Twilight Symphony

Twilight Symphony is my favorite album. I am talking overall. It is literally my favorite album, above all of the Beatles albums and Pokémon albums and other albums I love dearly.

As a close follower of ZREO since the completion of its OoT collection in late 2009, and as a devout fan of Twilight Princess itself, I had been looking forward to the release of Twilight Symphony for years. When I learned that 500 (later 1500) limited physical editions of the project were going to be released to non-backers--regrettably, I did not have the means to donate money online until after the TS Kickstarter had already been closed for a few months--I grabbed my wallet and forked over $53 without a second thought. And when I learned that TS was not going to be distributed via iTunes and Amazon and Google Play and etc., which was at the same time I learned ZREO would be shutting down, tears actually came out of my eyes. Because I was sad that the thousands of fans who did not have physical editions would not be able to support ZREO with their own purchases of the digital album. Which is a shame, really.

The album itself: legendary. The mastering is so...just perfect, you feel like you are in a concert hall, watching a live orchestra playing the music. The live choir really adds to this effect, and this and the other live soloists add a level of depth to the music that would otherwise have been impossible to attain without them; this music is truly alive. The arrangements are even better than the sources', which really says something about the level of talent that the ZREO team members and the others who helped them--including, as I was pleased to discover, Skotein of Pokémon Reorchestrated--possess.

I truly regret having missed yesterday's premiere of the epic Twilight Symphony video to celebrate TS's Radio Hyrule launch. Wait. Video‽ Yeah, there's pretty much a movie, too. ZREO decided not to let any medium go to waste and took the time to record gameplay footage and smash it all together into a massive music video that spans more than three hours. That is dedication, right there.

ZREO: thank you. For Twilight Symphony. For everything you have done over the past 9 years. (But especially for Twilight Symphony!) You brought Zelda music into the mainstream gaming community. You gave the scores new life using your musical expertise and technological finesse. Twilight Symphony was your final boss, and you slaughtered it (or in friendlier Zelda terms, you banished it to the Dark World) by producing the finest tribute to video game music of all time.

Now, the legend may be coming to an end, but its legacy shall live on forevermore.
(P.S. Sorry for the massive wall of text. XD)

i like Twilight synphony but jesse calm down on it. throw some OCR in there