It's funny, the game itself is a subtle message to never grow up too fast, as the world is a much darker place as an adult. I vividly remember what I was doing the first time I heard this many years ago. Think I was 6. Listening to this now 20 years later gives me such a powerful feeling of nostalgia. This hits me specifically and idk why but it's a significant memory. Same with forest temple music.
Zelda music inspired me to want to make my own music. I was always messing around on the piano and the song of healing was the first song I ever learned.
Played this game when I was 4 years old and played it at 17 because I was able to buy a N64 and had to experience the nostalgia. Now I’m 21 and this song takes me back to being scared of the spiders that fell from the ceiling.
I am just beside myself at this comment because that direct message from this game of not growing up too fast went completely over my head until now, years later. I'm grateful there are other gamers out there who have deep nostalgic connections to the old Zelda games and visit these niche videos too. I fall asleep to them all the time. One of my favorite areas in the game is the Poe Collector's little hideout after the seven-year jump. You get to listen to the Indian-inspired, ambient music and look out of the small window at Hyrule Field at night. It's very ominous but oddly comforting. I just love this game.
I literally used to leave my Nintendo 64 on all night and sleep to this melody bc I found it so peaceful. The fact that someone has looped it for 10 hours so I can play it at night is the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a long time
I mean, sometimes you don't really want this feeling. It's basically just random improvisation in mixolydian so it's nothing too special... All you need to create *A* mood is two notes. I don't think some composers are really better than others, I think it's just that different games/projects require different, properly fitting styles. The samples used in this game are kinda cool though.
@@cube4547 okay but music snobbery aside, this is still a creative use of textures and the Mixolydian scale. Its simplicity serves the theme’s purpose of enhancing the dungeon’s atmosphere without being distracting. Koji Kondo is in a league of his own because he knew how to consider improvisation and simplicity as well as composing more layered and intricate soundspaces. For that alone, I’d say it’s pretty special.
It's 1:50 AM and raining gently outside. I'm sitting in my dark room with the windows cracked, and only the light of my monitor, lava lamp, and the one candle I lit are providing illumination while this track plays. I'd say this is a pretty much perfect moment.
I was listening to this while I was working today. I was out of breath from swinging a pickaxe and took a knee to rest for a moment. As I was sitting there catching my breath, I was looking out into the woods and feeling the breeze on my face while sweat streamed down every part of me. I definitely felt in that moment it was something that I would remember
This piece...it's timeless. Embodying nostalgia from deepest depths of who I am, yet also carries my soul somewhere safe. Absolute balance and tranquility. Very interesting fact: Learned this piece on guitar...turns out the natural harmonics of standard tuning are in exact pitch with the melody of this piece. Kinda crazy.
Since I was 7 years-old, this vibe always evoked a sense of wonder for me... I listen to it faintly in the background when I'm writing :) Thanks for the upload scrapper
I remember when the 3DS remake came out. I wanted it so bad, but being only like 12 yrs old at the time, I obviously had to rely on my mom to get it for me. I seen a copy at the store when we were shopping and was begging her to get it for me. She refused, but could tell how badly I wanted it. I woke up the next morning, she was already gone for work, but next to my bed on my gaming chair, was a sealed copy of OoT 3D… Rest easy mom… I miss you everyday.
I had these similar highlight moments with oot being my fondest childhood memory. I still get stoned and listen to any instrumentals by Koji Kondo. Depends on the vibe. But I think that old famous like first viral video of the kid opening up his N64 on Xmas morning. Bruh - My brothers are 10 and 12 yrs older than me I was 8 on that console Christmas gift - but to See that yellow cartridge unwrapping a DK64 with the expansion pack, everyones own rumble pack, 007 Goldeneye, Mario Party 1 all-nighters. Sorry bout your mom's though, I don't have either of my brothers around either, or any Nintendo console - of any kind, but what doesn't kill the fuckers who did this to our families, then I swear by the old Gods and the New - we will have our vengeance bros, fore are theyz really really not entertained though like frfr tho like bro stop bc we cant even. I hope you felt the love in my attempted humor by way of human compassion thru SMS txt or characters 🤔YT comment thread in a TH-cam comment fuckin idk but AI can't beat us in this fight. Least Not today.🙅🏿"Not Yet" 🥷🏿🤸🏽🐅🤺LoL RIP Mom.
OK, so this may sound crazy, but I played this game when I was 12 and have ever since listened to this track before going to bed, imagining I'm in some giant tree in an isolated forest. Never gets old; the mystery and wonder and awe is always hidden somewhere in this great track.
Me too! I would drop down into one of the holes anytime I was going to take a smoke break or something so this would be the music playing the whole time. I loved it. I sleep to it every night now. Still gives me the same, safe feeling.
Those grottos were like a little treat, not because there was much to find down there, but because they felt like a peaceful, safe haven where you could let your guard down for a minute.
This really has to be one of the most relaxing tracks in a video game. Some days I love to just put this on as background music while I'm doing work on the computer.
Playing through Ocarina for the first time while I'm in quarantine on my 3ds. It's hard to describe the things I'm feeling when I play it, but I'm glad I get to experience it.
