Jason Graves is an award-winning American television, film and video game m… Read Full Bio ↴Jason Graves is an award-winning American television, film and video game music composer. He is more recently known for his musical score for Dead Space, a survival horror-action video game.

Graves is a British Academy Award-winning composer who has brought his passion for music to video game franchises such as Dead Space (EA), Star Trek (Bethesda) and Silent Hunter (Ubisoft). His Hollywood expertise allows him to move effortlessly between film, television and games, and he is renowned worldwide for his cinematic, immersive and award-winning music.

Jason was solely responsible for creating an innovative, unique soundtrack for Dead Space, which has become Electronic Art's best-selling original title and called "the scariest game ever made." Jason's ground-breaking score has been hailed by critics as a "truly original soundtrack" and "the best score of the year." It was recognized with a myriad of world-wide nominations and won two BAFTA awards - one for Original Score and one for Use of Audio. For the latter, the Academy stated, "It's the music soundtrack that boasts horror and tension."

Jason's diverse musical background as a classically-trained composer, jazz drummer, keyboardist, guitarist and world percussionist allow him to expertly compose in many different genres of music. As a result, his game credits alone include more than eighty titles, ranging from electronic and rock to full symphonic scores. He performs world percussion and guitar on many of his own scores and has conducted and recorded his live orchestral scores at Air Studios London, Capitol Records, Paramount Pictures, Skywalker Sound, and with the Seattle and Salt Lake City Philharmonic orchestras.

Jason also composes for film and television, including his recent score for the thriller Fatal Flaw. His music has been licensed for television shows such as American Idol and The Amazing Race.

Recent projects include two hybrid electronic/orchestral game scores - one for the popular City of Heroes franchise, entitled Going Rogue (N.C. Soft) and a second for Section 8 (Southpeak Interactive), a first-person shooter set in the distant future. Jason also provided a live orchestral score for Dead Space Extraction, Electronic Art's prequel to the popular and critically-acclaimed horror hit Dead Space.

In addition to the two BAFTAs, Jason's music has been honored with three Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) Award nominations, winning "Outstanding Achievement in Audio" for Dead Space. He has received seventeen G.A.N.G. nominations and four wins, including "Audio of the Year" for Dead Space, "Best Original Theme" nominations for Star Trek: Legacy and Blazing Angels 2 and "Music of the Year" nominations for Dead Space and King Arthur.

Current projects include three sequels for different unannounced flagship game franchises and the feature film thriller Nevermore. Jason Graves is represented by The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.

Fine With Me
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Beau Brummels Bop, bop-ah, bop, bop-ah, bop, bop-ah Bop, bop-ah, bop, bop…
Beaux Had my baby say, "Come meet me Couple hours man I'…
Everon Caught in ambitions, but without any idea Focused on expecta…
Little Big Town Everybody's gonna go downtown same hang with the same old…
Stone Irr Press my hands into Feel the warmth inside Every little thre…
The Beau Brummels Bop, bop-ah, bop, bop-ah, bop, bop-ah Bop, bop-ah, bop, bop…

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Fly Me To the Aegis Seven Moon Fly me to the moon And let me play among the…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@jeanbob1481

2y↑3

ironically what makes this game something great is not the characters or the story.
Frankly I liked the fact that there were 2-3 to 3 overworlds which was unheard off at the time (I can only think of Tales of Phantasia and Chrono Trigger but the worlds are not as padded as ff5)
The job system is the best combat system I have ever seen (of course I have not played anything after the wii era)
Want a black mage that can do kung fu? Ninja with white magic?
Knight with blue magic?

