Famed role-playing game music composer Nobuo Uematsu. Scenario writer Kazushige Nojima (Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII). Art director Hideo Minaba (Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy IX). And character designer Nakaba Higurashi (Baiten Kaitos).
When you talk to people about game music, Nobuo Uematsu is gonna come up.
You’ve heard “One Winged Angel”, the memorable dark melody that plays during Final Fantasy VII‘s Sephiroth’s most chilling moments, but did you know that much of it was inspired by the Latin cantata Carmina Burana?
You know when your boss is just crazy, and criticises things for the sake of it — micro manages and demands the most nonsensical, pedantic changes for the sake of it? Isn’t it awesome when you totally pull the wool over his eyes and get him to approve of the thing he just said was terrible?
At an anime convention in Boston, Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu said off-handedly that the Super Mario Bros. theme should have been played at the Olympics, and not Japan’s national anthem. Is there something deeper going on, though?
You’ve heard his music countless time in your favourite Final Fantasy games, but there’s more to composer Nobuo Uematsu than “One Winged Angel”.
MTO USA’s PSP puzzler Kurulin Fusion combines “futuristic graphics” with a musical score directed by Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, and it’s available later today on the PlayStation Network. MTO USA’s marketing pitch? “Have fun. Don’t eat.”
It’s a simple question! You may have supposed, like I always did, it had something to do with Square’s propensity for giving everything a stupid, stupid name. If you did, well, we’re both wrong.
Renowned Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu rocked San Francisco last Saturday along with Grammy award-winning conductor Arnie Roth at the Distant World concert.
