okr on 28 March 2010
Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Kanno, Kentaro Haneda, Masami Ueda, Masato Koda, Ko Otani (sorry, if I spelled one or two names incorrectly).
Western game composers: None
(some of them are really good, but most of their works sound too similar to MOVIE scores imo, i.e. if I compare their works to the works of my favorite Japanese game composers or my favorite movie composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Joe Hisaishi, Georges Delerue, Miklos Rosza, Nino Rota, Thomas Newman..., they don't stand a chance).
