Zelda: Skyward Sword Music - Lanayru Sand Sea

[TheBlueFrancis]

So Sad :( :( :( :'(

[KnightCourage560]

Keep striving for what one wants to achieve out of life...you only get one chance...make the best of it...

[tiepullins]

I think if MM had the level of technology that SS has, it could be just as emotional or more. Both games have the sad situations already, but SS has the edge because the animation and detail is more advanced and therefore the characters can emote more. If we could see Pamela's face as she's reunited with her father, Anju's face when she asks you for help finding Kafei, or the town guard's fearful expression as he's looking up at the moon on the third day, this conversation might be different.

[ShiroKage009]

The heaviness of this song, to me, comes because of the fact that you have to return to the present to complete your mission; you can't stay in that past. What's more, you know the demise Skipper's family and crew will face and that there is nothing you can do to save them.

When I first got to meet Skipper, my heart was almost torn.

I salute Nintendo for being able to tug at our emotions so much without the use of a single word of spoken dialogue.

[SilverSon87]

This is one of the best parts in the game

[jmacgamer85]

Nintendo sure knows how to get into the emotional part of your brain and start playing catch the your neurons

[TheSuperEricWarshot]

@LegendofLegaia929 Well emotion isn't necessarily a bad thing, Mother 3 was an astoundingly good game.

[LegendofLegaia929]

@TheSuperEricWarshot I'm not saying it is a bad thing, I'm just saying that I don't get the emotional impact this had on people (especially with the ridiculous Titanic reference).

[ComboLeafster]

@LegendofLegaia929 Personally, I sure didn't cry at any of the game (not trying to sound manly or anything), but it certainly was emotionally gripping. I cared about the characters more than I had in any previous Zelda.

[LegendofLegaia929]

If you found this emotional, then I highly suggest that you avoid playing Mother 3.

Hell, avoid playing Majora's Mask as well.

[ChaosChicken200]

@LegendofLegaia929 Wasn't Mother 3 the game in which Lucas had to fight his brother at the end? I don't know, I have never played the Mother/Earthbound series.

[LegendofLegaia929]

@ChaosChicken200 Yes.

[darkmage767]

@LegendofLegaia929 i think this game has more emotion than MM

[LegendofLegaia929]

@darkmage767 How so?

[darkmage767]

@LegendofLegaia929 i admit MM is also pretty emotional, but i think Skyward Sword has more sad parts like where Fi leaves you or Skippers story, the only thing i was sad about in MM was probably when you left town again.

[LegendofLegaia929]

@darkmage767 Fi annoyed me way too muh for that scene to properly make me care and considering how Skipper got his ship and crew back and he could get his family back to life with a magic time stone if he cared (which I'm not sure he does), I can't find that all that sad.

With MM, you got transformation masks from characters who died, all of which had people who actually showed that they cared about them (does Skipper even mention his family?).

[LegendofLegaia929]

@darkmage767 Continued - And the characters that die in MM couldn't just be revived with a magic stone. Also, the people in MM were much more aware that they were most likely going to die in 3 days while the people in Skyloft who mostly seem blissfully unaware of what's going on at the surface.

[IMadeAllThese]

@LegendofLegaia929 Well, MM was more just plain dark rather than sad (they are different.) I will say though, that SS doesn't have much sadness to it either. Picking a "Saddest" Zelda game is actually pretty hard, as all Zelda games don't really use too much sadness, but all do have those moments here and there.

People have been seeming to claim SS as saddest, but that's likely only because SS has done well in its portrayal of emotions and expressions, which hasn't been done much before.

[ComboLeafster]

What I really love about this track is that it's fantastic by itself AND it fit the area perfectly... Lanayru Sand Sea was my favorite area in the game

[777Rowen]

@ComboLeafster Same here, its really relaxing, sad, and just lovely. ;)

[MissLivYoung]

although I love this specific piece, I think the rest of the soundtrack was rather mediocre. Would've loved if Koji Kondo was more involved with the music in this game.

[jmacgamer85]

@MissLivYoung I didn't think it was mediocre, but I can understand where you're coming from. It's like if they decided to make a Star Wars film and not have John Williams write the score. Even better, it's like making a Harry Potter film without having John Williams write the score. Oh wait...

[KnightCourage560]

The desert may keep you pondering...with its enigmatic nature...making it one of the most gorgeous atmospheres to ever behold.

[NIKINZx]

Skipper: yo my ship is definitely here. Me: ok brb *falls off roller coaster 6 times* it wasnt there omg. Skipper: oh ok well its definitely here then!!! Me: sigh fine *curses timeshift ball 57 times* skipper bro its not here??!! Skipper: OH YAH LMAO ITS INVISIBLE its probably in the middle of the sea~~~ Me: SUCK MY WII REMOTE BATTERIES YOU DOUCHE WAGON

[NintyNani]

@NIKINZx LMFAO!!