Time, Blue, White, Black, Summoning, Red, Mystic. A lot of cool magic types too.
I like the classes in FF3 NES more but in FF5 you can customize anything.
I find it very cool, it is like the ultimate tribute to the NES games.
Unlike FF1 you are not stuck into your classes, unlike FF2 you cannot be master of everything (until endgame) and unlike FF3 you can mix abilities and customize everything.
The story is nothing special but it gets the job done with flying colors and the setting is very cool. The void, mirage forest, ancient library etc. A lot and a lot of hidden stuff and side quests, more then FF4.
Gilgamesh is legendary and not just his theme, I think it is the first sympathetic villain of the series(ok not counting Golbeze) and he ends up sacrificing himself for your team down the line.
Exdeath is heavy metal, he is like the Emperor from FF2 but lite ( even Kefka does not compare to the emperor, Kefka is absolutely insane and power hungry but the emperor is cool headed and just an absolute asshole, he was in charge all along VS Kefka just going insane and becoming god)

All comments from YouTube:

@ArmadilloZero

4y↑10

This episode was meh. Not enough explanation of the story and characters

@jeanbob1481

2y↑3

@Theologica_

22h

@@jeanbob1481 is the OP’s comment not a joke?

@306parksn

4y↑8

The ultimate systems over story JRPG.

@FallicIdol

26w↑4

I got Final Fantasy 2 (US) for Christmas one year and became obsessed. An off-magazine of EGM showed me 2 screen shots for Final Fantasy 5 (I think they even called it 3 in the magazine) just coming out in Japan. They said it was a direct sequel to 2, with an ancestor of Cecil and his pet Chocobo being tasked with stopping the return of Zeromus. I sadly no longer have this magazine anymore. But I was obsessed. For two years, I stared at the article waiting to hear about a US release that never came. I think it was called E2. Magazines were huge before the Internet.

@thomasffrench3639

32w↑2

I think that if it was released in the west it would be significantly more popular. It was more popular than the other two SNES titles in Japan, which didn’t change until relatively recently. It was the highest rated 2D Final Fantasy in the top 100 games poll done by Famitsu. I think that Final Fantasy V would’ve been more popular if the classic turn based RPGs lasted a lot longer than it did.

@kingkui12

4y↑11

Very underrated game

@kyanitefrog3880

4y↑2

I love it and didnt play it until i was older. Was dumb-founded at the class system! Still cannot find joy in FFIV lol

@mfspectacular

2y↑1

@@kyanitefrog3880 music

@c.rackrock1373

2y↑3

GamePro magazine, the most popular multi-console magazine of the early 90's, had an article on "Final Fantasy 3" (FF5) under development in Japan. The article had a few screenshots, and it stated that Squaresoft said it was translating it to English.

It never came out and instead they released Mystic Quest. Later, there was an interview with Sakaguchi where he said that their sales numbers were bad so they made Mystic Quest to try and raise rpg market awareness in the U.S.. It did not work and instead it was the televised marketing for FF6(US FF3) that finally got the product awareness numbers that they were looking for. They saw numbers that convinced them to ultimately take the plunge for FF7 and gave it a huge budget that hinged on international success in order to make a profit, and that move was what ultimately made RPGs mainstream.

TLDR: If not for the specific failure of Mystic Quest, FF7 likely would not have gotten the budget it did. It was Mystic Quest's failure that led to the TV ads for FF6 which led to a spike in U.S. market awareness numbers high enough to convince Squaresoft to give FF7 it's enormous budget.

@PaganPoet

4y↑11

This is one of my favorites of the series, and it's criminally underplayed. I haven't actually played FFXIV which I hear is excellent, but for me this is the most graceful and replayable implementation of the job system. Even jobs that are nearly useless, like Dancer and Bard, are worth using and mastering in this game.

@DodderingOldMan

4y↑1

Not entirely relevant, but... you HAVE to play FFXIV. I've finally, FINALLY, after literally a decade, managed to make real progress into the game, and it's blowing me away. It's an uneasy mix of MMO and story-focused experience, but when it works, it really, really works.

@rockmanfan5104

44w

This game is incredible. It's probably my favorite. Maybe ff4 idk.. its a hard choice. Ff5 job system is insane

@subtledemisefox

10w

@@DodderingOldManI FINALLY bought the complete edition of XIV this week after playing the free trial for months. Got randomly invited to a Free Company and really starting to get into the game for real now.

