Hearing Mipha's Legacy in game nearly broke me. Mipha is a character from Botw who died. This plays around a memorial for her

The reason for the fade out during the Colgera battle is because there are like 3 phases and the theme changes for each one Edit: every time you do damage to the boss the theme changes, and then it goes back to the first theme after you hit him 3 times

the use of the Erhu will NEVER fail to bring me to tears, i absolutely adore that instrument so much

14:37 is enough to make any grown adult cry (to hear Dragon Roost Island theme in that way during the fight is just epic). The tears of the Kingdom trailer theme was amazing too! And Sidon's theme is very catchy as well. There are so many amazing tracks in Zelda, it's bizarre. The old games as well; Ocarina of Time, and most of the overworld themes (like the Dark World theme).

the colgera theme fills my heart with so much excitement it's insane i love this game and its music so much it's absolutely incredible

What I love of the Colgera theme is that you can feel like the ups and downs are like the intensity of a blizzard and also like waves in ocean, and it makes sence if you know how the dungeon looks like

Context for Colgera: You're fighting a GIANT ICE CENTIPEDE flying above a skyboat, which basically is hinted by from all the rising and falling strings in the song also EDIT: yes, it is a multi phase fight, and you SOAR THROUGH THE SKY the entire fight.

The rito village theme is actually a slower version of dragon roost island from wind waker which was one of my favorite games as a kid and they implemented a leitmotif in colgera phase 3 and when I heard it I legit started crying, it’s a perfect theme for a perfect boss in such a fitting atmosphere

Demon Dragon is basically just the main theme in evil form. It's amazing.

Fun fact for Mipha, her theme, which is the melody of miphas legacy, is based around “mi fa” in the key it’s in

Mipha's lietmotif has a beautiful trick to it. If you sing its solfeggio, it's "mi fa mi fa mi fa mi". Frozen Rito Village hurts my soul, because the Rito first appeared in Wind Waker, and Dragon Roost Island was one of my favorite location themes, it's such a warm and gentle upbeat bop. To hear Dragon Roost Island's music sound so empty, so echo'y, so cold and sad, it really really hurt.

I love the frozen rito theme, personally. The contrast of the Dragonroost theme, which, in its original form, is extremely happy and playful, with the tension of the strings and percussion, and the minor reharmonisation (?), it all blends together beautifully.

Colgera's theme is so JAM PACKED with Wind Waker references: Molgera's boss theme, Dragon Roost! It all mixes in so well!

so the colgera theme is basically just a massive throwback to the windwaker using molgeras battle theme and dragonroost island in one theme

Wind waker is my favorite zelda game, it helpen me trough hard times when i was a kid. When i heard that drop on the 3rd phase of colgera i legit had tears running down my face 🥹❤

Hearing the first music swell in Colgera's theme with the Dragon Roost blow in had me in tears. Literally had a nostalgia overload while fighting. It was so incredible.

What i love about this Hyrule Castle theme is that its filled with evil. You know as the player and as Link that its a trap and theres no reason to go into a place crawling with such malice... but its the only lead you have. So you have to press onwards through the tainted halls... Definitely not as final or as bombastic as BoTW's Hyrule Castle but it doesn't need to be. This isnt the end of the game, theres nothing worth saving. It's just an empty husk of a kingdom's pride inhabited only by evil

Had the biggest grin on my face once Kohga’s theme started playing! Absolutely banger theme and very fitting for his Mad Max styled vehicle battles. Kohga’s themes just got better and better as each game in the BotW trilogy released

Rito's theme having Rooster Island's theme from WW integrated into it is so fitting and so nostalgic.

I love that even someone who doesn’t play Zelda can immediately identify that the Colgera battle theme is downright beautiful. Layered, intense, nostalgic, and even if you haven’t played you can imagine the highs and lows of a fight like this.

