![]() ![]() ![]() So theoretically speaking, would you have gone to Namco (now Bandai Namco Entertainment) if they’d been the first to offer you a job?Īnyhow, despite putting off employment plans until your senior year in college, you managed to start your career as a musician at a leading game company. I certainly had my preferences, but I was desperate to join any company that would take me. Was there a particular company you’d wanted to join based on their style? (laughs)īack then, game companies developed their own audio sources, especially in arcade games, so each company had their own distinct style of sound. I applied to three or four places, but Capcom was the first to offer me a job, so I was like “I’ll do it! I’ll do it!” and made my decision right away. My unquenchable love for games led me to look for game companies, but since I loved music just as much, I realized, “If I get a job making music at a game company, I can do both!”įrom there, I flipped through job magazines and sent my demo tape to game companies with a sound department. I began looking for a job once I finally understood that “the path ended there,” but if I was going to work, I wanted to continue doing what I loved. ![]() (laughs) * Street Fighter II is a fighting game by Capcom released for arcades in 1991 which saw unprecedented popularity. Prior to that, all I ever thought about was Street Fighter II*, like how to use anti-air moves and which attacks had an advantage over others. (laughs)Īs late as I was, I finally understood why everyone else was job searching, and began to panic.īut that’s pretty much how it goes for students at music universities too. You really waited till the last moment to come to that realization. (laughs wryly) * In Japan, annual terms often begin in April, such as the school year or fiscal year. Then during my senior year in college, I was hit with a realization: “What am I going to do starting next April?”* Until then, I’d been mindlessly following the path that’d been laid out for me, and it wasn’t until my senior year that I realized I’d have to find my own way from there on out. The high school I attended was a prep school, so I did have a vague idea that I’d be attending college. I enjoyed music as its own thing and purchased a synthesizer to compose my own melodies, but I’d never considered making it a career.īut that eventually changed at some point, right? I also enjoyed video games just as much as music, and my student life consisted of going straight to the arcade after school. From there, you’d eventually decide to pursue a musical career, but what led up to that? Seems like you already established a taste in music by then. That was my first experience of being blown away by music. I guess I showed an interest in synthesizer sounds from an early age, which my parents noticed and introduced me to YMO. No, it was the first one, “Yellow Magic Orchestra,” the album with "Tong Poo" and "La femme chinoise.” Listening to that album blew my mind, even as a child. (laughs) Is that the famous second album, “Solid State Survivor”? Your parents had quite the sophisticated tastes. They were like, “Naoshi, you like this kind of music, don’t you?” * Yellow Magic Orchestra is a musical group formed in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. When I was in third or fourth grade, my parents rented a YMO album from a record store for me. I’ve always had a great love for music, and you could say that began from YMO*. This game can be played in Japan, as well as PlayStation, PSP and PS3.I’ve never really had a chance to ask you about your background, would you mind if we started from there? (laughs) What made you pursue a musical career in the first place? Star Ocean: The Second Story will pass through the Switch, PS4, PS5, and PC on November 2, 2023. Prior to returning for The Divine Force soundtrack, he worked on a new entry for Star Ocean The Second Story. He has also worked on spin-offs like Star Ocean: Blue Sphere and Anamnesis. Motoi Sakuraba became a composer for the Star Ocean series when it was created by the original Super Famicom game. Original composer Motoi Sakuraba reorganized the entire original soundtrack, with new and remixed tunes from #StarOcean The Second Story R. It’s bringing new emotions to familiar music. It also featured video shooter Sakuraba taking on the game. It confirmed that the soundtrack will be rearranged with new and remixed songs. He will still be from Motoi Sakuraba composer. ![]() The film Star Ocean The Second Story is about to add new songs. Square Enix has published an update of what people can expect from the return of the first piece of the new book Star Ocean: The Second Story. ![]()
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