[TheDutchGame]

What the Lanyru Province in Skyward Sword really does for me is realising that Hyrule's history is so gigantic. The mining facillities and robots are really relics of an old, big but lost cilication. Especially with this song, it makes me feel connected yet alone aswell.

[MarioandLuigi88]

Link should take Gondo with him to repair all of the robots. ^_^

[Religion0]

@MarioandLuigi88 He'd probably love it, too...

[777Rowen]

@MarioandLuigi88 yes he totally should, and get a bunch of those ancient flowers, so they can all be ok; instead of being dead.

[michealjackson289]

@BoxCarBoy12 Yeah it was, mabye it's cause Fi can't understand emotions and she's seems so frigid. Midna on the other hand is alive and can comprehend emotions. Plus the robots are robots, whereas the twilight sucks the life out of everything, leaving their soul behind, that was a pretty sad thing, plus the whole thing with the prince and queen of zoras made me cry. The only game series to do that is KH.

[Skaarjguy]

@michealjackson289 Fi started to become my favorite companion before I remembered how complex Midna's character was and how much I enjoyed her as a companion, and thus Fi took second place with Midna firmly remaining in first.

[michealjackson289]

I think all my emotions went into twilight princess, the only sentimental moment was at the end with Fi's monologe. Am I bad person for thinking this?

[BoxCarBoy12]

@michealjackson289 Hmm... I (and 99% of Zelda fans) thought that SS was the most emotionally involving Zelda ever, the one part of its greatness that couldn't be disputed. Oh well. To each his own, you aren't a terrible person for leaving your emotions with TP, because that game was pretty damn heart-wrenching too :)

[BACHE1N2]

@BoxCarBoy12 99%? I think a lot of fans (me included) regard Majora's Mask as the most emotionally involved one by far. No other game has emotionally involved me as much as that game.

[ACMilanW960i]

@BACHE1N2 no way for me Skyward is the most emotional

[777Rowen]

@michealjackson289 No, the thiings that affect a person emotionaly vary. For example, seeing a sad wet puppy on a rainy day, this might make people feel sad, while it may make others feel pitty. I think both games are hear wrenching, as well as Ocaraina of Time too.

[SuperMetallica83]

You know, it eats me up inside to look at those deactivated robots( I almost start to cry). :(

[purple68424]

@SuperMetallica83 I'm happy to know I'm not alone. It's just sad just seeing them lay there, abandoned.

[Legozan88]

wow 0 dislikes,that shows you how AWSOME this music is

[FFXyvis]

SilvaGunner...

[ZeldafanNr2]

GilvaSunner thanks :D

[jjjj4rd]

What I find funny about the game is the names of the light spirits/dragons. Faron -- Farore, Eldin -- Din and Lanayru -- Nayru

[fuukahibata]

@jjjj4rd You're right oO I always noticed for Lanayru but didn't see that in the other ones^^ Too bad in the german version Lanayru is called Ranelle... 

[GanonAkumaFan]

@fuukahibata In French, it is called Lanelle. Which isn't really better...

[Lyseolia]

@GanonAkumaFan A Male dragon named Lanelle, yeah, I admit XD

[mzdarkstar]

@jjjj4rd oh my God ! Why didn't I think of that? The creators of Zelda are some serious geniuses.

[0551E80Y]

@jjjj4rd even if you could the game only allows one stone on at a time in an area your hack could crash the game

[jjjj4rd]

@0551E80Y I wasn't even the one who said anything about timeshift stones.

[EliKG114]

I need to create hack to have all the timeshift stones on at once. I want to see how beautiful Lanayru really was as a whole.

[777Rowen]

@EliKG114 That would be wounderful to see, and plus all the robots wouldn't be dead. Is you manage to succed plz make a video, I gotta see this.

[RemS500]

Oh my goodness, I love this music so much. It's so beautiful. Probably my favroite track from the game. It's just so peaceful, but also a little sad. Its just so good. Anyone know where I can download it? I want to be able to listen to this all the time lol

[Guarx95]

@RemS500 Just go to youtube-mp3 (insert dot here) org. Then copy and paste the url of this video and... well i think you got it from there... Then (insert song of getting key here) you just started downloading a great song! Now 189 songs to go!

[federicoper1]

LOVE THIS MUSIC

[klaskycsupologofan]

TAKE CARE OF THE DIN DAMNED EARTH OR FARORE WILL PUNISH US AND ALL LIFE WILL END UP LIKE THIS AND WALL.E, A VAST LIFELESS DESERT AND OUR OCEANS WILL BECOME SAND SEAS. CARE FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT FOR THE LOVE OF NAYRU

[klaskycsupologofan]

@klaskycsupologofan that was random I:

[awesomewomba]

All of Lanayru prooves that nothing is safe from the forces of time. The SandSea has an emphasis on this...

