Breath of the Wild Sequel Theme

You have to give it to Nintendo that the new teaser trailer for the sequel to Breath of the Wild was very well done. It starts with showing us new glimpses of the dark and depressing scenes already known from the 2019 teaser. But then a bright light kicks in, similar to the opening of Breath of the Wild, and we see Link in his ancient getup soaring through the skies for an absolute wow effect. Just watch reactions to this trailer and you will always see amazed faces at this part.

What really adds to all of this is the new theme, which starts playing at this part and sounds equally amazing. It's just that good, but at the same time it also has a very familiar tune to it. And like so often with music in Zelda games, there is a reason why it sounds somewhat familiar...

If you listen to the Breath of the Wild theme in the E3 2016 trailer, there is part at the end, the bit that starts at 2:33, on which the new theme seems to be based on. I'm not a music expert, so I will a leave a thorough analysis of the notes to those, but the thing here is that the new theme music effectively starts on what the theme of Breath of the Wild ends on, which is certainly very fitting.

But with Breath of the Wild there is also this huge build-up to this part, where the music starts out silently, relaxed and peacefully and then the grand orchestra only kicks in later. In this case it's what the music starts with, but we can only speculate what this will mean for the game in the end...