Is it me, or does it seem like stuff put out from the mid 90’s to early 2000’s, with this game being a great example, just has this sort of nostalgia that goes deeper than just your childhood memories? Almost like it’s the stuff you were meant to see or hear, and seeing or hearing it fulfills this core thing in you. Maybe it is just nostalgia from my childhood, or maybe there was a hidden golden era of culture then, but I’m curious as to what other people think.
Everything back then was new, cutting edge, and innovating for the time. Seems like we've hit a wall lately. Though VR was a real step forward for me at least.
@@themiddleagemillennial I’m sure that probably plus a big part of it, as well. Just like how the first big step into the unknown is almost always the most iconic, such as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tony Hawk, and Star Wars, it stakes claim to that new cultural territory and basically becomes synonymous with it from there on out.
@@corneliusjones2134 I hope that this cycle of rising and falling cultural enrichment that we’ve seen on high in decades like the 20’s, 60’s, and 90’s makes another revolution soon. I might actually snap if I see another F&F movie, or another remake of a classic.
Was there in 1998 when this came out. Well before TH-cam made it possible to just look up a scene or piece of media you liked. Remembered numerous times where I would play this game and just sit inside the Deku Tree, JUST to listen to this music. Looking back as a 36 year old man, I feel SO unbelievably fortunate that we had that era to call our own, before the “internet always on” era that we currently live in. Just felt like games had to try so much harder to be good and to stick out among the crowd. Like they were made by people who TRULY cared about the type of game they were making and never phoned in the things some today would slack on, like background music for a level like this for example. The fact that over 20 years later, so many people have continued to come back to relive things such as music from this game is a testament of the quality of this era even today.
I was 8 years old the first time I played this game, and I got stuck for a few weeks because I climbed the vines all the way to the top of the tree and didn't know there were ledges to the sides I could get off on 😂
Wait, how is it possible that I've been listening to this song for 10+ hours and it's still not boring? Gosh... the feeling of this song... reminds me of something in the back of my head and I can sense it but why would I remember something that I've never seen or never did?... kinda like a past-life thing
looked up Zelda extended tracks and grabbed this one real quick to have playing as I finished a final project. It was actually really nice; I ended up working for three full hours late into the night, and this track just kept playing gently. I was never interrupted by the video ending, then having to choose another ambient song. It never occurred to me how nice it would be, not to have to do that at any point. And this song is somehow okay to listen to by lamplight on low volume for that long. Thank you for helping me stave off the miserable silence of finals!
I listened to your videos when I was doing math homework in Middle School, particularly Stone Tower Temple and Zoras Domain. Your Channel brings back memories of building things in Minecraft, my mom's tacos, and horrible math homework. I love it and thank you
The feeling like mentally you're going to leave and not come back. The feeling like time is going faster and you can't change it. The feeling like everything is just a figment of a universe that you created..but cant control. Like a dream.. only not the same
Staff: "Koji Kondo, we need you to make the theme for the inside of the Deku Tree now!" Koji Kondo: "Yeah hold on lemme grab this single sound sample from this cd." Staff: "You don't need instrument modules for this? Not even multiple sound samples? Just the one single sound sample from this cd?" Koji Kondo: "Yup." Staff: "How the hell are you going to make this work?" Koji Kondo: "Watch."
Idk why but this song reminds me of something... I can't describe it but as if it was a memory where everything is dark and I hear this music... as if I knew this song for my whole life (the first time I played oot was in 2019)
Same, but the opposite. XD I've been playing this game on and off since I was 12 (now going on 30). So I grew up on the north shore of Long Island, the smaller towns of which are fuckin covered in trees. But I haven't lived there since I was a teenager. So hearing this particular song, which was already made to be warm and calming, always brings me back to being on the trails and near the shore in Sound Beach. End story, thank you.
This song is peace, it is life. It is what momentary bliss embodies. This song is calm, it is joy. It is what sooth broken hearts and callused sores. This song is pain, it is sorrow. It is what makes you remember the past. This song is hope, embodies dreams.... Oh, damn, have I been listening to this for 2 hours already?
I went on a walk on the campus nature trail while listening to this and... man it was ethereal. I know there's this hippy dippy stereotype of "being one with nature" and all that, but I felt so profoundly immersed in my environment. This was the perfect backdrop to that, the N64 soundfont is so otherworldly and, idk, spacey? It reminded me of when I used to hover over my older brother's shoulder and watch him play Ocarina of Time. This walk was probably the highlight of my week.
I just started playing OOT with only knowing Majora's Mask and part if skyward sword playthroughs. This. This song already lets me know I'm in for a treat.
I experience extreme nostalgia and relaxation when I listen to this. It gives off a vibe of…. peacefulness and that it’s going to be ok and just forget about everything that has hurt you and is hurting you. Breathe and let your migraine float away, it won’t come back as long as you listen to this. It makes you feel calm, and safe. And Nintendo 3Ds days.
hey scrapper, ive been searching all over for the audio that plays when you're on the bridge between kokiri village and hyrule field. its just a bird and some bullfrogs making noise or something but its super relaxing. if you could make a video of that i would be so happy. great video, liked and subbed.
hey guys :) partly inspired by your comment i have mixed the deku tree music with the night ambience. i also comped it a bit and tried to make scrapper's deku tree thumbail look 3D. 2 hour test run on my channel!
