The internet is crammed full of amazing things. We spend much of our time on YouTube marveling at the unique talents of people or finding amusement in something comical. We find inspiration or a moment to laugh.
You know something is special when it strikes upon both of those things.
If you’ve played Cadence of Hyrule, you will be familiar with the shopkeepers, who have a habit of singing along to the game’s soundtrack. I was surprised when I learned that these voices are actually computer generated, instead of a recording of a real person singing. That’s where Nicolas Daoust comes in with his own attempt at covering the bellowing vocals.
The result is fantastic, and I can’t applaud Nicolas enough for maintaining an impressively accurate cover of the shopkeeper’s song, especially considering those wildly sudden changes in pitch.
The passion of Nicolas’s singing also makes the video hilarious. It’s impossible not to crack a smile when I see the intensity of those facial expressions. There is something about watching a sharply dressed man putting all he has into mimicking a silly character which is both amusing and commendable.
As alluded to at the beginning of the video, this isn’t the first time Nicolas has found his calling in covering shopkeeper ballads. He has a history of covering songs from Cadence of Hyrule’s predecessor, Crypt of the NecroDancer, with an 11-song playlist on his YouTube channel. He has also compiled an album of all of these songs on Bandcamp, and you can support his work on Patreon!
