Tanaka “very pleased” Uematsu agreed to score FFXIV

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Final Fantasy XIV producer Hiromichi Tanaka has told VG247 he’s thrilled famed composer of previous FF musical scores Nobuo Uematsu has taken on the game’s full soundtrack.

“Yes, very pleased,” he said when asked if he’s happy Uematsu’s on board for the MMO. “I’ve been working with Uematsu since the beginning of the Final Fantasy series. Even when Mr Uematsu left Square Enix, we still went drinking together. We’re good friends.”

Tanaka, speaking at GamesCom, added: “As he’s very busy, we didn’t expect him to do all of the music for FFXIV, but this time he kindly suggested that he would take care of the whole [score].”

Uematsu left Square Enix in 2004 alongside FF creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to become a freelancer composer, although he does tend to contribute pieces since leaving the publisher, including the main theme to Final Fantasy XIII.

Game’s out next year for PS3 and PC.

Source: VG247

 

[DarkClaymore]

Grrr... why FFXIV and not FFXIII? I rather have him compose FFXIII...

Well, hopefully it'll turn out good. The sountrack in FFXI was something between average and annoying, so I geuss FFXIV won't have the same flaw.

With that said, the games with my favorite soundtrack are FFXII and FFXII:RW, which as far as I know, weren't composed by him. Still, all those older FFs have amazing soundtrack, so I expect to see an amazing soundtrack.

 

[Sir Kenneth]

Grrr... why FFXIV and not FFXIII? I rather have him compose FFXIII...

Well, hopefully it'll turn out good. The sountrack in FFXI was something between average and annoying, so I geuss FFXIV won't have the same flaw.

With that said, the games with my favorite soundtrack are FFXII and FFXII:RW, which as far as I know, weren't composed by him. Still, all those older FFs have amazing soundtrack, so I expect to see an amazing soundtrack.

Uematsu did score some of FF XI. Not all of it, and he had nothing to do with the expansions, but some of the music is definitely his work.

 

[DarkClaymore]

Uematsu did score some of FF XI. Not all of it, and he had nothing to do with the expansions, but some of the music is definitely his work.

He does that with every FF nowadays as far as I know.
It had a few nice musics, but the repetitive battle music annoys me when I hear it. Though, I never complained about it while playing FFXI because the battles were repetitive themselves. So it fit well.