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Zelda: Tones of the Kingdom

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Evolution of the Zelda Soundtrack

In 2007, Mario Galaxy became the first Mario or Zelda game to use a live, fully orchestrated soundtrack. After Skyward Sword, lots of people expected the next Zelda game to sound even bigger. With the huge open map of Breath of the Wild, composers decided to go in a completely unexpected direction. The music you hear inside the mysterious shrines feels like it's mysterious.

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