I literally cried the first time I heard colgera the Rito village theme mixed in is what did it for me I love my bird people so much 😭

I love watching TOTK streams the OST is phenomenal I'm so glad your reacting to it your channel is AMAZING and massively under rated

The Colgera theme has so many callbacks in the theme: 1. Rito Village (BOTW) / Dragon Roost Island (Wind Waker) 2. Molgera (Sand Worm boss from Wind Waker) 3. Blizzeta!?! (Famous Ice Boss from Twilight Princess) 4. Ice Blight Ganon? (BOTW) Tears of the Kingdom's OST has a lot more callbacks to past motifs from older Zelda titles, and they're all used with superb context.

Just watching everyone react to the Colgera battle theme and the wind waker references in it, is always such a pleasure

The Colgera Theme plays music from Wind Waker for the boss Molgera, who it is based off of. The fourth and fifth phases of music has Molgera's theme, sped up, playing throughout.

The Demon Dragon battle theme has parts that sound like they represent the Light Dragon who assists you in the battle.

The 3rd phase of golgera is my favorite part of the theme!

Real beautiful OST this - nice mix of styles, i love the glitchy parts and yeah the Orchestra just takes it to another level

I'm gonna put this into spoilers because you never know BUT I LOVE DEMON DRAGON SO MUCH it literally brings tears to my eyes with how perfectly climactic it is 😭😭 (I think it's the Erhu but the piano as well is super good)

TOTK has NO RIGHT to go so hard on their tracks. Super super pretty ost!

2:47 I be darned, that's some musical foreshadowing right here. If you know, you know.

Oh my god Colgera's theme was insanely good. And I'm not even an emotional guy but the Demon Dragon theme made me tear up during that fight.

mipha is such a beautiful character that truly showed love and compasion to everyone . her theme is literally displaying her soul.

The Colgera Theme has a dynamic soundtrack which plays different parts depending on what happens in the battle. That is why the song is in different phases.

Demon dragon is absolutely my favorite boss fight I’ve done. It’s not hard at all, but it’s *fun* and the music is gorgeous- the part where you go for the head literally fuses the Totk and botw themes together holy shit?? And just, the payoff for the story, and the amazing way the demon dragon goes out, gah! It’s just pure fun!!

Floating Hyrule castle is great because you're basically exploring a giant cursed grave that was left untouched for years after the events of botw

Absolutely beautiful soundtrack.

For YEARS I’ve adored the Rito Village theme and since first hearing it, I’ve always thought it would sound AMAZING in a more climactic setting, so imagine my joy after it played at 14:38 and being vindicated after so many years of wishing for this exact piece of musical ear candy

Am I the only one hearing fragments of the main franchise theme as well as the previous divine beast themes in the dungeons and their respective bosses?

That loud as heck motif at the end of Colgera is a reference to Rito Village! Colgera is the reason Rito Village was frozen. Rito Villages theme is itself a reference to Dragon Roost Island from Wind Waker which is the first chronological point in the timeline where Rito (bird people btw) appear

master kohga has some of the best music for any game ever created

i will refrain from hearing the final battle theme and castle theme cuz i wanna experience those first in game

I wish she heard the full version of the shrine construct battle music because when it gets intense it becomes unbelievable great

The themes from Zelda games have always been top class. I have a playlist with only Zelda themes from games dating over 25 years that I use for writing, along with remixes of some favorites. How they manage to send nostalgia shivers down my spine even the first time I hear them I will never understand. It's super fun watching someone who have never played the games react to them, and react in the same way that I keep reacting to them. Love it! :D It would be super fun to see you reacting to some of the older games too. Like: "Spirit Tracks" or "Ocarina of Time." The music in those are timeless. Timeless.

I understand the atmosphere they were trying to set with the different themes for the Rito Village (frozen and unfrozen) but I kind of wish it was always the frozen version. Even after unfreezing the village. Anyone else prefer the frozen Rito Village music, too?

I just finished the four temples, and came to watch this video, happy to see that the bests tracks is in this list, but I honestly think that the Shrine Battle is cool too, but I think the Shrine Theme itself is so pretty. Also, the third part of Colgera battle is so cool too!