[pingasluigi25]

...Wind Waker? What're you doing here?

[randomnesforus]

so beatiful... the music of this game is wonderful c:

[roguesquadron521]

The part that hit me the heaviest in this area was when you go up to Skipper's Retreat to get his sea chart and see his family, long dead, and the pictures on the wall of the sea and his crew, which Fi points out that he must have cared about deeply. The fact that Skipper even knows that he's only alive because of the Timeshift Stone makes it all the more tragic. The way Nintendo is able to manipulate my emotions this way combined with the exceptional soundtrack here proves why they're the best.

[Motherdope7741]

Zelda,sorry.

[Motherdope7741]

Hope in the next selfsame game this race is in it

[marzgirl99]

does anyone else get the strangest feeling of nostalgia whenever you hear this song? it's so weird.....

[LadySunfish]

Dear Dad, Good luck at work, vrrm!

[2pac4eveerr]

fucking amazing music :)

[Julio3324]

Prolly my favorite bgm in the whole game. Although it is a little hard to decide. It's a Zelda game, after all.

[jmario232]

Hmm that is interesting. Since Lanayru the Thunder Dragon is saved he might over time restore this region. I think I might have unintentionally saved it trying to learn the Song of The Hero. Because the Thunder Dragon supplies energy to the machines the machines may one day reactivate. It will take time though.

[UltimateShoe]

I am going to put away my pride and be honest.

When I heard Skippers story, then saw all the pictures of his former crew, and heard this music, I was about to cry. I felt so bad him. Then I wanted to make it up to him, but then I realized it was just a game. Nintendo really added a lot of emotions to this game unlike any other.

[RotomRules64]

@UltimateShoe Unlike FPS, which is just BLAM! BLAMBLAMBLAM! BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM!!

[LegendofLegaia929]

@UltimateShoe Really?

I laughed when I saw the picture with the the Titanic reference.

[cake10]

I like this one with the stuff at the beginning

[GanonAkumaFan]

Right now, I think there is only one awesome thing Link cannot do or hasn't done yet:

Swim/Walk in lava.

[goldengirlsben]

The desert location in Skyward surely had more ideas and effort put in to it than Twilight Princess desert...which was empty in a sort of boring way...yet somehow, despite the carts, high cliffs, time stones, electric snails, and ocean...Skywards Swords desert feels just as empty and sad - in a good way.

[name8895]

@goldengirlsben The feeling that it used to be a place of advancement and beauty, it is kinda sad.

[SkywardLooping]

@jmario232 Following what you said, now that you saved Lanayru, he will provide again energy to the region and, with time, we'll have a nice Hylia Lake :)

[MrQuickSqueez]

Lanayru provience? Lake Hylia has to be here somewhere, and the zoras right? RIGHT?

[baddestwolf]

@MrQuickSqueez My theory is that parella evolved to them later link and sweetie had big timestone and let it be lanayru

[marzgirl99]

this really gives me the feeling of an empty, barren place. those woodwind instruments are so effective!

[jmario232]

This song is so relaxing. When I played this I felt like going to sleep. It also made me sad. My theory of what happened to Lanayru Desert was that when Lanayru got sick and died there was no power to supply to the machinery because Lanayru provided power to everything. As such everything began to shut down and rust and the environment deteriorated to dust. This is a very sad region. I felt even worse when I heard this. Poor Skipper. I wish there was a way to restore this region.

[RotomRules64]

@jmario232 I love you.

[ethandarkwing]

awsome just freaking awsome five stars!!!!!!!!

[Gg66dolphin]

this was...one of the most emotional moments in any video game I have played and I have played some pretty emotional games. Just the feeling you get from the sand sea was amazing. The whole area was once a vast thriving world but it's gone now. Nothing remains but sand and dust. The timeshift stones only make it even tougher to bare since you see how beautiful it once was......all of that beauty, destroyed by time.

It really shows that we cannot escape the grip of time. Amazing job Nintendo

[crazy4sian]

Even a vast empire with all that technology was no match against the cruel fates of time. We are all victims to time and fatigue; the ever-flowing cycle. Nothing is eternal...

[Dantick09]

Love this area it s the big open space the game had missing

time shift stone + desert = win

[ZWarrior89]

Just listening to this song makes me feel like I'm on top of a skyscraper. I just LOVE looking around when I'm at the very top of Skipper's Retreat! I feel like I'm soaring through the skies!

