Uematsu writing the last official note under Square-Enix
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Nov 01, 2004Warning: Use of undefined constant Story - assumed 'Story' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /mnt/web203/e0/91/54654191/htdocs/news/news.php on line 78 Warning: Use of undefined constant Story - assumed 'Story' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /mnt/web203/e0/91/54654191/htdocs/news/news.php on line 79 The person that brought you dozens of memorable themes for the Final Fantasy series has left the big S-E to found his own company. Over the past year, he had been working on the Final Fantasy concert tour through Japan, activities with his rockband The Black Mages and scores for Hanjuki Eiyuu 3D and Final Fantasy XII and he decided that it would be best for him to work as a freelance composer. Being a freelancer doesn’t mean he’d cut all ties with Square-Enix and the possibility of future collaborations with his now-former employer will always exist. The compositions for Final Fantasy VI, VII, VIII, and Eyes on Me in particular, were said to be his favourite projects over the past years.
In the last few years, there had been more resignations by big names working at the world’s leading RPG creator. Uematsu follows the footsteps of Shinichi Kameoka (Seiken Densetsu), Yasunori Mitsuda (composer), Masato Katou (Chrono series), Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy) and recently Kazushige Nojima (Final Fantasy VII, VIII, X, X-2 and Kingdom Hearts series). Most of them founding new companies (Brownie Brown, Stella Vista, Mist Walker), other freelance composers like Youko Shimomura (Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana, Kingdom Hearts), Kenji Itou(SaGa series, Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon) and Hitoshi Sakimoto (Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy XII) have worked on various projects for Square Enix, regardless of their freelance status.
The impact of this news might be blown up to great proportions, but all things considered, Uematsu announced his retirement last year, and started working on the score of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and Final Fantasy XII despite of said announcement. It certainly shouldn’t mean the end of Uematsu music in future installments of the Final Fantasy series. Musicians never truly quit.
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Source: RPGFan
Article written by Blue for Final Fantasy: Worlds Apart