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And now, part three of the Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. This is the soundtrack show.

Welcome back to the soundtrack show. I'm your host David W. Collins and this is our third and final look

at The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. A video game from 1998 for the Nintendo 64 home console

with a musical score by Koji Kondo. In our last two episodes, we discussed the interactive

nature of this score, which has more meaning in this game than most. Not only does the music change

when you enter different areas of the game, not only does it change when you are in danger or are

safe, or you make a great achievement, find some important object, etc. But at the very heart of

the game lies a playable digital Ocarina, one which you must learn to use or play to unlock secrets,

travel to distant lands, or even go through time in order to experience the game's full adventure.

This game is unique with its blurred lines of diagetic and non-diagetic music,

oftentimes making little to no distinction between what we as the gamer can hear and what

exists in the game's fictional world of high rule. The end result is a seamless musical blend,

largely due to the game's overall musical theme. In this episode, we're going to continue our

exploration of this musical theme and discover that it plays right up to the very end of the game

when we find and defeat the evil Ganondorf and restore peace to the kingdom of high rule.

In our last episode, we had just completed the game's opening act, a long sequence that plays

out as a mini version of the overall game. We learn the game mechanics, we get a sense of the world

of the characters and locations, and we experience three wildly different dungeons, culminating in

what we think is a big victory, only to discover the real game is just beginning. We met our main

character, Link, as a small child in the Kokiri forest. Now, after being asleep for seven years

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