Fairy Fountain

You may have noticed that we're doing a picture plot euphony festival while the summertime months are still Here — but you May also be wondering why we oasis't included the nearly historic music of every last.

Fear not! I'm here to preserve the day away higher-ranking EVERY SINGLE VERSION OF FAIRY FOUNTAIN FROM THE LEGEND OF ZELDA. That's right wing, IT's a slow news day very important enjoyment of my fourth dimension, that nary one asked me to do, even. We'll offse with the "worst", and move our means up to the "best".

And please, before you all come into the comments and tell me that I'm wrong: try hearing to (at the time of writing) 23 different versions of the same song and break through the other end with your sanity uncastrated. Besides, tell me your ranking and we can liken our notes!

23. Fairy Queen (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, 2002)

The Lift Rouser has two versions of Fairy Natural sprin, and this one is the worst. Fairy Queen regnant is a strangely fair-themed take, to run on with the creepy flirty shaver queen of the fairies. Listen, I do not like the Fairy Queen, and I do not like her song.

Don't get on me wrong — it does exactly what it's meant to. You've been light-emitting diode to believe that the Fairy Queen is a large, feminine lady, only to discover that it's a minor. It's unsettling. That doesn't mean I throw to like it.

22. Select Your Escapade (The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, 2004)

The deed of conveyance screen for Four Swords Adventures is a version of Fairy Outpouring that sounds familiar, but is apparently whole its own. Information technology's louder than A Link To The Past's original, and information technology's in a different key to Ocarina's, too. I notic this one a little too unsubtle and unoriginal, I think — IT's certainly a very pared-back Fairy Fountain, but it offers nothing new for the proven-and-proven formula to set it apart.

21. File Select (The Legend of Zelda: Skywards Blade, 2011)

I'm organism stingy hither, but I have to be to separate these themes from one another: this one sounds a little like someone playing a harp with a screwdriver and an fitting to be at in five transactions. I truly like Skyward Sword's music, but this one but rubs Maine up the erroneous way — information technology's oddly rushed, weirdly paced, and sort of... angry-sounding? Somehow? I like the soaring string section, but they just come in a trifle besides late; I've already been afraid away by the rest of it.

For a game that's all about the harmonica, I would induce expected something a slender more interesting from Skyward Sword. This, for me, is not it. Sorry.

20. Lucky Pressure group Formal Fairy Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, 2015)

This one's a secret one, achieved by retention the Lucky Lobby Ball, up in the air while you wait for new matches. It's not... great, and neither is Tri Force Heroes, but it's a discriminate little concealed nonetheless — information technology's just a dishonor that it has to let in the noise of the sword swipe when you're actually playacting the game. And so again, information technology's kind of grown on me, like a small metronome. Bwep.

There's too an 8-bit reading if you wear the Timeless Tunic!

19. Fairy Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: Shadow Hourglass, 2007)

Having to create a Poove Fountain that can contend with the previous Zelda game, Twilight Princess, but continue functional on the DS's limited hardware, moldiness be tricky — and Phantom Hourglass' Fairy Fountain doesn't really stand out As a result. It's a itty-bitty flake too synthetic, a little bit too muted. An mean take, I think.

18. Fairy Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: A Liaison Between Worlds, 2013)

A Link 'tween Worlds has 3 versions of Fairy Fountain, and this is the one that's actually used as the fairy fountain theme itself. This one is the worst of the lot, merely it's still saintlike... it's reasonable a little too fast, and there's a strange off-beat harp in the background that makes IT queerly unsettling, suchlike there's a song playing in another room. As far as Pou Fountain themes go, this one ISN't as sorcerous as the others.

17. File Select (The Caption of Zelda: Fall Princess, 2006)

We'Re starting to bother the good ones, rather than the ones that are sporting a little dispatch for some ground. Twilight Princess' take on the Lodge Prime sieve is pretty past-the-numbers pool, so there's not a whole lot to object to.

However... I'm non 100% sold on this one, to be honest. The piano playing seems a little forceful, and although I'm well aware that I'm trying to find just about anything to nitpick the differences at this point, I think I'm conservative. I'm discovering that I opt the gentler File Select screens.

16. Fairy Fountain (Hyrule Warriors, 2014)

I guess IT's atomic number 102 surprise that Hyrule Warriors didn't do a totally wild play a classic, just with the downright Wyrd stuff they did to the Zelda timeline, I recall they probably could have done it in any case. This bring on is good, don't get me wrong, IT's upright a bit boring!

15. File Select (The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, 2004)

By this charge in the Zelda series, Fairy Fountain has very often turn one of the rattling identifiable tunes, especially for the charge select screen. Minish Cap's File in Select take is nothing that will blow you aside, but it's quite a heap bassier than the rest, making it seem a little more grown up. It's alright.

14. Great Fairy Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, 2017)

This one is so degraded, but it really fits with the Fairy Fountains in Breath of the Wild — they're hard to find, a bit bit alarming, and exciting. Your heart beatniks one of these days with this speedy interlingual rendition as a giant woman comes out of a flower, screams, and so eats you; it feels almost as if IT's nerve-wracking to follow with itself.

Candidly, the uncastrated experience of determination a Fairy Outflow in Breath of the Wild is so much much than the sum of its parts; the song itself takes a backseat to the gross joy/terror of the large lady. IT's not a specially exciting version (in my opinion), and the hurrying is a bit much, but in the game itself, the theme is rattling quietly played in the background.

13. Faggot Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, 2004)

Minish Cap's fairies are a little different to the usual. Rather than your average Fairy Female monarch, each one is based on insects: the Cracking Butterfly Fairy, the Extraordinary Dragonfly Sprite, and the Great Mayfly Fairy, in keeping with the "you're really small" theme of the game.

The Pansy Fountain version in Minish Crownwork is a bit slower, a trifle warmer, and a little more sleepy-feeling than the others — but not away a lot. It's solid; simply it's non reinventing itself.

12. Fairy Fountain/File Select (The Fable of Zelda: A Link To The Past, 1991)

The OG, the mould in which all different Fairy Fountains were made, A Link to the Agone's version is used for the start screen and the fountains scattered across the correspondenc. It's a great tempo, and it manages to sound like cheerful harp euphony despite beingness 16-bit music. But I lav't give it maximum points for existence the original — ulterior versions, with more orchestral takes, definitely better connected the excellent foundation that ALTTP laid down.

I'm not expression it's swingeing — without this version, I wouldn't have straight-grained been able to write this opus — I'm just saying we have to start somewhere.