“So she asked me if we would like to work on Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX, and I simply said yes. “I have known Yoko Shimomura for a while, and over the years, the trust and friendship grew between us as well as with Square Enix,” he said. Members of the VGO staff oversee every area of the music you find in Duscae, from orchestration right through to the sound mix. Then we send them to the composer to get some comments and fix them until everything is finalized.”
Once the recording is done, my engineer Falk Au Yeong and I work together to mix the tracks.
“We assemble our orchestra, choir or any type of ensembles the composer requests to do the recording. “Once we receive the music, I take them and arrange, or orchestrate them so they sound the best in the recording setting,” Shota explained. The process is fairly involved when it comes to taking original sheet music and arranging it appropriately for a video game. The VGO and SoundtRec Boston have taken on a number of recent projects, working with composers to funnel their music into a final product. Of course I said yes to his message, and later he revealed that it was for FF.” We were already friends back then and had been talking about everything – our life goals, personal stuff, and many other things. “Masashi Hamauzu, who is one of the most talented composers I have ever met, approached me and asked if I want to be involved in ‘a project’ he was working on.
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Indeed, that was the first time the VGO got involved with recording music for the company, with the legendary Masashi Hamauzu – the composer responsible for music from Final Fantasy X and the Final Fantasy XIII series - the one to kick off the collaboration and invite the. “The first Square Enix game we worked on was Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII back in August 2013,” Shota explains. After working with Shimomura and Square Enix on Kingdom Hearts 2.5's remastered tracks, the VGO was invited back for Duscae. Heading up the time before the launch of Episode Duscae, we had an opportunity to catch up with him through email correspondence to chat about it all. Shota Nakama is the creator and producer of both entities, having jump-started both through his love of video games and music. The VGO also recently launched its own recording division known as SoundtRec Boston and has been involved in the score recordings for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX, and now Final Fantasy XV Episode Duscae. The Video Game Orchestra started back in 2008, coining their signature “rockestra” style with the presentation of video game music blended together with both rock and orchestral symphony sounds. For that purpose, composers contracted to the company such as Masashi Hamauzu and more recently Yoko Shimomura have turned to the expertise of the Video Game Orchestra – a rising star not only on the concert scene, but the recording world as well.
In a sense, this seems to be a strong sign that Square Enix is becoming more comfortable with others touching their work again, likely driven in this case by a strong desire to see that work through to completion by adopting large-scale use of live-recorded music in their games. While there's been a few similar occurances in the past, it has never been the case for a game as vital and as massive as FF15. When news broke that an outside studio would be handling the music for at least part of Final Fantasy XV, we were obviously intrigued.
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