As someone who's on the younger side of gen z, I don't have much actual nostalgia connected to this game (or most of the tbh), I recently got it on my crusty 2ds and this song made me purposefully go afk so I could listen too it. I've fallen asleep to this for the past 3 nights and I'm still not tired of it
The only level i got stucj and gave up My grandfather got me this came along with my n64 for my 10th birthday He passed away 3 days ago 😢 Lived until 91 to say the least Rip 🙏
@@xXChaos420Xx thanks for asking! Stopped after ~4 sessions cuz the DM just wouldn't put the work into it. But, fortunately, I get to play the same character I played again in an upcoming campaign that I'm confident will last a lot longer! I developed him a lot more, too
So ive always had a love for this song in my heart, i have used it in many d&d campaigns and listened to it while reading, writing, or even sleeping. Always kept me curious and calm. Now I have made a Legend of Zelda D&D campaign and this is definitely being used for the minor mysterious dungeons i have littered throughout my map, this song just invokes a sense of wonder, curiosity, and mystery and blend it all together into something beautiful and to this day I have yet to have a song give me the same feeling as strong as this one does.
Most likely my first Ambient Track. The song is great, and what made it greater was it is played in every hole in the ground noted by the Stone of Agony, where you may find a fish, bug, fairy or gossip stone... an earthen place of meditation from childhood.
I missed out on Ocarina of Time as a kid. I had an N64, but only had like 3 games that I don’t really remember. It’s amazing reading other comments and their experience on the game and nostalgia. I have no such experiences to share unfortunately. I really wish I played this game then.
Increíble audio HD! Utilizo esta música para dormir a diario porque es muy relajante, me ayuda a conciliar el sueño y olvido todos los posibles ruidos externos debidos a la contaminación acústica de las ciudades de hoy en día. Muchas gracias también por hacerme recordar mis bellos momentos jugando esta maravillosa historia de Zelda. Le he dado "Like" a tu vídeo y a muchos más tuyos además de susbribirme a tu canal. Trabajo impecable!!!!!
The Great Deku Tree's background dungeon music is so peaceful despite the fact that he's overrun with all kinds of maladies... If memory serves, the music only changes when engaging with enemies and the boss of course. i'm pretty sure he's the only dungeon that this occurs in too Then take the fact that he's the only dungeon to see not only purification but rebirth as well! It's only now, 20 years after first seeing this game that I connect these dots together. This is no mere "game" but an interactive work of art that at its time, was almost unparalleled. I'll die on this hill even tho I still contend that Majoras's Mask was a more evocative experience.
I always play this when i want to wind down and relax and drift off into my thoughts and subconscious mind all whilst feeling nostalgic and having flashbacks from childhood years playing this game
Makes me think of the town/city I grew up in in the 2000s early real weird vibe seeing it as vibrant when I was young but over time it was revealed how dim and dull everything was, there were always those interesting areas though, my grandma's house and the little forest park area across the street behind a friends house, a nice hill to roll down from the sidewalk. Weird abandoned factories but in ghetto areas later on when I realized that they were. Man this brings back childhood memories so much miss the calmness if my grandmas house where I used to build legos and have cool breeze coming from the window inside.
As a 38 year old who played oot when it was new. This song always stuck with me in childhood, there was something far too "deep and mysterious" in it. Fast forward many decades later, and I travel to my old childhood home. While I kept myself agile and young, more or less healthy, my community did not. Many of them died early, or aged into something they can never return from. As I explored my home town and uncovered it's horribly tragic story, my old home town didn't feel alive anymore. I felt like I was exploring the corpses of a town long since dead. It made me realize, while physically living, I was just as dead as all of them. I wander the earth as sort of a haunted spirit now, essentially in isolation until eventually I give them my ghostly story: "My name is Ian and this is where we all died" It's fun being the mysterious enigma, until you realize how painfully alone you are. Don't stop seeing good. Don't stop yourself from seeing the vibrant. You don't want to be a living spectre. Death will turn us all into nothingness, don't waste your precious years alive as I did. I listened to this song with curiousity as a child, now, it is the theme of my living grave.
The unlimited potential of childhood. The awe and wonder of it all. Something that becomes more obscured as we grow into adults. That is how this song makes me feel.
Por cierto, olvidé decir que estaría bien que tu canal tuviera el sonido de la llanura de Hyrule por la noche, justo cuando se oyen grillos y pájaros nocturnos. Sería genial un vídeo así! Gracias por leerme! 😀
All of the themes from Ocarina Of Time are instantly recognisable to me, unlike other Zelda games which I've played! OOT is still the best Zelda game by a long way!
I used to be scared of going in there because I thought the Deku Tree was going to trap me in there. It didn't help that the music and textures seemed eerie and somewhat unwelcoming.
Playing this as my first game was something else for 6 or 5 year old me. I remember figuring out that I had to use my shield to get past the deku scrub and figuring out the puzzle at the bottom. I wish there could be another "Ocarina of Time" for me, but I don't think that's possible now that I'm 17. I want my children to play through this so they can experience the same sense of wonder.
