E3 2021: Our Safe, Risky, and Way Out There Predictions Written by The GN Staff on 6/1/2021 for
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Every year the conversation lingers about whether E3 should even exist. Despite that, it took a global pandemic in 2020 to actually cancel E3 s 25-year run. But E3 is back. In the form of an all-digital event running from June 12–15. It ll be live press conferences and a four-day-long video stream. What do we think is going to come out of E3 2021? Here are our safe, risky, and way-out-there predictions for what is still the biggest video game conference in the industry.
A return to music and magic. Updated on 15 March 2021
Next up in Music Week we re bringing you this lovely piece from 2011, all about the various leitmotifs that pull together a true gaming great.
London, October 2011. Thousands are crowded into the Hammersmith Apollo, one of the city s most famous theatrical venues, to hear a concert of music commemorating the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda. It s an emotional night. Host Zelda Williams recalls how much the series she was named after meant to her growing up, and her voice audibly cracks at the memory. As Koji Kondo plays a delicate piano solo of Grandma s Theme from The Wind Waker, grown men can be seen dabbing their eyes. Kondo rises from his seat and the audience stands, too, applauding wildly, a number of them clad in the familiar green tunic, tights and pointed hat of their hero.
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This challenge is reflected in some of the song names in unused text files in the Spaceworld Overdump, with multiple melodies going through revisions in both name and possibly function. Some iconic songs were also added into the game during Stage 4, most notably the “Sun’s Song.” In the Spaceworld Overdump, text was found showing that Link would be able to sleep in various inns, which would then allow the player to manipulate time in a similar vein as the “Sun’s Song.”
This change may seem minor, but in the grand scheme of things, it required the removal of in-game text and locations, as well as the ability to discover the “Sun’s Song.” Changes like this would be constant throughout Stage 4 of development, with Nintendo revising the game until days before it would be officially released in Japan in November 1998.