The Legendary Hero - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Music: The Legendary Hero
Playlist: • The Legend of Zelda: T...
Game: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Source: The Legend of Zelda
Composers: Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Tōru Minegishi, Kōji Kondō
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PlayList Complete: • The Legend of Zelda Music
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[@DRSTRANGELOVEIN]

“By the hero did not appear…” To this day that chills me

[@LeoTheLemon658]

Yeah, imagine your land is being laid to ruin by the forces of evil, and the hero that has been appearing for many generations isn’t there to save you. There is nothing you can do but flee your home land, and wish for either a better future, or a hero to come one day and finally save your people.

[@austinnpruneda3629]

Imagine you're seating in a theater, watching the previews, and all of the sudden you hear this, followed by the Zelda movie teaser

[@Buggirl1998]

my dad was so annoyed it never came out

[@HylianLegend]

@@Buggirl1998 I see this comment so soon. Glad people are still visiting this masterpiece.

[@jayel3604]

You must have quite the imagination. 😎

[@solarsunne4950]

@@jayel3604 they just announced a Zelda movie lol

[@outlastingflame1614]

@@solarsunne4950 no they didnt

[@BlueBirdTy]

As this was my first Zelda, I played nine years ago, I had to come and visit this amazing track.

[@AngelFloresiscoolerthanyalllol]

YES

[@AngelFloresiscoolerthanyalllol]

EXACTLY

[@KrisendoYT]

This was also my first Zelda, ALSO 9 YEARS AGO! I still love this Zelda, and I boot it up whenever I want to feel the nostalgia.

[@franciscojaviermendezrinco1902]

One detail no one has mention yet. When the main theme starts playing the instrument playing is a mandolin, that mandolin is been played by the creator of The Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto himself.

[@thewolface2339]

Wow. That's really impressive and interesting.

[@barghest94]

Woah, didn't know that... great fact.

[@elgabo17]

Fuente?

[@LordNilaf]

sorry but thats not a mandolin, are you refering to the violin?

[@Mink120stars]

@@elgabo17 si es verdad, la toco el creador de the legend of zelda, no se que paso mientras hacian este tema y Shigeru Miyamoto fue a su casa a buscar ese instrumento y asi fue que esto suena asi (esa es la versión que yo se)

[@ZefDavenport]

The fact that the statue in Hyrule's castle is actually OoT's Link made this whole story even better for me. I love when Zelda games tie each other through time.

[@IdentifiantE.S]

It's crazy how they are all connected

[@dillis2188]

​@@IdentifiantE.S Very loosely connected* Lets be real - the timeline is a *complete mess* , don't even try to convince me otherwise; I've played *almost every* Zelda game across all platforms to completion multiple times. Aside from recurring characters/items + locales, to call them all _connected_ is a bit of a stretch.

[@IdentifiantE.S]

@@dillis2188 The timeline is not perfect indeed but force to note that the games make references to each other and that there are connections now yes the Zelda timeline is far from perfect especially with TOTK which breaks many things

[@stathisconstantinou]

@@dillis2188 true but like mostly the child and adult timeline are well enought connected each game to the next. Not the case for the fallen timeline and botw/totk though

[@ZorillaMyrid181]

It seems after BotW and TotK they might be trying to branch out from doing one single timeline although I personally love the idea that they're all connected so it hurts a bit to think about that

[@arthur_docxx0913]

Still get goosebumps, what a legendary intro.

[@TheGoldenHawaiianSwordsmanDrag]

Same here!!! The Wind Waker's lore is something amazing to behold, that's for sure!!!!

[@huguesscipioni9951]

Totally

[@grt002]

Opens with recorder and harpsichord, then violin and harpsichord. The harpsichord instrument gives the music the medieval sound that it has.

[@VanLupen]

You forgot the Mandolin!

[@davidholaday2817]

An archaic sound, necessary for the old feeling of the story.

