09 - Mini Boss - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Orchestral Arrangement

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I prefer a boss fight music to have a bit more emotion in them. My general thinking is that the music should describe the feelings a typical player goes through when encountering a boss. First there's terror and confusion while you are overwhelmed by the enemy. Then you feel determination while you figure out the enemy pattern and outsmart it. Finally, you feel heroic and triumphant as you emerge victorious.

Like the owl piece, I treated the repeating rhythm from the original track as an intro to the hidden "main" piece that the Game Boy was not powerful enough to handle. I challenged myself to keep the rhythm untouched for most of the track while composing a song around it. I chose to use bits of the main Zelda theme, because that describes Link himself while he infiltrates these dungeons and disrupts the monsters that never faced any opposition before.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Orchestral Arrangement
Arrangement and fan art by Jeremiah Sun

Original Composers
Kazumi Totaka
Minako Hamano
Kozue Ishikawa

Original Theme by Koji Kondo

You can buy this game for 3DS from the Nintendo eShop