"Above Ground BGM" from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on the Nintendo Entertainment System (1987)
Composer: Akito Nakatsuka
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
I thought that with today's release of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on Nintendo's NES Online gaming platform, that using another song from Akito Nakatsuma would be appropriate seeing as how we haven't featured music from Zelda II for nearly 4.25 years ago.
What I love about Nakatsuka's theme is that it starts out using the introduction and elements from Koji Kondo's theme of the same name, but then it goes off on its own, essentially what Zelda II is trying to do with the fledgling series. And throughout the first two thirds of the song, there are little snipits of Kondo's original theme before going back into Nakatsuka's original music. Then things get really amped up at 0:38 when the melody goes on a few runs before repeating back to the beginning.
The interesting thing with this song though, is that it has to be catchy enough to be memorable, but more so because in The Adventure of Link, there are random enemy encounters when you leave the road that break up the music, and then the music goes back to the repeating point (0:06) so it may not be too often that you are able to hear the full 0:48 seconds of the song.
So if you are someone who is going to replay Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on Nintendo's online service, the NES Classic, or are playing the second game in this defining series for the first time, I hope that you enjoy this possibly overlooked classic of a song.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
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