Man I really tried to play this game. I got this game on my 8th birthday for my 3ds and played it for hours but I never beat it. While I look back on it fondly with it's amazing music like this and the memories I had playing it with my friend,when I try to play it now I just get bored and give up on the challenging puzzles.
Pan flute with reverb and a little delay most likely. The first thing I thought when I heard it was that it could have been some kind of church organ. I wonder what Koji actually used though?
Everytime i listen to this soundtrack, i feel like my soul is trapped in the game ... like a magical call from the big spirit ! I played OOT in 1998 when i was 18 ... That video game is not a regular one : it's an initiation to the other realm !
i remember back in the day when there were no lore videos and the future and history of hyrule were unknown... "who made the goddesses" and things like that and "why did ganon doom the world" and more ideas popped in my young mind. and even stranger stuff like in majora's mask like what were those aliens and is termina real? all those ideas whether solved or not, the idea of the past, future, and present being drowsed in mystery brings a sense of dreaminess to me... i feel the world of hyrule grows around me... like im one of those far gone temples....
This is such a spiritual song, I never realized it until I grew up. I wonder what Koji Kondo was thinking or feeling when he was writing this sitting by himself one day, writing this?
It's funny, the game itself is a subtle message to never grow up too fast, as the world is a much darker place as an adult. I vividly remember what I was doing the first time I heard this many years ago. Think I was 6.
Listening to this now 20 years later gives me such a powerful feeling of nostalgia. This hits me specifically and idk why but it's a significant memory. Same with forest temple music.
Me too. I'm glad to have played this around the same age so I can cherish that nostalgia, like a collective time capsule
Zelda music inspired me to want to make my own music. I was always messing around on the piano and the song of healing was the first song I ever learned.
Played this game when I was 4 years old and played it at 17 because I was able to buy a N64 and had to experience the nostalgia. Now I’m 21 and this song takes me back to being scared of the spiders that fell from the ceiling.
I am just beside myself at this comment because that direct message from this game of not growing up too fast went completely over my head until now, years later. I'm grateful there are other gamers out there who have deep nostalgic connections to the old Zelda games and visit these niche videos too. I fall asleep to them all the time. One of my favorite areas in the game is the Poe Collector's little hideout after the seven-year jump. You get to listen to the Indian-inspired, ambient music and look out of the small window at Hyrule Field at night. It's very ominous but oddly comforting. I just love this game.
@@stealth7225 Same. Was fun messing with the Ocarina. Funny, I hate using the ocarina in my own music lol
I literally used to leave my Nintendo 64 on all night and sleep to this melody bc I found it so peaceful. The fact that someone has looped it for 10 hours so I can play it at night is the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a long time
Now this is Dungeon music.
The instruments and vibe fit the environment, and still evoke mystery.
I mean, sometimes you don't really want this feeling. It's basically just random improvisation in mixolydian so it's nothing too special... All you need to create *A* mood is two notes. I don't think some composers are really better than others, I think it's just that different games/projects require different, properly fitting styles. The samples used in this game are kinda cool though.
@@cube4547 okay but music snobbery aside, this is still a creative use of textures and the Mixolydian scale. Its simplicity serves the theme’s purpose of enhancing the dungeon’s atmosphere without being distracting. Koji Kondo is in a league of his own because he knew how to consider improvisation and simplicity as well as composing more layered and intricate soundspaces. For that alone, I’d say it’s pretty special.
@Digital Fates it has a way of inviting you into exploring more of what the dungeon has to offer while also keeping you immersed in its aesthetic.
What instrument is it?
It's 1:50 AM and raining gently outside. I'm sitting in my dark room with the windows cracked, and only the light of my monitor, lava lamp, and the one candle I lit are providing illumination while this track plays.
I'd say this is a pretty much perfect moment.
I was listening to this while I was working today. I was out of breath from swinging a pickaxe and took a knee to rest for a moment. As I was sitting there catching my breath, I was looking out into the woods and feeling the breeze on my face while sweat streamed down every part of me.
I definitely felt in that moment it was something that I would remember
This piece...it's timeless.
Embodying nostalgia from deepest depths of who I am, yet also carries my soul somewhere safe.
Absolute balance and tranquility.
Very interesting fact: Learned this piece on guitar...turns out the natural harmonics of standard tuning are in exact pitch with the melody of this piece. Kinda crazy.
I guess since it’s inside the Deku tree, an entity of nature, it would be in harmony with natural resonance - I love it 🙏
I sleep to it every night.
So do I, it's pretty good
yeah its the overtone series basically. That's why we love dominant 7th chords
Gus
Since I was 7 years-old, this vibe always evoked a sense of wonder for me... I listen to it faintly in the background when I'm writing :) Thanks for the upload scrapper
same i used to play in my backyard and use my imagination and would make up temples and bosses to fight in my mind
and my dad made us swords, magic hammer and stuff out of wood.
@@DylanM333 That's really cool! That's a hell of a childhood
This and Ice Cavern are my go-to for writing background music.
