Playing any TR game without a keypad is painful. The original PC versions had gamepad support, so the critisms of the games on this basis seems unfair.

What a great vid. I did not know about the theme being composed in one day.

OoT is the greatest Zelda game, and also it has the best music. Hyrule Field music is the best piece, imo. If link stands still, it changes and calmer phrases are played. This was first time dynamic music was done in a Zelda game (Kondo had done this before in Super Mario 64 Dire Dire Docks music, which changes and gets more upbeat seemlessly depending on what you're doing - this is done by MIDI programming, an overlapping beat track is faded in and out at certain points).

Not only masters of programming but also of sound design, Nintendo well and truly led the way. I just hope they can continue to innovate the franchise, as otherwise it'll get old and tired. Wasn't impressed with Skyward Sword.

If anyone is interested in the development of OoT there are some very good interviews on Iwata Asks (look under the 3DS remake, as this includes interviews with the original dev team).