He went on to produce music for Final Fantasy VIII and IX before being joined by other composers. He noted that the change to the CD format has “definitely been the biggest change", in the video game music industry. With Final Fantasy VII, the games began to be developed on the PlayStation which allowed for higher quality music, but Uematsu used the sequence format instead. The soundtrack for Final Fantasy VI is considered one of the best ever released in video game history and was the first to include a vocal track, "Aria di Mezzo Carattere". After gaining experience with the SNES’s sound technology, he felt that the music of Final Fantasy V was an improvement from the previous game. The style of Final Fantasy IV music had a Celtic influence and was performed by Maire Breatnach, and resulted in a release of a piano arranged album, which has occurred for every Final Fantasy title since. Changes to technology on the SNES amounted to a composition process that Uematsu noted it was "excruciating". Uematsu’s work on Final Fantasy III is considered as one of the best soundtracks on any NES game ever released. In the first game, Hironobu Sakaguchi advised him to create basic town, and battle themed music, while leaving him a lot of room for creativity otherwise informing him of the technical limitations of the Famicon system. He was the sole composer for Final Fantasy until 2001, where then he was joined by two others. While maintaining his other jobs until eventually taking a full time position at Square. At first, he viewed the work as more of a side gig, skeptical it would pan out to full time work. Nobuo Uematsu while working at a music store in Tokyo, was approached by a woman who proposed for him to create the music for Square in which he agreed. The history of “Final Fantasy Music” can be roughly divided into two eras, the Uematsu Era and the post Uematsu Era. Compilation albums have also been released. Almost all of the games have been accompanied by soundtrack albums released, along with orchestral vocal, or piano arrangement. The music varies greatly from light background music, to peaceful instrumental music, and intense rock battle music. Final Fantasy music relates to the music of the Final Fantasy series of video games along with the various soundtracks, arranged, and compilation albums. The game series has also inspired video games, motion pictures, merchandise, and fan art. New music has been produced since the release of Final Fantasy I in 1987. The game now has a summer 2023 release date, but it's still unclear when the PC version will launch.The music of Final Fantasy series spans a number of titles, popular compositions, and soundtracks released through the popular RPG games Final Fantasy developed by Square Enix. You can hear his newest track in the new Final Fantasy 16 trailer (opens in new tab) from Sony's State of Play today. The composer continued to work on music during chemotherapy. In May 2021, Soken announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer (opens in new tab) and received treatment throughout 2020. Work on Final Fantasy 16 has seemingly gone on for quite a while alongside continuous Final Fantasy 14 development. It will be fascinating to see it in the context of a traditional action game with a potentially smaller scale story than the MMO. He and Yoshida have talked a lot about their passion for making the music extremely evocative and surprising for long-time Final Fantasy fans over the years. Soken made a name for himself by transforming the perception of what Final Fantasy music could be as the game crawled back from its failed, original launch. So far, Final Fantasy 16's soundtrack doesn't veer far away from what you'd expect from the series, but I think it's a given that it'll jump genres within the final game-you truly can't restrain Soken.
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