What I don't understand is why Kondo isn't working on more soundtracks these days. He seems to always be in a supervisor position. I understand that he is trying to prepare the next generation of Nintendo composers, but there's a problem.
He's been supervising for like the past ten years.
He's only 53 years old.
I think the better question is "Why can't Kondo compose more tracks on his own?" While the games he supervises for generally turn out great musically (minus SS), they are nowhere near as good as Kondo's compositions. By the time he retires, which we'll presume is another ten years, he will have spent more time supervising than composing original music.
Why doesn't Nintendo utilize their best composer? Could you imagine if John Williams was kept from doing original compositions during the second half of his career and instead took over a supervisor position? Can you imagine how many tracks we would have missed out on?
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