If we wrote about every fan-made cover of Nintendo theme songs that slid across our desks inboxes, we'd find ourselves with little time to write about all the hard-hitting news that you crave. However, we think it would be irresponsible to not pass along this incredible rendition of the opening theme to Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, largely due to the fact that its exponentially better than the original.
The acoustic cover, which is posted after the break, was performed by YouTube composer Fredrik Larsson -- and only YouTube composer Fredrik Larsson. Through the magic of non-linear editing, Freddy pools his musical talents to piece together an incredible tribute to one of Nintendo's unsung themes. We suggest having Link's oceanic adventure on-hand should you decide to check the video out -- trust us, you'll feel compelled to revisit it.
Ahaha I agree. The guy has talent but talent+originality go hand in hand. Talent+somebody else's song goes right to the "I'll watch another time"... hand.
It's a goddamned internet video. There's no glory here. It's something he appreciated on his own, enjoyed, and took time to create it on his own. I'm guessing you don't play a single musical instrument. Otherwise you might recognize that playing music you enjoy on an instrument you play is rewarding. Good lawd it's not like he did it to reap advertising dollars. You suck. Merry Christmas.
I know! It's 4 or 5 kinds of awesome. There's some kickass SMB guitar tab with some pretty crafty fingerwork out there that I feel proud that I can play, but this is on another level.
You guys have me all wrong. I'm not talking about him simply covering a song. I'm talking about the one-guy-covers-a-song-with-many-layers-of-video thing.
that was nice...I feel talentless now. As for Lee saying that it is not original, well, does every single thing have to be original? Sometimes it is best to take something that exists and make a variation of it. If you stick to putting aside unoriginal things, then you really shouldn't bother with gaming were most games build upon prior ideas and make common what was once novelty...
I know I'm in the unfavored minority that doesn't give a shit about mario room decals, Nintendo song covers, '?' blocks hidden around college dorms, etc.
But I just wanted to remind you we are out here, loathing every YouTube video and Flickr set featuring that schlock.
every once and awhile a news article on here at joystick can surprise you cause you can't tell what it will be about through it's headline, so you click it to figure out what it is only to be disappointed.
This is not one of those articles. You knew exactly what you were going to see when you clicked on it and you did it anyway. So part of you must like seeing this kind of stuff.
Wow, way to be an unappreciative dick. This person actually has talent and put together the various parts for this. It's possible I appreciate this more because I play in an orchestra, but nevertheless this person did a great job.
And also, you're telling me you couldn't just ignore this video?
I'm not one to defend buying 1,000,000 Pikachus or something though.
No, man, it's not a waste of time to represent the people that DON'T like this stuff. Just putting it out there, because we see a lot of this Nindendialia on the internet.
And yeah, I am fuckin cool, even if you don't think so.
Yeah, it was a damn good game. I still, though, think it was a bad business move to use cel-shaded art; the amount of stupid people who refused to play it simple because of it hurts the mind.
As a musician I totally appreciate this man's talent. Say what you want, but that took a lot of work and he gets props from me for a great mix with sound and some good editing.
indeed, i mean its not like they have guitar or recorder or accordian tabs online for a song like this so he picked apart each instrument and then did it by ear i imagine. the glasses was a genius part too. i've played guitar off and on for about 7 years and im not even any good at playing by ear, maybe a little but not much.
What really impresses me is that he could easily used his keyboard and a sound bank to do the song, but instead took the time to use real instruments. Thats rare in todays music world.
