First of all, if you're a fan of the scores for Ocarina of Time and A Link to the Past, prepare to be in store for a feast - many of the familiar themes come from these two titles. Sound issues aside, is the score for the ninth entry in the Zelda franchise worthy of its title? Probably the best way to answer this question is to take the soundtrack apart in pieces, rating it first by how many classic Zelda themes have made it onto the album and how the other new compositions hold. There are some tracks which occasionally sound every bit as flat as Mario Story for the N64, but somehow composers Kenta Nagata (Mario KSnowboarding), Hajime Wakai (Star Fox 64, Pikmin), Toru Minegishi (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) and of course the legendary (pun!) Koji Kondo manage to avoid making the tracks sound intolerable. The score still uses MIDI-sounding instruments rather than a full-fledged orchestra, but the overall quality of the sound is much better than the N64 scores. Those who have disliked Koji Kondo's N64 Zelda scores because of the sound system's limited capabilities needn't worry about the same problem applying with the soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Reviews Beautiful, bizarre, and unconventional, yet worthy of the 'legendary' game series. Detailed release notes and credits at VGMdb.
Released by Scitron Discs (catalog no.The Miracle Stone Shows One's True Nature (:34).
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