[obligatory spoiler warning] There was something I immediately noticed with the hyrule castle theme when I went there for the main story that raised some alarm bells: in contrast with BoTW's hyrule castle theme, there is no use of Zelda's Lullaby. The original theme had a mix of different characteristics that made it apparent that it was leading to a final battle, but here you get more of a sense that it's a place you're not really supposed to be. Lots of suspense and still some pomp and circumstance, but no apparent triumph or goal. Ganon's theme is doing a lot of lifting here instead, as it drives the dissonance. There's nothing here. If there's anything here, it's most certainly not Zelda...

The original full length of Colgera's theme is about 18 minutes in length. 5 sections that each span around 3 and a half minutes. It is the longest part of the OST.

I cried so hard at the end of totk and the demon dradon theme just made me cry even harder😢😢

Master Kohga is also a ninja, like the one from Pokemon. Except he’s fat. And he joins Team Rocket at the end of his questline.

I think it would be really cool to listen to Cumulonimbus and the Wind Temple themes from this game to. The relationship between those 2 pieces, Rito Villiage and the Colgera battle make that region my favorite, it's a composer's masterpiece imo.

It makes me sad that they didn’t have the best part for the shrine battle theme. 😭

The Colgera boss fight along with the music is my absolute number 1 boss fight ever! No fight has ever made me feel the way this does, holy crap. Its like being in ones own movie!

The "eastern string instrument" is an Erhu, from China. I love its sound.

Great video!! I love seeing reactions to Zelda music If there was to be a part 2 then i highly recommend two songs, Tarrey Town theme and Sidons theme, they are both incredible And an honourable mention has got to be Remember this name Also all Zelda games since Skyward Sword (2011) have used full orchestras for theit music :D

The Rito village song in other games like Wind Waker is a very happy song. Here they slowed it down and made it very sad and still because their village was storming.

Rewatching this, some parts of the Mipha's legacy theme sound like they came from My Time at Portia, and I can't explain why

This soundtrack will never not give me goosebumps when I listen to it

The “glitched vocals” in the Colgera theme are snippets of the vocals that play around a lot of the ancient ruins throughout the game, which ties to this fight taking place above an ancient flying ship

7:27 funny enough, they both are named after the same thing, which if memory serves is a specific ninja group? i cant remember exactly but its something like that

Zelda music just has a magical effect on you. Nothing can compare to it.

I reccomend listening to the last trailer theme for tears of the kingdom, i absolutely love it

Only true zelda wind waker fans can feel the nostalgia from colgeras theme

This is so good! PLEASE keep on making videos like this from the Zelda franchise :)

The thing is that I always want to listen to Zelda music but I also dont want to cry all of the time, its too pretty and I love it.

All of the Rito's themes are awesome, i love the Frozen village eerie vibe and Tulin's theme's gotta be my favorite.

Every time I go to the castle, I feel like something's about to attack me because the music is so tense! (Probably also because there used to be all these guardians there.) And then nothing happens lol.

I beat the game in 3 weeks and I wish I listened to all of the music throughout. I did listen to the Colgera one during that battle and it was magical

ah yes, frozen rito village, or as i like to call it, "the epic theme song of starving bird children"

Unrelated, but more people need to talk about the Crisp Climb Castle theme in Bowser's Fury. That sounds incredible.

Zelda music is always amazing, never a miss.

14:37 this is like a remembrance of dragon roost island from windwaker

I love watching your reactions to these amazing soundtracks! Super Underrated channel! Have you thought of doing a playthrough of BOTW and TOTK?

The backwards music and sound effects in this game are SO COOL I’m obsessed.

Colgera's Theme is just perfect, holy shit. It causes so many emotions just by hearing it XD

