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The Legend of Zelda series has had its share of amazing games. One of the first games I remember completing was A Link to the Past (specifically the GBA port) and the music in that 16-bit masterpiece. I don’t know, there’s something about the Link to the Past soundfont that just sounds epic. Imagine my surprise after collecting all three medallions in Hyrule, I go to free Princess Zelda only to fight the wizard Agahnim and then be transported to this world opposite of Hyrule.
Cue the Dark World theme.
We had a peek into this world earlier on Death Mountain, but nothing prepared me for this. The trombones come in with this bass line, followed by violins to show the melody. The intensity has increased a ton compared to the jovial Legend of Zelda Theme that plays in the Light World. This is how you know you’re deep in the game now.
The Dark World Theme is probably one of my top 3 Zelda songs. This is one of those songs that prior to the internet it would be easy for me to leave my GBA on to just listen to this song (thankful for AC Adapters because otherwise I would’ve gone through so many AA batteries)
The theme actually gets revisited in the 3DS game “A Link Between Worlds” as well! Instead of calling it the “Dark World”, the realm opposite of Hyrule is….well….Lorule.
The composer is incredibly respectful of the source material and moving the ostinato pattern to guitars from the modulated brass works out great.
Koji Kondo produces yet another masterpiece. I was thinking about Link to the Past thanks to SGDQ, the Speedrunning marathon Summer Games Done Quick. The Speedrunner RequiemOfSpirit (great name, btw) did an All Dungeons run of Link to the Past that was WILD. I’ll go ahead and link it below:
The other thing I love about video game music? The remix community. The Noble Demon is one that I come back to often as they make amazing orchestral remixes of video game music, and the Dark World is no exception!
What do you think of the Dark World Theme? Do you have a favorite Zelda theme? Let me know in the comments or out in our Discord Server!
