When it’s raining softly you hear little patters, and when a storm rages you hear thunder and lightning, and see other people running for cover. When it’s sunny and quiet you can still hear Link’s feet, and the gear on his back, which knocks with a different noise if he’s using wooden weapons or metal ones. Calm rivers ripple and great waterfalls roar out mist. Sometimes the wind rushes strong and whispers in the grass, or sometimes it’s you cutting a swathe through a field making it rustle. Most of the time, though, you’re listening to the world itself. They’re slightly menacing, because the wild, the great-out-there, is dangerous. Sometimes, when you crest a hill or enter a wide prairie, a few piano notes sound to remind you that you’re in the wild now, but they’re not happy notes. The times it does have music are usually times you run into civilisation, like the stables dotted around - and sometimes at the stables there’s a Rito bard, playing Epona’s Theme on the accordion (against all physical probability that he is able to play an accordion). The Breath of the Wild is surprisingly musical, by which I mean it doesn’t have very much music but it has a lot of very specific, very well made sounds. So Link (and us with him) hears the call of the wild now. This is good, because Breath of the Wild is a more grown up adventure - or at least, it’s the kind of adventure a child might imagine they’ll have when they’re grown up, the kind of adventure where you can tame wild horses, climb trees to eat apples, and fly from the tops of mountains, and sometimes it might be a bit scary but, if you need to, you can run away to somewhere you can eat a cake and feel better - and there’s a lot to be done. Now, after decades saving Hyrule and Princess Zelda from the evil pig-man-beast Ganon, many different times and many different ways, Link is the boy who never grew up. Shigeru Miyamoto has said that Link was inspired by Peter Pan, at least visually. Link, elfin hero of the Legend of Zelda series, is very much a Peter Pan figure.
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