Please no midi in KHIII. PLEASE NO MIDI. I can't go back to those goddamn violins from KHII, I can't do it, man. I.5 has treated me too nicely.
Why would it be midi? A lot of Shimomura's compositions seem to be made for live orchestral and with the PS4 having the power and space for that kind of quality and because 1.5 has orchesrtral, and Shimomura has a major obsession with the demon violins and piano, it will just have to be orchestra.
Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate KH2's OST with a burning passion.
Why were they involved with BBS and DDD?
Anyway, I'd prefer if they weren't. I like I and II's ost more than BBS's and DDD's.
Ishimoto's style is a lot more rounded and edgy. He can go from hip-hop to j-pop girl band to orchestrated beauty at any moment's notice. Also his BBS tracks are honestly really good. I can't imagine fighting Vanitas without his music.
Keiji Kawamori, everybody's favorite synth programmer at SE since forever and bassist in the Black Mages (Uematsu's band), asked Ishimoto to join on to BBS.
"My involvement began with a single phone call from Kawamori of the sound staff, saying "can you help?". My suprised reaction of "What, not me??" was met with a no, "we're going with you, Ishimoto". We began sort of like, "okay, but I want to choose which tracks I do". In the beginning I was quite anxious, but with the way it turned out, I am now filled with gladness that we did it that way. It's always great to have a chance to try new things, and I've learned that it's important to take that first step without complaint."
And Sekito has known Shimomura for years, well known for working on games like Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve II, Brave Fencer Musashi, the Last Remnant and a lot more, and I'm sure Shimomura and Kawamori wanted his help on BBS.
For KH3D, it was known that TWEWY would be in the game and since TWEWY is composed by Ishimoto, it was pretty much up to him to make the new arrangements. Then he saw Tron: Legacy and immediately asked to compose those songs as well. He's no Daft Punk or Joseph Trapanese but his own style leans toward what was needed for the Grid. I think Shimomura was kind of happy to not have to do it xD
It looks like Sekito was approached as well about KH3D and said yes. His style definitely fit the "Dream" theme Nomura wanted out of the OST.
I think with such a big project that KH3 will be in terms of music, I would probably expect them again if there is a lot of work and a specific style needed that they work well with.
I personally hated KH2's direction. It wasn't bad, but nothing from that game was very memorable besides "Riku" and "Roxas"/"The Other Promise" and it all sounded like a mess on the PS2. I think it has to do with the weird synth direction, which is why I hope this time for 2.5 Shimomura can rearrange and orchestrate ALL of KH2's OST because there are quite a few songs that would benefit from the addition of some live music power behind the notes.
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I am very excited about the great soundtracks that awaits us!
And i wanna know how the intro song will be like and if Utada will sing it again.
We probably wouldn't learn who is singing the theme for the game until the year they are ready to release.
It was to be expected, but nice to see it being confirmed either way.
I hope there's more Ishimoto involvement as well. The guy's work on Type-0 (*sobsob* really wanna play that game) never fails to impress me, even after so many listens. Not too familiar with Sekito's work, but I know the tracks he's done for Kingdom Hearts. It would be cool to see more of him as well!
And we all know who else we want to see returning...Utada, where r u, gurl?
I cry over Ishimoto's OST for Type-0. Honestly his best work yet. I love TWEWY, I love CCFFVII, but Type-0 will probably go down as the game he is best known for because it is such a powerful album.
It's not really clear why.
Read my answers above in this post.
Dude those violins are too nice lmao
MOAR VIOLINS
Yes please ;A;
