The Ups and Downs of a Night Out at the Official Zelda Concert
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZ1jtyeGT4 Nintendo’s Zelda games are usually very good. Their music is among their better qualities. So an official Zelda concert should be good, right? I went to one last night. I liked it, didn’t love it… meaning it was y1 com a little more Zelda II for me, not so much Ocarina Of Time. And definitely not Majora’s Mask, my favorite (go ahead, yell at me now). The concert is officially called Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses. It’s been touring around North America all year. The show I attended last night at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in New York City appears to be the fifth to last perfomance.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5964399","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"nintendo","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The show runs a little over two hours, including three faux-surprise encores. The triple encore thing is weird and makes it feel like we’re not at a concert but playing one of those video games that keeps having fake-out endings as the boss battle enters new phases. A Zelda symphony doesn’t need that kind of gimmickry. The core music is good enough on its own. Listen to the concert’s opening piece. I posted it up top. Good stuff, yes? Last night’s concert was running in MSG‘s “small room”, as the Theater สมาชิกใหม่ รับเครดิตฟรีทันที is sometimes called. The “big room”—where the Knicks play and the circus is held—was running a Justin Bieber concert. I can’t vouch for the music in that one. These people were not at MSG for the Bieber concert, that much I know. I attended the concert on Nintendo’s dime. They comped me and fellow Kotaku writer Jason Schreier. We were in section 100, row J, which means an oboist could have spit on us if they wanted to. We were that close. I sat two seats from intrepid Nintendo line-waiter Triforce Johnson, who had not been holding his seat there for the past month. During intermission we chatted about Wii U. He’s trying mightily to master all the Zelda levels of Nintendo Land. Triforce wears a Power Glove. There were a small number of cosplayers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTfAITxBGE Most people in the huge crowd seemed like ordinary concert-goers. Not many people in costume. Between movements, we’d hear from the conductor or the guy who arranged
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