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I'm so Hungry, I could eat an Octorok!
Molgera's Boss Theme: The first 12 seconds of this theme are very strong. Very good lead-up, I like the gong or bell or whatever that is. Then the whistling begins, and it loses some steam. Still a good tune, but the low sounds of what preceded it are scarier. It deserves points for being unlike what's in the rest of WW, though. Most of WW's music is fairly happy, this is one of the few tracks that are like intense?
Kirby (Link's Awakening)
King Zora: As a kid, I hated how slowly he scooches. As an adult, I ****ing love it. It's one of the stupidest jokes ever, completely out of place, and that's why it's so damn good. I'll compare it to the part in Super Paper Mario where you have to set the controller so Mario runs in a hamster wheel for like fifteen minutes of real time in order to progress. I love things like this. Too bad he died between OoT and TP. That's something odd, you know. This was the natural opportunity to have the new Link encounter someone who'd met the old Link, and he could comment on it in some interesting way... Instead, he's dead, and you meet his way younger, hotter wife. Hey, I guess if you're the king, okay. It's like, the games intentionally avoid having Link meet anyone who'd met his preincarnations? Everyone in OoT dies before TP, and those are the games closest in time to each other besides direct sequels. Lord Jabun at first seems like Lord Jabu Jabu, but he's not. According to the Zelda Wiki, there're competing official sources on whether the WW Deku Tree is the grown-up version of the Deku Sprout in OoT, or just a descendant. Is the BotW/TotK Deku Tree also just a descendant? Wait a second, the Wiki lists Cadence of Hyrule as "ambiguously canon," but Hyrule Warriors as "non-canon?" How the hell is CoH more ambiguous? Anyway, I think they're missing a small opportunity to have like a super old person show up and be like "ah yes, Link, it's been a while," and the Zora King would have been a great chance for that.
Ganon's Tower (LttP)
The Mask Salesman
Tetra
Royal Crest: I had to look this up, I had never really looked at it closely before. The Zelda Wiki claims that it's the Triforce above a Loftwing, wow, I kind of just don't believe it. Like, obviously this originated in OoT, and SS was over a decade later, but did they really decide that the bird is a loftwing? Because it looks like a generic eagle to me. Anyway, this is definitely better than any real royal crest. Real royal crests are almost all impossible to discern the details of because they're too complicated. But I mean... looking at this as an actual real world, this sort of implies that the Royal Family considers itself the owners of the Triforce, when two-thirds of it are always held by someone else. And a third of it is always used against them by Ganondorf, even!
The Moon
Dark Link: I'm sorry I keep referring to the Zelda Wiki, but I can't help it. Check out this description: "Dark Link is the evil reflection of Link. He is one of the most enigmatic enemy characters in the The Legend of Zelda series, usually appearing with no backstory and no dialogue, although it is implied on numerous occasions to be merely constructed of shadow magic. Dark Link is more than just a mere battle against a monster for Link, but a battle against himself, as the young hero has to face his own strength turned against him." It's like, dude, it's not that deep. Dark Link is a fun idea, though. If you were looking at Zelda as an actual real story, the idea of having your own strength turned against you is a cool idea. It would be even cooler if he had all of your powers, though. He always just tries to stab you; it'd be cooler if he had a bow, bombs, and so on, and the fight became more strategic, I'm imagining a Zelda version of the fight against The Boss in MGS3. Unfortunately, that's not what we get. The most charitable interpretation of Dark Link is that he's some kind of doppelganger made of evil magic reflecting Link's soul or whatever. But even then, he doesn't have motives or goals or a personality. Even Ganon, at his most one-dimensional and boring, has that. So, even though Dark Link is undeniably cool, all he is is another random enemy among a million random enemies. It's funny how demoted he got over time, too. From final boss of AoL to miniboss of the Water Temple to minions of a boss in OoA to just a cameo in TP to a optional challenge in a minigame in ST. Every time he shows up, he's less and less important. It's also kind of interesting, now that I think about it, of which Nintendo characters get dark versions. Link, Samus, Pit, Kirby, Sonic... but not Mario. Obviously, I know that Mario has Wario, but Wario was never just "Mario, but black." And unlike, say, Star Fox or Donkey Kong, which only have a few games and thus might simply have not gotten around to having evil versions of themselves show up, Mario's had a billion games. The closest thing I can think of is Bowser Jr.'s fake Mario disguise in SMS. How easy would it be to have Mario fall into a pit of evil goop, jump out, and then another Mario in black overalls jumps out after him, and there's a level of jumping over obstacles faster than he can? Nintendo must have at least considered this.
Door Charge Old Man
Gleeokenspiel
Sidon
Twilight Princess
Rolling in Ocarina of Time
Temple (Smash Stage)
Stamina
Companions
Colgera's Boss Theme