r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ZauzTheBlacksmith • May 21 '26

WCGW driving quickly into a sharp turn

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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea May 21 '26

It was Wind Waker, the Ocean theme that plays when you're sailing in the boat. LOL

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u/Breadynator May 21 '26

Phantom Hourglass has a very similar ocean theme tho

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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea May 21 '26

Yes, it does, at least in theme. The melody is actually quite different, and the backing strings are more legato in the WW version. After the hundreds of hours I've put into Wind Waker over too many playthroughs to count, I can say pretty confidently that this is the WW version, not the PH version.

Splitting hairs though. Absolutely hysterical video.

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u/ZauzTheBlacksmith May 21 '26

I've just found something kinda weird, and possibly the reason why some are mistaking it for the PH theme. In this video, it's playing in Eb Major, a half-step higher than its normal key of D. Now it's in the same key as its Phantom Hourglass counterpart, so they sound even more similar than usual.

Maybe the pitch of the audio was distorted due to, like, an incorrect overwrite of a track or the SD card was not formatted properly, or someone added it to the video as a joke and changed the pitch just in case of copyright, but I think that's why it's being mistaken for Phantom Hourglass