Nobuo Uematsu & Masayoshi Soken: The New "True Uematsu Sound" !? 

Is like listening to a living legend speaking with his prodigy.

He deserves some form of award for all his lifetime achievments within gaming and the music industry Also - multiple grammys for the FF soundtracks ♡

While I agree in your praise he's basically regarded as the John Williams of video game music. I don't think he's underappreciated, he's probably the most celebrated video game composer of all time

Final Fantasy 14 as a whole probably has (imo) one of the best FF OSTs ever and I think Final Fantasy 16s OST will have a big impact given that Soken will be the composer for this mainline FF title

@@akiinmoonlight79 eyes on me (ff8)won Japan's 14th gold disk award for western music, it also charted in top 9 for a time as well. the only other vg song I know of to do so was Hikari from kh, he does have recognition outside the vg sphere

While I agree that recent iterations of FF haven't been as "impactful" I think in part that gaming landscape has changed so much as a whole, and also the wide breadth of games available just really make it hard for any single game to really stand out and "define" a genre or generation. There are some in recent memory like Breath of the Wild or even No Man's Sky's revival, and a handful of others, but of course even "generation defining" is anectdotal I feel. Also FF 14, like No Man's Sky, managed to save itself and become a really ground breaking MMO game of its own right, still going on, finished one complete storyline and on to another, and still operates as a monthly subscription based MMO which has all but pretty much died except for WoW. Lastly, I think that as people who grew up with the NES era and up of FF games, the new ones will always be compared to older ones, the impact we felt playing them, and that they had on us, and I honestly think that no matter what, it's never coming back. I love many new games, but I alwas go back and repla old games. There's a nostalgia and bias to older games I played that just isn't replicated, but I feel for children growing up with games this generation, they will have those experiences and they will be defining to them, and I don't think it is even "wrong" to assert such an opinion as well. We probably will see articles heralding FF 11 and beyond in ways we didn't think so, and it will be no less accurate to say that some people felt the same way we did playing those early FF games as they do with recent iterations.

FF14をプレイしてると、祖堅さんの植松さんへのリスペクトを感じますよね。 BGMアレンジは中には別の方が担当しても、祖堅さんが監修してるでしょうし、The PRIMALSも植松さんのThe BLACK　MAGES を彷彿とさせます。 FFサウンドは世界に誇れますね！

@@TheSlice0flife wtf have you ever played 14 ¿ Soken creates crazy stuff 😭 Well at this point uematsu is a god While soken is a king ×___×

@@TheSlice0flife Much easier to say it's not to your taste.That way you don't just have to be objectively wrong in your statement. ;)

@@TheSlice0flife clean your ears

@@TheSlice0flife too much earwax mate? or too much shit music corrupting your brain?

Cash money!!!

All great artists view their old work with distain because they always look forward and never backwards, they consider their old work a past accomplishment which is to be acknowledged at best and inferior to their current vision at worst.

Even if you're not someone that's interested in playing FF14, I'd recommend looking up his work on that game, too. There are quite a few FF14 music videos here on RU-vid that are amazing.

@@Ravlei Thanks for the heads up! Sounds like FFXIV has reinvigorated the entire franchise (along with FF7R)

It's worth noting that Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, and Takeharu Ishimoto are also genuinely very talented as well! Hamauzu worked on the X soundtrack with Uematsu long before doing XIII and VII Remake, as well as a few SaGa games... *And* he was bass singer for original FFVII's One-Winged Angel choir! Ishimoto's work on Crisis Core and Type-0 is excellent, and Mizuta's work on FFXI Online and Stranger of Paradise is too! Then there's Mitsuto Suzuki's *excellent* Mobius soundtrack...

肝心のことを書きそびれておりました。植松さん、初のアナログレコード発売おめでとうございます！

Exactly how I feel.