Ode to Winds 2025

I'm working on The newest Winds of Darkness Anniversary song for Surreal Dungeon right now. It's a bit daunting. I want everyone to enjoy it.

Though, they'll probably never love it more than the original.

The original version of Winds of Darkness is my most popular song.

Although I'm really glad it has a huge fan base, I can't listen to it.

I appreciate the ideas and the work I poured into the piece 3 years ago, but I just will never see it as my best work.

I think that's fair. I made it in the very beginnings of my musical journey, after all. So, it has it's own little flaws.

This year's rendition will be pretty different.

I'm sprinkling motifs throughout to keep true to the last 2.

If you're expecting a chill ride, forget it!

This is the version of the song that represents the anger this temple fills me with. The song is baller. But the temple itself is so infuriating.

Imagine being poor Link, repeating time over and over just to solve the Stone Tower Temple?? Awful.

Not to mention inverting the damn thing.

Every inch of the Stone Tower Temple is a nightmare.

Anyhow, I'm taking a small break right now.

Working with a lot of sounds makes it hard to maintain focus. Like, when your eye can't handle seeing a word for the millionth time and it no longer looks like English.

It all just sounds like noise Noise NOISE!

I might be stalling. As I've said, I want this to be special.

Winds of Darkness is truly the reason Surreal Zelda/Surreal Dungeon exists in the first place. It didn't get popular over night. It was a creeping popularity over the span of a year or more. By the time it had reached over 1000 views, I had already decided I wanted to cover Zelda music and had produced a whole bunch of songs.

Nothing has ever reached Winds level, and I'm 100% fine with that.

It's ridiculous that anything I could ever create would be touched by the Sun's rays, even for a moment.

I can always say Winds was my special child.

It has stirred emotions and inspiration in others, filled an empty space in their lives. What more could I ask for? I'm in paradise.

Thanks for reading :)

-Liir