Boss Theme ~FFXVI style | Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Orchestral Arrangement
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2023
- Playlist: • Zelda II: The Adventur...
Alongside the palace theme, I kept humming ideas for orchestrating the Boss Theme since the start. I found myself mistaking it for the battle track Stand Your Ground from Final Fantasy XV. It's only off by one note, and the phrase alternates up and down a key. I ended up mostly recreating it verbatim to use as a launch pad. The idea here is to have the first loop represent the bosses from the first two palaces, and the 2nd loop for 3rd and 4th palaces.
In addition to FFXV, I took inspiration from a lot of Square Enix's properties, because they really know how to hype you up for a boss. The track Traveler's Road from Legend of Mana consists of a thundering and relentless beat, yet it leaves from some emotional phrasing that I just really like. Yasunori Nishiki's many boss themes for the Octopath Traveler games are culminations of the boss's theme built up over time across multiple music tracks, and I love the constant callbacks he makes. Since the Title Theme of Zelda II has phrases that get reused elsewhere, I thought I could extend that to this track and also do a callback to the Title theme.
Finally, Masayoshi Soken's music for the Eikon fights in Final Fantasy XVI are pretty much worth the price of admission alone. They make a great case for music in modern games should still be able to take center stage and not be regulated to the background underneath the voice acting and audio. Compare that to Dark Souls, which Zelda II shares many connections to. Even though the music there is also epic during the boss fights, there's no real hook to them to make them memorable. Besides, Link himself is iconic, so it's only fair to add that much more emotionality into the music.
I had planned for the track to consist of just the opening rhythm from the original, which would lead straight into the phrase at 1:22, and then it'll be over. However, as I was experimenting with instrumentation and constantly being sublimely influenced by Octopath and FFXVI, I kept stretching out the track to accommodate every idea I wanted. I made a point to keep the rhythm persistent throughout the entire track. I wanted the track to mirror a player's first time experience fighting these bosses. In Zelda II, you are stuck in a single screen, and the bosses immediately comes at you, forcing you to react. There's nowhere to escape and you'd probably lose all three lives and get sent back to the beginning of the palace to make your way back, all the while thinking of how to attack its weak point and dodge its attack pattern. Link is at his most acrobatic and speed compared to all the traditional Zeldas, and I really wanted to push the music to epic Final Fantasy levels to reflect that.
I think it's just hilarious that I extended the track out to 10x its original version (40x compared to the FDS version as it lacks the alternating keys haha), and I still consider this a generally "faithful" arrangement. This will afford me the freedom to switch genres for the 2nd Boss Theme!
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Arrangement and illustrations by Jeremiah Sun
Original Theme by Akito Nakatsuka
#ZeldaII #FFXVI #Souls
The best of the album so far. Id pay exorbitant amounts of money for a FF15/16 style remake of Zelda 2, fully embracing the RPG and awesome scale of it.
Wow, never thpught that that simple theme could be so awesome! Thanks for this!
This is absolutely incredible. It’s so beat for beat perfect that I can almost imagine this fitting flawlessly in a Zelda 2 remake. The lore of that particular world, with the temples and crystals, would make for a fantastic narrative beat for preventing the return of Ganon in modern storytelling.
My gosh this is incredible... if Nintendo ever remakes this game, they really should hire you to arrange the music.
THIS IS SO GOOD
Thanks for continuing to make music bro! Awesome work!!
never have i felt so much determination yet absolute fear with a song like this, its perfect it goes even beyond Zelda its that good.
I love this❤❤❤
Wow, 3 covers in a month, keep it up!
"Switch genres for the 2nd Boss theme" 👀👀👀👀
Yeah! Looking forward to that!
@@RealRomplayer Guess we'll have to wait and see!
I KNOW RIGHT
Reminds me of the FFVII Remake arrangement of the battle theme, was that also an inspiration?
lmao at 7:13 that caught me off guard SO good
This is like taking a drawing of a stick figure made by a 2-year-old and painting over it to make it the Mona Lisa.
It's very professional. It sounds cool by itself, but The original theme is almost unrecognizable; maybe because of the choice of instruments? Also, 8 minutes is quite long and starts getting repetitive. The way you did the Link's Awakening Tracks was ideal imo.
Big fan of your channel btw. Longtime sub.
Wym. Have you heard the original boss theme? It’s a short loop and this literally has that spanning throughout and bombastically expanding like ffxvi’s music does.
I feel like the Zelda 1/2 covers are much longer and varied, because those two games have so few songs, and so can be justified for spending more time on them. LA has around 40-50 songs, so spending so much time on each would be unfeasible to finish within a reasonable amount of time.
Yes, make Zelda 2 Remake into a Souls/Elden Ring game
Can you make a souls version ? 🥺
Promo-SM 😩
The Second Barbenheimmer!