Nintendo is a big company, which is an understatement to say the least, but what a big company can do sometimes other than release some crappy re-releases, is make a game look and sound amazing.

I've been playing a lot of games recently with quite eclectic soundtracks, with Atom Zombie Smasher, you can hear a lovely Beach Boys-esque series of guitar riffs, or the beautiful instrumental of Mad World in Gears of War 3, but with Nintendo's releases a beautiful orchestral piece will often swim beautifully with the game play.

I remember with the release of Super Mario Galaxy and starting off the game with an amazing overture and just making you feel like you were back in the Mushroom Kingdom and really ready to kick Bowser's arse...after floating and flying through a few dozen galaxies. However, with Zelda, there hasn't been a game yet to feature an actual orchestral soundtrack...till now.

Skyward Sword will be the first Zelda game to feature an entire orchestral soundtrack, with previous games they have used sampled instruments or MIDI for their music, such as the classic Ocarina of Time and recent Twilight Princess have had beautiful music, but to hear it with a gigantic orchestra will be phenomenal when the game drops on November 20th. 

Shigeru Miyamoto has hinted that Nintendo planned to go down the orchestral route for Skyward Sword since Mario Galaxy "I don't think we could do what we did with Mario Galaxy 2 and not try to match that with Zelda." Also having the orchestra at the Nintendo E3 conference was a nice bit of a tease.

Via [Joystiq]

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