Our last line of defence will be Link…
That Saxophone!
Guys, I’ve seen Trailer 3 so many times.
I hear YouTubers boast they’ve watched it more than 10 times and laugh at their rookie numbers.
I’ve watched a film trilogy’s worth.
I’ve pored over itsmany musical references, watched all the reaction compilations and quiet-cried at them crying.
Confession: I even downloaded and re-edited (!)
Turns out it’s so badass it doesn’t really matter.The chest filleth regardless.
My point is I like it.
I’m so glad it’s so good.
Welcome to one movie night at mine!).
It’s a 4-minute magic trick, a timeslip, a miniature epic that feels like Maximum Everything.
It has that hush of wave sounds before a fade in to a glittering sea.
That sudden stillness when you see the Master Sword, eternal in an overgrown glade.
Then it’s action time!
- facing up to his quest.
And then it goes.
The way the music kicks up a gearso in-syncwith that guardian laser squeal - it feelsspinal.
And the visual balance!
But from darkness to light!
!It was about here that a mate once said ‘I’m getting emotional, Bro’.
We weren’t even at the classic Zelda theme finale yet!
What a banger, what a song of sight and sound.
The top-rated comment on the YouTube video is’Sometimes I come back to this trailer just to feel something'.
But boy does it have so much chutzpah and so many What The?!
The Orchestral Grandeur now punctuated with warped vocals and a renegade saxophone.
And right from its opening, you justknow.
You get that cloudscape intro, and a sense of wonder from the first three notes of sax.
And now the moments!
BotW piano notes on that Ghibli-green grass.
Hateno has wrapping and mushrooms.
A castle rises and now there’s the scattered notes of the Hyrule Castle theme.
Now there’s darkness.
His hair like fire and fury.
And now there’s that shot of Link grasping for Zelda’s hand!
Too much to see and say!
Which is the best bit?!
But then there’s Zelda saying ‘Link’ (great hair girl!)
and there’s an anime-quiver in her pupils.
‘Our last line of defence will be Link’.
This is the best bit surely?
The cut to Link on the glider and that eruption of choir and sax.
Or is it more like arupture?
A cloud-piercing sound like god rays made audible and a Zelda Music all-timer on arrival.
And then it goes in.
The shield parry call back!
The space jumps (why is there that horn blare on the second?!
Is it an editing leftover or effect or something else?!)!
The DIY Robot Wars face-off and that Ruby bow-pull and the reverse-o robotic vocals in the mix!
Then a big ol’monster munch andthisis where most trailers would finish.
Trailers always finish on a big monster thing!
But we’re not done yet!
and Dramatic Shouting and Darkness Part 2 and some Mononoke arm tentacle-ing and Wait There’s More!
Now we’re back to heroic brightness and light.
The Zelda theme with uplift in the second phrase then the saxophone again (that sax!)
A sudden childhoodRatatouille wooshfor those who’ve spent a lifetime with Zelda.
Does it beat the 2017 one, to become the best game trailer ever?
Does it even matter?
Now we’ve got both!
These unplayable things that aren’t Zelda, but are somehow of it - collapsed and compressed.
Music and movement and magic, and themselves now part of the legend: The internet went wild.
I love this - hype as a form of hope.
Hype as a form of celebration and appreciation.
OfThanks for all the Zelda, and now there’s soon to be one more.
A gaming legend nearly back in our orbit, bringing new things to see and do andsometimes to feel.
Guys, it’s new Zelda season.
