Top Five Video Game Soundtracks: #1

<p>Here we are&comma; number one in our countdown&period; To this point we&&num;8217&semi;ve looked at some really good games with really good music&period; The argument could be made that any of the top three deserved the number one spot&comma; making this a fairly difficult selection&period; However at the end of the day one franchise had something the others didn&&num;8217&semi;t&period; Sure the others had great soundtracks paired with great game-play&comma; but they didn&&num;8217&semi;t have what sets this franchise apart&semi; a simple desire to incorporate music into the very fabric&comma; the essence&comma; of their games&period; The franchise I&&num;8217&semi;m referring to is non-other than&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1>1&rpar; The Legend Of Zelda<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><em>The Leg<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;07&sol;05180203&sol;the-legend-of-zelda-wallpapers&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft size-medium wp-image-50556" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;07&sol;05180203&sol;the-legend-of-zelda-wallpapers-300x187&period;jpg" alt&equals;"the-legend-of-zelda-wallpapers" &sol;><&sol;a>end of Zelda<&sol;em> franchise is just one of those golden-boy&comma; childhood favorites that in many ways signaled the dawn of gaming as we know it today&period; Nostalgia aside&comma; why choose this franchise&quest; As I wrote earlier&comma; I truly believed that any of the top three could be interchangeable&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s true&comma; they could&period; However to do that would mean ignoring a central component found in many Zelda games&semi; the instruments&period; Between ocarinas&comma; flutes&comma; and conducting rods&comma; <em>The Legend of Zelda<&sol;em> franchise has incorporated a multitude of songs that give our protagonist Link&comma; unique powers&comma; such as control over space and time&comma; no big deal&period; But wait&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s more&excl; Not only do these songs bestow upon our Hero awesome abilities&comma; they also sound pretty catchy&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t believe me&quest; Go ahead&comma; have a drink &lpar;if you are of the legal age because I don&&num;8217&semi;t really want to condone underage drinking&rpar; and listen to any of the ocarina songs&comma; say Song of Storms&comma; and tell me it&&num;8217&semi;s not gonna be your battle song for the night&period; Still not convinced that <em>The Legend of Zelda<&sol;em> should come in at number one&quest; Fine&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re not a fan of the way Nintendo uses music in their games maybe you just don&&num;8217&semi;t like fun&comma; or music&comma; or both&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know&&num;8230&semi; But there&&num;8217&semi;s no denying that the soundtracks themselves are really good&comma; otherwise people wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t do <a title&equals;"Link&excl; He come to town&excl;" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;vr9sOsAs54s" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">this<&sol;a>&period; Lets face it&comma; we love <em>The Ocarina of Time<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Majora&&num;8217&semi;s Mask<&sol;em>&comma; <em> The Wind Waker<&sol;em>&comma; and many others in the series for their music&period; Yeah the game-play is pretty great&comma; in fact it&&num;8217&semi;s really great&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s the music that gives the dungeons their feel&comma; makes the open plains of Hyrule seem so epic&comma; and makes Ganon seem like such a jerk &lpar;alright he does that on his own&&num;8230&semi;&rpar; and that is why <em>The Legend of Zelda<&sol;em> franchise is number one in our countdown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Up next we&&num;8217&semi;ll geek out about a couple of games that hopefully will make there way to English-speakers&period; Until then&comma; enjoy a bit of music from the 25th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;6Qp-ypYp6rQ" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;