@Simpsons 'r' Us! it sure does. its my fav theme in the game and its so nostalgic
I remember when the 3DS remake came out. I wanted it so bad, but being only like 12 yrs old at the time, I obviously had to rely on my mom to get it for me. I seen a copy at the store when we were shopping and was begging her to get it for me. She refused, but could tell how badly I wanted it. I woke up the next morning, she was already gone for work, but next to my bed on my gaming chair, was a sealed copy of OoT 3D…
Rest easy mom… I miss you everyday.
Sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss! 🙏 Your mother was an actual legend for doing that for you!
God man...I'm sitting in my office at work trying not to cry now. That's a wonderful memory. RIP to your mother ❤❤
God dude I'm so sorry for your loss :( She must have been an amazing mom
I had these similar highlight moments with oot being my fondest childhood memory. I still get stoned and listen to any instrumentals by Koji Kondo. Depends on the vibe. But I think that old famous like first viral video of the kid opening up his N64 on Xmas morning. Bruh - My brothers are 10 and 12 yrs older than me I was 8 on that console Christmas gift - but to See that yellow cartridge unwrapping a DK64 with the expansion pack, everyones own rumble pack, 007 Goldeneye, Mario Party 1 all-nighters. Sorry bout your mom's though, I don't have either of my brothers around either, or any Nintendo console - of any kind, but what doesn't kill the fuckers who did this to our families, then I swear by the old Gods and the New - we will have our vengeance bros, fore are theyz really really not entertained though like frfr tho like bro stop bc we cant even. I hope you felt the love in my attempted humor by way of human compassion thru SMS txt or characters 🤔YT comment thread in a TH-cam comment fuckin idk but AI can't beat us in this fight. Least Not today.🙅🏿"Not Yet"
🥷🏿🤸🏽🐅🤺LoL RIP Mom.
Just doesn't feel the same without the scritching sound of the skulltulla.
@Lic_Wiss💀
@Lic_Wiss🕷 💀 🕷 💀
You're silly, by now the sounds should be coming from within
THEY ARE UNDER YOUR SKIN.
THERE ARE SKULLUTA UNDER YOUR SKIN.
TEAR IT OFF.
OK, so this may sound crazy, but I played this game when I was 12 and have ever since listened to this track before going to bed, imagining I'm in some giant tree in an isolated forest. Never gets old; the mystery and wonder and awe is always hidden somewhere in this great track.
This...this isn't just a song...
this is an experience...
hotel, trivago.
Penis
People usually think of the deku tree when they hear this but I honestly always think of the underground grottos
@@CATTSICA dampes house too, so comfy
@@CATTSICA call me a weirdo but it would be fun to be a spider for a short while
Me too! I would drop down into one of the holes anytime I was going to take a smoke break or something so this would be the music playing the whole time. I loved it. I sleep to it every night now. Still gives me the same, safe feeling.
@@dozer1323 erection legs.
That's not cool to me, but to each their own!
Those grottos were like a little treat, not because there was much to find down there, but because they felt like a peaceful, safe haven where you could let your guard down for a minute.
This really has to be one of the most relaxing tracks in a video game. Some days I love to just put this on as background music while I'm doing work on the computer.
Playing through Ocarina for the first time while I'm in quarantine on my 3ds. It's hard to describe the things I'm feeling when I play it, but I'm glad I get to experience it.
First time?? O man... I wish lol. The game changed my life.
nice
That's wholesome to me
You are experiencing the best game of all times!
You're about 20+ years late but man I'd do anything to play it for the first time on the 64 again
Is it me, or does it seem like stuff put out from the mid 90’s to early 2000’s, with this game being a great example, just has this sort of nostalgia that goes deeper than just your childhood memories? Almost like it’s the stuff you were meant to see or hear, and seeing or hearing it fulfills this core thing in you. Maybe it is just nostalgia from my childhood, or maybe there was a hidden golden era of culture then, but I’m curious as to what other people think.
Everything back then was new, cutting edge, and innovating for the time. Seems like we've hit a wall lately. Though VR was a real step forward for me at least.
Originality is few and far between now. Games like RDR2 give me hope still
@@themiddleagemillennial I’m sure that probably plus a big part of it, as well. Just like how the first big step into the unknown is almost always the most iconic, such as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tony Hawk, and Star Wars, it stakes claim to that new cultural territory and basically becomes synonymous with it from there on out.
@@corneliusjones2134 I hope that this cycle of rising and falling cultural enrichment that we’ve seen on high in decades like the 20’s, 60’s, and 90’s makes another revolution soon. I might actually snap if I see another F&F movie, or another remake of a classic.
Was there in 1998 when this came out. Well before TH-cam made it possible to just look up a scene or piece of media you liked. Remembered numerous times where I would play this game and just sit inside the Deku Tree, JUST to listen to this music. Looking back as a 36 year old man, I feel SO unbelievably fortunate that we had that era to call our own, before the “internet always on” era that we currently live in. Just felt like games had to try so much harder to be good and to stick out among the crowd. Like they were made by people who TRULY cared about the type of game they were making and never phoned in the things some today would slack on, like background music for a level like this for example. The fact that over 20 years later, so many people have continued to come back to relive things such as music from this game is a testament of the quality of this era even today.
The sound of young Link climbing that wall....
schchika schchika schchika
Skulltula's climbing the walls.
