The Second Narrator Music | 40 - Boss Theme 2 - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Orchestral Arrangement @thesecondnarrator | Uploaded 9 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
Album is free to download on soundcloud http://goo.gl/U0ibe1 - Complete album info - http://goo.gl/1i2CfI
Consider supporting me on Patreon to help produce more music! - http://goo.gl/cAQ1EC
I had promised to do another version of the boss theme, and here it is. The modern Zeldas since N64 all had multiple boss fight music, but two for Link's Awakening (or maybe three? wink) is enough for me. The great challenge in this version is to make an action version of Ballad of the Wind Fish. This boss theme also describes a story. I am the second narrator after all! If I were to describe the atmosphere of the second half of the game, the bosses have become more desperate. They must have heard through the grapevine of an intruder making his way through all the dungeons stealing the instruments, and they now fear that the end of the world is near. When I played this for the first time, I felt a bit of sympathy for them, but the important thing to remember is that a sleep is meant to be woken up from. All inhabitants, both good and bad, are destined to die, and if Link had decided to just live in blissful ignorance, he himself would also face early death.
In the first version, the theme utilized elements from A Link to
the Past, but now Link wields the true solution to defeat the nightmares, the Wind Fish song, hence the action variation. The bosses are still represented by the four note motif from the original, but I made it much flightier to describe their weakness and dread. Changing it to a major key also gives it a sense of irony. The boss fights aren't even that hard, possibly even easier than before. Link may be conflicted with compassion, but he has to remain firm and put them to eternal sleep.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Orchestral Arrangement
Arrangement and fan art by Jeremiah Sun
Original Composers
Kazumi Totaka
Minako Hamano
Kozue Ishikawa
Original Theme by Koji Kondo
You can buy this game for 3DS from the Nintendo eShop
Album is free to download on soundcloud http://goo.gl/U0ibe1 - Complete album info - http://goo.gl/1i2CfI
Consider supporting me on Patreon to help produce more music! - http://goo.gl/cAQ1EC
I had promised to do another version of the boss theme, and here it is. The modern Zeldas since N64 all had multiple boss fight music, but two for Link's Awakening (or maybe three? wink) is enough for me. The great challenge in this version is to make an action version of Ballad of the Wind Fish. This boss theme also describes a story. I am the second narrator after all! If I were to describe the atmosphere of the second half of the game, the bosses have become more desperate. They must have heard through the grapevine of an intruder making his way through all the dungeons stealing the instruments, and they now fear that the end of the world is near. When I played this for the first time, I felt a bit of sympathy for them, but the important thing to remember is that a sleep is meant to be woken up from. All inhabitants, both good and bad, are destined to die, and if Link had decided to just live in blissful ignorance, he himself would also face early death.
In the first version, the theme utilized elements from A Link to
the Past, but now Link wields the true solution to defeat the nightmares, the Wind Fish song, hence the action variation. The bosses are still represented by the four note motif from the original, but I made it much flightier to describe their weakness and dread. Changing it to a major key also gives it a sense of irony. The boss fights aren't even that hard, possibly even easier than before. Link may be conflicted with compassion, but he has to remain firm and put them to eternal sleep.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Orchestral Arrangement
Arrangement and fan art by Jeremiah Sun
Original Composers
Kazumi Totaka
Minako Hamano
Kozue Ishikawa
Original Theme by Koji Kondo
You can buy this game for 3DS from the Nintendo eShop
