菊田裕樹 (Hiroki Kikuta) is a Japanese video game music composer, and was born … Read Full Bio ↴菊田裕樹 (Hiroki Kikuta) is a Japanese video game music composer, and was born on August 29th, 1962 in Aichi prefecture, Japan. He attended Kansai University and earned a degree in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. After graduating, he worked as a manga illustrator and anime music composer.
He started his career as video game music composer in 1991, when he presented some demos of his work to Square , and was promptly hired to create the sound effects for Romancing Saga. Square then asked him to compose the soundtrack of Secret of Mana, which became a big hit. While at Square, he went on to compose the soundtrack to the next game in the Mana series, Seiken Densetsu 3, as well as Soukaigi, which was developed by Yuke's.
After finishing his work on Soukaigi in 1997, he left Square and subsequently founded his own game development company called Sacnoth while taking some of Square's staff with him. They went on to develop Koudelka, to which he acted as a Concept Designer, Game Planner, Scenario Writer, Producer and Composer. Due to friction within the company, the game did not turn out exactly as he wanted it to be, and became a commercial failure.
After development on Koudelka was completed in 1999, he resigned from his position as CEO and left the company. In 2001, he founded a new company focussing solely on music called Norstrilia Ltd., which is still active today. That same year he started working on a Taiwanese MMORPG called Chou Bukyou Taisen, for which he took the role of Concept Designer, Game Planner and Composer. However, development was discontinued after the closed beta test, and the game never saw a release.
He has since released several original albums, composed the soundtrack to the MMORPG Concerto Gate with Kenji Ito, and composed the soundtracks to several adult visual novels developed by Puzzlebox and Ciel.
He started his career as video game music composer in 1991, when he presented some demos of his work to Square , and was promptly hired to create the sound effects for Romancing Saga. Square then asked him to compose the soundtrack of Secret of Mana, which became a big hit. While at Square, he went on to compose the soundtrack to the next game in the Mana series, Seiken Densetsu 3, as well as Soukaigi, which was developed by Yuke's.
After finishing his work on Soukaigi in 1997, he left Square and subsequently founded his own game development company called Sacnoth while taking some of Square's staff with him. They went on to develop Koudelka, to which he acted as a Concept Designer, Game Planner, Scenario Writer, Producer and Composer. Due to friction within the company, the game did not turn out exactly as he wanted it to be, and became a commercial failure.
After development on Koudelka was completed in 1999, he resigned from his position as CEO and left the company. In 2001, he founded a new company focussing solely on music called Norstrilia Ltd., which is still active today. That same year he started working on a Taiwanese MMORPG called Chou Bukyou Taisen, for which he took the role of Concept Designer, Game Planner and Composer. However, development was discontinued after the closed beta test, and the game never saw a release.
He has since released several original albums, composed the soundtrack to the MMORPG Concerto Gate with Kenji Ito, and composed the soundtracks to several adult visual novels developed by Puzzlebox and Ciel.
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The Color of the Summer Sky
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@inquisitorchristopher8527
This sounds so much better than the PS4 remake version. What were they thinking.
@CyberDragon10K
I have given a name to my pain, and it is DE DE MOUSE.
You must possess strength to inflict pain, @Inquisitor Christopher. We've got a rodent to kill and I wanna clean my claws.
@bagamnan9170
CyberDragon10K this sounds like the PS4 version but less assified its like the dude in charge of mixing it was fired and they got a replacement that didn't know what he was doing
@MeteoXavier
The remake soundtrack is fine, and a lot more in the original spirit of Kikuta's wild, nearly experimental take on doing fantasy soundtracks for video games in the first place than "fans" like you want to recognize.
I'm glad they did it the way they did it, if for no other reason than it pisses off the purists who wanted a verbatim arrangement with higher quality soundfonts or something.
@thelastsidewalk
@Inquisitor Christopher - You're not wrong, the remake OST is pretty much a disaster.
Seems like they had fun just trying to cram as many possible different instruments and noises they could into the mix.
Thankfully the game gave you the option to switch back to the original music. But there are a couple of tracks in the remake that are excellent though, like gems that came out of nowhere.. the Pure Land theme being one of them.
@kevinwhite2747
Extended Version Please.😃
@YukiSenmatsu
@avery ellis
NOBODY CARES!
@numbnuts3020
I was the 4141 viewer.
@numbnuts3020
wow, came back a year later to find out I am now only the 6245th viewer. Sad that this piece, the best version of the best track from this game gets so few views. I bet the PS4 remake version gets more than that...
@averyellis1458
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