I was 8 years old the first time I played this game, and I got stuck for a few weeks because I climbed the vines all the way to the top of the tree and didn't know there were ledges to the sides I could get off on 😂
I listen to this when I have trouble sleeping. Thank you so much. Many sleepless nights were avoided because of this upload.
I love how it's a dungeon in a dying forest guardian, with monsters galore in it. And yet the music is so calming and nice.
hi random video from 7 years ago, thank you :)
1998-1999 was just so different. what a time to be alive
Everything before 911 was peak living
@@leinsaat5779Major facts.
Wait, how is it possible that I've been listening to this song for 10+ hours and it's still not boring? Gosh... the feeling of this song... reminds me of something in the back of my head and I can sense it but why would I remember something that I've never seen or never did?... kinda like a past-life thing
That’s the collective subconscious talking, baby. We all feel that.
and its just one chord! (B7)
“Listen!”
A liminal space where time stands still...
Are you out of THAT phase yet? If so I'm here to remind you of it! Hohoho!
@@withinsecretswithin this guy is going through this comment section saying things just to be different, ignore him.
@@Polymath580 okay Futaba lol
@@Mash3OH3 While I appreciate that you understood the pfp, It isn't in the way you are thinking of, I just like the frame from the intro.
@@cube4547are you out of the phase of saying hohoho 😭
looked up Zelda extended tracks and grabbed this one real quick to have playing as I finished a final project. It was actually really nice; I ended up working for three full hours late into the night, and this track just kept playing gently. I was never interrupted by the video ending, then having to choose another ambient song. It never occurred to me how nice it would be, not to have to do that at any point.
And this song is somehow okay to listen to by lamplight on low volume for that long.
Thank you for helping me stave off the miserable silence of finals!
Whenever this song comes to mind, it brings with it a tremendous sense of calm.
I listened to your videos when I was doing math homework in Middle School, particularly Stone Tower Temple and Zoras Domain. Your Channel brings back memories of building things in Minecraft, my mom's tacos, and horrible math homework. I love it and thank you
The feeling like mentally you're going to leave and not come back. The feeling like time is going faster and you can't change it. The feeling like everything is just a figment of a universe that you created..but cant control. Like a dream.. only not the same
Staff: "Koji Kondo, we need you to make the theme for the inside of the Deku Tree now!"
Koji Kondo: "Yeah hold on lemme grab this single sound sample from this cd."
Staff: "You don't need instrument modules for this? Not even multiple sound samples? Just the one single sound sample from this cd?"
Koji Kondo: "Yup."
Staff: "How the hell are you going to make this work?"
Koji Kondo: "Watch."
Wait, where can I find the original sound source?
Idk why but this song reminds me of something... I can't describe it but as if it was a memory where everything is dark and I hear this music... as if I knew this song for my whole life (the first time I played oot was in 2019)
Same, but the opposite. XD I've been playing this game on and off since I was 12 (now going on 30).
So I grew up on the north shore of Long Island, the smaller towns of which are fuckin covered in trees. But I haven't lived there since I was a teenager. So hearing this particular song, which was already made to be warm and calming, always brings me back to being on the trails and near the shore in Sound Beach.
End story, thank you.
I feel that 100%
it is the most natural sound on the internet using the solfeggio natural harmonic scale. It is the sound of primordial existence it self. Rejoice
This song is peace, it is life. It is what momentary bliss embodies. This song is calm, it is joy. It is what sooth broken hearts and callused sores. This song is pain, it is sorrow. It is what makes you remember the past. This song is hope, embodies dreams.... Oh, damn, have I been listening to this for 2 hours already?
I went on a walk on the campus nature trail while listening to this and... man it was ethereal. I know there's this hippy dippy stereotype of "being one with nature" and all that, but I felt so profoundly immersed in my environment. This was the perfect backdrop to that, the N64 soundfont is so otherworldly and, idk, spacey? It reminded me of when I used to hover over my older brother's shoulder and watch him play Ocarina of Time. This walk was probably the highlight of my week.
I meditate to this
Me too
Currently
Fuckin same
Same here.
Yes same here! Cool to know others do too.
Not going to lie, Ocarina of Time does have terrifying enemies.
I just started playing OOT with only knowing Majora's Mask and part if skyward sword playthroughs. This. This song already lets me know I'm in for a treat.
I love and miss you childhood....
I experience extreme nostalgia and relaxation when I listen to this. It gives off a vibe of…. peacefulness and that it’s going to be ok and just forget about everything that has hurt you and is hurting you. Breathe and let your migraine float away, it won’t come back as long as you listen to this. It makes you feel calm, and safe. And Nintendo 3Ds days.
hey scrapper, ive been searching all over for the audio that plays when you're on the bridge between kokiri village and hyrule field. its just a bird and some bullfrogs making noise or something but its super relaxing. if you could make a video of that i would be so happy. great video, liked and subbed.
th-cam.com/video/Vm5FtMIkWfg/w-d-xo.html
Mike Soyka tysm!
@@mikesoyka3674 Dude, thank you for this.
just by reading this comment I can hear the sound of Links footsteps as he runs across the bridge
hey guys :)
partly inspired by your comment i have mixed the deku tree music with the night ambience. i also comped it a bit and tried to make scrapper's deku tree thumbail look 3D.
