Haha maybe I like that, then, idk!
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Maybe right around the time he got his FF7 residual cheque
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Right around the time SE realized “we’re paying this guy too much money!” 
soken eclipsed uematsu in like 2005
you may be thinking ah drakengard 2 okay whatever daphny but NO ITS MARIO 3 ON 3 HOOPS
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As a big Uematsu fan, yes, he definitely started phoning it in starting with FF9
Just like Yasunori Mitsuda started phoning it in after Xenogears
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More like Yasunori Mitsuda started phoning it in after Soma Bringer.
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didn’t that come out AFTER Xenosaga?
Probably.
My vague Xenosaga recollections are of a completely silent game.
The Soma Bringer soundtrack is very good.
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Going full Truckpump here but : Chrono Cross was released after Xenogears and it’s probably his best work
The Shadow Hearts games have incredible tracks too (though Yasu wasn’t the chief composer, I don’t know how much he contributed)
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You could remove this word and I would still agree with you.
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Who gets the Dragon Quest job after Sugibear kicks it
feel like he could be replaced with a gpt3 bot that spits out bland re-arrangements of old dq tracks and nationalist screeds and nobody would notice
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thing is, something like 60% of Cross’s OST was originally composed for Radical Dreamers and merely rearranged for Cross
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yeah i featured a sugiyama track on pulse wave and i was like “damn, this is so good” and then i tried to remember anything from DQ11 and just heard a strange humming noise and a dog barking
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Totally enamored by Final Fantasy Legend/Secret of Mana as an early NES belt scroller (even though I’m sure this would be some kind of weird Dragonlance-style situation)
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hitoshi sakimoto for dragon quest imo
(pretty sure he worked on the dq6 ost in some capacity?)
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it’s amazing how unmemorable the world map theme is considering i had to listen to it on loop for 60 fucking hours
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Whaaat
Is that who we have to thank for the bass and drums?
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