@DodderingOldMan

10w↑1

@@subtledemisefox Good luck, hope you enjoy it as much as I did! If you hurry, you might be able to get everything done before the next expansion... maybe :P

@subtledemisefox

10w

@@DodderingOldMan I highly doubt it, but I'm in no hurry. At least the expansions don't cost as much as the full game lol

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@fehmeh6292

32w↑1

I would say V had a very palatable natural evolution of FF 1's contribution to rpg dungeon design. Definitely the same pedigree of the more crowd pleasing layouts. To contrast, dragon quest 1 had very devious and tricksy dungeons, though brilliant (They were just hard to take in by the difficulty of dealing with that game's menuing clunk and slowness). FF had nothing clever, and were just trying to be palatable broad digestible layouts with predictable forks. You have a dozen moments in a FF dungeon when you go "oh, i know exactly how this is going to go", and don't realize it. They are junk food dungeons, if delivery pizza and domestic beer are junk food. More like easily digestible tv series plot line dungeons. Yeah, i like that analogy better. I assume to many it sounds like I am arguing the difference between a Denny's placemat and a cereal box's children puzzles maze, and I respect that.

@Sarato

39w↑2

This is actually one of my favourites. The replayability is so good!

@chilicheesejay

1y↑2

Final Fantasy 5 was sandwiched between very Star Wars influenced stories with 4 and 6 which were melodramatic which the series would become. Final Fantasy 5 is that game that just feels fun to play, and the characters aren't taking themselves to seriously. They were essentially the four Warriors of Light again for a brief moment, before things started to get heavy handed.

Playing it again now as the SNES port with fan translation, rather than the Pixel Remaster, and I love the charm of this game. It has its dramatic moments, but it's not overdone to the point of driving your gameplay away from just enjoying what it has to offer.

@MCastleberry1980

For me, FFV is the game that got me into emulation. As someone who played the SNES games in the 90s in middle and high school, when a guy showed me what ah emulator was senior year (1998), the "lost" FF games were the first thing I went after since there was a patch available. That led me down the rabbit hole of Super Famicom RPGs that had fan translations.

@llamaluvr

I was just playing FF4 recently, and my overwhelming feeling was how much I want to put it down and play FF5 instead 'cause I wanted to play a thoroughly "old" game that still felt modern. At this point, it hit me that FF4 is the one that's more of a glow-up of an NES game. It's the weird evolutionary midpoint, not 5. 4 shares a lot more with FF3 than it does FF5 or 6, and FF5 shares so much with 6 through 9. FF5 is the first time ATB really worked the way we expect it to, it was the first time we could really customize characters, it was the first time character sprites really emoted. It was the first time the "kitchen sink" FF ability set was available. The crystals shattering is kind of a metaphor for how FF was going to be completely different going forward.

@michaelfraser7010

3y↑2

Subbed from your AVGN video - I like your work gonna binge some titles that stand out.

@axelvoss9653

2y↑1

As much as I love FFV to death, and as much as Gilgamesh is one of my favourite characters in all of video games...
I have to admit the gameplay hooks me a lot more than the plot or the worldbuilding or anything.

I see it as like, the Saturday Morning Cartoon of RPGs; pure, simple fun. Not too complicated, and the finer details become a bit fuzzy, but you're glad you experienced it.

@redmageviewer

12w

Final Fantasy 5 is my favorite in the series just because of the freedoms it gives you with how to develop characters and just the whole third act is a go almost anywhere and do what you need type of thing. I also like that the story is a kind of dark and serious but the writing doesn't take itself seriously with all the bits and jokes. I also got this for my birthday when it got the GBA remake when I was a teen and played it 12 times back to back.

@rafetizer

1y↑1

I've got this game on the GBA. I have to say, it's pretty enjoyable, especially if you're into the whole job and skill customization thing.

@RoninCatholic

17w

My favorite class (and archetype) is Red Mage, and they suck even harder than the Monk in this. If Red Mage was a tier 1 class and you only got the Black and White Wizards after the second crystal, its spell list and equipment allowances would make sense; Tier 2 specialist mages get a single magic type up to 6th level, the generalist mage you get immediately (paired with the shiny new Blue Mage) can put on a little armor and hold a sword and use all the spells that'd be available to this point, but has stat growth in HP and Attack low enough that the sword won't hit hard and the armor is kinda needed. A Job System like 3 or 5 has no business making Red Mage its own job unless it's literally the FIRST mage or gets some special tricks at the high end based around its versatility (Doublecast as they got in FFTA - don't know or care if they got that or it even existed in any other Final Fantasy before or since but to me that is THE Red Mage ability).

