. As much as I enjoyed the Majora's Mask
album, it sadly lacked anything as memorable.
On
Friday, I will be tackling Zelda Re-Orchestrated last album they
released.
This
is Daimo Mac and I am lost in the music.
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