[TheBlueFrancis]

Yeah, very pretty

[SirReaI]

I love this part of the game. After the absolute genius of the Ancient Cistern, a water dungeon that was actually *really good*, we got to explore a desert using a boat that turns sand into water. My only complaint is that the boat was not used enough. I wanted to have a bunch of islands to go to like in Wind Waker, but still, it was cool.

[CookieMcWeaksauce]

@SirReaI Agreed. The time-transitioning motorboat that turned the desert to ocean before your eyes was nothing short of genius.

[Pukupelle]

@SirReaI No offense, but last time I checked the thing that powers the boat (and a whole lot of things in Lanayru Desert made the area it covers go back in time and thus "turning" the sand into water.

[dNysix]

Best place of Zelda SS... loved it!

[JasonMKW]

I think it's sad the fact that the ancient robots (except Scrapper ¬¬) depend on Timeshift Stones. If there aren't Timeshift Stones, they are nothing but broken and useless robots. This song represents that sadness for me. A great piece. Nintendo, you'll never stop amazing us...

[JuliaSMro]

i like this song!!!

[MetaKnight640000]

I felt so bad for this guy. Just got to the part last night. It was already pretty late. I stayed up way past midnight trying to reunite him with his crew, but right as I got to the pirates stronghold I got too tired. Kinda due to the fact that I got distracted by how fun the minecarts are.

[porcellusstudios]

Who else saw the reference to Titanic in the Skipper's house?

[FerreTrip]

This was one of the COOLEST parts of the game. You're literally in an ocean of sand. One of the niftiest uses of Timeshift Stones.

[blues03]

TimmyTurnersDad?

[GilvaSunner]

@blues03 Yes?

[blues03]

@GilvaSunner You replied! Firstly, thank you for all of the Zelda SS uploads that I've listened to, and for the other playlists of VGM I'll be browsing through. I (just) read your profile, and I'm sorry to hear about your account, hopefully this one will bring you even more subs.

[CristopherOS]

@GilvaSunner

what happen with the another account?

[GilvaSunner]

@CristopherOS Kingdom Hearts composer got a little angry and forced YouTube to delete it. So now, I only upload Nintendo music :-)

[CristopherOS]

@GilvaSunner

good decision, but be careful, the nintendo music is deleted too.

some cases that I saw are Twilight Princess, Mario galaxy 2 and Doken Kong Country Returns.

[Eyezak56]

my favourite song in the game

[MBlueFlame]

this is a good example on why i feel this game was a lousy origin story,it created more questions than answers

now no one get me wrong,this was a good game and had a good story,but its pretty much asking for another game to answer questions that skyward sword unncesarily created

[ChopSooyLee]

It's so sad when you see that painting of the whole crew at Skipper's house.....'

[TurquoiseStar17]

@ChopSooyLee

And in his house are what I assume to be his wife and kid, but with no timeshift crystal, there's nothing you can do for them.

[Dreikothedragon]

the timeshift gameplay of lanayru desert is one of the best parts of the game, it's so original and alot of fun, one of the most creative gameplays of any game i have played, no wonder why this is my favorite zelda game ever

[SossarHatarSverige]

This area and the concept is the coolest in VG history, it's soo amazing to look out and see nothing but ever shifting sand dunes, yet under you two feet there is coral reefs.

And it's so sad at the same time, poor captain to see his world so different.

This was behind OOT for me, until this area, it became my favorite Zelda.

[sviper100]

I'm getting a Metroid Prime feel from this piece.

[Lexyvil]

I've been looking for this particular track. The area along with this song really made me feel like I was alone on a wide ocean of sand and emptiness.

[hijuliaa]

It was so strange seeing the Lanayru Sand Sea and learning that it was once an ocean. I'm not completely sure that Lanayru Desert eventually turns into the Gerudo areas in OoT, but when I first saw the Sand Sea, my first thought was "Haunted Wasteland."

[xRossiBoy8o8x]

I remember bumping into something, and I thought I had to bump into it real fast... After multiple attempts and half an hour later, I realized I had a cannon.

[modirufa6317]

@xRossiBoy8o8x -_-'

[MrShayno97]

What really made that Area was the abandoned feeling the place and it's music gave you.

[HeldDerWelt2]

my favourite song in the game. sometimes i just stood there and listened to the music with goosebumps.

[iPushRedButtons]

I generally don't have much with sand areas in games. But Skyward Sword's was very fun. Especially the Sand Sea was well-made, same for its music.

[Sadet1991]

finding that ship was a little anoying but it was fun

[YamiToYugi]

One of my favorite songs throughout the game. So soothing, and really gave off that "desert" feel.

[UltraKirby25]

Beautiful piece, especially when you are perched from atop Skipper's Retreat, the whole desert looks so barren, the soft wind instruments are reminding you that once, this was a place of beauty.

[MrShayno97]

Astonishing.