#is it that it's notably less orchestrated (especially compared to SS)?

[geekeryisafoot]

I don't know what it is that the BotW and TotK soundtracks lack, but they lack something. Baring a few songs, nothing really hits the way older Zelda tracks do. I remember humming along subconsciously when sailing the ocean in Wind Waker and my mom laughing at me, I would linger in Zora's domain in Twilight Princess just to hear the music, the godess realm tracks in Skyward Sword were beautifully eerie and nerve-wracking and a major part of what made them so terrifying, I listen to the Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword soundtracks while working and pause every once in awhile just to soak it in. Hell even Spirit Tracks had me humming along with the overworld theme

I've been listening to the Breath of the Wild soundtracks while working and it was just... background noise. Almost nothing had me humming along, nothing was making me stop work for a moment to seep myself in the music or memories. While the Twilght Princess soundtrack is making me do that nearly every song. I'm sure nostalgia is a major part of this, but it just makes me sad to have lost whatever it was that made the music so so iconic