[@Comkill117]

I always found Wind Waker really interesting, beyond just being my introduction to the series. It has this really upbeat and colorful world and characters, but the intro and backstory is surprisingly one of the darkest in the series with how it relates to Ocarina of Time. How the Hero of Time saved the world but then wasn’t able to return, and this centuries later nobody knew their hero was effectively gone forever and had to learn this when he didn’t return to save them. Then you get to Hyrule Castle later and learn that the Gods of Hyrule basically flooded the kingdom and just kinda left, abandoning the people of Hyrule to a flooded world where they live on tiny disconnected islands. It was a really interesting aspect of the game that worked really well when juxtaposed against the main bulk of the game being more cheerful than the past two titles. Great game overall, definitely one of my favorites.

[@CommodoreRayne.IMP.C-1824]

1:46 Chills. Every time without fail. Just that music and the drawing of Ganon crawling out of the earth is amazing. Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid 😂

[@gaming.3673]

really good zelda intro. on par with oot intro. really feels like a legend lol.

[@yigo310]

oot is my favourite zelda, but ww's intro was 10 levels above every zelda intro.

[@elyastoohey6621]

My friend bought this and came over and played it for the first time at mine on my gamecube. ALl the kids literally stopped and stared at this part. Everyone was transfixed.

[@TheGoldenHawaiianSwordsmanDrag]

The Golden Hawaiian Swordsman Dragon HIGHLY Remembers playing this at a childhood friend's house in Macon, Georgia in 2003!!! Man, those were good times!!!!

[@TheGoldenHawaiianSwordsmanDrag]

The lore in this game can draw in a giant crowd of people, that's for sure!!!👒🗡️🐉🎮🥰👍

[@Gentamoru]

I used to hate this song back in the day because I didn't have a memory card and I had to replay the game every time, so I would have to listen to it every time I played. Now it's turned into one of my favorite Zelda songs.

[@chrisrey0018]

Koji Kondo MASTERPIECE!! Super nostalgic too. 😊

[@TheStartMenu]

"What became of that kingdom...?" "None remain who know." that made me sad as a little kid, thinking i'll never get to see the kingdom. then I actually played through the story and i was so amazed when I got to hyrule.

[@LeoTheLemon658]

It’s kind of sad. A kingdom, once so proud, spreading its influence over the whole land, across mountains and valleys, just to be struck down when the legendary hero didn’t appear in their time of need. Such a large part of history forgotten beneath the giant sea, so close yet so far.

[@BdL2417]

0:00 - The tale of the ancient legends begin 0:09- The kingdom of Hyrule 0:22 - Peace and prosperity 0:34 - Evil begins taking over 0:42 - The hour of doom and despair 0:52 - The Hero of Time seals the darkness and saves Hyrule 1:48 - Evil resurfaces 1:56 - Evil takes over once again 2:03 - Calls for the Hero 2:10 - The Hero does not appear 2:16 - Hyrule falls into evil’s grasp 2:25 - Hyrule disappears without a trace 2:44 - … 2:46 - Many youth train to be like the Hero 3:23 - The tale of the ancient legends comes to a close

[@Handlethispromptly]

I gotta say, this is my favorite song of all of them and thats a hard choice to make.

[@meee_5155]

OoT title theme is my personal favorite Zelda song but this is also an amazing intro

[@regularrandom6045]

This part 2:05 always gives me goosebumps. that G# sounds perfect where it is lol

[@leebitslaurver]

the nostalgia….. damn..

[@adamhesse2586]

Beautiful and haunting Baroque-style piece. Captures the scene and the emotion perfectly. Very epic.

[@UmOtakuu]

o quanto eu amo essa trilha sonora não está escrito.

[@linkganonslayer000]

0:52 Overworld segment best part

[@_fatered_]

I actually got chills 17 times while watching this video I broke my record. 21 this time

[@Morporkshortman]

I dont know how you can hear this theme and think there are better Zelda games. There are tons of other really good zelda games, yes. But only one Best Zelda Game Ever!!!

[@Tonio0412]

At 1st i didnt reliaze they were talking about Link from OOT and MM and the part when they said the hero did not appear it had me filled with goosebumps because he die and couldnt go back to Hyrule!!

[@connormclernon26]

Such an epic intro

[@kaivoisin7715]

The song that plays in my head when I tell younger fans I actually played Ocarina of Time when it came out... 😂

[@genevilla552]

I remember when I realized that it was the hero of time I was in shock, by that time I had not played Ocarina of time and my mind exploded haha what a memory.

