Friday, October 18, 2013

Musings: A moment of brilliance in Skyward Sword's Wiimote calibration.

I've been playing a bit of Skyward Sword recently, listening for thematic transformation in Groose's theme, which I remember noticing on my first playthrough.  While doing this, I almost noticed the most interesting connection between the startup sound and the main theme.

Here's the Skyward Sword Main theme.  Listen especially to the first four ascending notes at 11 sec.  Notice the pattern of them: long-- short-short-short.


Now give a listen to the first six seconds of this video, the very first four sounds you hear when you start Skyward Sword where the Wii remote is calibrating.  Notice the same first four notes of an ascending minor scale?  The same long-- short-short-short pattern?


Of course, this could've sounded like anything, but how clever to have it sound as the main theme of Skyward Sword?  A very subtle, clever use of the main theme motive!!!

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