Monks should hit a little harder, yeah, or be more durable. D&D Monks are defined by their long list of immunities as they level up more than by their punches, and in Final Fantasy 1 the Black Belt has the fastest Magic Defense growth rate (inverted upon becoming a Master, probably a bug/inverted flag, as that's literally the ONLY thing that changes with class advancement). A warrior who buys weapons and armor should, for the money investment, hit harder and take hits better than an unarmed, unarmored martial artist...and if you're going to put both archetypes in the game, you need to then justify a reason for the unarmed martial artist to be used at all (higher critical hit rate, more agility, more magic defense, special moves list, better synergy with learning and keeping magic from another class, something ).

@muntdouken9841

4y↑2

The ps1 version was the first way I played it too. I've started it more times than any other FF but never finished.
You should let us know what games you're planning on playing and we can play along.

@JasonGravesPoser

4y↑2

They're all listed here!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UkEbepLDoI629X3Cr1QRYX0UlWHja8bdUmMBLii2Wms/edit?usp=sharing

@shirayasha

3y↑1

I decided to play this game a few years ago as a SNES cart based on the Rom translation. (retro FF diehard). I enjoyed the moments when Butts would hit on Lenna, Gilgamesh's song, and the job system. The story wasn't that good, but the boss fights were fun. The music was generally good. I'd say the most representative of pre-ff7 would be FF4.

@rafetizer

1y↑1

FF4 was definitely a shining beacon on the rental store shelves.

@ProjectTony

3y↑1

Over the past 2 years I've beaten the first 10 final fantasy games, and I'd have to say FF5 is my favorite.

@dustindiaz5511

11w

I did well with the Monk. Did you equip the Kaiser Knuckles?

@FuriousACTIONGamer

4y↑4

Heh.. Butz

@JasonGravesPoser

4y↑4

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@SuperAnthony23MJ

This is a great Hidden Gem!

@MoonMagicks

No mention of Exdeath 😔

@SeanChristieMallon

This review was slightly scatter brain, other episodes are great and thanks

@montefisto

2y↑4

so, uh... why didn't you do research into the fact that the PS1 port is the worst way to play this one? Big oof. Good channel overall though, I've seen about a dozen of your vids so far. Just try not to sabotage your experience with some of these JRPGs, haha. Sometimes the fan-translated ROM hacks really are surprisingly good, and the most accurate way to play them as they were originally released.

@GribbleGob

17w↑1

nah the discontinued pre-PPR mobile remake of 5 is the worst way. ugly as sin sprites, font, and basically everything was worse

@montefisto

17w↑1

@GribbleGob ehhh... I'll give you that it's pretty close. I have to say fast menu loading, battle loading, map loading, town loading, etc would make the mobile version hideous with bad touch controls, yes, but far, FAR less miserable than the PS1 version

@Theologica_

He’s reviewing snes games and snes games only 😤

@montefisto

23h

@@Theologica_ yes... and this is a PS1 game he's reviewing instead of the SNES original. The two are nowhere near the same in terms of quality.

@DodderingOldMan

Tsk, how did I not notice you'd uploaded this one? Oh well.

For my part, FFV is the only post-NES numbered FF I haven't completed. From what I knew of it, it just didn't seem to have the historical interest of IV or the sheer awesomeness of VI. I will definitely play it one day, but it's just never been a priority.

That said, it is the origin of one of my all time favourite pieces of FF-related music: Tenderness in the Air from the FFV piano collection.

@Datenshi-Beats

49w↑1

I play games for the gameplay over the story any times. I love DQ5 as well mind you, Jason Graves, but that for a different reason I love Final Fantasy V. I think it is the best until that point. You are saying it has no identity but to me it has the most idendity on what Final Fantasy is.