00:00If you've ever wondered why the original Legend of Zelda Overworld theme isn't in more games,
00:04we can tell you why. As legendary composer Koji Kondo explained it back in a 1999 dev
00:09Q&A for 64 Dream Magazine, I've always kind of wanted to shake up the music a little bit in
00:13any
00:14case, and because Ocarina of Time is a brand new 3D game on the N64, I felt it necessary to
00:19change
00:19the music just a little bit from previous entries in the series. He continued, additionally, Hyrule
00:24Field is so vast that I thought it'd get boring and repetitive to hear the same melody all the
00:29time. So, I decided to make a variety of music that would never get boring, with additional
00:34music and effects depending on Link's status. That translation of Kondo's quote comes from an
00:38undated post on Javed Steret's Good Blood blog. A look at the Wayback Machine suggests the translation
00:43went live in 2024, but we only became aware of it following a recent Did You Know Gaming video
00:48that made a vague reference to a previous translation. Of course, the theme would return,
00:52but it's hard to criticise Kondo's desire to try new things given just how far the series and its
00:56music has come. Still, the original Overworld tune remains a banger to this day.
01:00proceso lefts of Terry pluses Kondo's
01:00training mooring Ouage
01:00he being trained
01:00his songs
01:00Y
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