Oh, same here! Square had the best composers in the industry. Uematsu, Mitsuda, Kikuta, Sasai - they assembled a sound team of truly incredible composers. I don't think any company has ever matched them for such a great sound team.
To be sure there are other great composers from the time - Shiono springs to mind, as does the Terranigma team and Akihiko Mori - but the best RPG scores of the SNES era were, on average, products of Square.
Haha, so you've listen to the Quintet Saga music but not played the games, I've rocked out to Lufia and am ashamed to say I've never played it! Agreed, Square/SquareSoft composers were arguably the most talented of the 16-bit era. Really diggin' your encyclopedic knowledge of game music, man.
Sugiyama made some fantastic DQ music for the SNES, too, but that's another series we were robbed of in the West :(
I'm ashamed to say that I've never actually dived into the DQ soundtracks. A shame we missed out on the games, though! I loved playing DQIX on my DS. Back when I had DQIX, anyway. To be totally honest I've listened to more soundtracks more then I've played the games the soundtracks were written for. Lufia one among them. I expect this trend to continue as the soundtracks interest me more then the games most of the time.
If you liked FF and Chrono Trigger in the SNES era you might like to check out Front Mission: Gun Hazard. It's Uematsu and Mitsuda's only collaboration on a single score and it's fantastic from what I remember. It's where Uematsu's more "industrial" style in FFVII was born.
Oh, same here! Square had the best composers in the industry. Uematsu, Mitsuda, Kikuta, Sasai - they assembled a sound team of truly incredible composers. I don't think any company has ever matched them for such a great sound team.
To be sure there are other great composers from the time - Shiono springs to mind, as does the Terranigma team and Akihiko Mori - but the best RPG scores of the SNES era were, on average, products of Square.
Haha, so you've listen to the Quintet Saga music but not played the games, I've rocked out to Lufia and am ashamed to say I've never played it! Agreed, Square/SquareSoft composers were arguably the most talented of the 16-bit era. Really diggin' your encyclopedic knowledge of game music, man.
Sugiyama made some fantastic DQ music for the SNES, too, but that's another series we were robbed of in the West :(
I'm ashamed to say that I've never actually dived into the DQ soundtracks. A shame we missed out on the games, though! I loved playing DQIX on my DS. Back when I had DQIX, anyway. To be totally honest I've listened to more soundtracks more then I've played the games the soundtracks were written for. Lufia one among them. I expect this trend to continue as the soundtracks interest me more then the games most of the time.
If you liked FF and Chrono Trigger in the SNES era you might like to check out Front Mission: Gun Hazard. It's Uematsu and Mitsuda's only collaboration on a single score and it's fantastic from what I remember. It's where Uematsu's more "industrial" style in FFVII was born.