With more composers working on the score, the themes and motifs were expertly crafted to build the tone of the game.īut improved sound cards and a larger compositional group were not the only changes to the Zelda formula with this game. While most games usually only have two or three composers, due to the rushed development schedule The Wind Waker had five to six 2. While some of the track fall flat, none of them sound intolerable.Īnother change in this game is the number of composers involved in the production. While it wasn’t technically fully orchestrated, the MIDI-based instruments sound much better than the N64 scores 1. One of these improvements included a drastically better sound card, allowing for improved music. Below is a chapter from my upcoming book, The Symbolism of Zelda: A Textual Analysis of The Wind Waker.īeing released on a new console-the GameCube-meant that The Wind Waker could take advantage of the new and improved hardware.
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