Which Legend Of Zelda Game Actually Has The Best Music
The Legend of Zelda series' music is almost as famous as the games themselves. Each installment has provided its own take on the longstanding themes of the series that have become ingrained in popular culture while also adding brand new tracks that hope to become iconic in their own right. However, despite the strength the Legend of Zelda games' soundtracks have across the board, one of them has to excel more than the others.
Judging the music of The Legend of Zelda is no small task. As director of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Edgar Wright put it in the famous letter he wrote to Shigeru Miyamoto to use «Great Fairy Fountain» in his film, The Legend of Zelda's songs are "nursery rhymes to a generation." This music truly means something to the generation of people who grew up listening to it on repeat while playingOcarina of Time and The Wind Waker for hours on end. The tracks are that iconic and memorable.
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Consequently, when deciding which Legend of Zelda game has the best music, one must consider those two qualities: the importance Wright wrote of (quoted by The Guardian) and memorability. How emblematic is one game's score of the series as a whole, and how well does one game's music remind listeners of the specific Legend of Zelda installment it came from? Splitting the critical approach toward the Nintendo series' music into these two categories highlights three specific titles: one that scores perfect in importance, one that scores perfect in memorability, and one that finds the delicate balance between the two.
Ocarina of Time has the series' most iconic soundtrack, hands down. The tone of both the game and its music sets the score for not
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