Meet Camille and Kennerly Kitt, identical twins and professional harpists. In the video above they crank out a rendition of “Ballad Of The Goddess” from Nintendo’s The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I should mention they’re dressed almost perfectly for the part(s) and well, to borrow from Lorraine Baines McFly, are dreamboats.
Let’s imagine, for a moment, that 2011 Wii game The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword had been released a little earlier. Early enough to have wound up on the Game Boy colour.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is perhaps the most compelling argument yet for “video-game-as-concert-piece”. As a game, it is a smartly designed interlocking series of puzzles, an ever-more-complex world filled with hidden secrets and challenging combat that unfolds with a uniquely Zelda-y sense of joyous excavation. But as a concert piece… oh, boy.
You can never be over-encumbered by a friend who’s got your back. A lovely piece of fan art done for commission by Dan Jones.
Fan art legend MetalHanzo has come up with this wonderful tribute to the two games of the hour, Skyrim and Skyward Sword.
I showed four moments from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword this week. Those four moments that might not be the mostly obviously spectacular moments in the new Wii Zelda, but each of them shows off one of its strengths: the combat twists, the music, the art direction, the atmosphere… and today, I’m going to show the brave among you a spoiler.
