Zelda symphony stuff
As someone who went to last year's 25th Anniversary Zelda Concert and has been to both Distant Worlds in London, I feel like I need to comment on this.
First things first, I know that I - and, judging by reactions at the start of the month at Distant Worlds, most people - definitely prefer medleys. This might be more because it's a lot of nostalgia instead of just one song but, with the FF example, there aren't many people who want to listen to 5 minutes of Aerith's Theme when they could be listening to a minute of that followed by several other cool tracks that aren't just a dull loop.
At the 25th Anni Concert, Wind Waker definitely got the best medley. There was also a boss medley that was surprisingly awesome - I didn't even remember the miniboss battle from OoT, but they did it damn well. Twilight Princess kinda sucks on the whole for me (got bored of the game in an hour) so the music just meant nothing to me and was very LOOK WE'RE TRYING TO BE OMINOUS GUYS without actually doing anything. OoT medley was too much nostalgia and not enough awesome, although Gerudo Valley -is- a good track. We didn't get Ballad of the Wind Fish (
) but did get Great Fairy Fountain, which was pretty nice.
Distant Worlds 2011 > Zelda 25th Anni > Distant Worlds 2012 (FF 25th Anni), as a thing. They opened DW12 by saying "We're gonna do a lot of medleys so we can cover the whole series!" then proceeded to do at least one song from each game and then two medleys - a Chocobo one and a battle theme one, with the Battle Medley being the best thing they did over the whole night. >.>;
