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g-value on 31 January 2010

Who do you think is the better composer? Nobuo Uematsu or Yasunori Mitsuda?

 

Nobuo Uematsu is the person who composed the music for the Final Fantasy series (except Final Fantasy 13) as well as Mistwalker's Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.

Yasunori Mitsuda is the person who composed the music for Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Xenosaga: Episode 1, Soma Bringer and Sands of Destruction.

 

For me, it's Yasunori Mitsuda >>>>>>>>> Nobuo Uematsu :)



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Boutros on 31 January 2010

Nobuo Uematsu



theman88 on 31 January 2010

agreed, FINAL FANTASY X was epic... and if you dont think so you are crazy, i still listen to those CDs



griffinA on 31 January 2010

That's a hard one...but I'd have to say Mitsuda. Chrono Trigger's soundtrack is my second favorite soundtrack in a videogame. As much as I liked FF4, FF6 and FF9's music, Mitsuda's compositions are all fantastic.



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iLLmaticV3 on 31 January 2010

Nobuo Uematsu.

I'd take a bullet for him, that's something I probably wouldn't even do for most of my family...



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dystopia on 31 January 2010

Mitsuda by far, nothing wrong with Uematsu who is in his own right a wonderful composer, but Mitsuda's ability to perfectly capture the atmosphere of every game he has worked on can not be over looked. Xenogears alone is testament to his magnificent ability.



g-value on 31 January 2010

Here is a song that Mitsuda composed that is from Xenosaga: Episode 1



Mitsuda is a musical GENIUS!!!!!



tehsage on 31 January 2010

Koji Kondo

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Khuutra on 31 January 2010

I'm not famliar with the whole bodies of work for either Uematsu or Mitsuda.

I'll tentatively say Uematsu, because no soundtrack I've ever heard - gaming or otherwise - has been as complete and consistently amazing and thematically consistent as the FF6 soundtrack.



dystopia on 31 January 2010
Khuutra said:
I'm not famliar with the whole bodies of work for either Uematsu or Mitsuda.

I'll tentatively say Uematsu, because no soundtrack I've ever heard - gaming or otherwise - has been as complete and consistently amazing and thematically consistent as the FF6 soundtrack.

You should pick up the Xenogears OST then, I love the FFVI soundtrack but Xenogears blows it out of the water.