Soundtrack Repetitive?

[Petman1325]

Well, for those of you who listened to TP, I applaud you. Now, as for the music itself. No, I don't run the Zeldas specifically for music. If I did that, that would be a real waste of time when I could just Google the music. ;)

Yet, anyways, has anyone else noticed that the game's soundtrack seemed sort of repetitive? I mean, sure, there's some nostalgia in it, but I'm not just talking about that. In the beginning of the game, it presents you with all of the character themes (know 'em or not). However, as the game goes on, it starts repeating them (heck, some of the boss themes sound similar (Zant doesn't count) to eachother's).

No, you can't blame the N64 games and under (SNES, NES) for that due to the lack of space it had on the cartridges, but half the TP soundtrack was just minor little tweaks on songs that made them expect we thought it was a full, original song. Now, there were also some great songs in there; but there were some tweaks I didn't mind, though. So, how do you think of all this?

Like I said, it is a bit annoying, but I don't really mind it. It was mainly just finding out which ones were significant and which ones just felt like repeats...

[basement24]

I don't find it repetative at all. There's definitely common themes that pop up, mainly the Hyrule Field flourish theme, or I suppose Link's theme in this game due to when it arises, but really I find it unique the whole way through.

There's similar sounding pieces in the boss themes, but they're definitely not the same. I actually found that the boss battle themes and dungeon pieces were more unique, less repetative and more hum-able than those of OoT which many praise as being the hallmark of music in the series (which I still say it is more definitely not).

I have the 6+ hour TP soundtrack, and listen to it regularly (although I admit, I've pruned the playlist down to the best 2 hours for more regular listening) and I enjoy it through and through. It's not the best of the series, I'll admit (I still say that would be ALttP) but I don't find it any more repetative than standard video game soundtracks. It's even less so than some hollywood blockbuster scores which while have good music, are terribly redundant and uninspired (*cough*Transformers*cough*).

[Smitie]

I don't think the themes with some old nostalgic themes in it were repetitive, but the new music (especially the music in the twilight realm) were very repetitive and in some cases boring.

I don't think that a game needs a 10 minute song to conquer repetitiveness, since most of the time your attention is on how to beat the game instead of the music. Most games even have a more repetitive soundtrack than TP.