[@SecretlyHuntokar]

i loved watching this whole sequence and story as a kid, but since i was about 6 and lacked a consciousness it didn't click for me that it was telling the story of ocarina of time in the adult timeline

[@yigo310]

botw and totk might be great games, but the old n64 and gamecube zelda games are just magical. their stories, gameplay, music, temples, everything.

[@BdL2417]

Always love how this glorious game series takes great care in its continuity making sense 😊

[@pain3236]

I truly have no idea if this is sarcasm.

[@BdL2417]

@@pain3236 Why would it be sarcasm?

[@pain3236]

@@BdL2417 A lot of things in the timeline make no sense, especially with BotW and TotK.

[@BdL2417]

@@pain3236 I never considered those games actually. I was only thinking about it in terms of Wind Waker’s connection to Ocarina of Time, as a successor to the events of that game.

[@77819]

@@pain3236 duh maybe because botw and totk AREN'T in the timeline 🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿

[@gs.558]

That's what I felt kinda sad in Botw and Totk : they don't have such music , only ambiant

[@landrypierce9942]

What about the Hyrule castle theme and Korok Forest from BOTW, as well as the area leading up to the wind temple and the colgera fight in totk? There are non-ambient melodic themes in the new games, just not as many.

[@kingkrysen]

Agree they sucked when it came to music and story

[@hist150project5]

0:09 to 0:32 I don't what it is, but that melody always gives me chills

[@thegoblinking353]

So much nostalgia of being seven and being too dumb to get out of the jail cell at forsaken fortress so i would just start a new file. I remember i would get bored during the opening sequence and just play on my DS while this was playing. Probably made at least 15 files before i gave up and never put it in my wii again.

[@nazbr01]

this tune is very familiar, ive never played wind waker but i swear it played in albw or botw or something, its driving me crazy

[@Iron_Ratinum]

It uses the main Legend of Zelda theme that’s probably why

[@meee_5155]

Part of it uses the melody of the series main theme

[@oceanman1999]

Watched Zeltik maybe?

[@Sabbalab92]

Ahhhhh. Thanks for this. That was nice.

[@nourata.5893]

Childhood memories 😢

[@pelley015]

0:52 Hyrule Field Main Theme

[@brofistbro]

This theme was amazing recaping all of ocarina of time. I got that the second of aeeing the intro and seeing the events in hyrule castle in the sea. But i then started seeing the realty of this game's canon. This is Ocarina of time TWO. this is the FUTURE you as the hero of time Fought Steadfastly for. And your userper stands on its REMAINS. As i played again the game with this in mind and seeing that part of the intro, "the hero did not appear"...i wept. Like a boy.

[@TheGoldenHawaiianSwordsmanDrag]

If there's one thing The Golden Hawaiian Swordsman Dragon HIGHLY enjoys about The Legend of Zelda series, it's the lore and how it perfectly ties the other games to each other! The Wind Waker's no exception!!!👒🗡️🐉🎮🥰👍

[@thx4chrckingin]

Long before time had a name, the first Spinjitzu Mas- Oh wait, wrong script, my bad

[@polishedrelish]

I'm down for that cross-over

[@noureddinealjazairi6063]

Me too

[@Daniel-kx3zz]

Dylan Kane telling Bill Cheetler about the fall of humankind because their search of the power of corn and cheese, the betrayal of Kilgore prime(aka Galactus prime) , and how there is no land in the world... Only sea

[@AntonFuerDeutschland]

00:53 🚀

[@mute1283]

My Childhood.

[@IdentifiantE.S]

So much memories 😄

[@alexanderbastian4224]

For me the best Ost Theme Above All the Games , Just because WW is my fav XD

[@THEHEXXEDGAL]

Classic 💜

[@PlayerTenji95]

Very nice!

[@anthonynapier2887]

I guess at some point you gotta accept that the guy with the master sword has the authority

[@brauliolaempanada]

Finally i found it

[@kingofpoptarts3604]

When I hear this I hear arins Alfred impression

[@CC-tq8wf3bs8r]

And Danny laughing his butt off lol

[@That1dude445]

I hear this theme everytime i open my ds best soundtrack out there

[@TheVividKiWi]

0:52 such a vibe

[@MiotaLee]

I used to BAWL when I heard this man

[@Dplayz32Games]

I heard this in a shitpost and now I've found it

[@gypruzzcaccamo6586]

All Links were great heroes. But the greatest one, by far, was the Hero of Time. Sorry, Hero of the Winds... You were the funniest, though.