Spoiler for the Final Boss context and story: Imagine two Chinese style Dragons flying super high in the sky. One of them is the Demon Dragon who is Ganondorf which transformed himself but lost his mind in the process. The second Dragon is well… a bit more complicated to explain. At the start of the game Zelda falls into a pit, but gets teleported somewhere and no one knows where. An old mummy awakes and breaks the Master Sword into pieces. It‘s then left to Link hence the player to figure out where Zelda ended up. I‘m gonna keep the explanation short though. Zelda had a stone in her hand as she fell which sent her back into the past. She ended up in the earliest point in time, the founding of the land. She meets with her far past ancestors and encounters Ganondorf, who kills the Queen of the past time as he always did written in text books and everything else plays out like Zelda read too. So her arrival in the past wasn‘t enough to prevent the tragedy there. With the Queen dead and the Kings sacrifice to seal Ganondorf only the child remained. After the battle with Ganondorf came and gone, Zelda was still stranded in the past though. She thought about what she could do when her timestone reacted again. The stone brought the broken Master Sword to her into the past and now she knew what her role was. To repair and strengthen it so it would never break again and could defeat everything. To that end she made the ultimate sacrifice, swallowing her stone to become a Dragon which would heal the Sword over 10000 years but that would also have her soul an mind as price. So the dragon that Link rides against the Demon Dragon into battle is Zelda who roamed the skies of the land for over 10000 years, waiting for Link. In gameplay you learn all this through Zeldas memories, which became scattered through her Dragon Tears in the land. She literally lost herself through the land and years crying… hence the title: Tears of the Kingdom.

Now can we mention the colgera battle is done almost entirely while free falling and shooting arrow in bullet time ?

Spoilers!!! Saw on a comment for demon dragon OST that the Erhu = Zelda (as Light Dragon) and the saxophone = Link....Love the part where they come together !

A bit of slightly more niche context for the colgera theme: the musical swell that repeats the melody from frozen rito village is acc really appropriate because that melody has been associated with the Rito since Windwaker, and you're actively fighting to save Rito Village

It is a masterpiece! :)

Colgera is my favorite fight in the whole series because the music is absolutely amazing (also my favorite in the series), and the fight is very fun too.

The last 3 notes of the main theme hit different after finishing the story

Didn't kno Mipha had a new song almost cried

Regarding the first song. Spoiler alert... It is because zelda travels back. The weird song is the theme playing backwards as in travel back in time...

I NEED a part 2 with Demon King Ganondorf and The Demon Kings Army. Maybe even the prologue if you want something spooky

I haven't played it yet, i plan to, and i already got spoiled on it. I did thst to myself though, bc i watched pointcrow play the entirety of it. I usually spoil myself on a game i want to play, but the only time i havent was mario wonder, as i want to play it mostly blind. The only thing i know about mario wonder apart from whats in the trailers is pirahna plants on parade.

Frozen Rito Village is a leimotif callback to the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker's Dragon Roost Island theme, where the Rito are introduced for the first time. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5lzhrp9q7KZpWw.html

so yeah there is three phases in cogeras theme also colgero is basicaly a big snowy flying scorpion\dragon

It really is a great sound track. Which is good considering how much Game there is (Why am I watching this video two months after it went up? Playing the game took me around 205 hours. For a non-completionist run.)

Damm Master khogas theme is soo good

I think when Ganondorfs old OOT theme dropped in the middle of the boss battle i never lost my shit quicker. EDIT: for anyone who missed it its at 20:24

I hear from other more seasoned LoZ players that Colgera's theme has ties with the style of Windwaker's OST. Im not sure myself though. I just love how glorious it sounds in the third phase

I started crying when I heard dragon roost island in Colgera’s Battle

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You should’ve listened to the Sages themes too, they’re magnificent

No matter what game, Zelda always has top-tier music

So yeah, that Colgera Battle theme is something, huh? Especially considering that the game all but tells you to go to that dungeon first. Yep, that was a _first boss_ theme. Not actually sure how the others stack up though.

Main theme is a Masterpiece, Mipha's Legacy is a tearjerker, the Construct Battle is quite fun, Master Kohga had no right to go as hard as it did, Frozen Rito Village is so lovely, the Colgera Battle is a Love Letter to Windwaker, this new Hyrule Castle theme somehow is Just as good as Breath of the Wild's which I already loved to death, and the Demon Dragon theme is just the Perfect end battle theme to close out such a magnificent game.

If you'd like a dark & creepy soundtrack from this game, look for "Descending into Gloom's Lair (Only Epic Phases)" on youtube. That and "The Final Fall" are easily my favourite OSTs in Tears.

Im just sad I'll never be able to experience this game ever again😢