2 hour test run on my channel!
That lovely day when I got that game and had no worries in the world.
That was true happiness and pure life. And it's linked to this music
linked
@@cinny. lol. Didn't even notice
Best song, in the series!
As someone who's on the younger side of gen z, I don't have much actual nostalgia connected to this game (or most of the tbh), I recently got it on my crusty 2ds and this song made me purposefully go afk so I could listen too it.
I've fallen asleep to this for the past 3 nights and I'm still not tired of it
The only level i got stucj and gave up
My grandfather got me this came along with my n64 for my 10th birthday
He passed away 3 days ago 😢
Lived until 91 to say the least
Rip 🙏
Ahhhh....... *Childhood*
I'm playing dnd with friends rn and the DM made it almost mirror OoT. I've been playing this as we adventure through the Deku Tree.
Okay so I know this is over a year old but I gotta ask, hows the campaign going/how'd it go??
@@xXChaos420Xx thanks for asking! Stopped after ~4 sessions cuz the DM just wouldn't put the work into it. But, fortunately, I get to play the same character I played again in an upcoming campaign that I'm confident will last a lot longer! I developed him a lot more, too
@@nathanonsgard2152 Cheers to that!! Hope it goes good. 👉😎👉
When you stumble upon that one beautiful part of TH-cam😣
So ive always had a love for this song in my heart, i have used it in many d&d campaigns and listened to it while reading, writing, or even sleeping. Always kept me curious and calm. Now I have made a Legend of Zelda D&D campaign and this is definitely being used for the minor mysterious dungeons i have littered throughout my map, this song just invokes a sense of wonder, curiosity, and mystery and blend it all together into something beautiful and to this day I have yet to have a song give me the same feeling as strong as this one does.
Most likely my first Ambient Track. The song is great, and what made it greater was it is played in every hole in the ground noted by the Stone of Agony, where you may find a fish, bug, fairy or gossip stone... an earthen place of meditation from childhood.
this Music is the best when you are in a abandoned building or abandoned town
I missed out on Ocarina of Time as a kid. I had an N64, but only had like 3 games that I don’t really remember. It’s amazing reading other comments and their experience on the game and nostalgia. I have no such experiences to share unfortunately. I really wish I played this game then.
You owe it to yourself to play this game. If you do, a couple years later you will feel it and have memories to share.
I wish Nintendo would do more solemn, ambient tracks like this one for their newer zelda dungeon themes
Botw shrine theme was pretty good and definitely evokes similar feeling as this
@@CrankyRayy its not really ambient, though. The shrine theme sounds like an actual song, while this sounds almost just like pleasant noise.
This is 1000x more creepy than I remember it being
Agreed
@@lolitatexan4838When you walk in home depot hardware store. This is the perfect soundtrack to play
If I ever go to a spa, I hope this will play.
Increíble audio HD! Utilizo esta música para dormir a diario porque es muy relajante, me ayuda a conciliar el sueño y olvido todos los posibles ruidos externos debidos a la contaminación acústica de las ciudades de hoy en día. Muchas gracias también por hacerme recordar mis bellos momentos jugando esta maravillosa historia de Zelda. Le he dado "Like" a tu vídeo y a muchos más tuyos además de susbribirme a tu canal. Trabajo impecable!!!!!
This also feels like music that would plays when someone zones out
One of my favorite dungeon soundtracks for surrre
The Great Deku Tree's background dungeon music is so peaceful despite the fact that he's overrun with all kinds of maladies...
If memory serves, the music only changes when engaging with enemies and the boss of course.
i'm pretty sure he's the only dungeon that this occurs in too
Then take the fact that he's the only dungeon to see not only purification but rebirth as well!
It's only now, 20 years after first seeing this game that I connect these dots together.
This is no mere "game" but an interactive work of art that at its time, was almost unparalleled.
I'll die on this hill even tho I still contend that Majoras's Mask was a more evocative experience.
I always play this when i want to wind down and relax and drift off into my thoughts and subconscious mind all whilst feeling nostalgic and having flashbacks from childhood years playing this game
That's exactly what I'm doing right now 😆
Doing some reading for class on the ancient Olmec and Maya. This is fitting.
I remember when this was played in the theater at the Arizona Science Center when I was a kid.
Really? That's pretty cool
Its 1998 im playing this for the first time ever....life is good.....
I went to sleep listening to this and i had very weird and creepy dreams
It reaches deep down into your soul
*The music that plays when you enter the basement*
dead tree vibes.
If I ever ran a massage parlor, this is the music i would use
Makes me think of the town/city I grew up in in the 2000s early real weird vibe seeing it as vibrant when I was young but over time it was revealed how dim and dull everything was, there were always those interesting areas though, my grandma's house and the little forest park area across the street behind a friends house, a nice hill to roll down from the sidewalk. Weird abandoned factories but in ghetto areas later on when I realized that they were. Man this brings back childhood memories so much miss the calmness if my grandmas house where I used to build legos and have cool breeze coming from the window inside.
