What Is Your Favorite Video Game Music Composer?

[ASH501ST]

I have a few, Martin O'Donnall, Kazumi Totaka, Koji Kondo, thats just to name a few

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You guys should all post a link to one of your favorite songs from the composers your listing.  There's no better way to talk about your favorite composer then my giving an example to why you love there music so much!  

[Fleetstar The Flygon]

Koji Kondo.. Because hw's the only one I know.

[Greg]

Kondo and Shimomura.

[ASH501ST]

Koji Kondo.. Because hw's the only one I know.

Well, He's definitely one of the best! but you should check out some more! Martin O'Donnell has some amazing music check out this link for one of his songs http://youtu.be/b_2HdYRzr1M and this is one of my favorite ones http://youtu.be/VtC8ffxly5c and one last one you should check out http://youtu.be/wbkQ99OxQJU
I think its some pretty incredible music so you should check it out  

[ASH501ST]

Kondo and Shimomura.

ya know I don't think I have listened to much music by Shimomura she did the music to Mario RPG right?

[SlowPokemon]

Well, yes, but more importantly KINGDOM HEARTS MAN. That is what she's FAMOUS for! xD

Anyway my favorites are Jun'ichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Yoko Shimomura, and Mahito Yokota. They're all brilliant. Also the guy who did Professor Layton and Dark Cloud 2...Tomohito Nishiura?

[Greg]

Right, Yokota. He's also really good.

[ASH501ST]

Well, yes, but more importantly KINGDOM HEARTS MAN. That is what she's FAMOUS for! xD

Anyway my favorites are Jun'ichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Yoko Shimomura, and Mahito Yokota. They're all brilliant. Also the guy who did Professor Layton and Dark Cloud 2...Tomohito Nishiura?

haha yeah, I don't really play kingdom hearts but I know thats a popular game

Of coarse the only thing I would know would be from a mario game haha

[Greg]

Same here. I love the Partners in Time soundtrack, and I intend to arrange some of it. 

[ASH501ST]

Same here. I love the Partners in Time soundtrack, and I intend to arrange some of it. 

Let me know when you get some arranged haha It is indeed a good soundtrack

[Brassman388]

Nobuo Uematsu,
Kenji Yamamoto,
Koichi Sugiyama,
Akemi Kimura,
Dave Wise,
Hajime Hirasawa,
Hirakazu Ando,
Robin Beanland,
Setuo Yamamoto

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Yoshie Arakawa.

If I had to choose two it would be, without a doubt, Nobuo and Koichi.

[SlowPokemon]

Let me know when you get some arranged haha It is indeed a good soundtrack

Bowser's Inside Story is sooo much better though.

In Kingdom Hearts, Shimomura used all her creative juices at once. Mario and Luigi is a very silly game, but also a very dark one. She has music that reflects that.

For example.

The Boss Battle is just a very fast-paced song, very light and quick. Clash of the Titans, which plays when Bowser gets huge, and the DS turns sideways and stuff, is very dark and evil sounding. "Friends" is a silly little piano waltz that plays when you're talking to someone who mainly serves as comic relief (the examples I can think of are Broque Monsieur, the three minions who rescue the cannon, and the three moles who call everyone "bro"). Then you have evil pieces like Fawful's Castle, Dark Area and Bowser's Castle, and more of the lighthearted stuff with Blubble Lake, the Underwater theme, and Toad Town.

Some stuff is obviously intended to be a mixture of light and dark, and there you have Dimble Wood, Cavi Cape Cave and Plack Beach.

Fawful's Theme does a good job of being uneasily weird, although it is one of my less favorite ones.

The two normal battle themes. Mario and Luigi's battle theme, "Lets-a Go!", does a fantastic job of sounding playful and light; while Bowser's battle theme, "It's Showtime", sounds manic and dark.

The title song is a great song because it shows the overpowering message of the game: that good will always trump over evil. However, I especially love it because it sounds a little weird occasionally with diminished chords, showing the slightly off-kilter nature of the game.

Finally, the Final Battle theme. It's without a doubt the best song in the game. The dramatic beginning opens to a dangerous and almost sad chorus that perfectly illustrates the Dark Star Bowser fight. It's a great soundtrack.

Oddly enough, when it comes down to it my three favorite tracks are all battle themes, which is very strange for me:
1. Boss Battle
2. Clash of the Titans
3. Final Battle

[GaryOak]

Uematsu, Yuzo Koshiro, Junichi Masuda. First one is genius, second makes so touching music and the last one is nostalgicawesome.

[DrP]

Koji Kondo FTW... he started everything

Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Mahito Yokota, Stewart Copeland, and some others.

[fabbemannen]

Koji Kondo (Mario, Zelda)
Nobuo Uematsu (Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy)
David Wise (Donkey Kong Country)
Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Cross)
Robert A Allen (Jazz Jackrabbit)
Terry Scott Taylor (The Neverhood)

and some more...
I seriously love the Chrono Cross soundtrack <3
Who's the composer of the Wild Arms soundtrack btw?