[@thebuggymancer4155]

Not by far... His apprentice, the Hero of Twilight is really close of him

[@envility312]

Nah the hero of trains is the best one

[@IStandForTJandTAW]

Hero of Legend has gone through like 3 different adventures. A link to the past, Links Awakening, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages. There is no other Link that went through 3 whole games/adventures as far as I know.

[@norriatto3303]

@@IStandForTJandTAW if you technically want to count twilight princess as an "adventure", the hero of time would have gone through 3 aswell

[@gypruzzcaccamo6586]

@@IStandForTJandTAW The Link from the 3 GB games is a different Link from the other ones.

[@malcolmhoyt6244]

How those notes make me feel such feels?

[@brunomillalaf8553]

good vibrations

[@AyumiChanVT]

I wish I could the part where link comes as it's own video and extended

[@twinmold_]

wow that made sense

[@TemplarBlonic]

"But the Hero did not appear..." OoT Link's story is the most tragic and horrid. Leaves the timeline he "grew up" in because of some misguided kindness by Zelda to "give back" his childhood, which doomed an entire timeline-- the one that remembered his heroism, and one he was forever locked out of after OoT... which allowed Ganondorf to return and take the lands without resistance. Then OoT Link arrives in the Child Timeline, and none of his exploits are remembered-- because they never occurred in this world. Not even this world's Zelda knows what he did for the one in the other timeline. He just can't win. Then, he dies... an elite knight of Hyrule, but not the hero of legend that we know him as. He has so much regret-- especially that he never passed on his skills to his children-- but he eventually does redeem himself, and it is through his teachings that his descendant uses *_his_* secret technique to end the King of Evil.

[@Gedeha]

the intro is supposed to be the zelda 1 title theme right?

[@Kitth3n]

Yeah

[@realgamerguyvlog32]

I don't know if the sounds in are wistles or recorders but it reminds me of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven

[@inkedboy]

0:52 zelda nes theme

[@minecraze]

wow i didn't know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (btw if u hhave no sense of humor i did know that)

[@Strons01]

Correction. Hero leitmotiv aka Zelda Main Theme

[@kalynmiller666]

The intro to The Legend of Undertale.

[@ameliakyle7054]

I wonder how the Legendary Hero's tale would go if the hero was controlled by a speedrunner?

[@user-ix5be1bj2r]

1:47

[@owenwilliams3739]

2:48

[@NibirBaishnab]

0:21 reminds me of stone tower temple song

[@louiswindsor7334]

This is but one of the legends of which rhe people speak

[@Blankashan]

0:50

[@ecgameplayer]

1:48 2:10 2:24

[@Manuzz-193]

That makes me want to complete at 100% tloz oot :/

[@shambleswest]

But the hero did not appear .

[@tommytllefsen3863]

Minimal but effective instrumentation, fitting for a hero's journey.

[@Manuzz-193]

Idk how to pass the earth temple (if i pass it i will just edit this and im gonna put GG

[@chrisrey0018]

This will play in TOTK 💯

[@percussion_03]

Why this theme got so popular?

[@michaelaaron5430]

Isnt this a remix of the main theme

[@kim-lq2vz]

처음 듣네

[@jytvreal]

composed by miyamoto?

[@ezeereinaga7336]

Nope, Hajime Wakai and Koji Kondo

[@Shiny_Misty]

FIrst time playing the game: Man, this is so good, so much emotion. So much lore! Seventh time playing a new save: *mash the a button* WHY DIDN'T I PICK NEWGAME PLUS?! (...could you skip the intro in newgame plus?)

[@kim-lq2vz]

5n

[@user-nv3vf5uo4r]

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[@SimplyTakuma]

When i was seven i didn't understand the language not good enought to read what was actually written. So it was boring at the first 10 Min 😂😂😂😂😂

[@xdmomentum8346]

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