As a 38 year old who played oot when it was new. This song always stuck with me in childhood, there was something far too "deep and mysterious" in it. Fast forward many decades later, and I travel to my old childhood home. While I kept myself agile and young, more or less healthy, my community did not. Many of them died early, or aged into something they can never return from. As I explored my home town and uncovered it's horribly tragic story, my old home town didn't feel alive anymore. I felt like I was exploring the corpses of a town long since dead. It made me realize, while physically living, I was just as dead as all of them. I wander the earth as sort of a haunted spirit now, essentially in isolation until eventually I give them my ghostly story:
"My name is Ian and this is where we all died"
It's fun being the mysterious enigma, until you realize how painfully alone you are. Don't stop seeing good. Don't stop yourself from seeing the vibrant. You don't want to be a living spectre. Death will turn us all into nothingness, don't waste your precious years alive as I did. I listened to this song with curiousity as a child, now, it is the theme of my living grave.
Best for sleep and meditate
This track is amazing.
The unlimited potential of childhood. The awe and wonder of it all. Something that becomes more obscured as we grow into adults. That is how this song makes me feel.
Por cierto, olvidé decir que estaría bien que tu canal tuviera el sonido de la llanura de Hyrule por la noche, justo cuando se oyen grillos y pájaros nocturnos. Sería genial un vídeo así! Gracias por leerme! 😀
tysm for uploading this
Perfect music for writing! :D
All of the themes from Ocarina Of Time are instantly recognisable to me, unlike other Zelda games which I've played! OOT is still the best Zelda game by a long way!
*Inside the Deku Tree*
This music plays:
Navi: HEY! LISTEN!
So many times
I used to be scared of going in there because I thought the Deku Tree was going to trap me in there. It didn't help that the music and textures seemed eerie and somewhat unwelcoming.
speaks to our very souls :)
connecting us all
Perfect for meditation.
No This music is perfect when you enter The Home Depot or Lowe's or hardware stores
the music when you get close to enemies is in the same key as this, so it blends seamlessly and I thought that was extremely well done
And this began a new chapter in an ongoing epic journey.
I keep seeing this in my recommendations not a problem but it was just so persistent.
Same 😂
Twas fate
Era muito gostoso ouvir esse som bem de manhã, quando eu tinha uns 9 anos
I listen to this when I'm going for a walk or when I'm working on something. It's so calming, like the morning has just begun.
the deku tree lives on!
no its dead lol
The music feels like that I'm sleeping inside a bubble, as I travel through dreamspace
This is the best song when you enter The Home Depot hardware store. Or Lowe's.
Playing this as my first game was something else for 6 or 5 year old me. I remember figuring out that I had to use my shield to get past the deku scrub and figuring out the puzzle at the bottom. I wish there could be another "Ocarina of Time" for me, but I don't think that's possible now that I'm 17. I want my children to play through this so they can experience the same sense of wonder.
This level scared me so much as a kid but I remembered the Deku Tree telling me to be courageous and it got me through it :3
Man I really tried to play this game. I got this game on my 8th birthday for my 3ds and played it for hours but I never beat it. While I look back on it fondly with it's amazing music like this and the memories I had playing it with my friend,when I try to play it now I just get bored and give up on the challenging puzzles.
I think this song was used in Wind Waker, as well as quite a few other ones from OoT... I think of it as a pretty cool reference
The best thing to fill one’s ears with.
What is the instrument sampled in this song? Is it just a pan flute with some processing?
Not sure if I’m being honest.
I always wondered that for myself…
Pan flute with reverb and a little delay most likely. The first thing I thought when I heard it was that it could have been some kind of church organ. I wonder what Koji actually used though?
The beginning of a great journey through time.
Everytime i listen to this soundtrack, i feel like my soul is trapped in the game ... like a magical call from the big spirit !
I played OOT in 1998 when i was 18 ... That video game is not a regular one : it's an initiation to the other realm !
Holy shit maybe I’m trippin but it sounds like the first few seconds of the song is what inspired the save room theme for resident evil 7 😮
The song is perfect soundtrack. When you go to home depot, Ace Or.
Lowe's
Feeling alone with no one around and at peace
2 people couldn't deliver the coupe de gras to queen gohma
I remember using this song as my go-to 'destress' music when I was 17. Here I am at 24, still using it for the same purpose.
It reminded me of Toy Story, a bug's life and the video game part of the 2000s nostalgic to me.
This song is the case for “less is more” when questing about.
When u go to ace hardware This is a perfect soundtrack to play
I could beat this temple in 10 minutes, but yea sure, let's go for 10 hours
i remember back in the day when there were no lore videos and the future and history of hyrule were unknown... "who made the goddesses" and things like that and "why did ganon doom the world" and more ideas popped in my young mind. and even stranger stuff like in majora's mask like what were those aliens and is termina real? all those ideas whether solved or not, the idea of the past, future, and present being drowsed in mystery brings a sense of dreaminess to me... i feel the world of hyrule grows around me... like im one of those far gone temples....
love this song just got ocarina of time and i just loved it
This is such a spiritual song, I never realized it until I grew up. I wonder what Koji Kondo was thinking or feeling when he was writing this sitting by himself one day, writing this?
I used to leave this on with a bag of ice on my head when I used to suffer migraines