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I'll bat for Ito or Hamauzu but I understand that I am fated to lose

More people need to play Live a Live and listen to one of Shimomura’s most slept on OSTs youtu.be/NqSJIg1Cgp8?...

tbh I think older Yoko's work is unassailable but newer stuff... not the same tier.

Sakimoto as well!

I will never not be RPG pilled because RPGs are the platonic ideal of a video game in my mind. Sorry.

I’d rank Hirokazu Tanaka, despite getting ousted from the industry tragically early by Nintendo over his Pokemon Anime stuff

My top five is just Yoko Shimomura five times so yeah this tracks

Grateful to him for giving me a sweet tooth for really noodly prog rock as a kid. I went looking for more after playing VI-IX and didn't find it in another video game, I found it in ELP and Jethro Tull

That first big note on the midgar wide shot: "damn nothing hits like that" 10 seconds later when the train pulls up with bombing mission: "damn man nothing hits like that either"

Eyes On Me makes us bawl like a fucking baby every single time

name another killer baseline in a video game i'll wait

I'm never sure if it's pure nostalgia talking, or even working around limited sound chips, but his focus on melodies makes his stuff stand out against modern soundtracks. So many games have big orchestral songs, great, but they blur together. Soundtracks of that generation felt unique

gotta say Limsa never bothered me but I've also never watched those movies. Gridania daytime does sound exactly like the Shire though lmao

yeah but also when they made the 1.0 mor dhona battle theme the like boss theme in arr patch(?) dungeons they cut out the like waltz bit of the track and created the most annoying piece of music in the game

coincidentally it explains why blue dragon is Like That

That game feels so breezy now by comparison to the remake

Amazing that he can write THAT song and then two years later he's banging his head on a wall to write "What You Are." which you know he probably fucking LOVES because they got Sheena Easton

Say it with me: "Thanks Nobuo"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7HL...

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say without Uematsu Final Fantasy would have never become a massive global phenomenon back in the day

fuck where’s my edit of this

That's an accurate statement IMO

Unironically I think he is probably one of the greatest modern composers, but I don't usually voice that opinion cause I don't know shit about composition and I'm running on vibes

His strong melodies and themes are unmatched for me. And there are so many of them on this high level!

Thanks to XIV I heard this song damn near every day for two years straight and I never got tired of it. youtu.be/FQYEF_TShPU?...

Under every youtube video of his music is a hunner guy's like "this is THE best track in ALL of FF" and they're all right

My favorite is probably Kondo

Nobody made me feel like the FF8 OST made me feel

standing in a ruin after a major lore reveal cutscene when this kicks in and absolutely fucking destroys me www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESW6...

Never met a game composer who loved Emerson Lake and Palmer more

Dude made the OSTs for FFV, VII, and X, all complete fucking masterpieces

It does oddly feel like that. For as acclaimed as some of his pieces are, there's hundreds he's done that haven't gotten as much recognition, even in games like FF7. This one's one of my favourites of his that could fit that label. youtu.be/FUkgnLzQcY8